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by c7b 4y ago
wikipedia already updated, quite impressive always: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Svante_P%C3%A4%C3...
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by c7b 4y ago
> Yet the digital advertising industry has grown so accustomed to working with inflated numbers that few are willing to unmask the fake clicks That is a funny reason for why this phenomenon might have grown so big in the first place. The
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by c7b 4y ago
lots of planets have rings. it just depends on how you define space object...
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by c7b 4y ago
> You always need to balance Precision and Recall. For something like this, you want to be exhaustive. Respectfully disagree. You're right in principle if you build a tool like that for yourself. But since this is Open Source, you
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by c7b 4y ago
> There's also the inescapable incentive conflict of 2 wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. That problem isn't entirely inescapable, though. There's a whole mathematical discipline on voting systems (socia
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by c7b 4y ago
> Poker player trusting a soul read is the Occam's Razor answer here. I suppose Hanlon's razor is adequate here - "never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity".
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by c7b 4y ago
It means that not only the current state of the website is available (which it of course always is), but also your full edit history and the file tree.
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by c7b 4y ago
Technically, circumference is a 1D measurement. Waist circumference is a good metric for a different reason, because belly fat is the most dangerous type of fat (specifically visceral fat, which is stored between the inner organs and next t
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by c7b 4y ago
Interesting, do you have references? I am only aware of these discussions: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/obesity-prevention-source/ethni...
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by c7b 4y ago
Somewhat related, I am puzzled that we still use BMI with a quadratic exponent for height. We are not flat creatures, but we also don't grow linearly either. The actual exponent is closer to 2.5 - this was even known to the creator of
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by c7b 4y ago
The post showed exactly what the headline described.
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by c7b 4y ago
Funny seeing this on HN next to a post on artists worried about Stable Diffusion. Everybody was expecting AI to come for taxi drivers' jobs first, and here we are.
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by c7b 4y ago
The general answer to any 'How do I become a researcher in X?' is typically to get a PhD in X. It also comes with perks like being immersed in a lab with similarly minded people, access to resources, classes, mentoring and not las
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by c7b 4y ago
> Either you have dollars/gold in a vault or you don't. Just fyi, that's not how money (fiat, bank money, whatever you want to call it) works in today's economy: https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/quarter
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by c7b 4y ago
Contact the FDIC rather than the bank next time, I've heard of cases where that helped.
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by c7b 4y ago
It sounds cool, but I don't fully understand: is this a fully-fledged US bank (with a banking license, FDIC insurance, audited,...) that allows you to do all banking transactions through an API, or is this a framework that you can use
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by c7b 4y ago
Pretty amazing what AI can do already. It's one of those ideas that sound logical when you explain it, and hard when you think about how to build it.
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by c7b 4y ago
The rejection notice is funny now, but to researchers whose careers depend on publications, such unfounded rejections are anything but.
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by c7b 4y ago
Thanks for posting here. Some questions: can you confirm that the estimates are unbiased in the statistical sense? Do you have an API for accessing the other ones, the help page for my locale doesn't mention anything? If not, how do yo
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by c7b 4y ago
> figures like "110,000 results" were an estimate, and if you kept hitting Next, you'd only get about 1,000. Sounds like they're using biased estimators for the number of search results. If the estimates weren't
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by c7b 4y ago
Nice that they found a mix, I expected >90% of them to be religious or semi-religious (what you hear about the freemasons sounds quite cult-ish too, eg). But not sure why they decided to include the Molly Maguires. Sounds like a plain mo
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by c7b 4y ago
> our patient population is very different from other countries > our expectations are very different from other countries > our scale is dramatically different than other countries > the way are population is taxed is very diff
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by c7b 4y ago
Thanks for the links! So I've had a look at the resources - [0] for example goes to great lengths explaining why JSON APIs are not true to the original "spirit" of REST, but it doesn't exactly do a great job at explainin
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by c7b 4y ago
Thanks for the feedback and the recommendations! A few words on why you prefer those to Heroku? Vercel and Railway seem to offer something quite similar, as far as I can tell from a brief look at the websites, Planetscale seems to be for da
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by c7b 4y ago
Thanks for the feedback! > Don't reach for a framework without first understanding the Web platform's primitives Can you elaborate on that - what are concrete topics you suggest learning first? I actually did a few Cisco Netwo
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by c7b 4y ago
That's what I remember too - but what's the difference between an app and a game? Usually your score would be sent back to the server too.
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by c7b 4y ago
Sure, you could write apps using forms and POST, but how prevalent was it? One of the most popular frameworks for early-ish apps was Flash eg, for which support has been thoroughly discontinued.
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by c7b 4y ago
Software depreciation is one thing, skills depreciation is another. The iOS dev had to update their app several times since 2011, but how often did they have to update their tech stack vs a web dev? Genuine question, I'm all for writin
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by c7b 4y ago
Great discussion question! It's also interesting for people moving into web development to see what experienced devs think about this - the sheer quantity of tools and their fast-changing nature can seem quite overwhelming at first. I
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