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by cauthon 4y ago
I don’t perceive the original author to be “putting the dirt” on Musk. It is likely that the third-party partners who were interested in collecting that data remain interested. The leadership who formerly blocked access to that data has lef
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> In the same way that airlines don't want their ads to be placed next to coverage of an air disaster, advertisers and agencies need assurances that Twitter isn't on the road to becoming a cesspool, and that their brand/ad
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> For example, in the context of ADHD, coaching is very focused on future-oriented outcomes and tactic-oriented skills, whereas therapy is often focused on disentangling thoughts, unpacking trauma, etc Respectfully, in my experience ther
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by cauthon 4y ago
Why do you describe your product as "coaching", and not "therapy"? Is this a marketing decision because of a perceived stigma around the term "therapy"? (The re-branding of CBT/ACT to "coaching"
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by cauthon 4y ago
Unfortunately this is antithetical to the advertising-based revenue model these sites operate on. There's no incentive for the site to relinquish their control over what you see and return it to the user. On an anecdotal level, the fra
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> You don't solve a structure fire by adding gasoline. Do you refuse the insurance payout after a structure fire because it'd be unfair to the neighbor whose house didn't burn down?
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The mechanics of most social media platforms encourage outrage. 1. Most are optimizing to maximize user engagement, and it seems like most platforms have concluded that emotionally charged hot takes are the best way to keep the feed scrolli
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Not OP, but I would refer to the actual scientists on twitter. It’s become a popular platform for sharing new papers or thoughts that might once have been blog posts. However it can be very toxic and self-aggrandizing, even (especially?) am
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Children cannot provide informed consent, for one
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Popular endorsement of harassment to the point of suicide seems like a worse sign, personally. When it comes to threats to freedom of expression, I'm much more concerned about the religious right's abuse of government authority to
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> ather for something focused like scientific research, you can go years and years without reaching 10k messages I don’t know what kind of scientists you’ve worked with, but I haven’t met any so short-winded
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Depends on the domain. Mavis Beacon absolutely outclassed any of the "classwork" on typing I had in school. edit: the 24 card games were really great too, though maybe only if you were already inclined towards math
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Yes, I think height is a heritable trait. Understanding whether the model is capturing biology is critical when thinking about applying it to IVF. If the model is primarily capturing socioeconomic correlates, those factors will (in most cas
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> since the amount of variation in height that's attributable to environmental factors might make that fundamentally impossible Yes, that is my point. Both intelligence and attractiveness have a significant amount of variation attri
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by cauthon 4y ago
I haven't previously read the Lello paper [1] that review is citing, but a quick skim makes me skeptical. Particulary the legend for figure 5: > Activated SNPs are distributed roughly uniformly throughout the genome. If the authors
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> But the idea here is that, by checking thousands of genes, you can make predictions for things that start to be very relevant to parents, like attractiveness or height or intelligence. Personally, I think this interpretation of polygen
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by cauthon 4y ago
Hey everybody, at the time I’m posting this, four of the top five comments are about energy. Many people are in fact talking about the climate crisis.
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Listening to the loudest voice in the room is often not the heuristic that finds the most valuable contributions.
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Thank you!
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> Things like GPS and the internet would’ve been deployed much faster by a private corporation but then they would be dumb monopolies as opposed to the public good they are now. 1) at least in the USA, access to the internet is not a pub
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What is a promise in this context?
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> Hosting - $30-$60/mo depending on traffic levels. The more subscribers, the more this will cost. > Workstation - Its fractional, but the workstation I use to build this isn't free. > Dev time I mean, no offense, but it
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by cauthon 4y ago
Note that all of these percentages are a little misleading. It's the percentage of developers who responded to the question, not the percentage of developers who participated in the survey. For the slack question, it's 72% of 34,4
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It is the other way around, the article is wrong. From at least 1726: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Works_of_the_Rev._Jonatha...
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It's basically Beanie Babies, but with more direct environmental damage
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> I say this because they used a new sequencing technology that appears to have homopolymer bias ( https://twitter.com/lpachter/status/1533875723995185153 ), which will bias the gene quantification. I believe the
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Thanks. I'll admit the first comment didn't contribute much and apologize for not including my thoughts from the follow-up. I just don't care for these sorts of hyperbolic press releases. It's part of the game, the big p
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Sure. A genome-wide perturb-seq experiment is a huge (and expensive) technical accomplishment, but the authors did not "map every human gene to its function". (Nor did they claim to, it's press release hyperbole.) One, there&
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Never underestimate MIT’s ability to oversell itself. (EDIT: see below, this is directed at the press release, which I perceive to be overstating the achievements presented in the paper, not the quality of the paper itself)
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by cauthon 5y ago
Yeah the SAT and the GRE suffer from the same problem - they’re meant to be taken by everyone, so the math is made basic and the non-STEM folks aren’t penalized when looking at total score. Completely agree regarding the Gaokao sample. This

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