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by ckemere 6y ago
I'm super confused: if this is a feature for corporate zoom accounts, surely someone on Hacker News (or at The Intercept) has access and can mess with recorded audio to test what sort of manipulation can defeat the watermark. Unless yo
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by ckemere 6y ago
I think that the suggestion of a challenge-based Phase 3 trial is poorly elucidated, not for the reasons mentioned in other threads (the risk of severe reactions) but because they probably would have revealed in more detail what the Phase 2
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by ckemere 6y ago
Also, significantly less migrant labor-style travel as there is in China.
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by ckemere 6y ago
I think that an article like this that doesn't emphasize the fact that a placebo is still treatment is remiss. The naive reading is that surgery is useless, but that is not at all the conclusion if compared to a placebo. The neuroscien
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by ckemere 6y ago
I think that Drew's point is actually quite radical. Any tracking where the reader hasn't agreed - even simple IP addresses - is wrong. I'm not sure that I agree, but I'm intrigued: Would the world be better or worse o
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by ckemere 6y ago
Despite their size, I think they're still in the startup phase where they have a large number of starry-eyed (pun intended) folks coming in because of the mission. That really is Musk's secret - you can get a lot done churning thr
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by ckemere 6y ago
Just skimming the first article, the TL;DR that I took away is that TSMC can get revenue from their old foundry nodes for much longer than Intel can. So the issue is not how fast TSMC improves, but more that Intel has to invest proportional
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by ckemere 6y ago
I think the thing that non-experimentalists don't realize is how many experiments fail for reasons that are not understood. For example - "the neurons in the part of the brain failed to express the transgene I wanted to use to stu
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by ckemere 6y ago
The early evidence in humans was based on radioisotopes present in the atmosphere after atomic tests. You could diffentiate neurons in people's brains (after they died) if they had been born before the 1940s.
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by ckemere 6y ago
It's worth noting that there's some controversy about the extent of adult neurogenesis in humans. If it exists it's likely at the scale of a few neurons per day. Whether or not that means that increasing it by fasting is impo
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by ckemere 6y ago
I think the primary "function" attributed to adult hippocampal neurogenesis is improved memory. But the parent comment is unfair insofar as scientists don't randomly chose to food deprive or "vivisect" animals becau
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by ckemere 6y ago
I really like the last line: "However, by the standard of the novels appearing nowadays this is a book worth reading."
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by ckemere 6y ago
Presumably in a different number base (base 12, eg) it would be a different number that had this reciprocal property. Would it still be in the fibonacci series in that base?
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by ckemere 6y ago
Presumably in a different number base, the number would be different. Would it still be in the aeries?
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by ckemere 6y ago
What about Feng Zhang?
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by ckemere 6y ago
What about competition? This factor seems to be missing from the analysis. If you have many companies competing for ad revenue (a la old school TV and radio), are things maybe a little better? (I anticipate pushback re: NPR, PBS, or subscri
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by ckemere 6y ago
There's a comment below about Da Vinci, but I'd say that the problem claimed in this article has been around since Archimedes yelled "Eureka" in his bath. The way science has tried to protect itself has always been when
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by ckemere 6y ago
As a scientist, the idea that "To be a successful scientist, for example, it's not enough just to be right. You have to be right when everyone else is wrong." Struck me as ludicrous, and scientists that I know that think like
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Rice University Reopening Plan(coronavirus.rice.edu)
2 points by ckemere 6y ago|0 comments
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by ckemere 6y ago
I've been thinking for a while that the creator of Dwarf Fortress should win. Macarthur award. If any nominators read the HN comments, please consider!
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My Family's Slave [2017](theatlantic.com)
2 points by ckemere 6y ago|0 comments
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by ckemere 6y ago
When I teach my students how to write academic papers, I always refer them to this statement. Basically, don't raise questions you're not going to resolve (unless in the discussion) and alternatively, raise questions that you will
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by ckemere 6y ago
I think that this article points to a general challenge with our education system. By and large, the people who stick with training all the way through a PhD and postdoc in a complex field are not hoping about being a cog in someone else&#x
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by ckemere 7y ago
Confused, their "ultra" test is detecting the spike glycoprotein, which is a test for infection, no? (And the antibody test is also useful to figure out which nurses/docs are safe to send back in?)
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by ckemere 7y ago
One of the big challenges with software to detect lies is getting good training data. I would be suspicious of anything that wasn't trained using actual data from the particular domain that it was going to be used in. So maybe the best
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by ckemere 7y ago
I'd say that in this respect most researchers operate very similarly to startups that are often featured on HN. Seems a bit unfair to say the research should be closed down without saying the same thing, e.g., about Uber/Lyft, Doo
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by ckemere 7y ago
Shout out to Central Market here in Houston. They routinely have ~20 or so varieties of apples in stock and will happily (more or less depending on who you ask) cut one up for you as a free sample in the store. I discovered the opal gold th
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by ckemere 8y ago
If Tim Hanson has left neuralink that may bode poorly for the company. Definitely curious about the situation and flux in employees.
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by ckemere 8y ago
How often is the sidewalk publicly-owned versus privately owned with a right-of-way?
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by ckemere 8y ago
I believe that study shows that the affect of race on SAT scores when a more complex model of income and parental education is taken into account is halved (i.e., the observed 100 pt difference drops to 50). So I think it still doesn't

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