cnewey

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A crisis of confidence intervals(newey01c.github.io)
2 points by cnewey 9y ago|0 comments
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by cnewey 9y ago
It appears that net profit (for AbbVie, at least) tends to sit quite comfortably between 20-30% most years - 24.27% last year, and hitting almost Elsevier-like levels (~32%) in 2009 [1]. That smells like profiteering to me. Add to that thei
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by cnewey 9y ago
Read the findings from [1] - it appears that in a very considerable number of cases, there's actually a disconnect between the cost to research, develop, and produce a drug - and the price that's charged to customers (or insurance
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by cnewey 9y ago
I can't speak for the US, but I've been told by the clinical specialists at my local hospital that Humira cost £400+ per pen (this was back in 2015). I don't think that AbbVie can offset any of that price as a charitable dona
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by cnewey 9y ago
I'm trying to fathom your point. Regardless of how much rent or mortgages cost, do you think it's acceptable or fair for individuals with chronic illnesses to bear the cost of a treatment which would cost them more than their ren
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by cnewey 9y ago
Perhaps the NHS shouldn't - not paying for Humira would essentially obliterate AbbVie's UK market, which would make a considerable dent in their profits... I guess that would probably make them re-think their pricing structure! Ho
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by cnewey 9y ago
Bearing in mind that accommodation is quite frequently the single largest outgoing in many people's finances (i.e. commonly approx. 30% of income), do you really think that the cost of medical treatment should exceed this? Do you rea
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by cnewey 9y ago
Actually, I don't think that's quite correct. The specialists that prescribed me the Humira treatment were quite keen to impress upon me the cost of the drug - i.e. that it "costs the NHS over £400 per pen" (and this was
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by cnewey 9y ago
I'm not especially familiar with the structure of the US health insurance system, but I think that the lower costs mentioned on the page you linked largely depends on either receipt of considerable amounts of state aid, or having prett
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by cnewey 9y ago
Humira really is a life-changing drug - but it is offensively, eye-wateringly expensive. Each auto-injector pen costs approx. £500; and I have to take one every 2 weeks. To put that in perspective, that's a cost of about £1000 per mont
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by cnewey 9y ago
Your argument that algorithms are transparent is equally flawed. There is an entire field of research dedicated to introspection of layers in convolutional neural networks! A system that is complex and nuanced enough to be able to deal with
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by cnewey 9y ago
You're implicitly making the assumption that an algorithm is unbiased and less likely to be fallible - and unlikely to be susceptible to bias or manipulation (at least, compared to a human). There is a considerable amount of academic a
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by cnewey 9y ago
Thanks! I love the idea most of all, and knocked up a very rough and ready Python version this afternoon so that I could start using something similar straight away. I'll definitely keep an eye on the project's progress :-)
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by cnewey 9y ago
This looks fantastic and I'd love to start using it. Unfortunately it seems to be written in a particularly obscure Lisp dialect and the build script is... temperamental at best.
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Getting Nvidia drivers working on Ubuntu 17.10(blog.newey.me)
3 points by cnewey 9y ago|0 comments
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by cnewey 9y ago
I saw that, but there's no explanation of what the virtual assistant will do in context of the helmet (automate emails? terminal commands? maps and navigation? cowsay?). As for the rest of the armour links... I never understood the poi
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by cnewey 9y ago
I don't know if the website is deliberately vague, or the proposers of this project just don't know what it's going to be yet. There's not really any mention of why it would be useful, what it would do , and why anyon
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by cnewey 9y ago
In the article's main image, cited directly from the paper in question ( https://img.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/files/2017/10/... ), there doesn't really appear to be much of a correl
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by cnewey 9y ago
This is a pretty weak article, and (from what I can make out), a pretty weak study too. Obviously, there's the usual concern about sample sizes (30 people does not a scientific study make), but this study is also self-selected (i.e. su
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by cnewey 9y ago
As others have said - many people (quite rightly) have concerns about supporting the Daily Mail by giving it clicks, eyeball time, and advertising revenue. Partly because of their reputation of being rather unpleasantly right-wing when it c
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by cnewey 9y ago
For those looking for a somewhat more reputable source for news on this article, CNN[0] has a good piece. [0] http://money.cnn.com/2017/08/07/autos/gm-china-electric-car/...
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by cnewey 9y ago
There are several prominent women in CS that I know personally and respect (some of whom are image processing/CV researchers), who find the image sexist and demeaning. I sympathise with their viewpoint and am inclined to agree with the
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by cnewey 9y ago
For any curious minds wondering about the provenance of the Lena image, here's a short article written in 1996 by the (at the time) editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. The controversy (and both viewpoints) are sum
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by cnewey 9y ago
In that case, I apologise! It was not my intention to be blunt or rude if you were asking out of curiosity - sincere apologies.
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by cnewey 9y ago
If I need to explain to you why using a nude image of a model (taken from a pornography magazine, no less) is hostile and disrespectful, then I suspect you are part of the problem.
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by cnewey 9y ago
I'm rather disappointed to see the Lena image still being used as a demonstration for image processing techniques (regardless of its historical context). At best, it's crass and tasteless. At worst, it's openly disrespectfu
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Bounded non-linear optimisation with Commons Math(blog.newey.me)
1 points by cnewey 9y ago|0 comments
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My experience at a startup cargo cult(blog.newey.me)
2 points by cnewey 9y ago|0 comments