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by delhanty 6y ago
>there's a very real likelihood that Vit D deficiency may just be a proxy for an unhealthy lifestyle Seriously! You think that it might be possible that vitamin D deficiency doesn't exist at all and that people used to get ric
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by delhanty 6y ago
Re: "game changer", I was referencing the comment by war1025 that polyclonal anti-bodies were a game changer. >Sounds like Trump got a similar cocktail from a different company. The speed of his recovery and the fact that him h
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by delhanty 6y ago
>That trial has several issues. Which are what? >It's been shown to not be helpful in severe cases. That's a fairly strong assertion! Stronger than, "there is no evidence that is helpful in severe cases" for examp
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by delhanty 6y ago
It's completely predictable that the expensive drugs that Trump got (the monoclonal antibodies & Remdesivir) dominate the news cycle, while the cheap ones don't. From, the Physician to the President's report on October 2
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by delhanty 6y ago
There's a lot of value to the ecosystem here if it could be standardized - possibly it should be an RFC. Combined with what rswail wrote about encoding hierarchies, with careful design, those CSV sections could be embedded as tables. I
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by delhanty 6y ago
I don't know whether that's an "aside" comment, but it's interesting and informative anyway! Another variant of the idea that I was mulling over was to base a roughly NestedText level of abstraction on UTF-8 transpa
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by delhanty 6y ago
This is an interesting idea. I don't know whether it will take off. One thought that occurred to me several times in the last year or so is that roughly the level of abstraction offered by NestedText might make sense as part of a hier
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by delhanty 6y ago
>Roger Penrose, the renowned British mathematical physicist, is a staunch Platonist ... That statement surprised me! Google told me that according to this biography by J J O'Connor and E F Robertson [0], Roger Penrose in a debate wi
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by delhanty 6y ago
Is Beldin really nitpicking you? The way I read Beldin's comment was that it essentially agrees with your post. And HN's guidelines say: >Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a wea
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by delhanty 6y ago
Unfortunately, supporting a brand as team sports is a thing like supporting a political party as team sports is. HN is, hopefully, better than most places on the internet as there are lots of people willing to decide each issue on its merit
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by delhanty 6y ago
Pledged! (My email address is available via my profile.) But also, for the 1st part, LOL! (IMO, HN needs to learn to laugh at itself from time-to-time.) And also, for the 2nd part, thank you for organizing this. Because I'm bootstrap
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by delhanty 6y ago
GCP successfully executing a strategy described by Joel Spolsky in 2002 [0]: >Smart companies try to commoditize their products’ complements. [0] Strategy Letter V https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/
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by delhanty 6y ago
Why isn't this the top comment? Microsoft executives seem more in need of lessons in ethics than their engineers. Just one example from last year: >'We did not sign up to develop weapons' say Microsoft employees protestin
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by delhanty 6y ago
Surely this is the wrong way around! People on Twitter pay too much attention to journalists. Tech Twitter needs some sort of filter to keep them out. From PG’s Twitter a few hours ago: > You can protect anything from unreasonable people
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by delhanty 6y ago
Last July: >A Boeing 737 Max due to be delivered to Ryanair has had the name Max dropped from the livery, further fuelling speculation that the manufacturer and airlines will seek to rebrand the troubled plane once it is given the all cl
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by delhanty 6y ago
>The only correct response when a company reaches out to you for something like this is "cool, let me set up a meeting with my lawyer." Or alternatively, choose not to respond at all as per PG's January 2015 essay "Do
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by delhanty 6y ago
>Only took an 8-standard deviation event I'm assuming that it's only 8-standard deviations if you assume a Gaussian distribution. Wittgenstein’s Ruler (Nassim Taleb) suggests that it's overwhelming likely that the correct
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by delhanty 7y ago
HN Kansai meetp & slack are here: http://hnkansai.org/ https://hnkansai-slack.now.sh/ HN Fukuoka is here: https://www.meetup.com/Hacker-News-Fukuoka/ I found them via the unofficia
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by delhanty 7y ago
What is your opinion of Concrete Roman? [0] >Concrete Roman is a slab serif typeface designed by Donald Knuth using his METAFONT program. It was intended to accompany the Euler mathematical font which it partners in Knuth's book Con
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by delhanty 7y ago
We've been discussing these questions recently on the #covid19 channel of the HN Tokyo Slack [0] - all the same sort of points raised as below - but nobody knows for sure. There was an outbreak in Hokkaido a few weeks ago and that was
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by delhanty 7y ago
Assuming one's memorized a table of squares already. 10^2 = 100 11^2 + 13^2 = 121 + 169 = 290 12^2 + 14^2 = 144 + 196 = 340 100 + 290 + 340 = 730 730 / 365 = 2
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by delhanty 7y ago
It's not just live or die you know. Reduced quality of life is a possible out come too: >Similar to patients with SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV, some patients with 2019-nCoV develop acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) with character
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by delhanty 7y ago
This may be relevant: there's a recent (3rd March) hypothesis due to Rami Sommerstein from Department of Infectious Diseases, Bern University Hospital [0] that ACE inhibitors are a potential risk factor for fatal Covid-19 in those
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by delhanty 7y ago
>Both my submissions didn't survive being flagged within minutes. I am not sure if a concentrated group of users can achieve this objective on HN? My subjective impression is that flagging feature on HN is routinely abused by flaggi
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by delhanty 7y ago
Aha! That makes perfect sense thank you. So the name biquadratic is analogous to biarc. Although the usage here is slightly different to a biarc because it's the same parabola each side of the vertex. The choice of the name biquadrati
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by delhanty 7y ago
Hesitate to link anything from Elsevier, but IIRC the two standard industry 3D CAD/CAM journals are: ● Computer-Aided Design - more applications and commercial stuff https://www.journals.elsevier.com/computer-aided-desi
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by delhanty 7y ago
Are you able to expand on that statement a little? Your blog post is interesting as always. But I can't seem to find a reference to biquadratic in either the post or the linked Adobe paper.
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by delhanty 7y ago
That's right the Hobby splines are a strict subset of the polynomial cubic Béziers. The polynomial cubic Béziers are defined by 4 control points. In 2D that's 4 x 2 = 8 degrees of freedom. In the terminology of HN raphlinus&#x27
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by delhanty 7y ago
For a technical analysis of Hobby splines I recommend HN raphlinus's PhD thesis Section 4.7 [0] referenced just yesterday in the submission on Google Font Analytics [1]. [0] https://levien.com/phd/thesis.pdf [1]
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by delhanty 7y ago
Not the OP, but I'm guessing that Syzygies is Professor David Allen Bayer. [0][1] >Bayer was a mathematics consultant for the film A Beautiful Mind, the biopic of John Nash, "Syzygies" appears to be a reference to a constr

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