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   by dfsegoat 10y ago

   Fantastic write-up! Put this on our data engineering reference article list. I am just curious - are you using Provisioned IOPS? If so what value? Noticed in your metrics your Queue Depth was pegged around 15-20 on average. According to AWS
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   by dfsegoat 10y ago

   How would I know if it is a lie? Until that is elucidated - anecdote is perfectly sufficient for speaking informally. I notice you also left out (conveniently) the 2nd definition: "an account regarded as unreliable or hearsay."
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   by dfsegoat 10y ago

   Again - this is why I describe it as an anecdote .
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   by dfsegoat 10y ago

   This is why I described it as an "anecdote"...
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   by dfsegoat 10y ago

   You are also assuming that the brain is the origin of consciousness as we know it. And not just a "reducing engine" for an external "signal" - as Aldous Huxley suggests in his Mind at Large concept: https://en
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   by dfsegoat 10y ago

   Heard a similarly strange anecdote from consciousness researcher Anthony Peake on a podcast recently: He was was sitting in a cafeteria eating lunch with a female friend who has a seizure disorder. During the meal, this friend went into a &
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   by dfsegoat 10y ago

   Silly question ahead but I am honestly curious: How did you come up with the name? Has anyone seen your name and associated it with SkyNet / The Terminator Franchise?
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   by dfsegoat 10y ago

   Check out any books / articles relating to the Marine Corps' "The Basic School" - It is where newly commissioned officers (and warrant officers) learn how to lead Marines. My fav is: "One Bullet Away: The Making of
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   by dfsegoat 10y ago

   This. The most tight knit people I've met are in military special operations: Nothing comes close to the combination of technical skills, teamwork and ability to mitigate "interpersonal friction" that those guys have, IMO. Th
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    by dfsegoat 10y ago

    I am with you on this - it is what causes me a lot of anxiety but what also drives me to at least know about "all the shiney things" that the new breed of engineers basically come equipped with standard.
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    by dfsegoat 10y ago

    To share me / and things that keep me up at night: I am an old geek - (34 now - i guess)... I still need to work the 12 hour days in order to keep up with my day job AND to keep up with new technologies and the literature via Pluralsig
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    by dfsegoat 10y ago

    You know - you are absolutely right. I am ashamed to admit that I let my expertise get in the way of my common sense here. I will keep that in mind on all my comments going forward.
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    by dfsegoat 10y ago

    I can appreciate all of that. Thank you for the civil reply - I will keep this in mind going forward before I comment next time.
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    by dfsegoat 10y ago

    Really? I don't. I don't find that something which is common knowledge - that poaching + habitat loss is the single driving force behind the loss of African (and other) megafauna - to be news. We (zoologists) have known this for a
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    by dfsegoat 10y ago

    Thanks for that interesting history - had no idea that corruption was that high up the chain. But I do also second your question: Why is this on HN? It is pretty common knowledge that overhunting + poaching and poor game management are the
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    by dfsegoat 10y ago

    Almost sounds a bit like Elizabeth Holmes...
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    by dfsegoat 10y ago

    This is cool. We have particular problems with English vs. British spelling for medical terminologies. We have a lookup table for these and other synonyms: e.g.: "Haemorrhage" vs. "Hemorrhage" etc
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    by dfsegoat 10y ago

    I'm a bit worried about this -- assuming you are over 30, how will they decide you "have the vitality" aside from all the other interview stuff?
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    by dfsegoat 10y ago

    As a recent postgres convert (from mysql) -- would be interested to know more about the general pattern or examples which I might keep in mind for: My insert triggers have big blocks of IF/ELSIF branches
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    by dfsegoat 10y ago

    THANK YOU. Nobody seems to pick up on the fact that those 3-5 trials cost (on average) in the hundreds of millions of dollars ($30-50M). Not to mention the countless Institutional, Human Subject, and ethics review boards that must be satisf
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    by dfsegoat 10y ago

    Indeed - the Cochrane Collaboration is of quite limited utility: http://www.cochrane.org/evidence . They are only the gold-standard for systematic reviews of therapeutic interventions.
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    by dfsegoat 10y ago

    How should the average researcher go about replicating something like 3-5 clinical trials that a drug company may have run for a human drug? Should we replicate all that work? Or perhaps just obtain the raw, patient-level data from said com
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    by dfsegoat 10y ago

    Exactly! The last thing I need is more pressure to get my stuff done inside of a (medication) time-window -- the ADD brain does not work that way.
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    by dfsegoat 10y ago

    I tried their DBaaS offering about 18 months ago. The setup / "control panel" is laughable compared to even the most pedestrian of AWS service offerings. It worked, but it was not a user interface that inspired much confidenc
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    by dfsegoat 10y ago

    I can think of several: * The XR release mechanism is unreliable - I've gotten lack of therapeutic effect, and "prescribed overdoses" from the 30mg ER. * Proton pump inhibitors interfere with the XRs more than the IR. * I can
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    by dfsegoat 10y ago

    I said my dose was 30mg bid - twice per day. The other part of it was the physician was quite literally, old - and I questioned his ability to practice medicine at that point -- the same guy prescribed methadone to a friend of mine for mi
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    by dfsegoat 10y ago

    As a general rule in pharmacology: putting a methyl- group on any molecule increases its ability to cross the blood-brain-barrier and have increased psychoactivity (and neurotoxicity): METH-amphetmaine N-METHyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) di-METHYL-
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    by dfsegoat 10y ago

    Same case here. Back this assessment 100%. I was prescribed desoxyn once back in the 90s -- it is methamphetamine, and my body could not handle it. The Adderall IR tablets however (30mg bid) - i have no problem with tolerating - and would v
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    by dfsegoat 10y ago

    tried to edit it. but why would they mention it so prominently in the NOTAM?
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    by dfsegoat 10y ago

    I have none -- I don't claim to know much more than that about Embraer (or any other type). I found it to be ridiculous as well. My interest was more to the weapons system testing itself.