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by dzdt 6y ago
I think the connection between gut bacteria and human health is one of the great developing medical stories of the current time. It is almost on par with the development of the germ theory of disease. Scientists are aware that most of th
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by dzdt 6y ago
Does anyone know of data tools that could help (say) a city council understand the position of their own municipality? I think a lot of people are flying blind, not asking the right questions.
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by dzdt 6y ago
You also need to disconnect school funding from local taxes. Currently schools in the US are primarily funded by local property tax, which means there are rich districts where the people are well-off, the property is valuable, and the scho
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by dzdt 6y ago
The actual article title is "At the Math Olympiad, Computers Prepare to Go for the Gold" which also has the advantage of fitting the HN length requirement without a dangling "To".
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by dzdt 6y ago
Does anyone have a contrary spurce of positive evidence that Nikola honestly does have valuable working technology? I have not made any effort to dig, but what little I had seen of Nikola so far seemed more hype than substance so the accus
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by dzdt 6y ago
FYI the downvotes are for the phrasing. If you had written "Small correction:" instead of "plz, do your research" it would have gone the other way.
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by dzdt 6y ago
This sounds like a very interesting tale. Are there more details written somewhere? How close to first-person is your source of information?
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by dzdt 6y ago
From the article: " there are no known cases of an adult successfully acquiring it (Brady, 1970; Ward and Burns, 1999; Levitin and Rogers, 2005). " Edit: Oh, sorry, that was for perfect pitch. You asked for relative pitch, wh
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by dzdt 6y ago
Sorry your reply must be a maximum of 12 characters. Punctuation is not allowed.
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by dzdt 6y ago
One thing to understand is services which deploy personal knowledge questions for password reset do NOT take security as their primary aim. The primary aim will be a cost-benefit optimum between user security and cost of customer service.
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by dzdt 6y ago
This also pressures universities to have in person classes regardless of the safety of that practice. Universities want to support their students, and indeed one of the draws of many university programs for international students is the en
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by dzdt 6y ago
It was a surprise to me to learn that octaves have a physical. mathematical basis. I discovered this as a teen reading about how to make music on a computer, where the relationship of notes to frequency was explained. To my ear moving up
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by dzdt 6y ago
A baby elephant has close to a 1m diameter. Maybe an elephant?
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by dzdt 6y ago
Lots of performance mysteries, particularly in micro-benchmarks, are explained by how either code or data aligns to memory cache lines. A seemingly unrelated change will cause memory locations to move. No idea if that is the case here or
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by dzdt 6y ago
I had the impression indoor farming is heavily hoping to pivot to marijuana.
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by dzdt 6y ago
Excel is at its core a declarative programming language. Entering formulas in cells that reference other cells declares the relationship of the calculated cells to its referents. It is not an imperative language: the user does not tell
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by dzdt 6y ago
You could get this effect naturally for a Mandelbrot zoom calculation where each thread iterates the orbit until it escapes, then pauses for a second and repeats
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by dzdt 6y ago
I was just wrong. Not sure how -- there was a coauthor with a gmail address but yes, Technical University of Budapest. [Deleted "from authors not associated with an academic institution" from my original reply.]
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by dzdt 6y ago
This is an interesting promotion of an applied math result. From their promotional material it looks promising, though the unusual promotional approach makes me worry. The actual paper is at https://www.sciencedirect.com/sci
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by dzdt 6y ago
Not mentioned: the dead salmon study of 2009 that outed a bunch of fMRI studies as using incorrect statistics, and which went on to win an ignoble prize. [1] https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/scicurious-brain/ignobe.
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by dzdt 6y ago
The correlation between global distribution of all experimentally known atomic spectral lines to the Planckian spectral distribution associated with black body radiation at a temperature of 𝑇≈9000K is indeed "funny". The match s
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by dzdt 6y ago
In this case the article is considered part of NYT's Covid-19 coverage, so is accessible with a free email-based signup.
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by dzdt 7y ago
Does anyone have an explanation (preferably with source links) for why the US stock market is not absolutely tanking given the depths of economic disruption? I mean I get that the government is supplying stimulus, but I don't see how
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Social Distancing and Its Effect on Reducing the Spread of Illness(kinsahealth.co)
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by dzdt 7y ago
I do not believe the US nor any of its states have made it a goal to stop the virus. Please give me links if this is wrong. Everything I have seen from government sources talks about "flatten the curve" or "slow the spread&
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by dzdt 7y ago
Yes the truth is masks help, but officials decided to lie about this to prevent panic over lack of masks. But this is damaging not only to official credibility but also to the response. A big demand for masks in January could have forced
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by dzdt 7y ago
In NYC, PPE is running low now, ventilators will be all used in 5 days. The PPE crisis is coming first, but not by many days.
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by dzdt 7y ago
2969 right now at https://coronavirus.1point3acres.com/ . That site aggregates from news media reports and is the most real-time of the various sites I've seen. Plus it gives county-level breakdowns and links to repor
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by dzdt 7y ago
Yes, I think the CCP could only stretch the truth by about one order of magnitude without the lie being obvious. Has China reported accurately every prison outbreak? Probably not. Is COVID-19 spreading widely in China now? No.
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by dzdt 7y ago
I searched out the article: "Reading Chess", 1990, HS Baird and Ken Thompson. (Yes, that Ken Thompson). http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/reading_chess/reading_chess.p... It doesn't actually quantify

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