empyrrhicist

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by empyrrhicist 8mo ago
Yes, it's associated with cancer, heart disease, and dementia.
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by empyrrhicist 8mo ago
Until the price of gas starts to remotely reflect the medium to long term costs of climate change I basically always celebrate anything that increases gas or carbon-based energy prices. Like, it sucks... but there's lots of data that c
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by empyrrhicist 1y ago
I'm sure it's been scraped to be regurgitated by a whole slew of LLMs.
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by empyrrhicist 1y ago
I'm doing it right now .
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by empyrrhicist 1y ago
> This just isn't true. In practice any such screening model can ALWAYS improve with more data—basically because the statistical power goes up and up—up to an asymptote set by noise in the physical process itself. That isn't ho
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by empyrrhicist 1y ago
Right - if a tower in the back yard falls down it can still hit your house, since it isn't guaranteed to neatly collapse straight down. Worst case, it may tip over from the base and directly smash stuff up to its height away (and 10m i
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by empyrrhicist 1y ago
The comment I was replying to literally said "For home use", and a heavy object 10m in the air does not have to be directly above something to be meaningfully (and dangerously) above something. It's a silly scenario anyway,
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by empyrrhicist 1y ago
Hoisting 100 tons of stuff high into the air, and then efficiently converting that into the high RPM needed to drive a generator seems like it would take a truly staggering construction effort. Suspending that amount of weight high above yo
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by empyrrhicist 1y ago
The data is often a biopsy, which is invasive and potentially harmful.
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by empyrrhicist 1y ago
Take PSA, since it's a simpler example. You're right that, if we screen everyone, taking action based on the outcome causes more harm than good. The response is to calibrate... which means we don't learn anything usefully act
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by empyrrhicist 1y ago
... yeah? You'd expect the false positive rate to be HIGHER when you're not looking at an enriched patient subset. That's why we're careful about recommending certain kinds of screening. See also: PSA screening.
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by empyrrhicist 1y ago
No mention of OpenRouteService, which you can spin up locally yourself and which offers a variety of similar services: https://openrouteservice.org/
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by empyrrhicist 2y ago
> So you think voters were aware of how USAID moneys were being spent? What the fuck? We're talking about the availability of information, not what random idiots have bothered to make themselves aware of. > Causing instability ov
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by empyrrhicist 2y ago
> This should be transparent to the voters. We should know how they are spending our money and where. The fact that you think this is what's happening right now is fucking hilarious. It's also hilarious that you don't seem
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by empyrrhicist 2y ago
Read the rest of their replies in the thread - they're fully living in a full on fantasy land concerning what's actually happening.
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by empyrrhicist 2y ago
> They're not being dismantled. O RLY? You might try reading literally anything the people involved are putting out there. They're open about trying to shut down USAID and the department of Education, and interfering so deeply
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by empyrrhicist 2y ago
No - bullshit. It is not defensible to conflate the dismantling of entire agencies and departments with discretionary enforcement. "But but but Democrats" isn't a response when we are dealing with COMPLETELY unprecedented act
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by empyrrhicist 2y ago
You don't get to just pretend these things aren't created and funded by congress, and that their operation hasn't been solidified and formed over decades and decades through interaction with the judicial branch as well. The e
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by empyrrhicist 2y ago
Why, to make all that quark chemistry a bit easier?
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by empyrrhicist 2y ago
> apart from the fact that dark matter predictions have been contradicted by increasingly sensitive experiments over and over and over My impression is that many physicists would disagree with this characterization entirely, and that the
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by empyrrhicist 2y ago
And they came with optical out. I have a couple as well and am hoping to get many more years out of them.
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by empyrrhicist 2y ago
Well... sure, but I think you're still almost purposely missing the point. Take this example - can we prove that a system of differential equations emerges in a meaningful way from discrete systems? Yes, obviously. That's a far cr
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by empyrrhicist 2y ago
What does that even mean, and how is it a response to my point that choosing an appropriate level of abstraction for the problem at hand is a good idea?
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by empyrrhicist 2y ago
I'm not trying to be mean, it just struck me as kind of a funny position. "If you want to understand the transition between a fundamental theory and its effective description in some limiting regime, you need to be able to describ
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by empyrrhicist 2y ago
Lol, so you've got a working theory to bridge the quantum and classical worlds? That is, you've figured out how to make general relativity and quantum mechanics emerge from a more fundamental theory? Somebody get this person a Nob
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by empyrrhicist 2y ago
I think the point is the model though - if a system's behavior can be modeled/described classically, it's a bit silly to to call it a "quantum" system in the same way that it's reductive to say Biology is just
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by empyrrhicist 2y ago
I teach people who thought this way, and later decided to enter a career that requires basic data analysis literacy. They struggle with things like order of operations, which is incredibly frustrating. Teaching math up to the high school&#x
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by empyrrhicist 3y ago
Depends if the expansion is accelerating or not. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEyXTQ9do-c
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by empyrrhicist 3y ago
I love that attitude - we have a safety issue, so let's victim blame and ignore the infrastructure issues, poorly trained HEAVY MACHINERY OPERATORS, safety-hostile vehicle design, and generally enormous subsidies for using cars everywh
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by empyrrhicist 3y ago
I get annoyed at cyclists who ride irresponsibly too - I also live in a place where people HATE cyclists beyond any and all reason, and in general I think we're all being failed by our infrastructure first and foremost. You didn't

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