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by fspeech 7y ago
One needs to look at this on a seasonal basis. Typically they inject a large amount of cash before the Chinese new year and start draining it afterwards. So the effect is larger than the net amount though maybe less than the gross number.
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by fspeech 7y ago
"Surgical masks protect other people from your coughing / breathing -- they do nothing for you." But the mandate to wear masks in crowded public places is to protect others from the wearer. Note there have been few if any rep
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by fspeech 7y ago
Understood. The fact that the patient took that bad turn and then immediately recovered after taking remdesivir is very suggestive. If his case stayed light throughout then yeah it would have been hard to tell. BTW remdesivir is highly anti
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by fspeech 7y ago
Initially the patient appeared to have a light case but then took quite a bad turn.
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by fspeech 7y ago
"Treatment with intravenous remdesivir (a novel nucleotide analogue prodrug in development10,11) was initiated on the evening of day 7, and no adverse events were observed in association with the infusion. ... On hospital day 8 (illnes
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First Case of 2019 Novel Coronavirus in the US (Treated with Remdesivir)(nejm.org)
9 points by fspeech 7y ago|6 comments
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by fspeech 7y ago
Do a sanity check: does your 20% number make any sense based on what is known about the cases outside of China?
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by fspeech 7y ago
Current trend from China CDC: http://2019ncov.chinacdc.cn/2019-nCoV/
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Early Transmission Dynamics in Wuhan of Novel Coronavirus–Infected Pneumonia(nejm.org)
2 points by fspeech 7y ago|2 comments
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by fspeech 7y ago
Bats naturally have high body temperature from flying. This likely make them more resistant to viral infection, which turns them into carriers. https://www.livescience.com/44870-bats-viruses-flight.html
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by fspeech 7y ago
You don't need to actually consume bats to have the viruses transmitted across species. Bat droppings could contaminate/infect some intermediary animal.
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by fspeech 7y ago
Here is the official channel: http://www.hubei.gov.cn/zhuanti/2020/gzxxgzbd/zxtb/202001/t2... There are other calls for help directly from hospitals. Some private hospitals may be in particularly ba
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Coronavirus Infections–More Than Just the Common Cold(jamanetwork.com)
72 points by fspeech 7y ago|6 comments
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by fspeech 7y ago
It is possible to have viral infection start as conjuctivitus, which is why it is important to not rub your eyes and to wash your hands regularly.
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by fspeech 7y ago
But it certainly has altruistic value: if you are a carrier, wearing a mask should greatly reduce the chance of infecting others.
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by fspeech 7y ago
When you apply for a visa haven't you already provided a passport with photo and more biographical information on the form?
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by fspeech 7y ago
You seem to be convinced that software vendors could unilaterally control where and how their software is used. If they have this kind of power why do they need copyright protection in the first place? Why do we need a trade war as the US s
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by fspeech 7y ago
The particular attraction to me that Julia advertises is that it is much easier to read other people's Julia code. I recently tried Julia and found this to be quite true. It still lacks some critical features I need in the ML library b
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by fspeech 7y ago
"because Chinese labourers have more skills now and can command high enough wages in more upmarket jobs that they don't need the low end work any more" I think what is happening is that the low-skilled laborers can now earn h
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by fspeech 7y ago
Technology has the potential of flattening the social hierarchy somewhat. Or more likely it gives some an out even if they can't get the social status they want -- like making it easier for one to live a life cut off from immediate soc
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by fspeech 7y ago
I think the point is labeling itself is very difficult except for special and limited domains. Manually constructed labels, like feature engineering, are not robust and do not advance the field in general.
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by fspeech 7y ago
Part of the reluctance so far is likely due to the fact that both Alipay and WePay charge very little processing fee to the merchants (which also explains their popularity with merchants). If they accept foreign cards do they have to eat th
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by fspeech 7y ago
For one GPU speedup over CPU isn’t that dramatic for small to medium sized problems, e.g. MNIST or CIFAR that one would try algorithm ideas on. So I think it’s a stretch to see GPU as essential to the new algorithms. On the other hand for l
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by fspeech 7y ago
I don't know why you think subgradient is that important. It's just a shorthand for anything reasonable. DNNs are overwhelmingly underdetermined and have many many minimizers. It's not so important to find the best one (an im
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by fspeech 7y ago
Your argument is incorrect as pointed out by dropin685 earlier. Additional weight by itself does not waste energy. It does require more power to accelerate. The extra power is turned into higher kinetic energy for the same cruising speed. H
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by fspeech 7y ago
It depends on the mix of circuits. Memory don't follow same design rules as logic so can scale quite well. Logic density may well be limited more by power dissipation than by design rules. In other words you can pack some circuits a lo
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Wujian100_open RISC-V SoC(github.com)
1 points by fspeech 7y ago|0 comments
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by fspeech 7y ago
The video gives excellent intuitions. But do try writing down a rigorous argument after watching it!
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by fspeech 7y ago
Julia works with CUDA on Windows without the need for Visual Studio since Julia is LLVM based.
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by fspeech 7y ago
This is probably the best defense one can have, but it is not clear that the door will stay open forever.

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