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by glaugh 6y ago
“What did you expect?” is my least favorite conversational trope (it’s more disappointing on HN because in general I have higher expectations here, but it’s common everywhere). On the surface it sounds smart and world-weary. As an actual pa
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by glaugh 6y ago
Thank you for this thoughtful post and prompt > What helps you to sympathize and communicate with others? You and others have suggested good ideas. Another that I find useful is to always give something. It doesn’t have to be falsely g
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by glaugh 6y ago
My boomer parents were raised by parents who were taught not to tell their kids they loved them. My (privileged) five-year-old has emotional tools that I didn’t have until I was 25. I do think we’re generally getting better at raising empat
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by glaugh 6y ago
Fwiw, I have had some discussions on FB that seemed to improve with some of these strategies. This goes a bit against the spirit of the thing, but a side-effect seems to be that if one is using these tools in a public forum like FB (which o
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by glaugh 6y ago
(Putting this in a separate comment because it’s a bit meta, and not about the dataset itself) This “here’s an interesting dataset to play with” approach might ring a bell with some folks here. Statwing was a YC S12 company, and we were acq
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by glaugh 6y ago
There was a lot of discussion in the early days of the pandemic about “immunity passports” (also called “immunity certificates”), which would allow individuals who had recovered from COVID-19 to live with fewer restrictions than others. Som
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Show HN: Analyze Covid-19 immune passports self-infection data – Statwing YC S12(statsiq.iad1.qualtrics.com)
4 points by glaugh 6y ago|2 comments
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by glaugh 6y ago
Sure, maybe not as good as Wu’s, but still pretty freaking cool. I’d be proud if I made these.
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by glaugh 6y ago
Especially if you've witnessed the absolutely extraordinary beauty of a total eclipse, imagine living in ancient times, believing in active and utilitarian gods, and witnessing a total solar eclipse during a battle https://e
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by glaugh 6y ago
Abbott Labs FP rate was stated as 0.02% https://www.statnews.com/2020/05/15/fda-says-abbotts-5-minut...
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by glaugh 6y ago
Can you add a citation for the false positives number? The Abbott Labs test false positive rate was 0.02%, which seems totally acceptable to me https://www.statnews.com/2020/05/15/fda-says-abbotts-5-minut...
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by glaugh 6y ago
Paper: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.22.20136309v... Op ed: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/03/opinion/coronavirus-tests... This isn’t like PCR testing. It’s
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by glaugh 6y ago
“The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day when you are writing a novel you will never be stuck. That is the most valuable thing I can tell you so try to remembe
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by glaugh 6y ago
Lots of good answers here. And I think there’s reason to be skeptical. One concrete thing I’ve taken out of it is greater empathy for my kids’ lived experience. Alison Gopnik at Berkeley talks about how fmri studies suggest that the increas
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by glaugh 6y ago
Few random thoughts: 1. Most people’s answers to questions like this tend towards “Here’s what I did, you should do it, too” 2. If you want to have a family in your 30s, you might feel a strong pull to optimize for money then. So optimize f
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Trevor Bedford estimates the impact of protests on spread of Covid-19(twitter.com)
2 points by glaugh 6y ago|0 comments
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by glaugh 6y ago
Coronavirus have “proofreading” functions that make them less likely to mutate meaningfully than many other kinds of viruses. While it’s true that viruses often mutate to become less potent over time (bc that makes them less detectable and
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by glaugh 6y ago
Similarly: “Technology is a word that describes something that doesn’t work yet.” Douglas Adams
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by glaugh 6y ago
Cool idea. Just to explore it further, I think it’d be interesting to create a model that included a couple other major factors, like when the comment was posted relative to the front-paging of the article and where the parent comment fell
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by glaugh 6y ago
Interesting. More splitting the baby than splitting the difference
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by glaugh 6y ago
And while neither effect was found to be stat sig, the “treat earlier” group was close to stat sig (eyeballing it, it probably would have been stat sig at 90% confidence) so that’s good enough reason to try again with a larger sample size
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by glaugh 6y ago
My understanding is that they closed plants of their own volition because so many people were getting sick. What the government can do is (1) find and prioritize personal protective equipment for food processing and (2) do a better job on e
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by glaugh 6y ago
I think the logic is less “Give money so the pitchfork folks won’t come after you personally” and more “Give money so there’s no need for a revolution”
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by glaugh 6y ago
This is a nicely crafted example. Human communication is so densely laden with nuance and context and subtext that it takes soooo much work and a dose of generosity to have a real conversation that doesn’t spin off into something useless.
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by glaugh 6y ago
The thing I find most exciting about this is volunteering to volunteer software engineering capacity to NY. I hope you’re able to source more opportunities like that. I have a hypothesis that a lot of young software developers would love
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by glaugh 6y ago
Whenever I see the IHME charts[1] (which are great) I think “I wish I could see the what the model predicted before today’s date so I can assess it.” This shows laudable transparency, in my view. (Also the model was directionally correct,
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by glaugh 7y ago
A semi-random example to prove the point: https://www.nuclearphynance.com/Show%20Post.aspx?PostIDKey=1...
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by glaugh 7y ago
I found this to be a useful summary of similar research: https://examine.com/nutrition/supplements-for-cold-and-flu/
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by glaugh 7y ago
I’ve had dailies for a long time and now really love acuvue moist. Way less dry. if the delta between weeklies and dailies is 1, moving to acuvue moist has been another 0.3 or so
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by glaugh 7y ago
One day I walked into our company’s swag closet and grabbed 10 identical company shirts that are kinda subtle about the branding and just look like some band t-shirt. I’m a couple years into wearing only these to work (plus two pairs of jea

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