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   by glial 5y ago

   This is an image taken on Jan 6: https://i.insider.com/5ff6467a6d61c10019cce0e6?width=1000&fo...
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   by glial 5y ago

   And they sell Avocado Oil in huge half-gallon jugs.
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   by glial 5y ago

   If I had to guess, I'd say that grousing probably came before structural analysis historically too. But we don't have archived reddit comments from historical workers movements, only the published works that followed lots of discu
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   by glial 5y ago

   If you can show this, you could get a publication out of it. Until then, you might find that reading the existing literature referenced by the commenter above is helpful.
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   by glial 5y ago

   Curious what you think about taxes on cigarettes.
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   by glial 5y ago

   If my calculations are correct, that's the equivalent of 52 billion Hiroshima bombs.
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   by glial 5y ago

   > Parking clouds people’s minds, shifting analytic faculties to a lower level. Some strongly support market prices — except for parking. Some strongly oppose subsidies — except for parking. I wonder if you could replace this with: &quot
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   by glial 5y ago

   Connotations aren't universal. I think "pure" or even "authority" could be argued to have positive connotations in certain contexts and to certain people.
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   by glial 5y ago

   You are not alone...I found the 'quit lit' genre to be both comforting and tempting as a grad student, e.g. https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2021/08/18/re...
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    by glial 5y ago

    > Omicron is so much milder It's milder when measured by overall hospitalization rates (covering vaccinated + unvaccinated + past infection), but is there evidence that it is milder for unvaccinated individuals specifically? Genuin
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    by glial 5y ago

    If limiting the spread of 'misinformation' is their intended goal, it seems like they would have a bigger impact by just toning down their algorithmic recommendations. Leave the videos up and available to search, and stop doing hy
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    by glial 5y ago

    That's why I like Bayesian statistics...it places 'uncertainty' in the observer rather than the environment.
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    by glial 5y ago

    And they stoke bloodlust so that they don't have to do anything about economic conditions.
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    by glial 5y ago

    > Can you provide an example
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    by glial 5y ago

    > Then you should easily be able to back that up with data. So please provide it.
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    by glial 5y ago

    https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanepe/article/PIIS2666-7... > Asymptomatic cases had a significant but lower secondary attack rate when compared to symptomatic individuals. Curious what your searches
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    by glial 5y ago

    Even if vaccination does nothing for kids except keep them from spreading it, it's net positive for the community. Of course, with omicron, who knows...
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    by glial 5y ago

    https://www.startribune.com/minnesota-reports-third-covid-19...
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    by glial 5y ago

    For anyone interested, there's a great Radiolab episode about this: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/no-sp...
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    by glial 5y ago

    I can't speak for the ML applications. But to neuroscientists, I imagine the appeal is: 1. the brain uses spiking neurons 2. the brain does sophisticated computations, predictive coding, etc ...how? Like with other basic research, I th
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    by glial 5y ago

    100% agree. The NIH could replicating studies a requirement of funding for graduate or postdoctoral training. In addition to the scientific and societal benefit, it would just be good training.
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    by glial 5y ago

    My assumption at this point is: probably, but the immune system is complicated so nobody's really sure.
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    by glial 5y ago

    You gave an inflammatory conclusion "we're all being lied to!" without showing how you reached that conclusion.
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    by glial 5y ago

    > just a convoluted notation for guesswork. You could say that for all of estimation, by definition. But some estimates are better than others, and the KF is the best estimate under certain conditions... ...and one of those conditions i
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    by glial 5y ago

    Similar work in MN shows that wastewater rates are a leading indicator of positive tests: https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/breaking-the-news/...
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    by glial 5y ago

    Relevant recent post from the always delightful Convivial Society: https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/you-cant-optimize... Takeaway: There are two key points. First, our exhaustion—in its various materia
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    by glial 5y ago

    Plastic --> efficiency --> overpopulation --> more plastic? Whatever you're selling, I'm not buying it.
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    by glial 5y ago

    I have a dirt-cheap TCL 43S425 and have never plugged it into the internet. Works great.
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    by glial 5y ago

    This matches the policy at my children's school - and thankfully the outcome has been the same as well, with no community spread. These seem like reasonable and effective precautions to me.
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    by glial 5y ago

    Sorry to hear this. There is a lovely documentary about his life available at PBS: https://www.pbs.org/video/robert-bly-a-thousand-years-of-joy...