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Show HN: Search and Explore Medical Terminologies(terminology.eriklickerman.com)
3 points by gmarx 4y ago|2 comments
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Which States Covid Policies Were Best (and Do Masks “Work” Part Deux)(erikonmedicalinformatics.wordpress.com)
1 points by gmarx 6y ago|0 comments
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by gmarx 8y ago
Maybe but I once had an interview in which I was asked how to find how similar two text strings were (for search). I answered that I would use one of the algorithms from Apache commons text or within Lucerne which implement one or several o
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by gmarx 9y ago
People say this because they are ignoring the 90% of the factors they agree upon and so the remaining fractional differences loom large. Also photos are no substitute for real life.
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by gmarx 9y ago
I'm an amateur at all this (and maybe the article stated this explicitly), I use Garageband. I find the main reason to do your recording and mastering in 24 bit is so you have room to change the level of each track without the sum of t
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by gmarx 9y ago
If Facebook had existed in the 1960s, after the Warren commission report, would articles speculating that Lee Harvey Oswald was a patsy who did not act alone count as fake news?
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by gmarx 9y ago
I'm not ready to say fail but Facebook is not what it was. I go to it out of habit now and think very carefully before I post anything...then usually decide not to. It's boring. I think it will hang around like that land line phon
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by gmarx 9y ago
I find recently that on political issues you need to read Snopes carefully. Often the real answer exists in what they carefully avoid saying. There is no such thing in politics as pure "fact checking". There could be; but there is
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by gmarx 9y ago
those who ignore the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.
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by gmarx 9y ago
I think they pursue the title of professor for 2 reasons: 1) For an intellectual there is no more awesome job/life than living among and working with other such people 2) Anything below full professor and you need to find another job i
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by gmarx 9y ago
HackerNews is selection bias central. I suspect the overwhelming majority of college students don't even know the term "problem set" :) Most of it is, read this book of literature and write something showing you both read it
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by gmarx 9y ago
You assume the primary purpose of college/university is to teach. No. In America anyway, it is mostly a credential. The prestige and exclusiveness of your uni serves as a marker of intelligence in a society in which it can be legally t
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by gmarx 9y ago
All death sentences are life long ;)
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by gmarx 9y ago
I watched several of the course videos and was struck by how long it's been since college and I did anything with matrices. I kept pausing to go look up what things meant and meanwhile some of his students were catching errors in real
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by gmarx 9y ago
Must be nice to get to pick. My whole career I've only managed to have two choices on the hook once.
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by gmarx 9y ago
I can barre some chords but barring in the A major pattern is rough. Then my guitarist said "no one does it that way" and he showed me you press the three strings with your third finger while kind of hyperextending the joint...but
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by gmarx 9y ago
Sorry for the late response. I haven't gone to the links yet but the quotes in italics give me pause. They seem to be at pains to state things in a way which looks like it means one thing but may mean another. The second sentence is a
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by gmarx 9y ago
Money
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by gmarx 9y ago
This is literally what almost all persuasive writing is about. I cannot recall the last time I saw someone write or heard someone speak the words "let's have a discussion" to people who didn't already agree without reall
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by gmarx 9y ago
The problem is anger and offense are caused by, and mechanisms for dealing with, having our minds changed. The only things you can attempt to persuade someone to change his mind about, without making him angry, is something he doesn't
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by gmarx 9y ago
The racial achievement gap closed? That would be a huge story and I would be surprised if I missed it...unless you mean the gap closed within the school (i.e. not relative to society at large) because the remaining whites achievements were
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by gmarx 9y ago
I started playing a few years ago, not serious, mostly in support of singing. When I began I thought the A Major chord was witchcraft. How could my three gigantic fingers fit there? I don't know but somehow trying a lot made it work an
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by gmarx 9y ago
My guitarist's 14 year old daughter refers to his heavy metal as "old man music".
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by gmarx 9y ago
Big Head!
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by gmarx 9y ago
I wouldn't be 100% certain but yes, it seems unlikely that sound could damage the part of the ear that is stimulated by the given frequency without you hearing it. It's kind of a weird story. A bunch of people lose their hearing a
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by gmarx 9y ago
I love the description Goethe provides of Beethoven's personality. We've all met that guy, extremely talented, contempt for the world which you kind of admire but seriously dude could you give it a rest? I'm trying to enjoy m
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by gmarx 9y ago
I wonder if longer term this current trend of "desirable" places becoming more and more expensive will ruin them and currently cheaper places will become desirable? What made those areas desirable in the first place? Can those pla
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by gmarx 9y ago
The way it used to be is you would own a larger house to raise a family. Then your 2 kids would leave and you would sell and buy something smaller and cheaper and often in a warmer climate.
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by gmarx 9y ago
violent crime up 3.9% in 2015 though still down from 2011
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by gmarx 9y ago
https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/latest-crime-statistics-rel...

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