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by gwerbret 1y ago
> There is a simple test the public can use for any scientific model: does it make accurate predictions, or not? You don't need to understand how a model works to test that. It's quite obvious from your position on this matter
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by gwerbret 1y ago
By the tenor of your response, I assume you understood what I meant in this very-non-medical of forums, which means you understood why the paper's authors themselves chose not to call their study a trial (even though they registered it
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by gwerbret 1y ago
Some important things not mentioned in this press release (not to detract from the idea of new treatment approaches of any sort): - All patients had their tumors surgically removed before they were started on treatment. Thus the trial was
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by gwerbret 1y ago
> Used Tesla car prices are now down 4.59% year-over-year Their graph shows a drop from $33k to $28k since August '24, or about 18%. Did they leave a factor of 4 behind somewhere?
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by gwerbret 1y ago
Fair point, but the solution I propose would only apply to those parts of the assessment involving solo writing assignments -- so excluding class participation, group assignments, etc. (Which is not to say that students can't use AI to
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by gwerbret 1y ago
A lot of the purposes in education for which the use of AI would be considered "cheating" involve writing assignments of one sort or another, so I don't know why most of these education scenarios don't simply redirect th
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Firefox Has a New Home(windowsreport.com)
2 points by gwerbret 1y ago|2 comments
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by gwerbret 1y ago
Maybe someone in the field can speak up -- I'm not sure what is new about this study. It seems to be about an analysis of the double-slit experiment using individual atoms, and the press release implies that this is novel, but that exp
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by gwerbret 1y ago
> We are well on our way to being a rich country, but not there yet. Q: Why will Ireland eventually be the richest country in the world? A: Because its capital is always Dublin. (I'll see myself out.)
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by gwerbret 1y ago
Pedant here! > NIST researchers have made the most accurate atomic clock to date — one that can measure time down to the 19th decimal place. That's precision, not accuracy.
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by gwerbret 1y ago
> Or were they just not aware that the same information (and more) is freely available on people search websites today? (one of which has the same namesake as that large white book) This -- while people realize that Google et al. have ho
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by gwerbret 1y ago
I think you can still get a real sense of overall societal trust from such stories. Not too long ago I horrified a relatively-young person by explaining how in the not-too-distant past, people used to have their names, phone numbers and hom
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by gwerbret 1y ago
The journal is not Nature , it's Scientific Reports . This is a journal by the same publisher as Nature (which is why it's on the same domain) that will publish anything deemed "scientifically sound" by the reviewers
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by gwerbret 1y ago
This perspective is supported by a) the sentence structure and overall phraseology being significantly different from the user's prior posts, and b) the flagrant (ab)use of the em dash.
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by gwerbret 1y ago
This is the short story that provided strong thematic inspiration for the movie WALL·E.
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by gwerbret 1y ago
You should have read the paper (or at least the abstract) first, as they used macaque and human organoid models, too. :) But yes, the overall effects of the region of DNA in question (an enhancer) are fairly small. The preprint is available
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by gwerbret 1y ago
> The Supersonic Aviation Modernization Act (SAMA) > Boom boasts a number of big-name VCs and tech luminaries as funders, including AI poster child Sam Altman This... can't be a coincidence. Can it?
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The five happiest cities(bbc.com)
1 points by gwerbret 1y ago|0 comments
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by gwerbret 1y ago
> Stopping an experiment once you find a significant effect but before you reach your predetermined sample size is classic P hacking. Although much of the article is basic common sense, and although I'm not a statistician, I had to
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by gwerbret 1y ago
Without going into the aforementioned detail, would you say he burned his bridges on the way out?
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by gwerbret 1y ago
> The alternative to divorce isn't perfect marriages, it is failed marriages that are inescapable. I'm sure this has nothing to do with you, but by your comments in this thread, I'm reminded of a conversation I had with a
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by gwerbret 1y ago
I suspect that what's happening internally (at Microsoft) is that someone's leveraging your work towards their next promotion packet. They went to their manager with "hey I've got this great idea" and followed it up
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by gwerbret 1y ago
> So I mean, you probably don't want to have any leaks or weak stitches in your uterus transplant... With this sort of surgery, they wouldn't be cutting into the uterus (womb) itself when extracting it from the donor, but inste
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by gwerbret 2y ago
> You're making a bit of a leap with "made no difference." I was paraphrasing the results of the study, which was designed specifically to see if fasting would reduce visceral fat as compared to a non-fasting regimen. If y
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by gwerbret 2y ago
The title in HN ("(Any) 8-hour time-restricted-eating window effective for weight loss") is heavily editorialized from that of the NIH blurb ("Timeframe of 8-hour restricted eating irrelevant to weight loss"), but actual
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Woozle Effect(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by gwerbret 2y ago|0 comments
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by gwerbret 2y ago
Both are very reasonable features, of course. Here are (some of) the real-world challenges to their implementation: #1: Requires competence, and/or management that isn't too focused on velocity and features to listen to their engi
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by gwerbret 2y ago
It's interesting to see that as of the time I'm writing this, half the top-level comments in this thread are being downvoted. I am NOT writing in support of the current slash-and-burn approach to government, but I suspect that the
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by gwerbret 2y ago
I suspect there's value to both your perspective and GP's insofar as both can help understand international affairs in the present day. The "avid book readers" vary widely in quality but are more likely to write down wha
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by gwerbret 2y ago
Bit of a tangent, but I wondered if anyone here is particularly into the serious business of foreign affairs/international relations, and can recommend a primer -- or even a curriculum -- for someone wanting to become more knowledgeabl

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