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by has2k1 7y ago
I thought of telomere length too, but given that the person is an outlier in age and they are healthy would it still be as accurate a measure? I think the biological aspect that is the proxy for age should not affect the well-being of the p
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by has2k1 8y ago
> ... had mind-bogglingly idiotic parents who raised him the wrong gender ... Though uncommon, XX children can have ambiguous genitalia at birth. Today (1) we have some idea on what it is and we can deal with it at various stages of grow
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by has2k1 8y ago
> This raises the question of why gold tends to be found near other gold on Earth. When you spin a combination of stuff that is "loose enough" at sufficient speeds, the centrifugal force acts on the constituent masses different
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by has2k1 8y ago
> But evolving wings loses the ability to climb I think you are skipping steps as you try to imagine the process. Wings are at the extreme, there are intermediate features. Checkout a video of "flying squirrels", you will notic
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by has2k1 8y ago
You cannot cheat that way. It tracks time since the question became live.
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by has2k1 8y ago
> Machiavelli's dislike of mercenaries was poorly placed, as after all they were simply following the economic incentives. That is part of the reason he did not like them, their loyalty was bought and the "prince" who used
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by has2k1 8y ago
To get a better understanding of her use of the word "metaphor" I recommend the book Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff. It makes the argument that the language (specifically the concepts we build using the language) we use i
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by has2k1 9y ago
Medicine 200 years from now will be different. Doctors are largely ignorant of nutrition. When you go to the doctor, how often do they ask about the what you eat? Unless you really look unhealthy or you mention some correlation between the
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by has2k1 9y ago
That the ailment is nutrition based competes with all other factors. It is a giant diagnosis problem, not a just a nutritional elimination problem.
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by has2k1 9y ago
> Their business model has nothing to do with their own analytics talent I recall — some years ago — when they were advertising for Jobs, some of the criteria for potential technical fitness was a high placement in some of the competitio
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by has2k1 9y ago
As a company that deals with data analysis, Kaggle can surely tell between different levels of user participation. I interpret it charitably as "some fraction of users forced to register in order to download data go on to become active
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by has2k1 9y ago
It is easy to confuse it for such, but it is not bootstrapping. It is a form of multi-dimensional random variable generation, where the generated dimensions preserve same correlations/relationships as those in the original dataset.
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by has2k1 9y ago
Have you considered that maybe the language had not evolved enough for them to be appealing. With b'' and u'' string syntax coming into the language, there is a realisation that string interpolation can be an opt-in fea
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by has2k1 9y ago
Back-ports are an option but they are an extra dependency. When you have not used a new feature, the cost of an extra dependency out weighs the unknown benefits that would be realised by using a back-port.
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by has2k1 9y ago
I have been conditioned to write code that is 2/3 compatible, that even when I am writing specifically for the PY3 interpreter the code turns out to be a __future__ import away from being valid PY2. I did not think much of them at firs
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by has2k1 9y ago
If you buy into Pansychism [1], bacteria are very conscious. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panpsychism
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by has2k1 9y ago
> Barring a major collapse, we are unlikely to forget about them ... It is not a given that generations that live through changing times (whether regressing/progressing technologically) will maintain the same priorities and convicti
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by has2k1 9y ago
Really interesting view point. When the convenience of use improves along with the performance of the methods, then we worry less about not understanding how the methods work. In the broad sense, isn't this an example of how we trust?
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by has2k1 9y ago
When it is time someone or a group of people will step up. Then issue will become that of adaptation. Enough people will have to see it through the early and rough stages. Prospective users will have to not get turned off by negative hastil
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by has2k1 9y ago
Most side-channel attacks have mainly been a threat to the implementation of cryptographic systems and algorithms. Now Specter and Meltdown have brought that concern to all systems. The gist of the parent post is, create complex systems an
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by has2k1 9y ago
Remember the rule of paw, don't pick the prickly pears by the paw.
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by has2k1 9y ago
I think so too. Maybe a way around is if you think of it as being largely carrots and sticks. When the stick is big enough the results can be comparable to those of universal virtue.
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by has2k1 9y ago
Parent says > ... to produce screen casts ... Not "to consume".
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by has2k1 9y ago
The democratisation/commoditization of a technology increases the probability that any given one capability of that technology will be discovered [1]. If what you think of as "very hard" is rooted in historical and present ca
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by has2k1 9y ago
I wonder if given the input and output of the algorithm, you could train some type of deep neural net. And if successful, what the hidden layers would look like?
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by has2k1 9y ago
> In another 300-500 years instead of "In the future", triggers me. Do you know something we do not? I am resigned to the notion that everything is up for grabs. > I am not sure if I am a toy simulation We need "reality
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by has2k1 9y ago
For this particular case, are you accusing the raccoons of just merely adapting positive outcome superstitions?
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by has2k1 9y ago
> People who regularly took medication, such as beta-blockers, which impede parts of the nervous system, often had lower rates of cancer This is not far away from backing up the link between long term stress and cancer.
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by has2k1 9y ago
> Language is not knowledge or culture. It is merely a tool for communication A lot of culture co-evolves with language. In a language are myths and legends, some of which contribute to the words in the language, which then give birth to
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by has2k1 9y ago
Singular persons influence people, ..., attitudes change and then governments react.

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