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by jboggan 5y ago
The UK is releasing good stats on vaccinated/non-vaccinated outcomes that are thankfully broken down by age groups [0], since comparing an un-vaccinated 20 year old to a vaccinated 90 year old is extremely different. Overall it seems t
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by jboggan 5y ago
On the subject of money - the other issue is that new hires, being certified as better than average in that role, are getting compensation packages in the top half of that band. The people getting promoted to that role are in many cases get
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by jboggan 5y ago
In my current role I am writing a promotion packet to go to the next level. The bar is relatively low, it must only demonstrate that I have been performing as an N+1 level. It requires extensive documentation and close to a dozen personal i
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by jboggan 5y ago
The prosecution is going to argue that the footage shows Rittenhouse raising his rifle at someone before being charged by Mr. Rosenbaum, out of sequence with his own testimony of what transpired.
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by jboggan 5y ago
This is really fantastic work. When we were naming our baby last year we did a playoff bracket system with pen and paper, but this is so much more thorough. Great visual style as well.
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by jboggan 5y ago
This is an engineering error at its heart. By design the spike protein were supposed to be expressed and embedded in the surface of the cell where they could be recognized by the immune system. Some proportion of them lingering and having a
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by jboggan 5y ago
Eagerly awaiting the "GoogFellas" video leak.
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by jboggan 5y ago
I have no doubt this will fool a great many people. If you've ever served in a symphony orchestra and played one of his majestic symphonies I doubt it will move you.
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by jboggan 5y ago
The lie that masks didn't work was the first and one of the biggest. At the time it meant that my wife's hospital wouldn't let her wear an N95 that we personally provided when interacting with obviously sick COVID-19 patients
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by jboggan 5y ago
"And then you get an artist / He says he doesn't want to paint at all / He takes an empty canvas / And sticks it on the wall" - Dire Straits, "In The Gallery" (1979) https://www.youtube.co
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by jboggan 5y ago
I didn't fire the one time I had to draw in self defense, and neither did my father the one time he needed it, and neither did my mother the one time she needed it. For context I grew up around Atlanta.
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by jboggan 5y ago
I'd like to take a moment to appreciate Chris Sembroski, the first data engineer in space.
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by jboggan 5y ago
I would like to see an example of previous trials where the placebo group was invalidated prematurely by informing them and giving them the actual drug. If this is common practice I'm not aware of it. Note the date on this article - th
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by jboggan 5y ago
"It has been clear for a while now that the Pfizer vaccine works and is safe." Yes, except there is an established process for quantifying "clear for a while now" and it involves sufficient time and control groups. That
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by jboggan 5y ago
I wouldn't advocate assault on an open forum.
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by jboggan 5y ago
This is neat, we did something a couple of years ago like this (but much cruder) by training off of Stack Overflow question and answer data. Actually we were trying to make a rubber ducky debugging chatbot but we didn't clean our input
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by jboggan 5y ago
I saw that post, neat stuff. We made an attempt to develop something similar 4 years ago and take it to YC, it simply wasn't good enough often enough because our training data (Stack Overflow posts) was garbage and models were weaker b
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by jboggan 5y ago
As someone building numerous Spark workloads this is quite concerning.
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by jboggan 5y ago
The hardware side has been up there for a long time, and the theoretical side of the team has been in the Venice office. I guess they got a new building in Santa Barbara and wanted an announcement. I wonder if they are forcing the theorists
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by jboggan 5y ago
Were the photos faked? Is there something wrong with the authors' line of argument? Can you provide the name of your favorite exobiologist who, if they had published an identical paper, you would remain unwaveringly excited about?
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by jboggan 5y ago
Not the exact one I was thinking of from a few years ago but the form factor is basically there. https://nanoporetech.com/products/minion
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by jboggan 5y ago
If you read the paper instead of ctrl-fing they spend a lot of time discrediting the hematite hypothesis.
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by jboggan 5y ago
Other images show the "sphericals" as being hollow and easily crushed by the treads, and having stalks, and growing together. The "growth" photos which could be possibly explained in isolation by wind exposing round pebb
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by jboggan 5y ago
Sequencers are the size of a USB stick now, so they could obtain a sample and attempt to read the genetic code. If it is a branch related to an Earth species it will show up easily in a BLAST search. If it won't sequence because it isn
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by jboggan 5y ago
Did you read the paper or at the very least examine all of the photo sequences in the full text article? The examination of the spheres in the rover treads and their reappearance is significant, as is the positional analysis of various sphe
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by jboggan 5y ago
I had some leftover scholarship money from college as did other folks in my program so we put together a 3 week trip between fall finals and spring classes - one week backpacking in Torres del Paine in Patagonian Chile, then two weeks on a
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by jboggan 5y ago
One time I beat the CFO of Arthur Andersen in a game of Monopoly while in Antarctica.
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by jboggan 6y ago
Never thought I'd see bassoons mentioned on an HN post. I'm a data engineer now but I started college on a bassoon scholarship.
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by jboggan 6y ago
Very interesting except they only really trained the AI for "gunboat Diplomacy" where you are not allowed to communicate with your fellow players. Any serious Diplomacy player knows that the moves on the board, coming once a day o
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by jboggan 6y ago
And the Bahamas does annual reports on the total amount of reserves its banks hold, and the government numbers aren't close to what Tether claims to deposit in Deltec, even if Deltec were the only bank in the Bahamas.

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