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by jcahill 6y ago
I read Murray's article and the FT article. I don't see: (a) any disagreement between FT and Murray on basic facts (b) any overtly conspiratorial thinking from Murray (c) any clear reason to give deference to FT, or
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by jcahill 6y ago
The date slider section was straightforwardly about 'answering correctly'. If you can ballpark all of these events to the right decade or so, further granularity is unlikely to be related to perceptual distortions about time. Obvi
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by jcahill 6y ago
>Why time feels so weird in 2020 It doesn't. Also, the perceptual demos don't work.
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by jcahill 6y ago
Bridges were shut down to push proprietary chat spinoffs of social media websites. Ex. Facebook had an XMPP bridge for a couple years but shut it down for this reason.
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by jcahill 6y ago
My web archival group (nonprofit) has international trending data for the same period. I've been meaning to get around to analysis for a while. This article is a good point of reference.
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by jcahill 6y ago
The submission is an implementation of a core task in computer vision. Your response is an appeal to vividness unrelated to the submission except in its recruitment of computer vision to sell the FUD. If researchers getting good at somethin
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by jcahill 6y ago
Commodities are fully fungible goods and services. Different implementations of a single algorithm should have the same basic formal properties, by definition. That is, they should be roughly fungible. Else you aren't dealing with corr
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by jcahill 6y ago
Thinker is an app that automates your learning. It enables you to: - Jump to key info instantly using AI. - Stop redundantly checking sites like Hacker News. - Permanently archive every article. How are you archiving t
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by jcahill 6y ago
The author is essentially hoping to usher in an end-times world divided solely into middle managers and sapient jumping beans. This is a far from sensible goal. >I don’t mean to pick on this person; there’s no reason to be familiar with
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by jcahill 6y ago
"customer onboarding journey" sounds altogether twee for a major international bank. Banks are mattresses with insurance policies. Why is there even a journey to be broken?
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by jcahill 6y ago
The first livestream has been shifted from Sunday to Saturday June 27th at 11AM PT.
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by jcahill 6y ago
They used five assays. All of these were from the WHO in-house assays list. In theory, their primers shouldn't have specificity issues. In practice, it's more complicated than that. The CDC 2019-nCoV rRT-PCR assays have a particul
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by jcahill 6y ago
Mislabeling is also an option.
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by jcahill 6y ago
Article title: Quanta Writers and Editors Discuss Trends in Science and Math
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by jcahill 6y ago
Article gist: achieve a flow state / allow yourself to engage the default mode network to reduce exertion, perceived or real, on a physical task with low cognitive overhead (non-competitive cycling).
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by jcahill 6y ago
>We can now return to the concept of the In-Group Contrarian (hereafter IGC). Anyone who has observed social media platforms, especially Twitter, will know the type. This is the person who, precisely when mimetic snowballing is in progre
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by jcahill 6y ago
New day, new chance to read the article.
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by jcahill 6y ago
Are you ready to read the ref?
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by jcahill 6y ago
>a simple design that bets on robust immune response doing the job. That means greater surveillance time, because so little has been established about activity thresholds that might be deemed properly immunizing. Greater reliance on stro
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by jcahill 6y ago
Theirs is AZD1222, fka ChAdOx1 nCoV-19. It has goofy delivery dates for multiple markets. We've had no bad news because it's a simple design that bets on robust immune response doing the job. It's in contractors' interes
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by jcahill 6y ago
I did not dismiss the whole trial. They were first to this scandal precisely because they are conspiracists. A website with a name like covexit is nothing I would normally link. ice9, who has been a very solid twitter-lit-reviewer on repurp
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by jcahill 6y ago
The person responsible for the initial error is quoted in today's article. I singled him out in my comment. It takes more than one researcher to ignore a protocol calling for a dosage 3x in excess of that used by any other study, then
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by jcahill 6y ago
I clearly said draw no conclusions. I don't do histrionic. I have been following and archiving the pandemic the entire year.
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by jcahill 6y ago
>What does this have to do with Dexamethasone? - Shared personnel are hot on the heels of a deeply dubious result and attempted damage control that has involved an outlandish claim of misrepresentation in an interview. - This has all the
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by jcahill 6y ago
Here is the relevant file to comb over for today's dexamethasone result: ⁶ https://www.recoverytrial.net/files/recovery_dexamethasone_s... Relevant passage: > A total of 2104 patients were randomised to receive
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by jcahill 6y ago
The graph looks even worse when substituting colloquial 拉肚子 for diarrhea. https://files.catbox.moe/cum13j.png
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by jcahill 6y ago
This paper is a trainwreck. Could be a case of scientific fraud. Gist of this paper: The authors look for circumstantial evidence of community transmission of COVID-19 within Wuhan for dates substantially prior to the seafood market outbrea
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by jcahill 6y ago
Nonfunctional with adblock enabled. Bad content. Self-submission. Lipsum and a thispersondoesnotexist.com persona used for a testimonial on the pricing page: https://files.catbox.moe/9wt8hz.png Go away.
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by jcahill 6y ago
A pi isn't going to cut it here.
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by jcahill 6y ago
Web archivists are coming at the problem with different requirements, related to fidelity and the systematic mirroring of address structure along with payload content and control information. By the sound of it, you likely wouldn't wan

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