joeyo

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by joeyo 8y ago
Residents, interns and fellows are unionized in some states: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_of_Interns_%26_Resid...
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by joeyo 8y ago
> And I am not too sure if they are scrambling at their one child policy, there are simply far too many people in china. It's not the absolute number that's the issue it's the age distribution: https://en.wikip
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by joeyo 8y ago
I ... think you might have misunderstood the story.
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by joeyo 8y ago
MediFor - https://www.darpa.mil/program/media-forensics Looks like the BAA came out in 2015: https://www.fbo.gov/spg/ODA/DARPA/CMO/DARPA-BAA-15-58/listin...
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by joeyo 8y ago
I've noticed this as well. My working hypothesis is that one is for high(er) bandwidth and the other for low bandwidth situations.
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by joeyo 8y ago
Look no further than Mission Bay ...
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by joeyo 9y ago
I agree the authors should have used the improved odds calculation you mention. However, doing so would only explain the missing 10% if two photons hitting a single rod led to 100% correct response rate, and it seems unlikely for the respon
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by joeyo 9y ago
> "until the subjects guesses were no better than random" Crucially, no: They analyzed performance at 60% and made their argument based on the photons delivered at that light intensity. If your objection is about that
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by joeyo 9y ago
> This experiments seems to make no attempt to eliminate > the possibility that this is completely random. Psychophysicists use two-alternate forced-choice experiments precisely to eliminate the possibility of the result bei
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by joeyo 9y ago
I'm a fan of Lombardo's: Speak, Memory – Of the cunning hero The wanderer, blown off course time and again After he plundered Troy's sacred heights.
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by joeyo 9y ago
> Today, it's on Google to maintain dead kernels that it is > still supporting. The 2016 Google Pixel shipped with > Linux kernel 3.18, which was first released in 2014 and > hit end-of-life in January 2017.
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by joeyo 9y ago
Why should Google expect funding a non-profit would benefit them? They get the tax-write-off precisely because it benefits The People first and Google second, if at all.
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by joeyo 9y ago
Except Lynn wasn't a Google employee, so the at-will employment analysis doesn't apply.
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by joeyo 9y ago
Why will the machines need to be located in Bangladesh? Cheaper repairmen?
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by joeyo 9y ago
Tup is really great. I wish it were more widely used. Tup can effortlessly handle a lot of situations that Make chokes on or requires deep magic to get right. A good example is the clean handling of automatically generated header files. Thi
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by joeyo 9y ago
Ah, sorry, I meant two codes in two languages that implemented the same functionality. I was thinking of a NN version of say, python 2to3.
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by joeyo 9y ago
That gives me a kind of funny idea: train a sequence-to-sequence LSTM network on code written in two (or more) programming languages that implement the same functionality. You'd need a big corpus, and the could would probably would hav
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by joeyo 9y ago
It's a bit of a special case, but I am huge fan of Kaitai [1] for generating parsers for reading binary data formats. You declaratively describe the format in a YAML-based DSL, and "compile" it into a parser that can target a
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by joeyo 9y ago
In the US, the typical circuit max is 15 A. Some outlets provide more (e.g. 20 A for an electric clothes dryer, though those usually run on 240 V). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEMA_connector#/media/File:NEM.
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by joeyo 9y ago
50 us, you mean. They claim a nicely low input referred noise (~4 uV), so 19 kHz should be great for spike detection, though as you note upthread it's a little low for spike sorting: it's nice to have at least 30 kHz. I wonder how
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by joeyo 9y ago
You may be right that thinning during maturation could serve a purpose, but if so you have the effect backwards: thinner myelin should mean higher capacitance (C ~ A/d) and slower conduction velocity. One would expect, if anything, tha
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by joeyo 9y ago
Path dependency. Insect eyes and vertebrate eyes presumably each occupy their own unique minima in the energy landscape. Even if we could describe a cost function that picked one of them as more globally optimal, moving from one to another
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by joeyo 9y ago
> Most languages developed a word for the color red before > any other colors. Probably because blood is red and > uniquely present at the most dramatic times of life. Red has high contrast against the backgrounds of na
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by joeyo 9y ago
> basically the _lingua franca_ of the Western world. [emphasis mine] You're not wrong, but for some reason I always find it hilarious to refer to English as the language of the Franks.
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by joeyo 9y ago
That's right, but note that the replacement rate depends on mortality rates and any gender-bias for either birth or mortality. Generally birth rates below 2.1 are consider "sub-replacement", but it can be much higher in some
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by joeyo 9y ago
> Pensions aren't portable - in the modern labor market > where people are expected to have multiple emplyers and > possibly even career arcs, that's a pretty limiting. Which is the cause and which is the
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by joeyo 9y ago
Mister Rogers says: But the very same people who are good sometimes Are the very same people who are bad sometimes.
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by joeyo 9y ago
If the food poisoning was due to negligence, I don't see why not.
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by joeyo 9y ago
Grade separated bike lanes.
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by joeyo 9y ago
That's actually one of the reasons why the electromagnetic catapult became so important: it can adjust launch force with a lot more precision so it can provide the smaller forces needed for lighter planes and UAVs. The steam catapults

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