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Even in the presence of superhuman medial AI, we still should insist on human experts (i.e. highly-trained doctors) not just in the loop, but at the center of it. This adds another required skill to the repertoire of doctors—understanding t
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Yet for others, stimulants and/or antidepressants are a potentially life-stabilizing treatment that cannot be achieved any other way. The only thing your dismissive comment could achieve is to make people who need them feel discouraged
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This exists—income based repayment plans. There are different types [1], but basically you pay a maximum 10% or 15% of your income, and the remaining balance is discharged after 20 or 25 years. AFAIK, it’s open to everyone—but you have to a
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Coin flipping is a canonical example that has historical, theoretical, and practical relevance--it's definitely a bit much to call it "extremely bad & misleading". Mathematically idealized coins do behave in this way, b
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Kind of playing devil’s advocate here since there’s so many negative comments on this feature, but is it possible that this was a well-intentioned design decision on the part of Netflix? I personally like having the ability to preview conte
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Not sure what you’re looking for in particular, but SymPy definitely goes beyond the basics. Here’s a list of the modules: https://docs.sympy.org/latest/modules/index.html
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I’ve dabbled enough with SymPy to recommend it. Jupyter + SymPy (+ the rest of SciPy) gets you a pretty long ways toward one of the M programs. Here’s a book: https://the-eye.eu/public/Books/HumbleBundle/doing
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I wouldn't describe myself as a programmer, but I have spent a considerable amount of time and energy thinking about how to become 'better' as a data scientist (as well as how to encourage others to grow their skills and know
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There is a fascinating (and charming) paper by Alan Turing that describes his "Turochamp" chess 'engine'. Apparently, it was the first program capable of playing a complete game of chess, and the first program that could