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by kevinalexbrown 11y ago
totally - but if you can effectively treat a substantial percentage, that's huge. And some effective antifungals have what many consider tolerable in the face of AD.
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by kevinalexbrown 11y ago
First, there are antifungal drugs that pass the BBB, with varying efficacy: https://www.medicine.wisc.edu/sites/default/files/domfiles/i... Second, antifungals have positively affected AD-like symptoms,
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by kevinalexbrown 11y ago
"This was a couple of software engineers who put this in for whatever reason," Horn said Except when obviously true, companies that make public statements like this will have difficulty recruiting the best engineers.
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by kevinalexbrown 11y ago
To be honest, the freedom to fail alone would make a huge difference. On one hand there's a lot of freedom for intellectual growth in academia - in the last few months I've used deep learning, assembled hardware under a microscope
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by kevinalexbrown 11y ago
The fact that the negotiations were done in secret probably means that most of the TTP content is being given to journalists by those officially authorized to speak about it. This isn't unexpected, but it does affect how the TTP is fra
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by kevinalexbrown 11y ago
Fwiw, the increased scrutiny that goes with death penalty cases raises uncomfortable questions about the justice system in general. Would this case be acceptable if Glossip had only received a life sentence? I'm not sure either way. Bu
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What’s It Like to Get a Ph.D. In Science?(slate.com)
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How do we know if a crypto function is correctly implemented?(rjlipton.wordpress.com)
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Experimental Study of Inequality and Unpredictability in Cultural Market (2006) [pdf](princeton.edu)
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by kevinalexbrown 11y ago
Anesthesia practically eliminates consciousness yet the brain states are probably more similar than brains and the United States. I'm not sure I agree that apparent similarity is good enough to conclude that the US is probably conscio
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by kevinalexbrown 11y ago
I like parts of the darpa model, like sufficient funding to accomodate failure, and fast timescales. But it can be distracting for some people, where lab members will be pulled from more basic science questions to more engineering 'how
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by kevinalexbrown 11y ago
I enjoy the planetary motion analogy immensely. However, a curious complexity is evident in biological systems - it's physics imbued with 'meaning'. A cell that behaves one way instead of another will die. This is true from e
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by kevinalexbrown 12y ago
Yes but how much does this explain? Even being convinced of the significance of the effect, I'd like to know the magnitude, as well as how much the magnitude changes conditioned on success. E.g. do the very successful (however defined)
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by kevinalexbrown 12y ago
"Why do we do this to ourselves?" She asked me. "We train forever and ever, live in near poverty, work insane hours—all of it to get jobs that don’t exist, as tenure track faculty. Why do we suffer this way?" Because it
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by kevinalexbrown 12y ago
I don't understand what this has to do with hacking in particular. That they had a list of theaters showing the film? It seems trivially easy to find however many theaters you want, just by googling. It just seems confusing.
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by kevinalexbrown 12y ago
>If you are in a position of leadership in science then you should try to persuade the funding agencies to train fewer Ph.D.s. or, increase funding for science (academic and otherwise)
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by kevinalexbrown 12y ago
It's a first step. Preliminary studies like this are important: before investing a huge amount of money into proper studies, it's fiscally prudent to take smaller steps. Instead of going straight for the generic criticism, you mig
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by kevinalexbrown 12y ago
I'd be curious to know how much this might exacerbate socioeconomic gaps, given implicit prejudices. The SAT might have cultural biases, but imagine a test where the entire point is to see how well you line up with them!
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The Engineered Century by Neil Armstrong (2000) [pdf](greatachievements.org)
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by kevinalexbrown 12y ago
I can understand your skepticism but Jeremy has done some really phenomenal work beyond visualization. And in this case, he doesn't have to look for funding since he works at Janelia Farm. Depending on the position, they're not ev
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by kevinalexbrown 12y ago
This is a most brilliant landing page - flashy, but in a way that directly demonstrates what the product does, and the text is readable even against the white waves. Each of the sequences look beautiful and seem like if I just had this app,
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by kevinalexbrown 12y ago
I suspect the outrage had more to do with signalling than the specific issue of pseudonyms. I also suspect that signalling will become more important for web companies than most hardware companies, because I am more directly affected by wha
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by kevinalexbrown 12y ago
I take complete responsibility for this failure. Were other people involved in 99dresses? Of course. Was any of this their fault? Absolutely not. I understand what you're going for here (and it's nice), but it's fair to let
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by kevinalexbrown 13y ago
Perhaps the question we should be asking is why talent doesn't seem to increase with age as much as we'd like. Let's assume for a minute that the age bias is important and useful. Why is that? More importantly, what could we
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by kevinalexbrown 13y ago
If the only goal is an 'artificial' consciousness, it might be more prudent to consider a functional definition of what consciousness is and try to build that. We didn't make computers by modeling how individual neurons perfo
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by kevinalexbrown 13y ago
Most of these people were working extraordinarily hard up to that point, though. Not necessarily hard at one thing. But hard.
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by kevinalexbrown 13y ago
I don't think this represents a change in government mentality. Probably more a shift in technical capability. Before, requiring every bank and merchant to check every order against a list would have been onerous. Now, it's fairly
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by kevinalexbrown 13y ago
I used to install internet for Comcast. I appreciate the natural monopoly line of thought, but I would love to see solutions that worked around it. I'm not an expert municipal telecom policy, so I'm interested in your perspective,
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by kevinalexbrown 13y ago
Does it strike anyone else as curious that the two largest cable/internet providers merge, and it doesn't matter because they already don't compete? It might be a sign that something's odd if the premise is that there&#x
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by kevinalexbrown 13y ago
That's true, but the responses seem to be specific and tangible, rather than vague, which is what I might expect from someone worried about being taken out of context.

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