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by klmr 5y ago
Hard to say in hindsight. I’ve been getting contacted by recruiters mentioning my SO profile for more than a decade, but I’ve also been active on Stack Overflow since the very beginning, and earned a lot of reputation very early on (and muc
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by klmr 5y ago
That’s definitely not true. I’m getting contacted by recruiters (and occasionally directly by companies, including for my current job) because of my Stack Overflow profile. That said, my profile is very clearly linked to a real person, I do
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by klmr 6y ago
Distributing an OSS app requires neither a domain name nor an SSL certificate. And even if you shell out for these, they cost me vastly less than an Apple developer subscription. For somebody who develops OSS just for fun in their spare t
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by klmr 6y ago
You need to have Xcode installed, but you don’t need to actually use the Xcode GUI for notarisation, you can use command line tools via `xcrun {altool,stapler}` to achieve the same. My company is distributing a Java application with a com
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by klmr 6y ago
Same for the templates, presumably; `std::atomic` isn’t a type in C++, it’s a template. To be analogous with the C code, this was probably meant to read `std::atomic<unsigned>`.
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by klmr 6y ago
> but realistically most of us need a job before you can learn all of that The interview was for a senior position. > Even if you do learn it all, people tend to lose knowledge they don't use Let me emphasise that my intervie
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by klmr 6y ago
Hand-washing and coughing etiquette were emphasised strongly at the beginning of the pandemic, before mask-wearing. But at the moment it actually seems that contact infection is at most a minor — or virtually irrelevant — mode of infection.
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by klmr 6y ago
> Massive confounding factor here is that starting around April seasonality … was putting massive downward pressure on the epidemic. That’s wrong, the opposite is the case. The study controls for this by looking at a synthetic control
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by klmr 6y ago
The study was designed to tease out mask-wearing by attempting to control for other factors via its study design. — They did this specifically by comparing a mask-wearing city with a synthetic control unit based on reference populations w
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by klmr 6y ago
> I found someone on the internet who said they prayed for Weimar, a smaller neighbor city of Jena. And that is why post-hoc hypotheses aren’t valid. It does not, however, invalidate this study. Incidentally, I found somebody who praye
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by klmr 6y ago
Refusal to engage with Gish gallop [1] does not validate the claims you’ve linked. This isn’t “wrongthink”, it’s a sign that you’ve posted a laughably bad source. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop
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by klmr 6y ago
> given that a large Danish study says that masks doesn't reduce your risk of infection in a significant way That’s not what this study says. What the study actually says is that they found wildly huge odds ratios in their con
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by klmr 6y ago
> Except that this virus seems highly seasonal and spring also came in April! This effect is controlled for by the study, by comparing Jena to synthetic control groups.
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by klmr 6y ago
The description of S15 gives a plausible explanation of why the effect is much less for some of these city than for Jena. Of course this is speculation but this doesn’t mean that fig S15 disproves the paper’s finding. And for Jena the effec
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by klmr 6y ago
At my last job interview I had to implement popcount and explain how to optimise it (amongst other things). I was able to jot down a naïve implementation and the obvious optimisation based on a lookup tables. I only vaguely remembered the
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by klmr 6y ago
Thanks for the paper, I’ll check it out; this isn’t my speciality so I’m definitely learning something. Just one minor clarification: > Maybe read the paper … before assuming that it doesn't work I don’t assume that. In fact, I k
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by klmr 6y ago
I meant, which specifics are you thinking of? > Genetics is amenable because it is a sequence Not sure what you mean by that. Genetics is a field of research. The genome is a sequence. And yes, that sequence can be modelled for var
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by klmr 6y ago
> It'll be genetics next. Which part of genetics are you thinking of? Much of genetics isn’t amenable to this kind of ML, because it isn’t some kind of optimisation problem. And many other parts don’t require ML because they can b
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by klmr 6y ago
> it's safe to argue that the poor general response to COVID is also an indicator of your skill at science This isn’t safe to argue at all. In fact, it’s completely wrong . We know that the poor UK response is almost exclusivel
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by klmr 6y ago
> I asked what we do we know about the long term effects of RNA vaccines? But that’s a completely open-ended question that really can’t be answered without referring to a primer of the underlying biology. I really don’t understand what
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by klmr 6y ago
> what do we know? I’ll reply again: a lot . You can’t possibly expect me to summarise the vast, complex state of the art knowledge of RNA biology for a lay person here — it literally fills books. At the very least ask more specific q
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by klmr 6y ago
> So what exactly do we know? A lot more than you’ll find easily digestible in a single Wikipedia article. > The UK government is producing AI software to "to process the expected high volume of Covid-19 vaccine Adverse Drug R
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by klmr 6y ago
We can’t know about long-term effects from the clinical trials . But that doesn’t mean that we don’t know anything about possible long-term effects — in fact, that’s categorically false. We know quite a lot about the underlying biology o
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by klmr 6y ago
The (English) phrase is used verbatim in the (German) 2017 LG Hamburg claim and verdict. It is not explained there, nor did the claimant explain where they got it from. I’m assuming that it’s based on a misunderstanding of “rolling codes” [
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by klmr 6y ago
Emergency approval ≠ rubber-stamping. The “Western” vaccines are still going through proper (if accelerated) clinical trials. The Russian vaccine’s supposed efficacy and safety was announced before starting the phase III trials. That’s
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by klmr 6y ago
These are pre-registration trials, which is a mechanism specifically designed to avoid this kind of cheating. Your comment also contains other, specific false statements: > long term effects failed dramatically in animal testing. That
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by klmr 6y ago
> When in fact there is no data at the moment to support their safeness. That’s patently untrue. We have data, from the phase III trials. Is the data final? No. But it’s good evidence for general safety. As for long-term problems, we
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by klmr 6y ago
No, because for herd immunity to set in, far too few people have SARS-CoV-2 antibodies simultaneously (even if we let COVID-19 run rampant). That, in a nutshell, is the main reason why the “herd immunity”-based mitigation strategies are b
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by klmr 6y ago
“Reprogramming” actually has a specific meaning in genetics, and it’s not editing of DNA, it’s the editing of (transient, i.e. epigenetic) DNA modifications . It’s definitely true that this is not what RNA vaccines are doing. But I gue
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by klmr 6y ago
‘renv’ (only) does more or less what pyenv does. Contrary to what the parent comment says, R doesn’t actually do any dependency resolution at all, and the official package repository (CRAN) doesn’t even archive many old versions (though M

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