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by manifold 11y ago
His collections were also the basis for the founding of the British Museum (which later split to also form both the Natural History Museum and British Library), and he took over as president of the Royal Society from Newton. Quite an amazin
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by manifold 11y ago
Yes, inter-country inequality has been coming down despite in-country inequality going up. The rich have been getting richer and the poorest have been getting richer while the middle class have stood still.
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by manifold 11y ago
Yes, but having been declared fit to work you would expect that their health has been assessed and "passed" and so expect lower mortality rates in this population, or at least lower than the total claimant population. Without the
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by manifold 11y ago
There's broadly two approaches actuaries use (I can't speak for this particular site which uses UN projections): - One is to look at the average level of mortality improvements in the past at a population (or cohort) level and pro
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by manifold 13y ago
> One of the things I thought was amazing is that if you solve cancer, you’d add about three years to people’s average life expectancy ... it’s not as big an advance as you might think. Thinking about improving total life expectancy in
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by manifold 13y ago
You're publicising a problem with the company and so it has more of an incentive to deal with it quickly.
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by manifold 14y ago
My problem was mainly the availability of the materials. Codecademy and duolingo give you access to as much as you require from the start and you can go through as quickly as you like. The university driven sites limit access to so much per
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by manifold 14y ago
It's possible to turn on circular calculations and to limit the number of iterations at a global level (I've never seen it limited at a local level), which could be used as recursion to some extent. I think it would be quite rare to find a
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by manifold 14y ago
Excel 2010 is certainly more novice friendly, but I'd take 2003's interface back in a flash - customising/grouping shortcut icons doesn't seem nearly as friendly in 2010 and it's a big drawback. I also find it much quicker to scan lists of
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by manifold 14y ago
The Data Protection Act 1998 would presumably apply in the UK and Ireland, and the EU has a data protection directive. My expectation would be that they could not disclose everything without consequence.
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by manifold 14y ago
It's not perfectly linear in the short term, though what tends to happen is a longer-term cyclical effect rather than spikes. This makes sense - medical advances won't be widely adopted immediately, then there will be a gradual acceleration
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by manifold 14y ago
The other thing to consider is how the causes of death interact, and who it is that's contributing to mortality/survival rates. For example, perhaps people in France have higher cancer mortality rates because they are not dying from heart d
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by manifold 15y ago
I often speak with a colleague by phone and for whatever reason our connection creates this effect. It's very disorienting at first, but you can get used to ignoring it quite quickly.
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by manifold 15y ago
Ok thanks for clearing that up. I hadn't appreciated the difference between the two.
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by manifold 15y ago
Yes, but the average value of the sampled values will tend towards a Normal distribution by the central limit theorem, and I'm probably misapplying it by wondering whether the next sample tends to be from nearer the middle. I think skimbrel
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by manifold 15y ago
Great article. This is probably a question for the statisticians: Would repeatedly sampling from a uniform distribution mean that on average the next card chosen will come from the middle of the remaining pack (as repeatedly sampling from a
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by manifold 15y ago
Edit: (search box was broken: http://i.imgur.com/Z5chu.png ) Ah, it was a zoom issue with firefox. I like the redesign. Perhaps long-term you can make zoomed/unzoomed pages degrade more gracefully, or at least keep the search bar on top :)
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by manifold 15y ago
Safari on iOS 4.3.3; standard 3GS setup.
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by manifold 15y ago
They have, but it hasn't worked particularly well: http://imgur.com/PSvIm
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by manifold 15y ago
The text is illegible against a good number of the background images they've chosen (at least on a mobile browser). That doesn't seem like a good advert for a design team, or am I missing the point?
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by manifold 16y ago
I agree that a 150 year life expectancy is very unlikely in the next 20 years, but the possibility of people who are alive in 2030 reaching 150 seems plausible. I think that's the argument de Grey was making, and their source article had
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by manifold 16y ago
The main form of stress for actuaries that they measure is deadlines. There might be a bit of travel if they are a consultant, but otherwise job security tends to be quite good, salaries reasonably high, there's a continuous intellectual ch
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by manifold 16y ago
I'm planning on learning Python and R. A career advisor gave me some very bad advice at 16 ("you're too old to learn programming properly") and I intend to rectify that this year.
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by manifold 16y ago
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/responsive-web-design/ is a useful reference point for creating fluid design. Essentially you can specify different css depending on the width of the browser window, which means you can cater to multiple
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by manifold 17y ago
As a European user I feel let down that we still haven't got a paid app catalogue, and we're constantly lagging in the version updates. I think of it at present as a very promising phone that's let down by some major functionality issues (t
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by manifold 17y ago
This reminds me very much of a short-story by Stephen Baxter called "Glass Earth, Inc.", which was set in a society where everyone has to watch a daily ad-quota, and is monitored to ensure that they do.
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by manifold 17y ago
That's all fine and dandy in theoretical world, but I'd dispute that the probability of a transaction resulting in value v is uniform. I'd guess that there's some fairly prominent banding due to psychogical pricing at or just under 'round'
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by manifold 17y ago
It's important not to overlook the role that disease still plays in old age. Engineering a standard lifetime of 200 years without improving the current morbidity rates would be an enormous drain on society.
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by manifold 17y ago
I tried this experiment a few years ago with a roomful of actuaries, who I suspected would be likely to "iterate" their response a few more times than the average person, and the answer came out at 14.
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by manifold 17y ago
I don't understand the connections the article is trying to make. It seems to be about improving prescriptions based on metabolic profiling, which makes sense. However, I've never had a doctor take my fingerprints in order to prescribe medi

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