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by neutralid 10y ago
The primary reason why there wasn't much automation in the past was the combination of doctors being conservative (which is a good thing) and lack of competition among established medical companies (the ones conservative doctors depend
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by neutralid 10y ago
Especially if you're taking multiple types of medicine, know their interactions. There may be a specific sequence of consumption that you should use otherwise side effects get amplified, e.g., NSAIDs.
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by neutralid 10y ago
Micro-/macroeconomics and computer science (queueing theory) could cover most of the key items ... but people would need to understand the connections / generalizations / limitations. Perhaps MBAs make it obvious with case st
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by neutralid 10y ago
Once the spinner picks the right number, a code is revealed.
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by neutralid 10y ago
> Controlling and maintaining a complex system of feedback loops (that we still don't completely understand) is a very difficult task though, so I'm not surprised that currently the most crude methods (genocidal chemical warfar
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by neutralid 10y ago
> We don't need science if we are just going to rely on easy, intuitive explanations of everything. Anybody can decide that eating fat makes you fat and fills your arteries with fat; you don't need any particular expertise for
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by neutralid 10y ago
I've had some experience with flaky colleagues asking "why" without putting much effort into understanding what was actually said. A more specific question addressing the person's lack of understanding in some area refle
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by neutralid 10y ago
Author may be somewhat right but probably not in the way intended. Discrimination tends to be more effective in areas that lack competition. The article itself states that Asians started to own more businesses due to discriminatory practice
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by neutralid 10y ago
Google search across languages would be amazing, e.g., accessing old scholarly research written in a native tongue. Wonder what the underlying structure of the neural network is for translations between all languages: http://www.
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by neutralid 10y ago
Optimizations like this one with Rockefeller sells well, i.e., relatable, to many people because they tend to optimize locally themselves. As you alluded, local optimizations could lead to problems at the global level, e.g., lack of system
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by neutralid 10y ago
Thanks very much for your suggestions. I have a utilitarian understanding of mathematics (vector spaces, SVD, orthogonality, invariances, etc.) and over time appreciating the underlying characteristics/relationships, which I recently g
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by neutralid 10y ago
This is very interesting. Thank you. What book would you recommend for this discussion?