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by new299 5y ago
The mascots were selected by the public: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miraitowa_and_Someity#Selectio... And the mascot robots were designed around this, which isn't clear in the article. I feel like any article o
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In the context of my comment, I mean largest in terms of number of athletes and support staff. The Olympics is far larger in these terms I believe.
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There’s no lockdown (as this is normally understood) in Japan. This concept doesn’t really exist (because it’s legally difficult to implement without changing the constitution as I understand it). There’s a state of emergency in Tokyo (now
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I feel like any article on the Olympics should mention that >80% of the Japanese population was against holding the Olympics [1]. And that in most respects it has be a disaster, I've lost count of the number of scandals and resignat
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Ah that makes sense, it seemed familiar. Shame it's not credited on the page.
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> I am slightly bemused by this because to all intents and purposes Darwin is unix The oldest version of this article in the wayback machine is from 2003, but I see a reference from 2001 here: https://arstechnica.com/civ
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It seems like a very different scenario as we don't have control Earths that we do case-control studies on...
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It's a first step I guess. At least if you can get the classification to work with controlled data collection you have reasonable evidence that the approach can work. If all other parameters area randomized between case and control, th
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My guess would be that it's hard to get a clean well labeled dataset where case and control datasets are otherwise similar. Particularly, in a pandemic the people doing the data collection are otherwise occupied. Another problem you ha
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> Many unwittingly used a data set that contained chest scans of children who did not have covid as their examples of what non-covid cases looked like. But as a result, the AIs learned to identify kids, not covid. > Driggs’s group tra
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I think it's probably Estuary English [1] now rather than RP. I'd agree there are lots of class signals that people pick on. Accent is probably high up the list. Yes, it feels to me like it has more of an affect than many people r
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Despite the title, the article seems to be more about someone who is described as working class trying to find a place in middle class society. And I suppose that the article is suggesting that the middle classes define themselves in relati
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This comment rings true to me. And I'd agree the article is mostly about middle class society. But personally find the whole class set up pretty unfortunate really (and its impact largely underestimated).
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I'd be curious to hear peoples experience of class in the UK and how it's effected their careers (particularly in tech). To me it feels like class still has a significant effect. In particular that: * Upper class connections can a
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> The logic is simple: an individual writer is always relatively niche. Niche means small audience. Small audience means you have to charge more per person to cover your costs. I guess the question is does that model work? Rather than ca
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In this video, and articles on his website he seems mostly concerned that views about Trump on wikipedia are biased, and there's not enough information that's critical of Biden. Essentially that there's a left wing bias to wi
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> you would want to integrate a number of preparation steps with the sequencer I think this is unlikely, Grail like everyone else probably just do standard sequencing runs with their own prep. The issue is that Illumina make something li
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Separating out Grail allowed the company to take on outside investment, much of which I imagine flowed back to Illumina in the form of sequencing instrument and consumable sales. The IP that Illumina is using the block the sale of MGI instr
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When I see a broad statement like this, it seems interesting to dig a little further. The article itself doesn’t provide much detail to back up its claims. And specifically it would be interesting to understand the patent issue better. The
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Small inventors absolutely can afford to patent. A provisional patent for a small entity is $150. A full pro se application is something like $1500 IIRC. The point is that with a patent, the small inventor can go on to raise further funds t
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> No, viruses do not have metal catalysis (correct me if I’m wrong) RNA viruses would generally have an RdRp polymerase which requires a metal ion.
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The first article has a couple of anecdotes, and a statement that there are reforms in progress. The second just states “little to do with the assumption that prosecutors only choose cases they are confident they can win” but doesn’t do any
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I’d be interested in sources on this…
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What disappoints me is that people make these claims without taking a few seconds to Google… Academic work I’ve seen suggests it’s basically down to case selection: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/468111 But
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So they’re more interested in compliance rather than building something useful. What I’m saying, is that they should give everyone the ability to more effectively control content in the main app, website.
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Right that’s true. To be honest I’m not sure that always factors into recommendation. I also can’t block classes of content (like short videos). And I can’t go to a video and just set is it or the channel as blocked. “don’t recommend” and “
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YouTube kids is kind of clearly designed for preschool children (5 or less), and you lose a lot of functionality. It also blocks a huge amount of content, I just tried searching for Biotechnology related content most of it is not available.
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I’m not going to read the article, but if someone has an article from a more scientific source, that would be interesting. But the answer is probably nothing isn’t it? You need some kind of delivery mechanism. Even then, what do you expect
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Like it or not there are young children watching YouTube. YouTube doesn’t give any useful way of controlling the content that children see beyond its default recommendation engine. You can’t as a user easily block a channel (just report it,
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Right, and it appears to be a completely different model than that presented in the article. What’s interesting is that a significant fraction of the products at Daiso are made in Japan. Not by any means the majority, but a lot of the simpl

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