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by nil-sec 6y ago
I read this when I was very young and had something like a pre puberty existential crisis. Like you, this book and the thoughts expressed therein resonated with me and it is a view of the world that I have held dearly ever since. I always l
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by nil-sec 6y ago
Well no, but also in the US there are research facilities working with Coronaviruses [1]. I am not advocating for this theory because there is zero credible evidence for it but there are scenarios that would make this theoretically possible
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by nil-sec 6y ago
I can't find it anymore but there was an article here published a few days ago that essentially estimated whether infections with SARS-CoV-2 come from homogeneous transmission, i.e. everyone who has it infects a few people, or from hig
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by nil-sec 6y ago
I am sorry but this is a ridiculous thesis. This will be over eventually, either by developing a vaccine or by mutation into a more benign strain. Nobody in their right mind will practice social distancing just because they are used to it.
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by nil-sec 6y ago
The worms are very special. Their nervous systems are weird because they have been heavily optimized to be small. A huge push to get the full connectome of Drosophila is coming to an end right now, we are not there yet fully, but close. Thi
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by nil-sec 6y ago
Agreed. The business model seems to be to give access to the rent to own deals via the sample subscription fee. Don’t think they make any money of their plugin deals. I’m also not arguing it’s too expensive or a rip off. But it’s still a la
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by nil-sec 6y ago
The success of splice would disagree with your notion that “users hate subscriptions”. Given the horrendous price point of many of these plugins it seems to be perfect for a subscription based model. To me it always seemed there is more of
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by nil-sec 6y ago
Are there no people who have to receive regular blood donations? Would you not notice such an effect in these people? I guess the donors are probably not all younger than the receiver but on average this is probably true. Does anyone know o
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by nil-sec 6y ago
NRW. I believe that there are differences though.
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by nil-sec 6y ago
Masks are widely available! There isn't a single person without mask in the supermarkets. Not one. Social distancing is widely observed. I don't know where you get your information from but my experience is very different.
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by nil-sec 6y ago
In addition to this, the timing of these announcements in the last two weeks were suspiciously close to lockdown relaxation dates. I would not be surprised if the RKI is using these numbers as a tool to influence behaviour, even though they
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by nil-sec 6y ago
It is not possible. The number of active cases peaked 2 weeks ago and is dropping ever since. What do you suggest? Keep everything closed for a minimum of 18 months? What do we do if we never find a vaccine? It is absolutely the right move
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by nil-sec 6y ago
Which studies? Can you point me to the one you are talking about?
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by nil-sec 6y ago
Do you have an example from the last, say 20 years, where an actual amateur made any significant scientific contribution to an established field? I have strong doubts such a person exists. Simply because science, at the very least, requires
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by nil-sec 6y ago
In general this is done out of an appreciation that no work exists in a vacuum. "We", takes away from the individual and attributes the work to a group of people, even if they are not coauthors. I actually think this is one of the
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by nil-sec 6y ago
The parent explicitly talks about science in general. There is a tendency of some (often of those outside of science) that feel like science is getting worse over time and nothing of value is found anymore. The parent seems to echo this sen
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by nil-sec 6y ago
Many current problems are simply too complex to be solved by a single person, often because it requires expertise from very different fields. High energy physics, biology and neuroscience come to mind. There is not a single person who under
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by nil-sec 6y ago
Actually there is no need for gradient decent at all if you have a linear regression problem, because you can find the min/max exactly by inverting your weight-matrix (pseudo-inverse if degenerate). Additionally, second order optimisat
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by nil-sec 6y ago
This is the weirdest article I’ve read in a long time. Essentially zero content, 90% of the article isn’t about what they are actually suggesting. It’s written to convince me that these are very fine people who even sold their stocks before
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by nil-sec 6y ago
“Why are these elderly peasants not dying?” Classy.
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by nil-sec 6y ago
Well that’s a bit my point. This isn’t really a thing where I grew up, but has become very normalized in the US. Building your resume certainly wasn’t on my or any of my friends mind when we were 16. To me this is insanity. Maybe it’s aweso
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by nil-sec 6y ago
Building your identity should not be tied to building your brand when you are 16. I’ve grown up in Europe but lived in the US for some time. What I noticed is a distinct lack of subculture in young people (college), everyone seems to be ver
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by nil-sec 6y ago
Thank you for the link. It's great that we get these numbers now. The relevant table for this discussion seems to be table 10. From this it does become clear that a majority of all people who died did not have any severe comorbidities.
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by nil-sec 6y ago
Yes, there is anecdotal evidence that healthy people with high viral loads can die from this virus. It is a good null hypothesis to assume this virus could kill you. Everyone should be cautious right now. That does not mean it should be tre
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by nil-sec 6y ago
There is a trend here on HN to react very cautiously and critically to studies showing “positive” results, I.e. lower apparent death rate, preliminary evidence for drug efficacy etc. This is a good thing but it should be applied in equal me
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by nil-sec 6y ago
I´ve seen plenty of them in Zurich. Not at Bahnhofstrasse of course but in Wipkingen for example they are everywhere. I had one in my backyard and there were multiple street facing ones as well.
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by nil-sec 6y ago
Nothing is smart yet. What people understand under automl is different but I’m referring to meta learning here, be it the architecture, the optimizer, the learning rate etc. Optimizing these things requires an outer loop in addition to trai
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by nil-sec 6y ago
Okay, but in this case a better assumption seems to be, the stock market is a function of the economy and political interventions. Or would you suggest this function does not depend on the economy at all?
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by nil-sec 6y ago
Could you elaborate why you think that? It isn’t obvious to me why this is absurdly wrong.
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by nil-sec 6y ago
If with AutoML you mean substantial architecture search (as your question seems to suggest) then the answer is it’s feasible only for the largest players in the field. It’s possible to use some tricks but even then your standard cluster wit

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