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by noam87 10y ago
Incorrect, the rates are rising among young people: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/28/well/live/colon-and-recta... Why do some people insist on rationalizing these trends away?
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by noam87 10y ago
People really need to stop regurgitating this red herring argument (pun intended): cancer rates are increasing by age group . Colorectal cancers in young people have increased 40% in just 16 years. Melanoma rates in young people have incre
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by noam87 10y ago
I encountered two of those. Turns out it WAS cancer (stage IIIc by the time of diagnosis). Bring in the machines I say. (The astronomical savings to the taxpayer from earlier diagnoses is the cherry on top.)
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by noam87 10y ago
I wonder if he could benefit from John Nash's accept and self-monitor approach to his own illness (strikingly similar to modern "ACT" therapy -- the meditative / mindful aspect of it might even jive with channeling his r
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by noam87 10y ago
But will those benefits be shared equally? How do you feel about current class inequality being split further into a select "super race" of a beautiful, genius-IQ, long-living 1% vs... the rest? The weaponry cold war did happen:
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by noam87 10y ago
Hi, have you written about your experience programming after a brain injury?
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by noam87 10y ago
Any specific strain / method? Weed does absolutely nothing for me in terms of pain mgmt. Tried a dozen strains, cbd pills... I just feel stoned :/
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by noam87 10y ago
Here here. Cancer patient. I've met a LOT of doctors... only two of whom I trust more than my own research. I had to diagnose myself (!!!) after two doctors gave me the old "it's nothing", took months while it spread, de
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by noam87 10y ago
What would be the benefit of that? Might as well just compile to native and distribute that without all the overhead, no?
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by noam87 10y ago
> I get it, HTML+CSS is probably the fastest thing we have for UIs today. Maybe Racket will come to the rescue soon :) it comes with full gui and graphics libraries, is a much saner language, and is performant (with major perf boosts in
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by noam87 10y ago
There's a really good Google talk on this subject full of many concerning statistics and anecdotes: John Ioannidis: "Reproducible Research: True or False?" -- https://youtu.be/GPYzY9I78CI
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by noam87 10y ago
> The last innovation was the invention of chemotherapy. Um.. immune therapies, targeted genetic therapies, TIL therapies... all kind of a big deal. Sorry, you don't know what you're talking about. And rates say nothing about e
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by noam87 10y ago
How do you avoid this division between organiser and organised, at a large scale? (thousands, millions of people)
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by noam87 10y ago
Must've been pretty cool to be born already knowing advanced mathematics dude.
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by noam87 10y ago
About mathematician Yutaka Taniyama: > He was not a very careful person as a mathematician. He made a lot of mistakes. But he made mistakes in a good direction. I tried to imitate him. But I’ve realized that it’s very difficult to make g
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by noam87 10y ago
Yeah; switched my 50 year old mom to Linux three years ago. People still acting like every distro is Gentoo.
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by noam87 10y ago
By this measure, is there a more complex game than Go, but which is not as widely played? (Question from someone who does not know anything about board games.) I ask because a natural question arises: can one engineer a game specifically so
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by noam87 10y ago
replying just in case someone finds what paper that was.
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by noam87 10y ago
> Exar plans to start constructing a $400 million lithium-brine plant here next year. Eventually reaching [...] about $250 million annually, at today’s prices. > By the time the plant is running, Exar will have paid about $250,000 to
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by noam87 10y ago
All nine volumes :)
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by noam87 10y ago
I have this great collection from 1901 "World's Best Essays" -- 9 tomes. Everything from Seneca to Adam Smith. It's sad how much knowledge and social/ethical advancement is being forgotten. Our schools and universit
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by noam87 10y ago
I prefer to go with Rich Hickey's definition of "simple" ( https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy ). That's why I chose Elixir for our product, and am so glad I did; it may be shiny and
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by noam87 10y ago
I am always blown away by how eerily similar these generated NN images are to the visuals experienced under psychedelic drugs. Moreso than any artist's depiction (and there have been plenty of those)... they just have the same "fe
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by noam87 10y ago
https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/Turing_Paper_1936.pdf
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by noam87 10y ago
Haha, what's more: through a series of coincidences I found out that the guy who built our competitor's product also did so with Elixir! (Well... not quite competitor. A similar product to ours, but which deals with the management
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by noam87 10y ago
It really is. We're rebuilding our entire backend in Elixir and it's just been incredible every step of the way. I can't recommend it enough. The language and ecosystem are an amalgamation of industry lessons from the past th
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by noam87 10y ago
This. I can produce code for 4-5 hours a day, and my dumb face generally fills up a large percentage of the ticketing system's "done" column. Sure, there are emergency situations when a 14 hour shift is needed, but keep that
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by noam87 10y ago
Maybe not vaccines, but certainly antibiotics fit the trope :)
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Academic Research in the 21st Century: Perverse Incentives and Hypercompetition(online.liebertpub.com)
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by noam87 10y ago
In that case someone should set out to investigate whether humans are self aware.

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