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by nonbel 8y ago
Even walking is going to be ~100 kcal/mile, so I'd say even walking 5 miles in 1.5 hrs is substantial calorie-wise.
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by nonbel 8y ago
>"A 200lb person running will burn about 150kcal/mile, which is a single can of soda, a third of a donut, 1.5 apples, 2 eggs, or 1.5 slices of bread." The error is to think that 1 mile is a long distance. That takes like 7
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by nonbel 8y ago
> "The only thing you really need to know is that you should be eating fewer calories than your body burns everyday. If you do this, you will lose weight – it’s science. Nothing else matters for weight loss. The magnitude of the cal
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by nonbel 8y ago
Well that is almost surely fake. This is like a list of companies whose stocks should be shorted in (at what age is intelligence determined? 5 years?) as the lawsuits come rolling in.
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by nonbel 8y ago
Of course, to me this is obvious: "everything correlates with everything else". Wait until we start seeing the results of the hyped up "gene editing" studies where they follow up for a few years and look at more than one
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by nonbel 8y ago
>"the business model for a whole pillar of democracy is gone." Its just being exposed for what it is... the only new thing is discussion about it became common enough to pass the threshold for you to hear about it. https:&#x2F
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by nonbel 8y ago
I don't get it, "seems to0 large" and "seemingly-small" according to who? It seems like you are against the patient doing their own cost-benefit analysis and instead someone else needs to be doing it for them. Who a
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by nonbel 8y ago
First, frequency != probability. What negative outcome is expected by sharing the actual values though?
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by nonbel 8y ago
Sure, I guess I don't understand why someone would only question without searching out answers... but you should dig, then dig further, then dig some more. I mean there have been too many times when I learned about a topic (eg historic
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by nonbel 8y ago
Do they say they only did this once? Or do they imply they did hyperparam tuning, pipeline optimization, etc using one or more (or all) of the world cups included for the cv?
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by nonbel 8y ago
Its not so much questioning everything that is childlike, instead that would be not knowing enough to avoid talking about it with people who don't know or care.
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by nonbel 8y ago
>"Yes, but answers are also reasonably found You just picked the easiest questions and left out the rest... >"the person that discussed the historical reasoning and mythos that led to the naming of Tuesday and why having a s
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by nonbel 8y ago
>"I have an illness on the schizophrenia spectrum that works in a way requiring me to thoroughly examine fundamental aspects of reality. It is utterly exhausting." Being forced to do anything will be exhausting, it is totally
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by nonbel 8y ago
>"questioning why tuesdays exist" I don't see a problem with this line of questioning. There is lots interesting to consider there. Just some stream of thought: What does tuesday mean anyway, why do we have weeks, why 7 da
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by nonbel 8y ago
>"mental frailty...they begin to question everything" As opposed to blindly "believe everything"? I would say the ability to question everything is evidence of a strong independent adult mind. The ability to just beli
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by nonbel 8y ago
Actually, sugar seems to have originally been used more as a medicine than a food: >"There are records of knowledge of sugar among the ancient Greeks and Romans, but only as an imported medicine, and not as a food. For example, the
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by nonbel 8y ago
> "If bees can perceive zero with a brain of less than a million neurons, it suggests there are simple efficient ways to teach AI new tricks." Why are they just speculating about this? Do they think it would be hard to train a
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by nonbel 8y ago
>"this kind of research is exactly why we should be investing MORE not less in pure science." I disagree. Look at the paper: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(18)... Can you poi
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by nonbel 8y ago
It says right in this article: >"The revelations come as Facebook is dealing with the fallout in March related to the use of personal data by Cambridge Analytica, a political analytics firm that aided President Donald Trump’s 2016 p
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by nonbel 8y ago
By "physics" he clearly is referring to testing the quantitative predictions of models. The first sentence of the abstract: >"Because physical theories typically predict numerical values, an improvement in ex-perimental pr
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by nonbel 8y ago
> "1. If you're using a data driven background, you're background model isn't the Standard Model but that there isn't something special about your signal region." Sure, it means you assume that during the si
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by nonbel 8y ago
>'You've been corrected two times now that the statistical testing methods you've been attacking are in fact not how the experiments are being done and that the choice of null hypothesis that you've been attacking is
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by nonbel 8y ago
I didn't think of that, interesting point. Stuck between a rock and a hard place...
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by nonbel 8y ago
>"the meltdown/spectre "working as intended" joke" I was really surprised by this. Why would you treat your customers as if they are idiots like this and make them lose trust in you? Its not like the main people
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by nonbel 8y ago
>"RL is quite hard and math heavy" Is it really math heavy? Its not like people are working out these algorithms by hand. I haven't done RL but would assume you just need to download some libraries and tutorials then play
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by nonbel 8y ago
Responded here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17255296
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by nonbel 8y ago
Responding to this but resetting the nesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17255181 > "Assuming the background estimation is correct, the p-value will only converge to zero if a true signal exists." Ar
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by nonbel 8y ago
Sometimes it is the cube root: >"We learn that the force between two charges, two magnetic monopoles, or two masses all follow an inverse square law, however, most of the time, the scientific reader is not made aware of an important
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by nonbel 8y ago
> "If what you're seeing isn't a statistical fluctuation, then you've found something," You have found a deviation from your null model. That is it. > "so it's right to claim a discovery." No,
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by nonbel 8y ago
Its the same thing as police training via shooting at the targets that pop up.[1] If someone keeps shooting the hostages/civilians instead of the bad guys they will wash out. [1] https://shop.actiontarget.com/prodcat&#x

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