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by noodlenotes 5y ago
Latitude makes a huge difference. The UV index is 13 in Mexico City today vs 5 in London. Depending on your skin type, you would burn in 10 minutes in Mexico City vs 30-45 minutes in London. This is because sunlight hits the Earth at more o
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by noodlenotes 5y ago
Cell tower data is much less granular than GPS data collected by apps. Google knows that you were on the same block where a crime was committed, but mobile carriers only know you were in the city or neighborhood.
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by noodlenotes 5y ago
It might be a nice boost to your confidence to apply at a time when everyone is looking for talent and you'll get more callbacks.
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by noodlenotes 5y ago
> "Currently, CDC believes the most likely cause is an imported product (such as a food or drink, personal care or cleaning products or medicine) or an ingredient in one of those types of products," the agency said in a stateme
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by noodlenotes 5y ago
My SNK807 feels thin at 11mm, but there are Seiko 5's that go up to 14mm. The flatness of the field watch design probably makes it feel thinner too.
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by noodlenotes 5y ago
Additionally, if you're always being excluded from normal social circles, you end up only hanging out with people like yourself who also don't know how to read. So your group of misfits tries to cobble together their approximation
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by noodlenotes 5y ago
Just wait until you see the Stanford logo. http://identity.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/SU_N...
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by noodlenotes 5y ago
I wonder if there's a relationship to the obesity epidemic, especially since it's not just humans that are getting larger but also lab animals, pets, and wild animals living close to humans [1]. What if we're compelled to eat
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by noodlenotes 5y ago
Some of the products aren't even sunscreens, like "After-sun Aloe Vera Soothing Spray".
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by noodlenotes 5y ago
https://www.valisure.com/wp-content/uploads/Valisure-Citizen... The table begins on page 12.
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by noodlenotes 5y ago
The headline might be what you expect, but the article contains mathematical details about the relationship between antibody levels from the vaccines and neutralization. It also models antibody levels over time to see what immune protectio
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by noodlenotes 5y ago
When developers change jobs after about 2 years at a company, what's the incentive for any individual company to take on the burden of training junior talent? By the time they've got the experience to contribute on their own, they
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by noodlenotes 5y ago
The knowledge that informs where to spend your time can be based on domain knowledge (and also experience of working with data in general), but the framework for estimating probabilities that investing your time will get you worthwhile resu
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by noodlenotes 5y ago
I would say that a good data scientist can quickly estimate where their time is best spent, either accepting what someone else has told them as-is or investigating themselves from the ground up. There's always more to investigate so
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by noodlenotes 5y ago
Not a professional, but I find meat thermometers even more useful because I don't know what I'm doing. I don't know what every type of meat looks and feels like when cooked, especially with different marinades and seasonings
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by noodlenotes 5y ago
I've found that taking notes in cursive helps my listening comprehension, for whatever it's worth. But it makes it harder to use my notes as a reference later.
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by noodlenotes 5y ago
Average is actually one of the "nicer" summary statistics to work with because you can recalculate it over a different aggregation level if you kept the volume. It's statistics like median, percentile that you have to worry a
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by noodlenotes 6y ago
I remember at the beginning of the pandemic, it seemed as though few current smokers were getting seriously ill, although former smokers were at high risk. Did anything come of that?
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by noodlenotes 6y ago
Bootcamps seem most useful for taking people who are already qualified, prepping them for interviews, and introducing them to companies. Someone with a PhD in Computer Science might actually benefit.
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by noodlenotes 6y ago
If you're in a high COL area, then the constraint is usually an extra room away from your family, not the equipment. Not always an option to buy or rent a place with another room once you start working from home. My company sure isn&#x
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by noodlenotes 6y ago
Dogs also spend a lot of time on leashes where they'll get yanked around if they don't pay attention to their human's movements. And many families specifically train and reward dogs to move in sync with them (heeling, agility
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by noodlenotes 6y ago
Jughandle is also apparently a type of ramp common in New Jersey where drivers who want to turn left have to take a ramp on the right. TIL. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jughandle
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by noodlenotes 6y ago
The entire reply is about how contrived physical closeness leads to emotional closeness so it seems out of left field to think this was a euphemism for sex.
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by noodlenotes 6y ago
This looks great! I've been using https://asoftmurmur.com/ because I like the "meander" feature which gives a randomness to the noise. Strangely I find "flat" noises (like a fan running at a constan
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by noodlenotes 6y ago
Texas has the equipment, but it's all frozen due to an extreme weather event. 1. The extreme cold is driving up demand to heat homes which is usually done in part by natural gas but 2. The cold has frozen natural gas pipes and wells, d
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by noodlenotes 6y ago
It sounds like you're using the Dyson as a fan and something else as the actual purifier. Sounds like that setup works great for you, but it does prove the point that the Dyson is a fan, not a purifier.
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by noodlenotes 6y ago
BTDT = been there done that Should I feel old if I didn't know that?
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by noodlenotes 6y ago
If you're telling your friend about your dinner last night, you probably say "Chinese restaurant" but if you're trying to discover new restaurants through search you probably use "Asian restaurant".
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by noodlenotes 6y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if they trained a model on text scraped from somewhere like pornhub and this was the result. It's only surprising they didn't accidentally catch more ethnic terms.
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by noodlenotes 6y ago
Ah, this explains why we call it "red" hair instead of "orange". We've been talking about hair ages longer than we've had the word "orange"!

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