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by oli5679 6y ago
Dell
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I bought a laptop with Ubuntu preinstalled and had an amazing experience for the first month. Then one day the computer would no longer boot. I had to manually tinker to revert to older version and it booted again, but now 50% time micropho
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A simple way to calculate Bayesian confidence intervals is sampling from Beta distributions. This is using the Beta(1,1) prior (uniform random) for both vaccine and control population. The data suggests it is unlikely that the vaccine reduc
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Kate Bingham: Why the UK strategy on Covid vaccines has been a great success(repubblica.it)
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Would be interested if anyone has advice on this topic for UK --> USA
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Myanmar coup: Fitness instructor unwittingly films video as takeover unfolds(bbc.co.uk)
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A cost effective way of deploying models on AWS is to use 'zappa' (autotemplating for lambda + API gateway). This just works, and costs my team less for a year than one week of Sagemaker or kubernetes architectures. https:/&
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It's a government that was tasked with procuring vaccines, and has done a worse job. I don't see any inherent constraint preventing them for agreeing contacts under the same terms, approving vaccines reviewing the same analysis an
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From the press reporting it seems that the EU was the source of delay. UK and US had no data sharing. The Israeli data sharing is because both parties want more granular information on the vaccine's effictiveness over time and by age a
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Your article is blocked for me because I'm not a subscriber. I read this one, and Pfizer use of Israel medical data seems reasonable to me although worth being cautious about this type of thing. There are other examples (UK, US, UAE) t
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by oli5679 6y ago
I agree with your interpretation but disagree with your framing. To me such expensive errors are tragic not 'hilarous'. I am very sad about the distress and suffering this saga will cause Europeans.
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USA has administered 28m vaccines compared to the EU's 12m, despite having a smaller population. I don't have any info on this 'shady non-democratic practice', but the reasons I have seen for other countries getting vacc
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No, the governments learned of Covid at the same time. There was no law of nature constraining the EU to start later, or compelling US and UK to start earlier. Normally, it makes sense to do this. Negotiate price, avoid hassle of repeated p
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The pharma companies you mention are all working hard to supply a vaccine to purchasers, at cost. The idea that they have some sort of profit motive and are deliberately delaying the EU is not true. Accounts of journalists, and the companie
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The EU has administered 2 doses per hundred citizens. The UK and US have administered 12 and 8 respectively. The EU treated this like a procurement exercise, fussing over price and process and not buying sufficiently diverse portfolio. UK a
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Coronavirus (Covid-19) Vaccination Statistics(ourworldindata.org)
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It's helpful ro quantify different countries' vaccination rates. Current doses per hundred people (selected countries, 29 Jan) - Israel 53.5 - UK 12.3 - USA 8.4 - EU 2.6 - Spain 3.2 - Italy 3.0 - Germany 2.7 - France 2.0 https:&#
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How Europe Fell Behind on Vaccines(politico.eu)
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The capacity to manufacture it in UK was developed by a UK government grant that was issued in May and a UK government order that was issued soon after. It is being produced at cost by AstraZeneca. The UK acted quickly, realising that each
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by oli5679 6y ago
Fitting a binary classifier on failure doesn't seem quite right to me. There are some quite natural questions you can't answer unless you can predict some stats on when failure will occur, and if you have any drift in the dataset,
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Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems.
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I really like the 'Jon Skeet facts' Stackoverflow page. It is Chuck Norris style facts about the legendary Stackoverflow answer contributor. Here is the top answer but I find many in the thread funny. - Jon Skeet is immutable. If
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Chinese GDP growth returns to trend(themoneyillusion.com)
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The US navy videos it's hard to tell what these are. The picture is so grainy, a lot of the interest comes from the vivid eyewitness accounts. I have looked at some accounts, for example listened to Lex Fridman interview with one of th
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by oli5679 6y ago
I was more open-minded to this type of argument a few decades ago. The quality of our sensors - both smartphones held by everyone, and telescopes, satellites and radar by governments has improved exponentially, without a corresponding incre
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Recent data from New horisons mission is interesting, suggesting there are an order of magnitude fewer galaxies (hundreds of billions, rather than 2 trillion) which should be relevant update to Fermi/great filter reasoning. The probe i
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The founder of Whatsapp (1) claims that Facebook promised Whatsapp would not be monetised, and that Facebook and and Whatsapp's data would not be combined. This information was also provided to European antitrust regulators (2) missed
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NASA finds fewer galaxies than first thought(foxnews.com)
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Sounds like valid reasons. I think we have different preferences - I like the lichess aesthetic, unlimited free puzzles, engine evaluations and opening explorer and lack of freemium popups. Hope you enjoy your games, and your preferences se
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I think it's an interesting phenomenon and worth spreading some info about, both because of the technical aspects and the philosophy of the creator I prefer. I do the same in person with friends, and if they ignore me, or try it and pr

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