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by orbifold 5y ago
I wasn't surprised at all as a ten year old who got a recommendation for gymnasium and who didn't. It is a recommendation by the way, parents can chose to enter their kids in whatever they wish to. This leads to kids with high i
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by orbifold 5y ago
Well most don’t, it’s an absurd statement. I can think of a few constructions that boil down to this, but most don’t.
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by orbifold 5y ago
Yeah no. There are whole fields completely untouched by such reasoning, like analysis.
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by orbifold 5y ago
That shouldn't happen if the cable is properly shielded, no?
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by orbifold 5y ago
It just illustrates that if your definition of "radical left" is people super concerned with identity politics, pronouns, dead naming, gay rights and so on, then this is a very convenient and non threatening definition to the rich
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by orbifold 5y ago
Goldman Sachs is happy to sponsor floats for the gay pride parade (which incidentally is by now a huge commercial opportunity anyways), they were far less happy about the Occupy Wallstreet movement.
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by orbifold 5y ago
Science is in large part also about story telling, especially in some areas. This is a good story, even if the details make it much less spectacular. They also produced very nice visualisations, which blew up on Twitter. All of these things
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by orbifold 5y ago
In reality the Elm compiler is probably orders of magnitude slower than clang, it just has much less work to do. A C++ compiler needs to parse / preprocess 100k+ lines of code even for something like hello world.
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by orbifold 5y ago
There was a research operating system by Microsoft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midori_(operating_system) , which used a dialect of C#, with some interesting extensions specific to operating system / driver develo
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by orbifold 5y ago
That will work on CentOS 5, which until recently unfortunately was one of the systems I had to work with.
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by orbifold 5y ago
Ok thanks, that is informative. From a policy perspective I think it is a bad idea to basically promise everything can return to normal after vaccination, if this appears to not have worked out in places like Israel. In Germany they are pha
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by orbifold 5y ago
I'm honestly not sure, maybe we are really just talking past each other. If there are no unvaccinated people left the relative risk reduction would be zero, that just follows from the definition. The absolute number of hospitalisations
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by orbifold 5y ago
It does make sense from the numbers 99% of hospitalised vaccinated, 98% of the population vaccinated you should conclude that the vaccine increases the risk of hospitalisation. That is why the number comes out negative. It would be the sa
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by orbifold 5y ago
The original statements of vaccine efficacy were also not stratified in that way, were they? With delta you arrive at ~39% relative risk reduction of preventing a positive PCR (instead of >95%) and ~59% relative risk reduction of prevent
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by orbifold 5y ago
What ultimately matters is if the hospitals can handle the load, delta is problematic because it produces new cases more quickly even among vaccinated and a sufficiently large number ends up in the hospital for it to become problematic. Bot
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by orbifold 5y ago
Isn't what you ultimately care about in terms of policy the effectiveness on a population level? Of course you hit diminishing returns, when you start vaccinating people that were not at risk in the first place. I'm not arguing ag
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by orbifold 5y ago
Well it is easy to work it out yourself. Israelis >12 years are 78/22 vaccinated/not vaccinated. Among the hospitalised 59/41 are vaccinated/not vaccinated. So you have 59/78 = 0.756 and 41/22 = 1.864. There
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by orbifold 5y ago
The vaccine does unfortunately not work as well as hoped for in the case of the delta variant + a lot of people are still unvaccinated and delta is much more infectious. Cases and hospitalisations are also up in Israel https://gr
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by orbifold 5y ago
The aliens have to go to their cryopods :).
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by orbifold 5y ago
One thing that stood out to me is the summary of the gain of function research conducted at WIV. For example p.41 quotes a PhD study, which describes that they had developed all the necessary techniques to modify corona virus samples to be
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The Origins of Covid-19: An Investigation of the Wuhan Institute of Virology [pdf](gop-foreignaffairs.house.gov)
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by orbifold 5y ago
One can regularise the derivative (a delta distribution) in several ways (e.g. a triangle at zero) and that is good enough (even from a theoretical perspective) to find an approximate gradient. Experimentally it is then possible to train de
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by orbifold 5y ago
That is not true, one can easily regularise the derivative, which is delta distribution, in some appropriate way, the easiest one being a 'triangle' centered at zero. That way one can actually easily train networks of McCulloch-Pi
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by orbifold 5y ago
Not really the anti-body count decays more quickly compared to that of a natural infection and does so dramatically especially for older people: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
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by orbifold 5y ago
Transhumanism (Human+) and the art that is made in its circle of influence is really something else.
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by orbifold 5y ago
It probably will be Bavaria with subsidies from the COVID relief fund. Intel has plans to that effect, as well: https://www.eenewseurope.com/news/intel-eyes-bavaria-wafer-f... .
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by orbifold 5y ago
This paper is seriously flawed. I'm surprised it was published.
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by orbifold 5y ago
If you piss off the US enough you will become suicidal in a Spanish prison.
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by orbifold 5y ago
Analog computers can't easily be mutliplexed and the integration density of memory + other compute is nowhere near as high as current SRAM/DRAM. This might change with memristive crossbars, but that still doesn't solve the st
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by orbifold 5y ago
I think overall it is completely reasonable to learn Java programming on a system that old. Waiting a bit for programs to start is not the end of the world.

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