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by outlace 7y ago
How would random motion of atoms give you any more free choice than deterministic motion of atoms? Personally, fundamental randomness is more disturbing to me because it implies a-causality, i.e. that at the smallest scales things happen fo
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by outlace 7y ago
I think I was fasting too often. I was literally fasting every other day, zero calories only water and black coffee. I probably was slowly losing total body electrolytes. But I didnt mention this to deter people from fasting, just to be car
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by outlace 7y ago
Well it happened. I had critically low phosphate which is the hallmark of refeeding syndrome. And it’s not necessarily an absolute deficiency in electrolytes, it’s that when you break a fast with a carb rich meal, it drives the electrolytes
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by outlace 7y ago
I did intermittent fasting for 2 months, did >36hr fasts at a time about 3 times a week. I felt amazing and saved a bunch of time and money on food. But then I tried doing a 48 hr fast and broke my fast with a big burrito and got refeedi
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by outlace 7y ago
Probably because already rich countries can afford to have high minimum wages in the first place. But many European countries with high minimum wages either by government fiat or because of strong unions have unemployment rates 2 or 3 times
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At first I was like "what the hell is that thing" but it grew on me by the end of the presentation.
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by outlace 7y ago
In case anyone is interested in delving deeper, I wrote a detailed series of posts on persistent homology including the fundamental math and getting a working python example: http://outlace.com/TDApart1.html
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by outlace 7y ago
I read the whole thing. It’s not so much that Yang is wrong but that the automation-is-taking-all-the-jobs mantra is incomplete and that outsourcing to places like China is a substantial part of it. From what I can tell from Yang-like argum
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by outlace 7y ago
I watched the whole thing and it was fantastic. Professor Buzzard is an excellent presenter. I downloaded Lean and started playing around with it after this lecture.
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I guess you're right, I remember seeing quantum algorithms that were assumed to be more efficient than any classical algorithm and then people devised equally efficient classical algorithms. E.g. work by Ewin Tang https://ar
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by outlace 7y ago
What's the chance someone will come along with a classical analog that matches/beats this result? I remember seeing claims of quantum supremacy in the past and then clever people invented new classical algorithms that performed ju
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by outlace 7y ago
Perhaps I should have said biologically meaningful. Yes ASD, schizophrenia, bipolar and ADHD are heritable at around 0.8, impressive. But there's also a good amount of research showing that mental illness in any form is correlated and
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You’re absolutely right. But the brain is a biological organ, a biological information processor. Experiences shape it’s physical structure and function. Whether mental illness arises from purely environment causes (eg trauma) or purely nat
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It’s actually fairly uncontroversial between psychiatrists that the diagnoses as specified in the DSM are not biologically valid. We use them more as a communication tool to give a rough picture of a patient’s symptoms to other providers th
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by outlace 7y ago
My inspiration comes from this: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1809.06303.pdf There's a long history of using differential equation models to model high-level brain function (see also neural mass models and neural field mo
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by outlace 7y ago
I’m most excited about what is now being called scientific machine learning, ie machine learning models explicitly structured to learn interpretable models that can be used to understand some scientific domain better. For example, I’m start
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by outlace 7y ago
I was obsessed with topological data analysis which is basically applied algebraic topology, so I read every paper I could find on TDA. All of them were mostly incomprehensible to me at first, but by working backward, e.g. "What's
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by outlace 7y ago
Try finding a cool research paper that contains a lot of math you don’t understand. Then spend a few months learning the math in that one paper until you get it. That is a highly motivating and enjoyable way to learn. Far better than textbo
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by outlace 7y ago
Even if electric vehicles do not substantially reduce greenhouse gases, they do pollute the air far less assuming you have cleaner electricity generation. Moreover, ending the reliance on unsustainable fossil fuels is an end in itself. It w
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by outlace 7y ago
The prevailing evidence suggests ECT does not appear to cause significant permanent long term cognitive impairment https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S106474811... https://www.ncbi.n
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by outlace 7y ago
That's completely absurd, at least here in the U.S. If a psychiatrist involuntarily admitted someone just because the patient believed in a conspiracy theory they should be rightfully sued by the patient and would certainly win the cas
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by outlace 7y ago
That's just wrong. I have seen many patients request ECT (many of them are well-educated) because they've tried everything else and are medication resistant. It's only significant side effects are temporary memory issues. ECT
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by outlace 7y ago
Resident psychiatrist here. That is simply not true. [See similar comment below]. I'm a resident psychiatrist, almost all patients we admit at my institution sign in voluntarily. The times we involuntarily admit patients are when they
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by outlace 7y ago
Sure, but the idea is that if someone is schizophrenic and threatening people, it would be better for the patient and society if she was admitted to a psych unit and treated, and possibly able to return her life, rather than incarcerating h
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by outlace 7y ago
Julia isn’t yet ideal (but looks like this will be addressed soon) if your code will run in less than 30 seconds in eg Python, but anything taking longer than that would probably benefit from using Julia. So for most machine learning/d
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by outlace 7y ago
I wonder if there is a market explanation for this rather than "CEOs are more evil and greedy now" that seems to be the dominant talking point. Perhaps running a company now requires more skills than it did the 1970s and before an
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by outlace 7y ago
I also happen to be a programmer, worked part time as a web programmer in college and continue to write code for research projects. I’m interested in applying machine learning to problems in healthcare, most recently.
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It’s difficult to switch residencies because each residency program has a fixed number of positions per training year which is largely funded by the government. And almost all positions are filled by the end of match so the only way you can
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The pre-clinical years (usually the first two years, but many schools are condensing this phase into 1 or 1.5 years) are very meritocratic in that your standing depends on mostly multiple choice tests. And then you take the first medical li
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by outlace 7y ago
New resident physician in the U.S. here. I actually really enjoy my job now but absolutely hated medical school. Would I do it again? Probably not even though I’m happy now. Four years of misery during my twenties was not worth it. And the

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