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by outlace 7y ago
Why isn’t geometric algebra more popular when it is described glowingly as “the most powerful language for mathematical physics”? (Honest question)
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Yes, that was considered as a possibility, and it still could be. But as the name suggests (postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome), there should be orthostatic tachycardia which I don't have. I just get (as far as I can tell) rando
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I did an over-the-top version of intermittent fasting for about two months last year where I would fast (no calories, just water and black coffee/tea) for at least 24 hours and then would eat normally the following day and then fast ag
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There wasn’t a lot of substance in this article, would have to read Dr. Ioannidis’ referenced papers to actually understand his point.
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Yep. Virtually no word has a concrete meaning without a context. For example the word “guys” which may mean a group of males or just a generic collection of people irrespective of gender depending on the context in which it is used.
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Pfizer has no incentive to axe a promising drug that would make tons of money, but journalists always have the incentive to kick up dust and make sensationalist articles.
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Not a contradiction. Surgery is a skill honed by repetition and experience over many years. A cognitive task like mathematical theorem proving can be mastered by a bright teenager in much, much less time. I suspect as you age your Bayesian
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If 70 year olds really are less productive software engineers than single Red Bull-fueled 22 year olds (on average), and you thus end up hiring less 70 year olds, is that really discrimination? I get the article has stories from older peopl
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I just it but don’t recall where he predicted this. Do you remember what he said?
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There’s math, you just have to keep reading. It starts out very conceptual. I think Gelman’s book will be a lot more approachable after McElreth.
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The number may be wrong the sentiment seems reasonable. I would hardly call the U.S. hostile toward immigrants. I can’t think of many other countries that are as diverse as the U.S. Just in my apartment building I live next to a Russian cou
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I’ve worked through the print book version of this twice and it is absolutely brilliant. Highly recommend the book. Looks like some draft chapters of the second edition are freely available, but the first edition was already fantastic.
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I read it and would give it a mild recommendation for the layperson that holds onto old misconceptions about mental illness and psychiatry (eg that depression is a deficit of serotonin). That guardian article doesn’t really refute anything
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I went to medical school. I'm now a resident physician in psychiatry, which is becoming more and more a kind of clinical neuroscience. And I still think my undergraduate neuroscience degree was a waste of time and money. Neuroscience i
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Yes I know it's not literally impossible for me to self-study quantum field theory (or insert other math-heavy discipline) and I have been self-studying math and have made significant progress over the last few years. But I went throug
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I disagree strongly. Neuroscience as it is taught at the undergraduate level is just a body of knowledge you are tasked with memorizing. I can’t think of any job that just requires you to spit out answers to multiple choice questions about
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There really needs to be dis/incentives for choosing one’s major. I majored in Neuroscience and looking back it was a colossal waste of time and money. I don’t remember most of it, and it was all just acquiring an existing knowledge ba
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Even if all new construction was luxury apartments and condos it would still help. Right now if you make $120,000/yr in SF as an entry level software developer you might pay $2500/mo for an old one bedroom. If new luxury buildings
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Agreed. I think most people are willing to pay for things they value, but in the past many forms of digital content was just too difficult or inconvenient to obtain. Am I willing to go to a local record store and buy a whole album for $14 e
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I think rebooting is a fair metaphor for ECT since it induces a generalized seizure. But neuromodulation acts to mildly strengthen or weaken existing synapses within a brain region or circuit. The patient is awake and usually watching TV or
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Most anti-depressants are prescribed by general practitioners, not psychiatrists. I've actually this seen interaction before: --- (Generalist) MD: Ok so I'll see you back in 4 weeks to check up on your high blood pressure. Oh um..
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As a new psych resident, I'd agree with this. The diagnostic system is not biologically based. It does at least offer a common language for mental health provides to speak, so that if one person calls something schizophrenia then other
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Let’s just assume for sake of argument that that is true, more data is always better. And let’s assume collecting more data is not cost prohibitive on a population scale. In the real world, physicians have a major incentive to practice def
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Most governments in history were authoritarian and many were stable for hundreds of years. With modern technology, I don’t see why authoritarian governments are necessarily more vulnerable than democratic ones.
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Do you think hyper-specializing might be a solution? Right now I see many physicians end up only working within a narrow sub field of the field they trained in. For example, a neurologist goes through 4 years of general neurology training a
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Just graduated from medical school. Started out with 0 gray hairs. Now I have salt and pepper hair on the sides. Not worth it.
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To those interested in machine learning, this idea naturally leads to “deep tensor networks” that are neural networks that can operate on and with high order tensors. I wrote a (non-rigorous) blog post about this: http://outlace.
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Julia's syntax is sufficiently similar to Python/R/Matlab that it should be pretty easy to read (but might have to look up a few things) even if you've never used Julia
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This article attacks falfsificationism in part on the basis that scientists don’t seem to actually behave according to “naive falsficationism” in which you supposedly should immediately throw out a theory as soon as you get some conflicting
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I wonder if this has anything to do with the problem with multiple comparisons. In a GWAS since you're comparing possibly thousands of genes against controls, the probability of getting a false positive is higher just by the multiple t

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