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by peter303 6y ago
151 out of 30,000 subjects is considered statistically significant. They will reach that number around Thanksgiving.
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by peter303 6y ago
We might need it every winter like the flu shot.
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by peter303 6y ago
I just got a SHRINGRX vaccine which is rated 97% effective. The second dose provoked a much stronger reaction, perhaps because I had some antibodies from the first. Pope Benedict almost died of shingles in August.
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by peter303 6y ago
MIT issues around 600. A little lower in 2020 perhaps due to covid slowdown.
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by peter303 6y ago
The US position is based upon what could re-elect Trump and not what is best for the US. Hopefully that nightmare is over soon.
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by peter303 6y ago
A larger brain may not have been solely for intelligence, but to make humans into better running animals. It can help dissipate heat better.
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by peter303 6y ago
I read the new book Kochland last year. I was expecting an expose of an evil robber baron. Instead the author had a begrudging respect for the talents of the Kochs. As s privately held company they dont have to generate quarterly or annual
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by peter303 6y ago
The Pfizer press release says they 57% the way to statistical desired significance. They want the 164 of the placebos to catch covid, and 94 have done so far.
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by peter303 6y ago
99 years of avoiding major power wars from Napoleons defeat to the Kaiser. There were lesser wars to assemble the modern republics from feudal antecedents.
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by peter303 6y ago
I attended the Stanford Linear Accelerator Homebrew Computer meetup where the two Steves introduced the Apple I computer motherboard 44 years ago. The spirit of homebrew computing has ebbed and waned over the intervening decades. The Raspbe
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by peter303 6y ago
It blows my mind that for $150 (adding monitor) I can have a general purpose UNIX computer more power than VAX 11/780s and Sun-3s I did my PhD research on in the 1980s. ($150 = $40 1980s dollars).
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by peter303 6y ago
The $70 doesnt include a monitor. But many figital TVs will suffice.
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by peter303 6y ago
I saw Cory yesterday at the Denver scifi convention MileHiCon. He is the guest of honor this year. Yes, he was on a couple of panels about digital rights. One panel discussed Amazons predatory policies on self-publishing. If you do it there
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by peter303 6y ago
A Stanford AI policy group called Human Centered AI wont use Zoom for its seminars due to political disagreements with Zooms founder. The result are embarrassing buggy online seminars from an institution supposed at the forefront of computi
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by peter303 6y ago
Star Trek Universal Translator. One day it will tell us what Mark Z is really saying.
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Blue - yellow
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One red dot in my city is closed down franchise. I guess not yet removed from corporate computers.
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About a decade ago companies were promoting virtual colonoscopy. This converted a cat scan into a tube video using advanced computer graphics. You still had to do the bowel-prep agony for a clear view. If the virtual kind saw a problem, it
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by peter303 6y ago
The usual recipe is a colonoscopy at age 50, 60 and 70. To be supplemented by other yearly blood or DNA (cologard) tests. If you have family history or symptoms you accelerate the schedule.
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by peter303 6y ago
Perhaps bottom-up approaches are better: build something you really think is fun, then monetize it later. Social networking (facebook), picture-sharing (snap and Instagram), video sharing (youTube). Having a bunch of corporate executives di
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by peter303 6y ago
This complaint happens with many new technologies. In the 1980s companies poured lots of money into personal office computers with no measured increase in employee productivity. This was called thd productivity paradox. https://c
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by peter303 6y ago
Solar "vitamin D" is a constellation of variants. I trust the body's innate biochemistry( ) is more healthy than the latest pop-medicine. Solar exposure is preferable over pills. Except you may get enough wearing winter cloth
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by peter303 6y ago
Before there was the internet, many UNIX computers communicated by calling each other on telephone modems a few times a day. Among the exchanged texts were email and the discussion blog called usenet. In the early there were only a few doze
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by peter303 6y ago
Before the web it was pretty common to have a school/work account with your real identity. I have my regrets too. Since then I post under just my middle name.
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by peter303 6y ago
Google incorporated these into their Groups application. But then it faded as people moved to social media groups.
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Seems to be missing groups I was involved wih like sci.geology and rec.running. I wonder ehy.
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by peter303 6y ago
I recall hackers building standard password hashes of all eight character ascii combinations. Then create a reverse lookup table. But thats 400 trillion entries for stand 68 character ascii password subset. 400 trillion hashes is not a big
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by peter303 6y ago
The Body Worlds exhibits 15 years ago highlighted the fact humans are mostly like the meat you see in the meat department. Only medical doctors saw much of this before. (Both grocery stores and BW plastination colourize tissues to make them
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by peter303 6y ago
Aristotles Ladder of Life considers the progression of species. But without mechanism.
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Ask Sony

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