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by ppod 6y ago
I still haven't found convincing data on this. There is this very weird guardian article that makes claims about large effects but contains a series of figures that seem to show very small effects: https://www.theguardian.co
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by ppod 6y ago
The evidence we have so far shows that the vast majority of cases are transmitted indoors: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.04.20053058v... In practice, a transmission event happens through a certai
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by ppod 6y ago
Maybe special powerful cars that are constantly charged could drag others along a fixed line in a kind of "train".
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by ppod 6y ago
Increasing economic growth is the most reliable method we know of to help future generations.
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by ppod 6y ago
>going from the number itself to the number of digits (i.e. taking its logarithm) Why did nobody ever tell me to think of logs like this before!!?
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Does anyone know what's going on with the big ISP outage in UK at the moment?
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by ppod 6y ago
> As a result there are some false positives. Could this be a feature rather than a bug here? Help maintain tracing to a very high level statistically while still giving plausible deniability for personal privacy?
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by ppod 6y ago
The law doesn't say existential though, it says grave and imminent. I would focus on 'imminent' in this case - the case has been going on for six years.
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by ppod 6y ago
Are you familiar with Friston/free energy/markov blankets?
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by ppod 6y ago
At a very high level the batching-with-refunds issue sounds like the kind of problem that the Lightning network on bitcoin tries to solve, or bilateral netting in other financial contexts.
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by ppod 6y ago
What is the least complex entity that you ascribe agency to?
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by ppod 6y ago
When you say "ecosystems" aren't you already enumerating them in a way that implies individuality?
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by ppod 7y ago
I don't have a blog but this is a great idea and I would love if it was a a regular thread. I would also love any tips on how people are currently going about the task of wrangling a list of favorite blogs into a feed. Does everyone st
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by ppod 7y ago
I really agree with you so not asking in a snarky way, but which other document formats do you have in mind? Something like HTML?
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by ppod 7y ago
Will the media ever understand the difference between "we underestimate tail risks all the time" and "we have been underestimating this specific tail risk"?
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by ppod 7y ago
I think that as long as the availablity of tests is finite, this is a complicated process. Probably the goal should be to optimise for true positives: of the people that have the virus, we want to find as many as possible. In that case, if
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by ppod 7y ago
That is not what the math says. Even if people do become immune, it takes much much longer for the disease to spread through the population at a rate that won't overwhelm healthcare capacity. There was some uncertainty about this until
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by ppod 7y ago
Starting an article about facebook privacy concerns with comparisons to the Stasi and typhoid just turns me off straight away. This kind of thing is so tired, not to mention insulting to actual victims of the Stasi.
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by ppod 7y ago
Could we collect some recommendations for really good books, online guides, tutorials, and recipes for current Pandas? There are quite a few complaints here about the interface being confusing and difficult to use, and I feel like some of t
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by ppod 7y ago
"a form of magical thinking suggesting that the values and purposes of those creating new technologies shouldn’t be subject to scrutiny in familiar terms" What parallel universe is this? From the NYT to Medium the entire opinion w
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by ppod 7y ago
If you stick to "latest", you pretty much just see chronological ordering of those you follow. Every time you see a toxic tweet, unfolow the person. The world is big enough that you can still have an active and healthy timeline ev
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by ppod 7y ago
Very nice, customisable colours for water and different land types would be great.
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by ppod 7y ago
Thanks! I don't get very many and for the searches I tried the first "Ad" result was on the second page. Yeah, even then they are way too hard to spot.
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by ppod 7y ago
I'm confused. I noticed this aesthetic change a couple of weeks ago and I wondered what was causing it. So now when I saw this post, I turned off adblock on the search results page to see where the ads are, and I still can't seem
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by ppod 7y ago
I don't know about those places in particular, but it's quite common (especially in Europe) to see people described as "postdoctoral researcher" or "postdoc research associate" on their staff pages, website, em
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by ppod 7y ago
>To illustrate this point she highlights public goods or services that are increasingly privatised, like for-profit coding boot camps, which are marketed as an investment or a substitute for a four-year university degree. “The tech indus
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by ppod 7y ago
The use case for this is people who want to take it to a social occasion and show it off, while using a regular phone with email, music, podcasts, maps, uber, and social media for most of their daily lives.
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by ppod 7y ago
None of those things are anything like "entirely abolish".
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by ppod 7y ago
When people say that they mean that it is independent from party politics, and distinct from the government, i.e. yes it executes government policy but it is separate from the government and the personnel don't change after elections.
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by ppod 7y ago
>chief advisor to PM stating that UK civil service should be entirely abolished Citation? The original article advocates reform, and possibly abolishing permanent secretaries, but nothing like entirely abolishing the civil service https

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