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by pstoll 5y ago
Lots of people are looking at local waste-water COVID testing data as a way to get prevalence in an area. Here’s my local area - note the scale! https://www.mwra.com/biobot/biobotdata.htm And the US CDC program for thi
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by pstoll 5y ago
The “only 1% will die” argument, sure I remember that one from early days. But hospitals are currently overwhelmed with mostly voluntarily unvaccinated people. My advice is don’t break your arm or get in a car accident or have a heart attac
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by pstoll 5y ago
Figure it’s relevant to this thread - Eric Topol (very credentialed medical researcher) does a pretty good overview & summary on how the vaccines are doing. https://erictopol.substack.com/p/were-very-lucky
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by pstoll 5y ago
He didn’t go the hospital. That doesn’t change the overwhelmingly positive benefits of “hospitalization rates”.
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by pstoll 5y ago
> Roads are initially built with the promise of future returns in mind. Roads are like startups! We should get VCs in on the action.
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by pstoll 5y ago
Link is dead.
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by pstoll 5y ago
We have a local school being built. This was the argument for no operable windows. Except … a pandemic! We are optimizing for the wrong thing IMO at the expense of simple practical, human driven comfort. Same reason we don’t have windows on
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by pstoll 5y ago
“Instead of investing in making an existing tool better, we built our own thing!” Oye.
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by pstoll 5y ago
Same path to getting here. I hope he gets the help he needs - his work has been impressive and useful to the software industry.
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by pstoll 5y ago
Hmm… BLAS started life as Fortran codes (said intentionally to sound like a native Fortean-er). Saying BLAS is a C library skips over much of the depth and history of its FORTRAN roots. The work that went into achieving numeric stability of
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by pstoll 6y ago
He’s still working on it.
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by pstoll 6y ago
Disclaimer - friend of the author and have done the programming for some of his research. (Now I wish I’d cleaned it up more but oh well...) I’d describe him as a hobby mathematician, not formally trained. But I wouldn’t put it in the numer
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by pstoll 6y ago
Short answer: yes. tldr; answer: having engineers support their own systems encourages them to pay down operational tech debt faster.
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by pstoll 9y ago
A minor nit but the function to dedup the image ids and the corresponding comments seem to be off from a data structure/algorithmic POV. "Looking at our deduplication function, it’s functional and performant, but not very descript
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by pstoll 10y ago
Beautiful madness.
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by pstoll 11y ago
About iOS fingerprint- while a judge can not compel you to type in a password, I have heard that they can compel you to swipe your fingerprint. Something to consider when deciding whether to enable fingerprint access to your smart phone l
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Yahoo SMTP mail SSL cert expired
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by pstoll 13y ago
$ dig origin.github.com +short github.map.fastly.net. 199.27.76.133