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by riyadparvez 7y ago
It seems very similar to Android feature called Google Play instant: https://developer.android.com/topic/google-play-instant .
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by riyadparvez 7y ago
Not to mention lots of psychology research has been done using affluent white college undergrads as research population. If you take lots of these therapy approaches outside of this demographic, they simply don't hold upto the claims m
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by riyadparvez 7y ago
As someone who is in therapy for quite some time and read quite a lot about psychology, I can please take any claims of "evidence"-based short-term therapy approach with gain of salt. Particularly, if it's a very short term m
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CS472 Data Science and AI for Covid-19 from Stanford(sites.google.com)
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by riyadparvez 7y ago
I am not sure how this is comparable. There is a concept called degree of risk. Bats are known for being reservoir of zootonic viruses unlike common farm animals like chickens, cows etc. Moreover, eating bats is easier to give up provided t
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by riyadparvez 7y ago
> Yes, the press has reported that a market in Wuhan sold exotic animals, but it seems this is uncorroborated, and after asking an acquaintance in Wuhan about it, I was told it's fake news, and that said market sells farmed animals
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by riyadparvez 7y ago
I specifically mentioned that > Yes, outbreak of zootonic diseases is still possible through widely consumed firm animals (chickens, pigs, or cows). But we can dramatically reduce the risk of next pandemic if we stop eating exotic wild a
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by riyadparvez 7y ago
Exotic animals are not something poor people eat because they can't afford. It's absolutely the other way around. Exotic meats are mostly consumed by the powerful people as delicacies.
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by riyadparvez 7y ago
> I thought that the bat soup origin was debunked Bat soup was used as an example. It would help the discussion if we stop taking everything in the most literal way possible.
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by riyadparvez 7y ago
As someone who is been in psychotherapy and an arm-chair psychology enthusiast, not every kind of therapy will be effective for everyone. This also goes for psychiatric medications. CBT is often oversold as a cure for every kind of mental h
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by riyadparvez 7y ago
In preparation of stopping next pandemic, maybe we should have an international agreement like Paris climate change agreement. Like climate change and nuclear weapons this is an existential risk. Yes, outbreak of zootonic diseases is still
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TensorFlow Quantum Is Released(github.com)
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by riyadparvez 7y ago
> never agree to anything that locks you to Google. How is Google different from other cloud poviders in terms of vendor lock-in?
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by riyadparvez 7y ago
Not all features have to do anything with backward compatibilities. I agree with the fact that features should be added with caution cause new features can interact with existing features in a non-trivial way that will introduce lot of edge
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by riyadparvez 7y ago
> HN: I won't use anything Google makes, they always shut stuff down. You are talking about an extremely vocal minority, who inevitably ends up creating echo chambers. Like everything on earth there are both good and bad vocal minor
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by riyadparvez 7y ago
> higher viral load What is "higher viral load"? Isn't it binary - you are either infected or not?
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by riyadparvez 7y ago
As someone who is not from North America, this positive/good vibe culture really baffles me. You are a human being. Negative emotions are part of life. World is full of pain and sufferings. You are supposed to feel empathy for other pe
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by riyadparvez 7y ago
> There's a different form of positive selection bias for that: to survive in a country where you're there illegally, cut off from many high-paying jobs because of that, and may be deported at any time, it takes a particular fo
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by riyadparvez 7y ago
People constantly criticizing companies not taking long-term bets. When some company does take long-term bets, then some internet expert come along and find some arbitrary timeline to succeed without any justification and start criticizing
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by riyadparvez 7y ago
Probably because of the precautions taken. It's like the old tale of "Why do we need IT support dept. if your system never breaks down?". Precautions probably helped containing the virus, not the other way around that we don&
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by riyadparvez 7y ago
Is it just me or the number of unnecessarily snarky comments in HN is increasing rapidly?
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by riyadparvez 7y ago
> Google cloning a startup's product should be less legal than a startup cloning Google's. Genuine question. The article is about Apple. Why did you use Google as an example instead of Apple? Is there anything specific to Googl
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by riyadparvez 7y ago
> The problem with "professionals" is that they are not incentivized to help you fix root causes either. That's a big accusation against a community of people without any corroborating evidence. Do you have anything to sup
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by riyadparvez 7y ago
As someone who is also suffering from low self-esteem issues for long time please see a therapist (not CBT therapy, I'd argue a lot of self-therapy books philosophically are some variations of CBT techniques). My self-esteem issues are
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by riyadparvez 7y ago
More like unintended consequences. Like many real world cases, each of the policies is a reasonable, sound and fair policy by their own right. But when you combine them they might seem designed with exploitive motives.
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by riyadparvez 7y ago
I think we are in the acitvism bubble. The outrage culture and now this stir the pot activism are fueling certain individuals narcissism to the detriment of the cause and rest of us.
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by riyadparvez 7y ago
One thing to keep in mind that their work-load is very ready-heavy which eases things a lot when scaling the system. The same is true for Wikipedia. Scaling a write-heavy workload is way more complex than scaling a read-heavy workload.
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by riyadparvez 7y ago
> I'm guessing it's some sort of a rule here to have at least one anti-google link on the front page at all times Not only this, any submission that's remotely related to Google HN crowd finds a way to start bashing Google
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by riyadparvez 7y ago
I think we need a new word for this kind of posts anti-hype hype. Lot of people try to ride on anti-hype train to fame without bringing anything new to the table. Anytime there's new progress in AI, you will see many comments or posts
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by riyadparvez 7y ago
Are you referring to Generalized Additive Models (GAM)?

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