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Hell of a Ride – The Unique Story of Gorillas [video](youtube.com)
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The New War on Bad Air(nytimes.com)
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Damn. I am older, but just by some days.
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> I am one of the oldest active Reddit users and I 100% agree. I am older than you, and I don't agree.
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> Also I would not assume this had much of an effect. Also here you are assuming somewhat wrong. For Finland, the 2015–2019 average annual deaths is 53723. 2022 deaths were 63219. Thus the simple, OECD-style, estimate for excess mortalit
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> I would not assume the OECD methodology does not take account of the aging. And here you would assume very wrong. OECD does indeed estimate excess mortality simply by comparing to the 2015-2019 averages: "The expected number of d
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Due to large numbers of immigration, Sweden has younger population than comparable nearby countries. Too many excess death analyses just take the average of 5 previous years (2015-2019) as the baseline, to compare yearly or weekly deaths to
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> all the other so-called experts were loudly and vocally demanding lockdowns as a strategy This is not true. Denmark, Finland, Netherlands and UK [1] had their own versions of "Tegnell". That is, epidemiologists who recommende
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> I'd like for someone to throughly research and write about how it became taboo to discuss the virus leak theory. I think the story is pretty much documented in Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EcoHealt
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> The law of large numbers strikes again This is not even remotely what the law of large numbers mean. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_large_numbers
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> because so many experts ... indicating that LLMs ... are on an exponential ... improvement trajectory. The experts have consistently and grossly overestimated the progress in AI research since 1955. https://en.wikipedia.org&
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> in Europe, most cars sold don't even have automatic transmission Something like 60% to 80% of new cars in European countries are now sold with automatic transmission. And this figure is growing year to year. It will take a decade
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In this case, the API provides .pipe, with which you can then use whatever functions you want.
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import pandas as pd import functools ( pd.Series(range(10)) .apply(lambda x: x * 10) .where(lambda x: x % 2 == 0) .pipe(lambda s: functools.reduce(lambda x, y : x + y, s)) )
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I have a pet peeve about graphs with bad / non-existent labeling. Here is how to read the graph: The black line is the outside air PM2.5. The green-yellow-orange-red bars are the indoors air PM2.5.
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> ocean phytoplankton processing most of the air we breath. This is not true. Ocean photosynthesis produces about 50% of the oxygen in the atmosphere, but ocean respiration also consumes about the same amount. The oceans are about oxygen
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> It’s a naval chart that would not require surfacing. Other sources say this is about inertial navigation, not based on charts. "Accelerometers measure how an object’s velocity changes over time. With this, and the starting point
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In the TV show The Big Bang Theory, they invented a quantum vortex based inertial guidance system in 2016. Initially in https://bigbangtheory.fandom.com/wiki/The_Positive_Negative_... Then later https://www.
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https://nypost.com/2022/04/09/russian-troops-dug-trenches-in...
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> If the US has Eastern Ukraine, we can place missiles inside the Russian's early warning threshhold aimed at Moscow While superficially true, your point is moot: Eastern Ukraine is equally close to Moscow as Latvia, and Latvia has
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> cosine repeats every 2pi > We can do better since the cosine values are equivalent every multiple of pi, except that the sign flips. There is one more step to take: Each π/2 long segment has identical shape, they are just point
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> There's no way to tell if content is AI generated. In general no. But I don't think anyone human writes in the typical style of a ChatGPT answer, so in practice there is a large class of cases where you can tell.
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> So what next 'ban all kids'? Maybe regulate very good air quality and/or air purifiers in daycare and school buildings. Something along the lines, CO2 not allowed to go over 800 ppm, and at least 6 air changes per hour f
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> especially those similar to covid-19 - are transmitted by larger droplets, which travel less far. The medical establishment believed that (some may still believe). But it is not true. https://www.science.org/doi/10
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That is a good point, but I think their point was to bring attention to the flawed philosophy, so that mistakes could be avoided. And surprisingly soon after their 2018 paper, the flawed philosophy lead to such mistakes in a surprisingly re
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> What point is this article trying to make? There is no evidence from RCT studies, that parachutes work (this post). There is no (or only very weak) evidence from RCT studies, that condoms work: https://jech.bmj.com/con
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Here is a 2022 critique of the narrow-mindedness of Evidence Based Medicine, by an Oxford professor and the author of what is perhaps the most widely used textbook on Evidence Based Medicine: https://ebm.bmj.com/content&#x2F
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Perhaps < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico-media_complex >. Just a guess.
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> That's one of the biggest roadblocks: hospital & healthcare entities will not not have permissible mass sharing of data. Maybe in some other country?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TB0cXGvuw9A

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