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by sampo 6y ago
> socialist democracy In Nordic countries, we don't really like it when Americans call us socialist democracies. We are market economies like everyone else. Here's a take from the Danish prime minister: https://www
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by sampo 6y ago
Seems you get $84 per week as an allowance, and can withdraw $210 a week as a loan. These are 2016 numbers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_financial_aid_(Sweden) You also get, I think, about $150 a month housing
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by sampo 6y ago
> we develop algorithms that show that real quantum computers—plagued by interference from their environment—can be simulated at a tiny fraction of the computational cost that is needed for a perfect quantum device
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What Limits the Simulation of Quantum Computers?(journals.aps.org)
2 points by sampo 6y ago|1 comments
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by sampo 6y ago
> those least vulnerable don’t feel that they should make a sacrifice for those more vulnerable. Young people will be hit the hardest, if there's an economic recession in the coming years. It will be especially hard for young people
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by sampo 6y ago
> today Google reigns supreme, at least in New Jersey What happens if Google randomly closes a student's Google account?
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by sampo 6y ago
Did the amount of money the poor invest in gambling change? Or are the gambling losses just being re-targeted to fund education, instead whatever they used to end up in previously.
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by sampo 6y ago
> "Don't choose digits from your favorite irrational number" What about numbers of which we don't know if they are irrational or not? Like e+π, e⋅π or 2^e.
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by sampo 6y ago
At a first glance, this book seems to be quite far from the topics in this Wikipedia page, but I might be wrong. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probabilistic_programming
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by sampo 6y ago
> The other major case in point being NLP Speaking of which, Google Translate was published in 2006, but when did the "learning from data" approach became an accepted idea in machine translation? I think the earlier attempts at
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by sampo 6y ago
> Additional commentary in Science: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/11/game-has-changed-ai-... And in Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03348-4 And about dozen n
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by sampo 6y ago
> Does the US publish death rates during the year or only afterwards? At least Our World in Data website has those numbers: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-mortality-raw-deat...
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by sampo 6y ago
> Correlation is not causation. The main problem in the "Western approach" to the pandemy has been the logic: The effect has not been rigorously proven ⇒ The effect does not exist. All your inputs are uncertain information to v
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by sampo 6y ago
Our World in Data does show excess mortality for US: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-mortality-raw-deat...
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by sampo 6y ago
Here's a paper that explains 3 levels of endosymbiosis. A living inside B living inside C living inside D. https://www.pnas.org/content/99/18/11558
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by sampo 6y ago
> an event that is inevitable, but requires many prerequisites, and so takes a billion years? In support of this idea, the Cambrian explosion of large (large relative to microbial life) multicellular organisms happened immediately after
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by sampo 6y ago
> It is not clear to me how a large family is a net tax benefit Some of the children from a large rural families will move to cities and make careers that pay lots of taxes. Cities almost always have lower birthrates than countryside.
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by sampo 6y ago
Population level intention-to-treat (giving a box of masks, or condoms, to people and asking them to use them) RCT studies also show, at best, weak and inconclusive statistical evidence that condoms work against STDs or unwanted pregnancies
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Has Sweden’s coronavirus strategy failed?(washingtonpost.com)
3 points by sampo 6y ago|3 comments
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by sampo 6y ago
As far as I understand, Nordström's second theory of gravitation is a mathematically self-consistent theory for gravitation, and the only way to decide between it and Einstein's theory was by comparing to observations. https:&#x2
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by sampo 6y ago
> Only a few countries have successfully contained the virus Every country that has chosen suppression as their strategy, has been able to do it. Australia, China, Laos, Mongolia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Ruanda, South Korea, Taiwan, Vietna
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by sampo 6y ago
> Why is Sweden seeing a second wave as well? Why did the number of infections soar, while it should theoretically have remained constant? I think we can now conclude that covid19 behaves seasonally, just like other respiratory viruses.
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by sampo 6y ago
You can see "In Hospital" in the graph here: https://c19.se/en
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by sampo 6y ago
> there were no new COVID deaths today in Sweden That is misleading. Sweden is currently averaging at about 20 covid deaths per day. Some days they report 0, some days 40, but the weekly average now is about 20 deaths per day. https:&#x
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by sampo 6y ago
> Sweden did nothing to prevent Covid This is not true. Sweden limited mass gatherings to 50 people, high schools and universities went to remote learning, large part of white-collar work switched to remote (companies did this voluntaril
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by sampo 6y ago
If you look at Sweden in Euromomo, there is a clear spike in mortality in the spring. https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps/#z-scores-by-country
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Asia-Pacific countries sign one of the largest free trade deals in history(ft.com)
2 points by sampo 6y ago|0 comments
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by sampo 6y ago
If America was governed like EU: Instead of the Office and President, have a commission of 50 presidents. Each state chooses one commissioner. But not by election, instead let the state legislature choose the commissioner for the state. The
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by sampo 6y ago
> I think the true evil here is the two party system America has had a two-party system for 200 years. Has it been this polarized for most of those 200 years?
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by sampo 6y ago
> No other country has statues to the traitors in its civil war. There's a George Washington statue right there in Trafalgar Square in London.

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