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Alon Halevy, Peter Norvig, and Fernando Pereira (2009): The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...
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> So - not just for biology - what are some good books or other learning resources that encourage questing, curiosity and wonder? > The first one that comes to mind is Feynman’s Lectures. The early books by Richard Dawkins. Also later
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According to archive.org, this was maybe written in 2020.
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> https://www.mdlinx.com/article/are-older-doctors-wiser-not-n... Link doesn't work in Europe, redirects to https://eu.m3.com/ .
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"Morality and Evolutionary Biology" in https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/morality-biology/
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> (Entire episode is 4h26m long: I don't have to interest/patience for that personally.) You can watch 70 minutes of another youtuber reviewing the debate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haKFyj-2OVw https:&#x
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> I think a lot of people, especially in STEM, pooh-pooh philosophy at first. A lot of philosophy ignores biology, sometimes even physics. In topics where biology would be immensely relevant, like with philosophy of mind. Dennett didn&#x
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> it seems hard to evolve in a gradual way There seems to be 4 different hypotheses. So there is no consensus on this question. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_avian_flight#Hypothe... A video about the &quot
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> two out of the three covid vaccines came out of Europe Moderna and Novavax Covid vaccines are entirely American. Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was researched in Germany, but productized by Pfizer which is an American company. AstraZeneca vac
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Indentation by steps of 3 spaces is common in old Fortran 77 code. This is LAPACK for example. Scroll down to about line 400 to see actual code, not comments. https://github.com/Reference-LAPACK/lapack/blob/ma
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> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin... This web view renders tabs as spaces, so it's not possible so see what was changed.
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More like, quantum mechanics is the OS for 3 out of 4 fundamental forces in physics. After 100 years of trying, nobody has managed to express gravity in the language of quantum mechanics.
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> whether these deaths were concentrated in the vaccinated or the unvaccinated Sweden let Covid go through their population in 2020. New Zealand allowed Covid to spread only in 2022. Both countries vaccinated their population during 2021
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I wish timezone-naive and timezone-aware Timestamps would be different types.
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> What problem/niche is this language a solution/fit for? Writing software for GNOME. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vala_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GObject K
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> Are her other books better? Yes. The Word for World is Forest is one of her weakest books.
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A really long con would be to first identify some component than already has a naturally occurring, so far unknown hard-to-find vulnerability, and then slowly add this kind of injected vulnerability to it. If the first vulnerability is even
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> I am kind of surprised various executives don't order hits on each other more often. Here is one case where it actually happened: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/xu-yao-death-sentence-poisoning... https:/&
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> It’s worth noting that many of the results in Thinking, Fast and Slow didn’t hold up to replication. Irony is, Kahneman had himself written a paper warning about generalizing from studies with small sample sizes: "Suppose you hav
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Ah. Thank you. The same concept goes under different names, so one needs to search for all of "exogenous variables", "external regressors", "external factors" and "covariates".
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Amazon's older time series forecasting system DeepAR, has supported using external regressors since 2018 [1]. From this new Chronos paper, I didn't find any mention of external regressors. [1] https://aws.amazon.com&#x2
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> https://otexts.com/fpp2/ Third edition: https://otexts.com/fpp3/
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> it was founded by Steve Huffman and Alex Ohanian That is true. But a bit later Reddit was joined with a company Aaron Swartz had founded, so he became a cofounder of this new arrangement of Reddit. https://news.ycombinator.c
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> I think it is always good to have some people working on weird, unverifiable ideas. The problem is, for 40 years theoretical particle physics was working only on this one single weird unverifiable idea. Pretty much all other ideas were
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> Python is for software people. Matlab, Julia and R are for people who only write code because they want answers. Or, Julia can be for both. Julia lets you start from scientific calculations scripts and grow your code to a larger softwa
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I mean, your company or your project may require you to write type hints and use a type checker tool. Not that Python the language makes typing mandatory.
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> Fancy type systems We are taking steps to this direction. By adding optional typing to dynamic languages Python and JavaScript/TypeScript. And then type checker tools and local programming style guides are making using these maybe
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> What is Julia's current niche? Python, but for engineers and scientists. Syntax is friendlier for doing mathematics, barrier to entry to first calculation script is lower a = [1 2 3] b = [4 5 6] a + b vs imp
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> Your own links point out how the Barrington Declaration was bad advice. Yes, also my personal opinion is that the Great Barrington Declaration is misguided, wrong. And they are the minority opinion. But still, we have to admit that the
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> Let me guess, those well-credentialed scientists were named Dr. Jordan Peterson? The most credentialed scientists speaking against the mainstream in Covid policy were: Jay Bhattacharya, Stanford; Martin Kulldorff, Harvard; and Sunetra

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