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by samvher 7y ago
Not a direct answer to your question but related: https://www.vox.com/2020/1/27/21082354/coronavirus-outbreak-... TL;DR: The beginning was not great, but it seems better now.
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Fair point, but WHO don't really seem to think that's the case. Dr Bruce Aylward (team lead of the WHO mission) noted that based on the large amount of disease screening that’s been done in China so far, there does not seem to be
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18% of cases end up serious or critical. Out of cases with an outcome, for 8% the outcome is death. [1] It's not just the flue. I agree that there should be no overreaction and that that part might be more worrying but it's pretty
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Normally the ratio of rudder to tilt for a turn is fixed for a given aircraft. The main reason is that people are ok with experiencing downward forces, but not so much with sideways forces. As a pilot, if you want to keep the forces downwar
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I am all for decriminalization, but both with cannabis and mushrooms I feel worried about the amount of "it's actually good for you!" that comes with it. I have used both (legally, in the Netherlands). As a student I enjoyed
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They sometimes get some support from universities but generally they need to fund themselves or use donations from alumni.
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I’ll take the bait - I really liked SICP and feel like it stands out among many other things I’ve found. Your comment makes me feel there’s a lot I’m missing out on. Any recommendations?
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There is a Yale course that covers quite some of it: https://oyc.yale.edu/music/musi-112/lecture-1
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The way I understand it (I took a course in this 5 years or so ago but might not remember correctly) it's a matter of ease of matching up certain chromosomes. Like people, plants tend to have chromosomes in multiples (though not necess
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I've been working fully remotely since 3 months or so and I love it. I have much more control over disturbances (i.e. people walking to my desk) and much more flexibility in how I structure my time. When I get in the flow of working I
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I think you and the person you're responding to might have slightly different expectations behind what level of rigor counts as "math", just like how physicists and theoretical mathematicians often have somewhat different ide
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This response resonates a lot with me. To give one perspective on working in non-tech: I'm pretty much the only tech person in my organization surrounded by economists and agronomists. I love it, it gives me a lot of autonomy and poten
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I’m one of those vim users - I never use autocomplete, autorefactor or a debugger for that matter. Occasionally I have them available in something like RStudio but I don’t feel like I gain much from it. I find myself constantly jumping thro
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Half of FAANG runs on Java. This is interesting and indeed not what I expected. Care to elaborate? I’m curious which components end up being built in Java.
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Seems to me that Java is also still one of the most supplied tech skills. So this does not necessarily make it a market you want to be in. Good SQL skills don't tend to be that common though, but I think a lot of the demand is more for
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Not sure I agree with 6. I find that if you develop for reusability and you're a bit creative you can actually reuse a lot (though it might depend on how tightly you define "other contexts"). I have to say that functional
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That's great to hear, thanks!
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I'm not quite sure how to place your comment, maybe because the term credibility revolution is new to me. Yes, RCTs are used to test and provide evidence, and the null results can be very informative. But I think the external validity
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They offer a "MicroMasters" on EdX [0] basically covering a lot of this RCT work. I can recommend it (I've completed it), I work as a data scientist and have learnt quite some new statistics tricks (and a lot about causal est
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Those models aren't worth much if you don't test them, so these efforts will have to go hand in hand. The way it tends to go now is RCT -> try to explain findings by hypothesizing about mechanisms -> think about an RCT that
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by samvher 7y ago
It seems there is no support for letting a user share their location over WhatsApp through the API at this moment - I was wondering why that is and if you're expecting that that will change soon? For the rest I've experimented wit
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by samvher 7y ago
This is not really a tech skill, but it can help you save some time a couple of times a day which you can then spend on other things ;) Relearn how to tie your shoelaces: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WgSwvDkJVxE
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by samvher 7y ago
Same experience here, I feel Docker Swarm is a bit underappreciated. I have experimented with Kubernetes but Swarm seems a lot simpler when you have a mix of stateful and stateless services. You can have many of the benefits of an orchestra
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Write AI code once, run anywhere–it’s not Java, it’s Intel’s oneAPI(arstechnica.com)
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I actually don't have a problem with the original poster asking why they get downvoted either, I think there is often a learning opportunity in such a situation. What does annoy me is if the person then gets an explanation, but digs in
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The kinds of revelations you might have, the conclusions you come to, the discoveries - they're all relevant when you're back to a regular state of mind. I don't share this experience. Some experiences stick but for me over
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You're right that it wouldn't be as easy for different kinds of jobs and working in a bar is a good example. Even there though, I think you could be clever about it - you can find opportunities that blend in with your work (e.g. c
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This is exactly what I do as well both in my current and previous jobs. I've never advertised exactly how much time I spend on courses but did ask (and get) permission to spend some of my time on personal development. Sometimes I would
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It really depends on the failure mode and the cost of failure. As mentioned by others you can encounter issues in external services which you have no control over and the best you can do in that case is fail gracefully until you're abl
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5 more years of work to then have $30k/yr to spend basically indefinitely seems pretty good to me. Sounds to me like you can cut down on the pills and relax a bit ;) But yeah I get what you're saying about medical catastrophe.

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