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by shusaku 5y ago
> Through self-reporting, we found 214 individuals who claimed that they owned cats but no other pet (Cat group), while 214 individuals who did not own a pet were matched with the Cat group by gender, body mass index (BMI), and age (no c
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by shusaku 5y ago
Your ad blocker is doing its job as the whole article is just an ad for Avi Loeb’s book
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by shusaku 5y ago
The name of the function won’t necessarily reveal the algorithm used in the implementation
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by shusaku 5y ago
I enjoyed that video when he launched it, but since then I can’t help wonder: “if the damage was so severe, how did any dinos survive and evolve into birds?” I wonder if maybe it’s a more extreme version of events.
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by shusaku 5y ago
The history of human civilizations is a blink in the eye compared to the history of the human race. And compared to the time scales of the simulations they run. So I wonder if maybe those filters end up as noise when we’re talking about fil
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by shusaku 5y ago
I was thinking about this too, but it doesn’t seem like there’s an island far enough north that it would make much of a practical difference: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Antarctic_and_subant...
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by shusaku 5y ago
I’m actually surprised that I don’t hear more “I thought I had COVID in 2019, took an antibody test, and was right” anecdotes. Especially if the false positive rate on these tests is significant.
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by shusaku 5y ago
I imagine the non-Americans in this comment section have to be snickering after seeing the Americans ask “what’s a public holiday?”