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by skwb 6y ago
| Think of all the teams of bookkeepers (yes, actual people who penciled numbers in books) who were obsoleted by Excel being able to let a store owner do a calculation/scenario by himself that would take accountants a week to do. And n
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by skwb 6y ago
There has long been a debate if these free means actually count as a form of reimbursement (and are therefore taxable). https://www.wsj.com/articles/silicon-valley-cafeterias-whet-... https://www.businessins
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by skwb 6y ago
It depends on the type of store (high end vs low end)! It seems every 3rd business in Venice Ca is some sort of boutique clothing store. Pandemic withstanding, they have focused on prioritizing real in-person contact to drive revenue. At th
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by skwb 6y ago
The "human factor" is still why we don't have AI replacing doctors! There's a lot AI can and should be doing for improving worker efficiency in many industries, but ignoring "human factors" leads to 737 Max sor
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by skwb 6y ago
I think you're completely correct. Most successful automation technologies tend to create two markets: the lower end mass consumption market and a higher end artesian market. Power looms certainly drove out hand looms, displacing many
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by skwb 6y ago
Yeah, I thought Trader Joe's did this a lot also? I recall they're super secretive of what items they buy directly from name branded stores, and people have spent serious time trying to reverse engineer their supply chain. https:
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by skwb 6y ago
I cannot speak for Germany, but I have a bit of experience in how public health projects are funded in the US. Usually, the set of incentives are misaligned for maintaining products. Research institutes are typically funded through contract
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by skwb 6y ago
I think you're right. That said, I do wish that people would be a bit more precise (and focus less on generic and confusing jargon) in their language however when discussing epidemiology. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by skwb 6y ago
My point still stands; vaccines do not change R0. They artificially move people from S -> R.
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by skwb 6y ago
In epidemiology, we determine "heard immunity" by calculating the proportion of the population that is in the Recovered (R) compartment (either through natural or artificial means). If your proportion that is in R is greater than
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by skwb 6y ago
Not to belabor the point, but "r-factor" isn't the correct term here. If we're using a SIR model that assumes patients go from Susceptible (S) to Infected (I) and Recovered (R), we can still assume some proportion of pat
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by skwb 6y ago
I sorta disagree with the order in which things are taught. I don't particularly like that likelihood is taught before regression, when there's a really easy (and intuitive!) reason to learn it. I like the way that I was taught wh
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by skwb 6y ago
From my own personal experience: back in March, when COVID started getting out of control, I found myself desperately trying to get access to more and better information from experts in the field. I turned to twitter, to try to get more and
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by skwb 6y ago
I think there is a lot of more practical deep learning that are coming out, but it often times working with the people who know the field intimately. For example, in my PhD thesis project, I am making a series of deep learning models to mak
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by skwb 6y ago
As others have mentioned, the highest dose did have some adverse events, and has been withdrawn from consideration. Here's his own words on twitter. https://twitter.com/ichaydon/status/1265275383798050819
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by skwb 6y ago
I completely agree with this sentiment. I remember one I was a TA for an introductory graduate medical informatics class, and a couple of the students insisted on trying to make a "PowerPoint" in LibreOffice (presumably because he
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by skwb 6y ago
Some of us are not masochists at heart, and value the ability to switch between a GUI for my desktop things and a virtualized Linux image for development/testing.
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by skwb 6y ago
Does it handle cine images easily?
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by skwb 6y ago
What advantage does dicom-numpy offer? I've mostly developed with pydicom for my medical imaging pipeline as it allows me to retain important dicom information (pixel spacing, etc). In fact, the 'PixelArray' attribute returns
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by skwb 6y ago
This is why I think the quote "All models are wrong, but some are useful" is so meaningful. Lots of bright eyed comp sci majors come into statstical genomics and bioinfomatics PhD programs every year, and all learn the hard lesson
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by skwb 6y ago
| Genomics is basically statistics. As someone in a bioinfomatics Ph.D., yes, there is statistics in genomic, but if you don't understand the underlying biology, you're going to be chasing wild statstical gooses. And even then, we
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by skwb 6y ago
It's not a bug but a feature! It wasn't just that the policy debating was rushed (it was), but it was also that precisely calculating how much you "should" earn is actually a really hard thing to do. Do you use this year
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by skwb 6y ago
If only there was a specific job title for people whose primary job was to "engineer" software.
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by skwb 6y ago
The argument that's usually given is that changing 2x more per day is too much. I used to work for a research doctor and he would regularly hold meetings in his scrubs with high profile scientists.
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by skwb 6y ago
I sorta think about it as "what's the likelihood of someone winning the lotto twice in a year?" Certainly the probability that any specific person wins twice (assuming here these are independent events...) is so ridiculously
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by skwb 6y ago
I agree with you, but IMHO it's trying to solve the wrong problem. The real solution is identifying a major pain point (such as annotation, co-registration, etc) and solving a lot of the small annoying steps to make the radiologist bet
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by skwb 6y ago
Remember the old mantra of reduce > reuse > recycle? Environmental consumerism is supposed to be primarily focused on reducing when you can. If you cannot reduce consumption, then try to reuse as much as possible. And if you've e
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by skwb 6y ago
I completely agree - this certainly isn't a configuration I would think works well for management. Meeting in person certainly are highly valued for even the most junior managers. But for a lot of white collar professionals at an assoc
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by skwb 6y ago
I can think of MANY projects I've worked on (and currently working on) where other people are frankly a distraction, and I just need to focus on implementing a few features on my own. But you then need to coordinate a lot in person to
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by skwb 6y ago
I think the optimum is 3 days of WFH, with the remainder being spent in person. For most people, you're going to have work you can do on your own. You probably only need a little bit of help here and there. The office specific days, yo

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