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   by slx26 9y ago

   Sorry, how did you get to that 0.5%? I'm not sure it's correct. Haven't looked at it enough, but I was thinking that if relative risk of colorectal cancer increases by 18%, if there are ~40 cases per 100.000 people, then it&#
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   by slx26 9y ago

   I don't think it's so well understood as you say. I believe your personal position and experience makes it quite obvious for you, but not necessarily so much for others, it could be helpful to them... I agree that for some people
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   by slx26 9y ago

   I assume he's talking about a correlation, and probably not strictly limited to a healthier lifestyle, but also to higher income (on average), which provides potentially better access to healthcare, etc.
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   by slx26 9y ago

   Probably 'bug' is not the best word, but many programmers definitely consider excessive complexity as 'bad design' (unless complexity is inherently unavoidable due to the very nature of the problem).
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   by slx26 9y ago

   Besides what others have already said: word vectors are usually calculated from the context they appear in, the other words surrounding them. The vector representation can be intuitively understood as representation of the context the word
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   by slx26 9y ago

   If you are interested in multi-language text analysis, you might be interested in Freeling [1], a full-fledged, open source library for language analysis written in C++ (which also happens to include a simple interface for working with wor