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by sn9 5y ago
Someone mentioned how the area under the curve could be misleading, and this link addresses how to correct for that: "The radius of each sector would be proportional to the square root of the death count for the month, so the area of a
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by sn9 5y ago
Employers have indirect ways of approaching that, like giving discounts on health insurance to employees who track how often they work out, eat healthy, and get regular physicals. They can incentivize healthy behaviors.
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by sn9 5y ago
> Hospitals aren't full. ICU's will never fill up with kids having covid. It just won't happen. It already has. https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/13/us/dallas-county-no-pediatric...
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by sn9 5y ago
If you have questions or concerns about getting the vaccines, talk to your primary care physician about them instead of asking random people on the internet who usually don't have any training or expertise in biology, immunology, epide
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by sn9 5y ago
"In this second edition of ISL, we have greatly expanded the set of topics covered. In particular, the second edition includes new chapters on deep learning (Chapter 10), survival analysis (Chapter 11), and multiple testing (Chapter 13
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by sn9 5y ago
This article makes a pretty straightforward argument that "clean electrification" (e.g., of the grid, of transportation, of buildings, etc.) should be the number one priority as it's both technologically feasible TODAY and ha
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by sn9 5y ago
If you wear a heart rate monitor, you'll find that genuine strength training spikes your heart rate something fierce, much more akin to HIIT than low-intensity cardio. And building lean mass as one tends to do with strength training is
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by sn9 5y ago
It's actually already out. I just got my pre-order copy in the mail this week.
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by sn9 5y ago
Probably an awareness of the history of MB and the research about its utility: https://www.vox.com/2014/7/15/5881947/myers-briggs-personali...
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by sn9 6y ago
That may have been historically true, but that's also because people have historically not relied on much better investment vehicles. Historically, housing has actually been a poor investment relative to investing in the stock market.
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by sn9 6y ago
What were the contexts in which you needed to examine a sequence of numbers transformed through a bit of code? I'm assuming it's something more niche than CRUD development. (I'm just curious, but would understand if it's
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by sn9 6y ago
The caloric needs of the physical activity probably completely counteract and then some the negatives of the diet quality. If you take before and after snapshots of bloodwork and other physical health markers, it's probably an unambigu
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by sn9 6y ago
You should try running slower at a conversational pace. It's much more aerobic at that pace, and is more meditative and more stress-relieving than stressful.
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by sn9 6y ago
I found mention of "program primes" and "cleanroom" in the index of this book [0], but they are rather far apart from one another. [0] https://svkarthikwinner.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/practic
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by sn9 6y ago
While you can't get hard copy magazine issues, they do have anthologies of their works up to 2018 in book form [0][1]. [0] https://www.amazon.com/dp/0262536358/ [1] https://www.amazon.com/dp&#
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by sn9 6y ago
The Art of Problem Solving books are great if you want to relearn pre-college math at a deeper and more advanced level so that your foundation is all the stronger for university level math.
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by sn9 6y ago
Just work through the courses yourself on sites like MIT OCW, edx, Coursera, etc. You can also buy books like Morin's problem books. And you could always email professors at a local university about auditing courses if you really want
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by sn9 6y ago
I've heard great things about DrawABox and the works of Andrew Loomis: https://www.amazon.com/Fun-Pencil-Everybody-Easily-Learn/dp/...
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by sn9 6y ago
Vox has this explainer video on the gender pay gap that's quite good. In it, they describe how one of the biggest ways we can minimize the gap is (1) to have generous parental leave policies for both men AND women and (2) for there to
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by sn9 6y ago
Do you plan on incorporating how salaries compare to local costs of living? Discretionary income can vary widely after living expenses are removed for a given salary for a given locale.
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by sn9 6y ago
You should be testing regardless of the strength of your type system. But testing with a weak type system isn't going to give you anywhere near the guarantees you'd get from a well-designed type system in addition to testing: htt
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by sn9 6y ago
Can't imagine that doing so is going over well for people using screen-readers.
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by sn9 6y ago
He literally mentions Adler 7 times in the link....
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by sn9 6y ago
> "When the product is free, you are the product." This only makes sense in software because your your data is being harvested for insights that can be used for profits. It doesn't make sense at all for vaccines. How would
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by sn9 6y ago
Millions of people don't live in suburban homes with grills. They live in apartments that don't allow grilling so they never thought to buy one. And it being the winter, not many people who do grill in the summer have charcoal for
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by sn9 6y ago
Yeah it's crazy. The water pressure in my apartment has dropped so much I basically don't have running water. The upstream pipes must be mostly frozen. Luckily I stocked up on soup before all this so I'll last until the freez
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by sn9 6y ago
And with windchill, it's well below 0°F. I've lived in Texas all my life and can't remember the last time that happened.
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by sn9 6y ago
Parts 6 and 7 of this Youtube series on the risks of obesity are on sleep apnea and GERD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGnVgbUHtKI&list=PLyqKj7LwU2...
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by sn9 6y ago
The person you were replying to was less implying Wu is undeserving of the honor and more suggesting that when one hears "First Lady of Physics", most would think of Noether (which I feel is likely accurate for those versed in phy
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by sn9 6y ago
I would argue that the whole idea of thinking about exercise as something you have to enjoy is overrated. Do you enjoy cleaning your house or doing your taxes? Do your enjoy taking your car in for maintenance? Sure some people enjoy some or

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