starchild_3001

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by starchild_3001 2y ago
Anyone who's spent substantial time using one of the state of the art AIs today can attest that this statement is clueless and ridiculous. Makes me wonder about the fitness of Yann Lecun to lead a major research lab. It does appear to
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by starchild_3001 3y ago
This is biased reading at its worst. I was simply stating what the authors concluded based on their analysis of 10-20 studies (not just one). This is what they say in the abstract: "The results show that exercise does not reduce all-ca
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by starchild_3001 3y ago
Diet and exercise are universally failed interventions to stop major diseases (CVD, cancer...). People who have a vested interest in them promote them (e.g. exercise specialists, keto experts, vegan gurus, your favorite TV Dr, harvard nutri
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by starchild_3001 3y ago
Buyer beware: Sensation sells (as is portrayed in this news article). Competitors are one click or one setting away. Last I tried switching to DuckDuckGo things didn't go so well -- just overall subpar experience. Bing arguably is a bi
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by starchild_3001 3y ago
Thanks for sharing! My list of 12 most useful resources for machine learning quants can be found here: http://gokhanmergen.com/quantBibliography.html This list was compiled in 2009 before I took a full time job in an algori
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by starchild_3001 3y ago
Many of us know and follow rapamycin's story. There are some Drs in USA who're willing to prescribe it for longevity. I do hope some billionare will be willing to spend a few million on it to test it in clinical trials. Surely one
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by starchild_3001 3y ago
Correctness might be there. But there are also some grandiose claims in the abstract ("“There are no trigonometric proofs, because all the fundamental formulae of trigonometry are themselves based upon the truth of the Pythagorean Theo
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by starchild_3001 3y ago
Ok, I read through the proof, and I think I understood it. Thanks for posting this! Until the authors' work is submitted to a journal and reviewed, it's hard to say everything claimed here is definitely correct & new. Update:
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by starchild_3001 4y ago
Observational studies are just observational studies. Most of them report spurious correlations. Their results cannot be taken at face value. Only through intervention studies you can demonstrate causation. Intervention studies (RCTs) --- t
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by starchild_3001 4y ago
Real means, not BS. Real means intervention studies. Observational studies can be hypothesis generating, but you cannot derive definitive conclusions from them. Only through intervention studies, you can be definitively sure about the causa
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by starchild_3001 4y ago
Measuring associations is one thing. Intervening in people's lives to reduce disease and mortality with exercise is another. Here's what real science has to say about the latter: Exercise did not reduce all-cause mortality and i
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by starchild_3001 4y ago
GDPR and DMA that came out of EU internet regulators don't impress me. They make it more arduous to browse the web, reduce the revenue collected by open web (content sites), reduce the quality of internet services, lower the quality o
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by starchild_3001 4y ago
Good job human(s)! It should be obvious to anyone who's following chess AIs: Progress seems endless; we're constantly discovering tactics and anti-tactics to defeat the latest model. That's why computer ELO is going up on a s
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by starchild_3001 4y ago
Gladwell is an extremely gifted author. He's a poor social scientist. When he wears a social scientist's cloak, and tells engaging and highly believable stories, he's doing a disservice to society. I won't read another G
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by starchild_3001 4y ago
To me the biggest magic of kalman filtering wasn't the low-pass nature (yes it's a multidimensional low pass filter!), but rather issues around system identification. Namely if and when the system equations evolve as much as the h
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by starchild_3001 4y ago
>> Every tech company in China is in part owned or supported by the chinese government. > So it’s exactly like the US. Here's a bit of news for you. "China’s Global 500 companies are bigger than ever—and mostly state-own
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by starchild_3001 4y ago
Re: Chinese real estate bubble. It's been almost 10 years since news outlets and finance people have claimed a RE bubble in China. Nothing happened. Buyer (of RE and the bubble hype) beware. "60 mins" from 2013: https:/
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by starchild_3001 4y ago
If you're reading a tech news coming out of China, and aren't thinking about politics, you're doing something wrong. Every tech company in China is in part owned or supported by the chinese government. Hard to talk about &quo
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by starchild_3001 5y ago
Let me provide some color for you. Hiring is changing. It's shifting from "oh this person went to good schools, worked for a top company" (self perpetuating loop) to "can you answer this difficult question in 45 mins?&qu
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by starchild_3001 5y ago
This is actually the 2nd brain gene therapy research I've seen. In the Phase I trial below, injecting telomerase and klotho AV vectors into CNS/brain was safe and it improved cognitive scores of 5 dementia patients after 1 yr foll
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by starchild_3001 5y ago
Your problems may not be caused by the money. 7.5M isn't infinity, you know. Especially if you get married, try to buy a house and have kids, you'll discover that the amount isn't all that much (in sunny california, that is).
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by starchild_3001 5y ago
This is hilarious (what Facebook calls meaningful!). I know people where back and forth comments with them are a lot less than meaningful or desired. "Meaningful Social Interactions — the back and forth comments between friends that Fa
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by starchild_3001 5y ago
Wow, this looks like a work of love! Who else would put so much effort into improving a classic (but semi-obsolete) CPU?
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by starchild_3001 5y ago
Bad Apple it is. Also hypocrite Apple, with their fake (at the very least misleading) privacy stance against internet advertising.
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by starchild_3001 5y ago
tdeck, genetics is a statistical phenomena. Your parents being smart/strong/fast runner/good in music etc doesn't turn you into one of these instantly, but they're statistically correlated with you having similar ab
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by starchild_3001 5y ago
Not sure what data you're talking about. What I've seen so far: SAT <-> Income are correlated => let's not rely on SAT? That's such a BS argument. Anything related to income will be (statistically speaking) asso
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by starchild_3001 5y ago
Cancelling SAT (especially subject exams) is the stupidest decision I've seen anywhere. Make access more fair? Sure. Cancel it? Plain wrong! How do I know? I'm one of those students who didn't have stellar high school grades,
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by starchild_3001 5y ago
I think the worst volume control is on Mac OS Big Sur... the missing Volume Icon In Menu Bar. A second close is the volume controls on the MacBook Pro touch bar. Fairly subpar (push-and-hold).
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by starchild_3001 5y ago
https://www.afar.org/tame-trial https://www.google.com/search?q=TRIIM-X+trial
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by starchild_3001 5y ago
A few sentence summary of the ruling: Be rigorous. Justify your claims. Don't get carried away by political motives. Law trumps over politics.

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