stewbrew

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by stewbrew 4y ago
Did you select logarithmic scale on the y axis? To me the post-WWII looks rather linear with some dips: energy crisis, dot com, financial crisis.
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by stewbrew 4y ago
Why would you want to learn racket after having learned sml? racket is great, no question about that, but it is mostly an educational tool and a "first language". I personally would rather choose a language with a broader real wor
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by stewbrew 4y ago
It's a shortcut that often isn't really useful. Also the statement about compiled languages is wrong the way it's written. The OP states: 1. Interpreted language (whatever that is) are necessarily distributed as source code a
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by stewbrew 4y ago
No. The language per se is neither interpreted nor compiled.
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by stewbrew 4y ago
There is no such thing like an interpreted/compiled language - even with some kind of eval functionality. It's implementations that work as interpreters or compilers. Also, a compiler doesn't necessarily emit machine code. It
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by stewbrew 5y ago
My seven year old would say: O...M...G.
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by stewbrew 5y ago
It isn't too soon to see that they don't believe in this rebranding themselves. Ergo it was a mistake.
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by stewbrew 5y ago
Meta still redirects meta.com to https://about.facebook.com/meta I don't think it's too soon.
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by stewbrew 5y ago
I think you should discuss pro/cons wrt/ other (more established) formats like todo.txt that provide a wide variety of tools.
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by stewbrew 5y ago
There is no dedicated bookmark button. The Bookmark functionality is hidden under the share button. The Like-button maybe is one of the most misused features of twitter. People don't always use software the way some developers think it
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by stewbrew 5y ago
Cancer usually doesn't go away just like that. There is a chance in situ tumours or benigne tumours "go away" and there is some discussion about what you should do with this type of tumour. Not every tumour is cancer. Anyway,
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by stewbrew 5y ago
This is specifically for an annual screening of women 40-49yrs. The reason why this article was written is because there is a scientific debate about whether the advantages outweigh the disadvantages in this age group. I don't think th
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by stewbrew 5y ago
Every person has to decide for themselves whether he/she wants to do a screening examination. It's not for everyone and it is okay to say no. But I think you should try to find peace with medical doctors. Most of them just try to
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by stewbrew 5y ago
Please read the original article linked from the axios piece.
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by stewbrew 5y ago
That's why it is so important medical doctors comminicate this right. Unfortunately, most of them have a false understanding of the probability of cancer based on a positive (other than B5) mammography. But this is a solveable problem.
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by stewbrew 5y ago
Read the orig article. The pop-sci axios article misses the point.
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by stewbrew 5y ago
Funny. The original article says "The findings of this study suggest that digital breast tomosynthesis is associated with a lower cumulative probability of false-positive results compared with digital mammography" Which is an impo
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by stewbrew 5y ago
To some extent, this is rather a general problem with quality of code in dynamically typed languages. Public functions should return predictable results. This is a matter of testing. In my experience, packages on CRAN are well tested. With
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by stewbrew 5y ago
Either snap or flatpack is the best thing. Both are just a waste of time and space.
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by stewbrew 5y ago
Or maybe the language just isn't for every one and for every usecase. I would be hesitant to write something customer-facing in R. But it's great for doing statistics. The main problem with R is that people underestimate how diffe
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by stewbrew 5y ago
SPSS was originally created for social scientists and psychologists. It allows people who usually don't have really a clue what they are doing, to create something that looks like science. Later on it was marketed as a predictive analy
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by stewbrew 5y ago
> R has two types of empty string: character(0) and "". I understand it's frustrating trying to use a language you don't understand. And instead of reading the language manual you go on rambling. "" is an em
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by stewbrew 5y ago
Thanks for proving my point just five minutes after my post. What makes it difficult to discuss crypto is that people usually mean bitcoin etc. But that's just a single application.
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by stewbrew 5y ago
Not convinced. I think we are still in a rather early phase of the hype cycle where people explore possible uses of the technology. What makes it difficult to think about "crypto" is a certain disillusionment around Bitcoin and si
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by stewbrew 5y ago
No article about solar sails should miss out on mentioning that this idea like ... 100 years old? The laser is new, though.
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by stewbrew 5y ago
After reading the above comment again, I have to admit I misunderstood what he/she was doing.
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by stewbrew 5y ago
No, this is an Americano, stretched coffee. For cold brewed coffee put the grounded coffee into cold water, let it rest (over night or even longer), filter the coffee, enjoy. Coffee tastes differently when done this way. You might want to u
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by stewbrew 5y ago
"I wake up at 5:30, and do some deep work; at 7:15 an alarm goes off, which reminds me to fire up my Oculus Quest and start my VR workout." So in VR, you don't have family?
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by stewbrew 5y ago
Oh come on. The size of the ROM was 16kb. Do you have an idea what is the size of the microcode in your Intel CPU? I'm sure you could have replaced the chip containing the ROM and replace it with your own version. Things were a little
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by stewbrew 5y ago
Speaking about independence: where does the uran come from? And how is this clever since the EDF cannot sell their nuclear power without making losses?

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