strangeloops85

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by strangeloops85 4y ago
This is going to Delaware Chancery court, and if his ridiculous claims hold it does turn upside down long-held general principles of mergers and acquisitions that would affect.. everyone. I don't think the court will side with him on t
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Can nanoscience help make AC more efficient?(popsci.com)
2 points by strangeloops85 5y ago|0 comments
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by strangeloops85 6y ago
Two main differences: Scale and transparency. The scale of reach is tremendous, faster and optimized in a way newspapers/media could only dream of. It's also not publicly clear what is being widely disseminated and to whom, other
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by strangeloops85 6y ago
One take-away I had from reading this excellent and detailed article is the fundamental tension in Facebook's approach to moderating content: They rely on a hammer to catch what is objectionable or misinformation, but optimize for enga
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by strangeloops85 6y ago
I think you may be misunderstanding the implication. It's not that he's a postdoc that's surprising, but that he's a statistician who happens to have solved a major problem in convex geometry. The following quote sums it
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by strangeloops85 6y ago
It helps (and perhaps is no surprise, given her easy facility with the material she covers) that she's a Math PhD as well :)
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by strangeloops85 6y ago
Completely agree! I’ve really enjoyed Erica Klarreich’s writing in particular. I think she may very well be one of the most gifted and capable writers today on math in particular.
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by strangeloops85 6y ago
Somehow Microsoft Research manages to be a much more open place than Google and has researchers publish critical pieces all the time. It's ultimately a bit sad that Google, the company started by two PhD students, is incapable of creat
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Bringing the chill of the cosmos to a warming planet(washingtonpost.com)
6 points by strangeloops85 6y ago|0 comments
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by strangeloops85 6y ago
"“I have personally made decisions that affected national presidents without oversight, and taken action to enforce against so many prominent politicians globally that I’ve lost count,” she wrote." The scale of how the platform&#x
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How to avoid the coming air conditioning crunch(technologyreview.com)
2 points by strangeloops85 6y ago|0 comments
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by strangeloops85 6y ago
Worth noting: This does not affect many of the major municipal utilities, including SMUD in Sacramento, LADWP in LA, and Silicon Valley Power in Santa Clara because many have their own generating capacity and are also in alternate distribut
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by strangeloops85 6y ago
Yeah - the statues are not necessarily accurate depictions to begin with.
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Magic Leap attempting to raise $100M to prevent shutdown(businessinsider.com)
4 points by strangeloops85 6y ago|0 comments
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by strangeloops85 6y ago
My take always was that their long-term vision remains very hard to implement in practice, particularly in a consumer-friendly form factor. They should've kept working on it in a R&D capacity in the background, and pushed a more li
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by strangeloops85 6y ago
Not sure if Facebook is stepping away from AR/VR. Oculus/ Facebook reality labs is still hiring plenty of folks in the optics/ photonics world.. even making announcements over the last week on open positions.
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by strangeloops85 6y ago
It's one thing to advance a theory in academic papers during normal times. It's another to pen widely-read op-eds advancing said theories in the middle of a pandemic. Their theory and op-eds have already, and are, influencing poli
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by strangeloops85 6y ago
Excellent point!
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by strangeloops85 6y ago
Another odd thing: One of the co-authors of the study, Andrew Bogan seems to manage a hedge fund, and then published a WSJ op-ed on the study. He didn't note in the op-ed that he was involved in the study (and a co-author no less!). A
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by strangeloops85 6y ago
Just a press release, no pre-print. That being said it was being co-run by LADPH it seems. Many people involved were also involved with the Stanford study which has been very thoroughly criticized for its assumptions.
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by strangeloops85 6y ago
Well, a lot of the same people are involved in both..
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by strangeloops85 6y ago
I think NYC almost certainly has much large prevalence than LA given hospitalization data alone. One factor could be the nature of transmission. Regions where transmission occurs with high viral loads entering at the point of infection (for
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by strangeloops85 6y ago
Some more information about the study here: https://pressroom.usc.edu/what-a-usc-la-county-antibody-stud... Population is supposed to be representative of LA county. Tests are from Premier Biotech with some preliminary data
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by strangeloops85 7y ago
Something like this will get rolled out, piece-meal, throughout the country. As has been the case since the beginning of this, a lack of federal guidance and leadership means every jurisdiction will have to get ahead of this as much as migh
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by strangeloops85 7y ago
This is completely unwarranted fatalism. Taiwan and Singapore bent the curve, and Korea is doing it now as well. Learn from them and implement! Really don't understand this logic at all - containment is possible.
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by strangeloops85 7y ago
And, right on cue: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/a-second-case-of-coron... Here we go...
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by strangeloops85 7y ago
Unfortunately, it will be a very small signal relative to the total number of respiratory illnesses at this time of year. Moreover, there's often a multi-week lag-time between it spreading and getting cases that get severe enough for h
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by strangeloops85 7y ago
Once testing actually ramps up in the US... I'd expect similar cases to pop up all over the Bay Area. The Fairfield case was infectious starting weeks ago. The CDC site shows only 8 more tests having happened in the last few days (aka:
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by strangeloops85 7y ago
When you're buying for your kids, particularly in the newborn -> infant -> toddler range, Amazon is a nightmare and we're steering clear of it. Especially since pretty much everything will end up in the kid's mouth. I e
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by strangeloops85 7y ago
As many public health experts and virologists are now pointing out (and as I am sure many at CDC have long realized), there's no way to know if there's community spread without actually testing for it. Current testing capacity is

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