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by tbenst 6y ago
What you’re saying is all possible. But there’s no evidence to support leak from a lab, and there is a lot of evidence supporting the natural spillover hypothesis. As such, the latter interpretation is more likely to be correct. For example
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Your request is admirable! Here’s how I go about gathering info: Google “covid 19 origin evidence”, look for academic publications or scientific journalism that is well-cited & from reputable sources, eg [1] https://www.natur
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No, it is not a coincidence. There are a lot of bats in Wuhan. There are a lot of bats carrying coronaviruses. Coronaviruses have triggered past epidemics. Ergo, there’s an institute for virology in Wuhan. Listen starting at 6:30 in the pod
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by tbenst 6y ago
The author is irresponsibility propagating a conspiracy theory and elevating its status in the public’s mind. I’m a bioscientist. It’s frustrating to respond with evidence and in good faith, and be downvoted by those who simply disagree. Bu
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by tbenst 6y ago
On the contrary. A leak implies that something was contained. Notwithstanding the complete lack of evidence for a leak—and one could waste a lifetime trying to disprove claims that have no evidence-if of natural origin, the virus was alread
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by tbenst 6y ago
This article is written by a journalist who is clearly knowledgeable about safety practices and mistakes in US labs, but does not consider the extensive knowledge we have about the sequence of SARS-COV2. The preponderance of evidence suppor
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The players weren’t allowed to sweep.
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Ha, funny to see the resolution to my bug report (among others) on front page of hacker news, very grateful of SRCC’s work to resolve!
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I had this initial impression with PyCall from Julia, and would point to my own Conda env. But I quickly discovered when I ran my code on another machine, that it was a bit annoying to have thought I installed all the dependencies only to f
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by tbenst 6y ago
GPT-3 can’t play Go.
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Thank you for the history lesson! I had no idea IPv4 was so old
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This is almost certainly false. For example, see the arrest of the leader of the Proud Boys (for events prior to Capitol, but played active role on Parler encouraging proud boys violence that day): https://www.pbs.org/wgbh&#
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by tbenst 6y ago
False equivocation. This did happen but Twitter promptly banned this and variants [1]. Parler is failing / refusing to moderate. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/10/hang-mike-pe...
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A bit of an odd letter, since Warner’s letter isn’t asking for documents but rather establishing a “duty to preserve” [1] due to high likelihood of impending litigation. IIUC, the senator’s letter is about all that can be done while the Sen
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Before installing NixOS, I’d recommend anyone on Linux to give home-manager a go first for the userspace declarative approach with Nix. After a year with full-time NixOS, I switched back to Ubuntu + home-manager as best of both worlds—decla
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Safety and efficacy of the Covid-19 vaccines(tylerbenster.com)
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Anandtech / Tom’s Hardware, if you’re there, please do this!!
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Totally fair, edited
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SIMD and ie Nvidia WARP are not the same. Idk about Apple’s GPU, but for example there is no GPU alternative to the SQRTPD instruction (Square root of double precision). Also, when there is branch divergence across threads, CPUs still do a
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by tbenst 6y ago
I think we effectively agree with each other and the author. The M1 is better day-to-day processor but not a AMD/Intel killer for (edit: some) compute-heavy workflows...(yet?). Discussion more pertinent for Mac Pro, where current M1 wo
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by tbenst 6y ago
For many linear algebra heavy workflows, (numpy, R, Julia, etc.) I expect that AMD and especially Intel processors with AVX-512 will crush the M1 on real-world benchmarks. But this isn’t a reflection of RISC vs CISC, and Apple could choose
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by tbenst 6y ago
Slack fosters vibrant (free) communities in open source and academia. I fear these are not long for this world.
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Ha! The technology itself is cheap, fabricating a bunch of de novo mRNA is only a few hundred dollars these days. I’m not sure how much volume is needed for treatment, and there’s obviously much stricter QA/QC that must happen for huma
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by tbenst 6y ago
Thanks for creating and sharing this! Always easier to criticize than create. I for one think your code reads as quite pythonic. Using convenient python wrappers for c libraries is the raison d'être for python in the first place. See n
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by tbenst 6y ago
This is a kind and thoughtful reply. I would push back on the notion that there has to be a cause for depression. Maybe there is, but it can lead to the dangerous conclusion that it’s somehow one’s fault, when it’s actually a maladaptive be
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I was specifically referring to the Pope story in that case. I have no idea if the Hunter Biden laptop is actually real, but our default assumption should be skepticism: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/
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Unfortunately, tinnitus is usually caused by hearing loss which comes from the death of neurons in the ear, and we are a long way off from finding a solution. But to the extent that the percept of ringing comes from recurrently firing ensem
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by tbenst 6y ago
I passed along this thread to Ritchie, so hopefully he can chime in as he has time. We actually talk quite a bit about Neuralink, and have colleagues that work there. Speaking for myself, I love to see the resources increased in this area o
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I’m not too familiar with infrared neuromodulation, but it isn’t a widely used technique in systems neuroscience. My guess is it would be hard to target individual neurons, let alone target a genetically defined population of cells. Heating
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by tbenst 6y ago
For the mouse or rat brain, most everything :). For primates/humans, the skull is a lot thicker, but perhaps cortex is still reachable / longer wavelengths of light might be able to penetrate deeper (multiphoton techniques)

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