tchalla

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by tchalla 5y ago
> Actually being infected with Covid (symptomatic) probably does confer the best immunity possible, for sure. I don't think so. We have multiple links in this thread that say otherwise.
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by tchalla 5y ago
May be not. > The new evidence shows that protective antibodies generated in response to an mRNA vaccine will target a broader range of SARS-CoV-2 variants carrying “single letter” changes in a key portion of their spike protein compared
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by tchalla 5y ago
> Now, a new NIH-supported study shows that the answer to this question will vary based on how an individual’s antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 were generated: over the course of a naturally acquired infection or from a COVID-19 vaccine. Th
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by tchalla 5y ago
> Now, a new NIH-supported study shows that the answer to this question will vary based on how an individual’s antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 were generated: over the course of a naturally acquired infection or from a COVID-19 vaccine. Th
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Three billion people cannot afford a healthy diet(ourworldindata.org)
53 points by tchalla 5y ago|48 comments
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by tchalla 5y ago
> In the end I declined, as the first interviewer would have been one of the people I'd have managed, and I just did not want to deal with a team with a person like that, Oh, I can totally empathise with you because I've been t
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by tchalla 5y ago
> The only piece of advice I found useful from the interview training was this: this is the candidate's big day. For you it is a chore, for them it is their big chance. Keep that in mind and respect it. I kept telling myself this fo
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by tchalla 5y ago
> So let me be very clear and explicit: no-one gets classified as "no hire" because they've forgotten a semicolon somewhere. You messed up somewhere else. How much money can you bet that this never or does not happen? If y
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by tchalla 5y ago
> Geohotz had a good rant about this once - the kind of people who need to cram leetcodes and memorize algorithms are not the kinds of people who Google wants to pass these interviews. And yet, they routinely do pass these interviews.
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by tchalla 5y ago
> Technical skills almost solely put me in the 1%. What percentile would you rate your technical skills?
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Niger Is the Land That Covid-19 Forgot(wsj.com)
5 points by tchalla 5y ago|0 comments
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by tchalla 5y ago
It’s a constant daily struggle to explain technology experts that inferior technology with superior business/customer/product results can be prioritised over superior technology with inferior business/customer/product re
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by tchalla 5y ago
Thanks Jeremy! Where have language model(s) had the most useful for practical applications in terms of generated text? In terms of practical applications, I specifically mean the inclusion of a language model(s) has made life net better.
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by tchalla 5y ago
Great app! > Most managers get promoted into their role with no training. “Oh you’re a good engineer? Great! Now manage a team of engineers and stop coding”. I wish this was true. Well, these days people want Engineering Managers to code
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by tchalla 5y ago
Thank you for posting the full form of the acronym. It helps keep the conversation structured. I wish more people would do it.
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by tchalla 5y ago
Just be sure people complained about a formula being objective, it doesn’t mean any objective formula should we accepted.
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by tchalla 5y ago
Consumers aren’t the only people for whom laws and policies are optimised for. It’s fine to have laws which are unfortunate for consumers and great for the society.
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by tchalla 5y ago
> I think asking for feelings of burnout exaggerates the issue of being burnt out by a huge factor. Is there a better scientific method to quantify burnout?
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The Cultural Implications of Silence Around the World (2020)(rw-3.com)
108 points by tchalla 5y ago|44 comments
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by tchalla 5y ago
> It is easy to say educate women but when there are so many women less resource/finance it is hard to scale. There are many problems in life that are hard. The difficulty level of the problem can not be used an excuse. You can deci
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Measuring Algorithmically Infused Societies(nature.com)
35 points by tchalla 5y ago|6 comments
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by tchalla 5y ago
It could also be a good argument to increase funding for professors and education.
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by tchalla 5y ago
The banning of such a tool is a good start. One could also think about creation of requirements for tools to protect student privacy in the future that goes beyond a specific tool or software.
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Birds are dying in the United States and no one knows why(dw.com)
168 points by tchalla 5y ago|67 comments
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China urges its people to struggle. Some say no(economist.com)
171 points by tchalla 5y ago|183 comments
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by tchalla 5y ago
> Lately I've been watching The Sopranos on Amazon. As soon as the end credits roll, a "Next Episode" box pops up in the corner and I am in a race against time to click the teeny Cancel button. I think they give me five wh
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NASA Software Benefits Earth, Available for Business, Public Use(prnewswire.com)
5 points by tchalla 5y ago|0 comments
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by tchalla 5y ago
> You can go freelance, set up company in Lithuania and pay <20% effective tax rate over 100,000€+ yearly income. How would that work? Your personal income will still be taxed based on where the employee resides. The company has to di
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by tchalla 5y ago
> "The CIGB Research Institute has 30 years of experience in vaccine research. I trust the results that have been published. These are serious studies, with the participation of researchers and institutions committed to science,&quo
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by tchalla 5y ago
You can't compare efficacies of vaccines across clinical trials because all of them aren't performed in the same environment.

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