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by timr 2y ago
So the concept of "doxxing" doesn't apply to anyone who works in a government job? We can just publish the private information of any low-level employee?
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by timr 2y ago
Well, I cited a canonical paper making the argument you're advancing, so if it's not that, then... As for the rest of your comment -- oy, talk about a straw man fallacy. There's absolutely nothing I said that requires the fal
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by timr 2y ago
This has been done, and doesn't work especially well. See, for example, GANs, which are difficult to train and vulnerable to mode collapse. Not saying that it's impossible, but reinforcement learning of the form shown by DeepSeek
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by timr 2y ago
> Evidence suggest that patient zero was someone in the Wuhan market, around november 2019, and the SARS-CoV-2 genetic "signatures" where all found in wild animals for sale in that market. You're just repeating the conclus
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by timr 2y ago
> The person above them said you can just map your Rails html routes into JSON returning routes (translating pages into API endpoints). That was me. And no, you misunderstood. I said "controller logic" -- Rails (and any other d
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by timr 2y ago
Nobody said anything about translating pages into screens. The point is that the data model (and hence, the API design) applies equally to a web UI or a native application. The issues you're raising also matter for making webpages fas
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by timr 2y ago
There's absolutely nothing preventing you from emitting JSON (or whatever) API responses from the same controller logic that renders HTML. Rails makes it easy.
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by timr 2y ago
Sorta. A very common pattern is for startups to make abysmal hires for these "executive" roles, because the people in those roles in big tech bring loads of politics and a very narrow type of experience. They bring in their fr
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by timr 2y ago
I agree, but being aware of politics is entirely different than jumping into the deep end of the pool.
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by timr 2y ago
It's a completely different world, and some people aren't made for it. Among other things, the politics of management positions is often pretty intense, and not something that engineering-oriented people find fulfilling.
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by timr 2y ago
There is no such thing as proving something "safe". Go back and re-read the parent comment. The important point you are missing is that basically anything can be "linked" to cancer, and if you adopt the argument you are
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by timr 2y ago
You've either missed the point of what I wrote, or you're arguing with someone else. I'm talking about the difference between epsilon-greedy vs. a more complex optimization scheme within the context of implementing MAB. You&#
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by timr 2y ago
Just a warning to those people who are potentially implementing it: it doesn't really matter. The blog author addresses this, obliquely (says that the simplest thing is best most of the time), but doesn't make it explicit. In my e
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by timr 2y ago
"Politics" are inevitable, but the stuff that the parent is describing is a particular type of politics that comes with hierarchical power (and possibly bad/immature leadership?) General pattern is that certain people in the
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Predictions Scorecard, 2025 January 01(rodneybrooks.com)
243 points by timr 2y ago|185 comments
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by timr 2y ago
Origin of life doesn't make it into the NY Times health column and get parroted by your grandma a week later when she wants to know if taking a nap will give you cancer. Neuroscience is in the same quadrant of the knowledge / hype
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by timr 2y ago
This is pretty true for MDs, but I don't know how true it is for PhDs. The classic meme is that MDs love organic chemistry, but they hate biochemistry [1], because one is about memorization and the other is...less so, anyway. But then
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by timr 2y ago
I don't know if your claim is correct, but if that is truly the ratio, it isn't meaningful or useful at all.
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by timr 2y ago
> Are you trying to suggest that this study actually didn't exclude the most vulnerable segment of the population from the results? Because they very explicitly excluded ages >=70. > I mean, what other motive could they have h
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by timr 2y ago
> Source? Well, for starters: https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/what-is-the-evidence-to-suppor... You'll see that there's no high-quality evidence supporting basically any of it. It's either based on bad
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by timr 2y ago
Moreover, the parent misses the forest for the trees: yeah, the congestion fee is lower than the fare, but the fare is vastly more expensive than driving a car . The current pricing model encourages resource sharing (this was true before c
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by timr 2y ago
> Why should it be cheaper to be chauffeured? It isn't. It's vastly more expensive to ride in a taxi when you include the fare .
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by timr 2y ago
Nobody said anything about "masking". But yes, "social distancing" is what closed down a lot of schools around the US, and kept them closed for years. NYC, for example, kept kids out of school based on "social dista
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by timr 2y ago
It literally does not work for a respiratory virus. It didn't work for Covid. I can't believe we're still having this debate.
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by timr 2y ago
> Like probably not interesting enough to start shooting people you think might be sick (panic), but maybe interesting enough to encourage voluntary social distancing measures (a measured response). ...a "measured response" tha
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by timr 2y ago
The NYC death rate is based on a biased sample. If you read the various studies, you will see that there can be significant differences in regional IFR measurements based on legitimate factors (population age, health, etc.) as well as biase
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by timr 2y ago
That paper is literally a meta-analysis of every study. It's also methodologically fine. > Yes, of course if you exclude the people most likely to die from the count, you can get a low number....The only motivation here is for Ioann
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by timr 2y ago
I can't tell if you're agreeing or disagreeing, but: yeah, don't do what you're doing. There are lots of good publications on this question now. You don't have to make stuff up. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.g
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by timr 2y ago
> But even if the actual case fatality rate were 10 times lower – about 5% – it would still be a serious virus to contend with. The case fatality rate for the ancestral strain of Covid-19 was estimated to be around 2.6%, for example. Ugh
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by timr 2y ago
Please don't speculate. We know what serotypes are circulating in humans, and they're not this type.

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