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by tomlue 4y ago
Mostly agree, but this position creates a sense of helplessness. If all ideas are bad, then the idea doesn't matter, and I shouldn't waste time evaluating ideas. As an example, people w/ decades of experience in the domain of
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by tomlue 4y ago
I did the same thing! Except I learned the material early and offered to teach fellow students for a math exam. On the math exam, all of the students got the same question wrong in the same way. It seems I taught the material incorrectly. I
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by tomlue 4y ago
I prefer the R formula syntax. i.e ~ . + 1 ~ .x + .y
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by tomlue 5y ago
Spurious correlations are common in medical models not idiosyncratic like in other fields. Which makes it hard to use models in clinics. Doctors are smart about this. Every providier we spoke to about survival models based on biomarker data
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by tomlue 5y ago
I read science papers to learn. Concise prose presented in a logical order is the best for this. Transition words often add unnecessary subjectivity and filler.
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by tomlue 5y ago
there was a ted talk [1] that made me think lifi would be take off much faster than it has. [1] https://www.ted.com/talks/harald_haas_wireless_data_from_eve...
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by tomlue 5y ago
Knowledge extraction is weird. Just because I extracted some knowledge doesn't mean that I now 'have' that knowledge. The better use case for this is teaching, not creating knowledge bases that nobody will use.
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by tomlue 5y ago
I got off yt after seeing how much time I was losing with a time tracking app.
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by tomlue 5y ago
The whole world suffers from researchers optimizing on H-index.
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by tomlue 5y ago
I believe you, but do you have a good source for the date and amount? I keep getting trash when I look.
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by tomlue 5y ago
people underestimate the cost of dwelling on problems. There is great value to coming to conclusions quickly.
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by tomlue 5y ago
Please please keep Linux support! I would pay more to not lose rescuetime on linux. Also, the api you have is great and I use it a lot. Good job! One thing I worry about is how my data is being stored, and what you are tracking. Rescuetime
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by tomlue 5y ago
See Shanna Swan and the Count Down book. This effect is already established, many of the mechanisms are established, science is discovering more mechanisms, but we already know enough to start taking public health actions. The epi evidence
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by tomlue 5y ago
finance people who learn to program will outperform those who don't.
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by tomlue 5y ago
nah, it makes a lot of sense for capital one to have ML expertise, and they've been hiring for it for a long time.
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by tomlue 6y ago
It's not just china. Enormous effort is put into achieving high H-Index scores everywhere. I'd love to see a review of all researchers with high H-indexes. I bet you would see a disproportionately high incidence of self citing, c
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by tomlue 6y ago
diversification is valuable in your portfolio, but also in your day to day activities. Being overly focused is a failure to diversify.
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by tomlue 6y ago
Chemical structures can be described as graphs.
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by tomlue 6y ago
From the article, “There is research suggesting that people who are in better health are more likely to volunteer, but because scientists are very well aware of that, in our studies we statistically control for that,” says Sara Konrath
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by tomlue 6y ago
The value of bitcoin doesn't need to increase in absolute terms for its USD value to increase.
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by tomlue 6y ago
If I am going to trust a random internet comment, I would prefer to trust the conclusions of the actual paper. They say just the opposite, that saturated fats (SFAs) are associated with increased risk of coronary heart disease: "Conclu
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by tomlue 6y ago
I'm the founder, but you can use sysrev.com to review pdfs, json, text, etc. and assign labels / do annotations. You can see https://blog.sysrev.com/simple-ner/ for how to build something like a gene named en
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by tomlue 6y ago
Unknown unknowns. Knowledge availability is another big one. I used Anki to learn molecular biology. I work in bioinformatics and understanding molecular pathways means I can more fluently build hypotheses with colleagues. Without having m
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by tomlue 6y ago
It is also possible to mistake results based on skill for luck and randomness. It feels better to believe that the success of others is due to luck and that your failures are due to randomness. Sometimes, other people are more intelligent &
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by tomlue 6y ago
I don't think he meant that other companies are bad at getting clicks. I think he meant his company relies on search engine driven ads. Google has a monopoly on the search engine. There are many companies that need to rely on search e
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Supporting Covid Research: Rapid Reviews on Sysrev(blog.sysrev.com)
1 points by tomlue 6y ago|1 comments
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by tomlue 6y ago
Over the course of two months, a multinational team used Sysrev to assess the clinical characteristics and the risk factors associated with SARS CoV2 in patients with Chronic Kidney Disease. We built the sysrev.com platform for reviewing do
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by tomlue 6y ago
I added to yours! Fun! https://music-grid.surge.sh/#272-80-256-40-256-32-256-288-13...
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by tomlue 7y ago
I don't know. It shouldn't take very long to spin up a simple personal project. Knowing the exact same tech stack might be hard, but not being able to show a single programming project isn't great. Also, If I were hiring a
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by tomlue 7y ago
Those links are broken and should be You can see all the oral studies here: https://bit.ly/3ct2q4u You can see all the IV studies here: https://bit.ly/2Th9ud5

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