wavegeek

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by wavegeek 9y ago
Two problems with this post. 1. You are assuming that what happened in the past will continue to happen in the future. Maybe it will, or maybe this time things are different. There are reasonable arguments that make the case that this time
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by wavegeek 9y ago
I've learned a lot of languages and they all have their problems. E.g. the horribly complicated broken Kanji characters in Japanese and Chinese. E.g. the almost completely pointless genders in German, and resulting requirements for oth
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by wavegeek 9y ago
Old saying If you're young and you don't have left wing views, you have no heart. If you're old and you still have left wing views, you have no brain.
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by wavegeek 9y ago
> the 'intolerant' i.e. anyone who disagrees with us.
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by wavegeek 9y ago
Solar with batteries $40 (that only last 10 hours max then blackouts). Gas turbines $4.80. > renewables are cheaper Storage prices have fallen by about 7% per annum over a long period, with some fits and starts. This is no Moore's l
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by wavegeek 9y ago
> The book primarily focuses on the story of the captives, who were freed just five years after they were enslaved, thanks to the end of the Civil War. Just 5 years of slavery. I think this person lacks imagination and empathy if they th
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by wavegeek 9y ago
> decades of medical training and experience http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/12/17/statistical-literacy-am... Ask your local doctor next time you visit to tell you what a P value means. The medical literatu
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by wavegeek 9y ago
> the investors in the stock market seem to agree It's down several percent since the announcement in a rising market. More generally they have underperformed the SP500 over the past 2 years and AMD in particular is blowing them awa
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by wavegeek 9y ago
One big problem was the epic power consumption of the Itanic CPUs. I remember going to a corporate presentation by Intel about the revolutionary CPU architecture. They had to turn the machine off because the cooling fan was making so much n
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by wavegeek 9y ago
Hybrid vigor is much overstated. It only has value in cases of extreme inbreeding, such as where first cousin marriage is common or the society is very small.
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by wavegeek 9y ago
This reminds me of a man in the UK, or African ancestry, but who had never been to Africa (or to the US). Americans repeatedly insisted on calling him an "African American".
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by wavegeek 9y ago
Bad in the old days, IBM used to call this "BAD": Broken As Designed.
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by wavegeek 9y ago
What a load of rubbish. 1. The compare gun deaths. This includes suicides and excludes all other murders. So it is a totally biased metric. They even admit most gun deaths are suicides. 2. Ignore by far the most salient variables for predic
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by wavegeek 9y ago
https://i.imgur.com/aO6oWe7.png
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by wavegeek 9y ago
The liberal obsession with guns exists to avoid having to think about other factors involved in the US's high rates of crime and murder. Do a graph of legal gun ownership versus murder rate (comparing US states, or countries). No relat
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by wavegeek 9y ago
> Considering that racial difference in learning outcomes is due to socioeconomic status Citation required
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by wavegeek 9y ago
I would be interested to hear some examples of this. Not doubting you but this would be very enriching. One obvious example from my own life: Due to <issues> I needed to understand medical research in <area>. There is a huge opp
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by wavegeek 9y ago
Translate: >Toxicology: In 2012, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) 7 notes that while most foods have lead levels that have steadily decreased, among 734 food categories consumed in Europe and analyzed (145 000 analyzes in total)
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by wavegeek 9y ago
According to my endocrinologist, about 15% of women in most western countries are Iodine deficient, and about 10% of men. The difference is mostly because women tend to dislike seafood. In Australia the situation is a lot worse, she said, b
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by wavegeek 9y ago
> GDP per capital is a terrible measure of average wealth. Suggest you google "average" and "median".
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by wavegeek 9y ago
> we make up a measurement that validates that our "best" people -- like well educated, well heeled white males The only trouble with your theory is that IQ actually does a very good job of predicting how well members of variou
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by wavegeek 9y ago
I actually wonder if it really is a normal distribution. A lot of people think any distribution with spread is a "bell curve". In a lot of fields like this the tails are a lot fatter than they should be in a normal distribution. A
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by wavegeek 9y ago
You should also ask "how often, recently?". I did ask my surgeon and he answered. But he is pretty exceptional in a number of ways.
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by wavegeek 9y ago
> many are quick and even eager to think of others as stupid There is no hard data I could find but I would guess* that the average programmer probably has a higher IQ than 100. So if we define "stupid" as "not as smart as
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by wavegeek 9y ago
You are right in that it looks like the robots had a lower incidence of major complications but the P value was short of "statistical significance" (i.e. 0.05) so it was not considered proven. This is a long way from saying "
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by wavegeek 9y ago
Also worth noting that complications and major complications were apparently lower (20% lower with major complications) with the robots but the study did not get to the hurdle of statistical significance. N.B. for people who have no clue ab
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by wavegeek 9y ago
Figures I've seen show that things are worse for a while and then the robots are better, after a significant learning curve. The story acknowledges that this study was done early on so it will have been affected by the learning curve.
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by wavegeek 9y ago
> Download all the articles you want Problem 1: 5 hours round trip Problem 2: they only have about 2/3 of the papers I want. Problem 3: I save what I need and get home and start reading. Then there's another layer in the citati
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by wavegeek 9y ago
> I think I would have preferred an outage over leaking millions of american's private information. With full 100% hindsight vision, of course.
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by wavegeek 9y ago
> stupid I am not defending the totality of EFX's process by any means. I am just pointing out that "install every high severity patch right away" is not as easy as it looks. Others have pointed out this patch was not avai

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