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by wildmanx 5y ago
Irony. A linked article describing a scientist trying to rigorously find out how weight changes and energy expenditure and diet are connected, revealing the little we do know and the vast sea of what we do not know. The discussion here: ful
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by wildmanx 5y ago
This has about as much to do with "music" as analyzing grammar when talking about poetry. Musical notation, and lots of "rules" that come with it, came after the fact. Just like with natural language. And just like stari
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by wildmanx 5y ago
Not really "human". Doing no-carry addition is much easier for a machine to do as well, as that's basically what XOR does, i.e., SIMD. Carry introduces dependencies between the digits, potentially as long as the whole string
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by wildmanx 5y ago
I don't know where you live, but 98% correct is not what would happen around here. Edit: Oh, 98% _with_ a calculator. What if you force them to do it by hand?
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by wildmanx 5y ago
I'd like to see doing this with random people on the street and then compare performance. You may be surprised.
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by wildmanx 5y ago
I've wondered about this many times -- your conversion is a one-way street, right? Let's say you have your source material in MD stored in Git, convert it to docx and send it to your client. They use Word to make annotations and r
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by wildmanx 5y ago
> They were certainly not a new hire (they'd been at the company 7 years - if anything I was the new hire!), but I generally agree. That tends to make it harder. I've experienced quite a few people more "senior" than
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by wildmanx 5y ago
It was a formal proof, but one based on a false assumption, namely that x+y for two ints x and y is an int and a well-defined operation. It's not. The trust in the significance of a proof is limited by the trust in the statement to be
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by wildmanx 5y ago
SIMD is "single instruction, multiple data". In this case, the data are single bits. It's basically operations on bit-vectors of width 32 (or whatever the machine word width is). All the bits are treated independently. That&#
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by wildmanx 5y ago
But it has lots of assumptions/prerequisites about taking the mean baked-in. It happens to work for this particular case, but in general you don't get far with such hand-wavy reasoning since you just get confused with which assump
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by wildmanx 5y ago
Thanks for this explanation. What sets this post apart from the rest is that it actually provides useful information for everybody, after all those other posts of type "but that's obvious, I looked at it for 1 minute, saw half the
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by wildmanx 5y ago
> and is obvious to me in hindsight. Everything is. That's kinda hindsight's thing. Not so say that a few people in this thread probably saw this solution right away, but the "this was all obvious" crowd in this threa
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by wildmanx 5y ago
2 of the top-10 entries feature balls in their headings. Didn't age well.
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by wildmanx 5y ago
Eternal population growth is not a necessity for advancing civilization.
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by wildmanx 5y ago
> Didn't you notice that multiplying and expanding is the quality of all life, as a phenomenon? That's just what species are selected for. If you have two competing populations and one multiplies and expands just slightly bette
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by wildmanx 5y ago
> Geez, from your words patients are simply all permanently dumb as bricks and unable to ever learn, where as MDs always know more than patients, despite having never ever done any actual research in their entire training and subsequent
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by wildmanx 5y ago
> I don't know a single person with a significant chronic condition in the US who would say the health system and all their physicians are amazing and great. Usually you hear the exact opposite. > However, stories about that gem
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by wildmanx 5y ago
The English language has a serious deficiency in the term "research". You can do "research" by spending your days in a lab, formulating hypotheses, doing experiments, reading related academic work, drawing conclusions, p
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by wildmanx 5y ago
And a prime recipe for antibiotic resistance to develop. If an MD prescribed antibiotics for that long a continuous time period, they should lose their license.
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by wildmanx 5y ago
No, thank you. I've learned what science is. It's pretty cool, you should look it up.
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by wildmanx 5y ago
Oh the law firms doing all those class actions are not doing this for free either..
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by wildmanx 5y ago
You are welcome to be skeptical. But in the meantime, don't cause me to not be able to get a potentially life-saving drug. You may think it's a money grab or not tested enough or a conspiracy or a conflict of interest. Fine, don&#
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by wildmanx 5y ago
You're mixing up a few things here. Every drug has a list of side effects. They are known, that's what your doctor tells you, and then you make an informed decision whether you want to take the drug or not. It's not Medical D
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by wildmanx 5y ago
The article we are discussing here. You read it, right? (And the article got that number from the FDA.)
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by wildmanx 5y ago
I'm all for being critical. I'd find it terrible if side effects are just ignored. I wouldn't take any vaccines if that's the case. But in this case, the facts are on the table. There is no scientific basis in pulling th
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by wildmanx 5y ago
> It wasn't "very rare" and the side effect was that it literally gave people lym disease. Again, 59 of 1.4 million. I call that "very rare". About half a million Americans get Lyme from ticks, every year. You do
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by wildmanx 5y ago
What shocks me most with this story is that there is a vaccine (Lymerix), and it's pretty effective (76-92 percent after three injections) but apparently some anti-vax propaganda and a class-action lawsuit essentially removed it from
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by wildmanx 5y ago
"If we never ran out of thrust, we could hypothetically reach anywhere in the Universe that a photon emitted today could reach." versus "I am a Ph.D. astrophysicist" I'm confused. In other words: How is he planning
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by wildmanx 5y ago
"Not mainstream" is key here. Once those become mainstream, they get shut down by the provider of the original service. The original provider wants to make money off this, so they use the UI to provide you with ads and a bunch of
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by wildmanx 5y ago
Um, I didn't believe any single of those.

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