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by willj 6y ago
Can you give us more reason as to why you're 100% sure the paper was not accessed? You don't need to tell us where it is/was, but your extreme certainty in that fact seems greater than the certainty I have about almost anythi
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by willj 6y ago
This whole "the winter was cold, global warming must be a lie!" nonsense has been around for longer than I've been alive, and I think it's a consequence of outright distrust of the scientific establishment. Don't yo
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by willj 6y ago
Right. I phrased it a bit differently below. By “we can’t say” I meant that the study/researchers aren’t able to claim that the vaccine has non-zero effectiveness, i.e., they haven’t rejected the null.
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by willj 6y ago
You’re right, semantics are everything. I left implicit the “in this study” part. As always, failing to reject the null doesn’t mean the null is true :)
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by willj 6y ago
I would assume the very wide CI mentioned above means that, since it includes 0, we can’t say there is a statistically significant effectiveness (it is not significantly different from 0% effectiveness).
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by willj 6y ago
I think the lack of an edit button is helpful on a couple fronts: - it makes authors think more before posting; if there are typos, or it isn’t exactly what they want to say, and it gains traction, they can’t fix it, so they work to make it
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by willj 6y ago
Is there a way to do this in SQL? I don’t think there’s a way to deal with low-level data structures like that within SQL, especially since SQL, as a declarative language, is meant to hide these details. I think what makes this article inte
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by willj 6y ago
I’m not a specialist in the biology domain, but more generally, for some models 66% accuracy is amazing. For example, a model predicting the next word with 66% accuracy.
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by willj 6y ago
I don’t think we can assume the errors are normally distributed. It’s possible researchers are biased in a particular “direction”, away from 0 on all dimensions of this problem.
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by willj 6y ago
What about your arms? Wouldn’t they get tired from always having your arms above your head/heart?
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by willj 6y ago
Disbarring is really not that common [1][2]. [1] "Disbarment is quite rare: in 2011, only 1,046 lawyers were disbarred." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disbarment [2] https://www.rocketlawyer.com&#x
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by willj 6y ago
Hmm... it seems like this would be a good thing for undergrads to do in a class setting or an internship. It would give them experience writing an actual paper, albeit with null results.
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by willj 6y ago
That assumes that the effort can all be recorded. It is more likely that a lot of the extra time goes into answering student questions in an online forum and adjusting content on the fly based on students’ interests and/or confusion.
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by willj 6y ago
> Maybe one third of internal apps developed in the last years don’t work at all outside of Chrome, the page remains blank or has broken widgets all over the place. Does this statistic match what others have seen? If so, that’s staggerin
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Ask HN: How do you organize your data science project files?
3 points by willj 6y ago|0 comments
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by willj 6y ago
Where is this? Depending on where, tenant laws may prevent your immediate eviction if you continue to pay your rent, even after the lease expires.
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by willj 6y ago
And in fact, by the Rule of Threes [1], depending on where you are, housing is more important than food and water. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_threes_(survival)
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by willj 6y ago
30s is so young, though! If you don’t have kids, the world is still wide open to you!
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by willj 6y ago
> If the devil offered them $10 cash on condition that the world is swallowed in flames in 100 years, what's to stop them? Umm... just knowing and doing what’s right? Is having children the only thing stopping you from doing that so
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by willj 6y ago
Go read /r/childfree. Plenty of people are happy living childless. I know some myself. Children might add purpose to some people’s lives, and might add unhappiness to others. We all go our own way.
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by willj 6y ago
> This order is like saying anyone who is drives (at any speed) is automatically exceeding the speed limit. Not at all. This order is like saying “unless you have a driver’s license, you’re not allowed to drive.” > There's nothin
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by willj 6y ago
That makes a whole lot of sense, I didn’t think about the “noisiness”/imperfection of the labels. That’s a great point. Thanks!
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Ask HN: What Is the Point of Snorkel?
2 points by willj 6y ago|2 comments
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by willj 7y ago
This study [1] says it can last on surfaces for 2-3 days. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.09.20033217v...
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by willj 7y ago
Maybe I misinterpreted what you meant. Your quote from the CDC said that the virus has poor survivability on surfaces, but the study I linked concluded it can survive for 2-3 days.
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by willj 7y ago
Not sure why I can’t reply to the commenter below. Anyway, here’s a link backing up the parent’s claim, contrary to whatever CDC is saying: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.09.20033217v...
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by willj 7y ago
Do you know if it’s because they’re testing more?
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by willj 7y ago
There’s no such thing as an objective standard. Professors change, course materials change, and as with here, circumstances can be different. That’s why we use a curve.
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by willj 7y ago
Can you expand on this? If you’re monitoring for data drift and retraining every so often after deployment (not just “set it and forget it”), what are the problems that can happen?
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by willj 7y ago
It’s not just an energy issue. The abundance of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere contributes to ocean acidification.

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