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by wrp 3y ago
TFA is a caution against accepting the results of a meta-analysis in a field where the typical research quality is low, because you can't realistically correct for all the underlying problems. I personally think you should be skeptical
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by wrp 3y ago
Focus on some problem in a popular open source project. Practically any large project will have longstanding bugs/deficiencies.
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by wrp 3y ago
I don't know to what extent it explains the birth rate, but I can testify to the difference in public mood. I got around rural Red areas in 2020 and people in general seemed to be completely ignoring the pandemic. In fact, a lot of fol
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by wrp 3y ago
It would be helpful here to have an explanation of how this story fits with the actual increase of immigration since Brexit.
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by wrp 3y ago
Context: Tattoos in Japan are strongly associated with Yakuza membership. Men with tattoos are often banned from public facilities such as bath houses. I could see this policy change as a way to help youths get away from gang life, but ther
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by wrp 3y ago
Matlab has Simulink, but I don't think there is anything equivalent for Octave. However, Scilab has Xcos. In general, if you don't need total compatibility with Matlab, you should take a look at Scilab, because it is much more pol
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by wrp 3y ago
> ...the post-war narrative of a hapless well-meaning buffoon... It was clear from the start that the Emperor's involvement was being whitewashed. The Australian judge at the Tokyo trials, William Webb, argued publicly that Hirohito
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by wrp 3y ago
This needs explanation. If there is such an extreme shortage of talent, why can't doctors demand better terms, e.g. shorter hours?
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by wrp 3y ago
I get how low wages could cause personnel shortages, but how does the tremendously rising cost of medical come out of this? I would expect the causation to be rising costs => stalled wages => personnel shortages.
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by wrp 3y ago
What is a nutshell explanation of how healthcare got to the overall shortage state? (For the USA, but curious about other countries.) In the past 20 years, costs have shot up, doctors are seeing many more patients, and quality of care seems
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by wrp 3y ago
Just adding...I haven't thought about these devices for a long time, but now looking at the things that are available, I realize I wouldn't even want one now. Notebook computers have become so light that it's not a hassle to
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by wrp 3y ago
The market is too small. I had a HP Jornada 720, and it dramatically changed how I worked. I followed the several later projects that tried to continue with small size, touch-typeable keyboard, and desktop compatible OS, but they all fizzle
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by wrp 3y ago
I assume there are enough potential customers willing to pay the cost and agree to whatever liability waivers for some company to eventually offer a non-lobotomized equivalent to GPT-4. Where should we be watching for that to happen?
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by wrp 3y ago
When I eat in a restaurant, I want to be left in peace, so I prefer the Japanese restaurant experience. But I know I'm not the rule in America, maybe not even in the majority. If you watch American diners, it's clear that many enj
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by wrp 3y ago
I lived in Tokyo and it was years ago, so I don't know if I'm describing the current situation. It was very common to see largish buildings in residential areas which would have some barely functioning retail shop on the ground fl
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by wrp 3y ago
Besides being politicized, views on this issue will also be affected by personal experience. I've lived much of my life in Oregon, where there is no fluoridation. It seems to be widely believed by dentists here that people growing up i
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by wrp 3y ago
So, was Snowden a visibly active protester against government surveillance before getting the job? If so, did the government fail to notice or did they notice and not care? How extreme should such activity be before it become a "real r
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by wrp 3y ago
I didn't follow the Snowden story because I don't have the background to evaluate the claims, but there is something I recall that hasn't been discussed yet. Snowden was apparently fairly active as a protester against governm
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by wrp 3y ago
Although fuzzy logic was developed by Lotfi Zadeh in the USA, it never gained the level of interest and respectability here that it did in Japan and Eastern Europe. I remember American engineers saying that fuzzy techniques were things they
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by wrp 3y ago
To clarify your point, we need to distinguish between pruning dimensions and projecting onto a k < N set of new orthogonal dimensions. The name of PCA does make it sound like you are selecting dimensions.
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by wrp 3y ago
Rural living can be noisier than the suburbs. It depends on density, agriculture type, presence of commercial activity, etc. Where noise ordinances exist, they are generally more lenient outside city limits. In the USA, getting action again
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by wrp 3y ago
> ...the insects seemed to be deterred by another chemical called eucalyptol... Perhaps they are deterred by a class of similar compounds. Avon Skin So Soft bath oil has been shown to be effective and contains "picaridin...a synthet
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by wrp 3y ago
Hollywood has always used makeup to age actors to have them play older versions of their characters, and even with modern techniques an "aged" actor looks creepy compared to a genuine old person. That doesn't seem to have inh
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by wrp 3y ago
Operation Antarctica ( https://www.amazon.com/Operation-Antarctica-William-Meikle/d... )
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by wrp 3y ago
Stories like this always bring to mind the question, "What if it turns out that the aliens really care about patent infringement?"
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by wrp 3y ago
Living in Tokyo, I found the most constantly intrusive noise to be the deliberate noise-makers at stations and crossings. Less frequent but even more annoying because they intruded into areas supposed to be quieter were the PA systems mount
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by wrp 3y ago
The article misses one of if not the main factor in Japan's rapid industrialization. Tokugawa Japan was a police state and over the centuries society had become extremely regimented. At the beginning of the Meiji era, Japan's so
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by wrp 3y ago
Looking at this briefly, it appears that three aerospace scientists have been charged with treasonous activity for having participated in international scientific conferences and journals. This kind of erratic overreaction by the security a
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by wrp 3y ago
It's been a few decades since I lived out in the boonies, so I don't know how things have improved. It used to be there was cell coverage only near the main roads and cable limited similarly. I could get a couple FM stations where
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by wrp 3y ago
I live in a hilly region where you can be in a radio shadow just 5 miles outside town. For local information, nothing else is as reliable as AM radio. While you may not usually be interested in nonprofit/religious/talk radio, they

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