XFrequentist

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by XFrequentist 3y ago
This display with regularly-rotating high-quality pencil art could be a neat business. The comparison to wall art makes the hardware price look more reasonable, and you could offer a subscription to curated pieces or a network of artists&#x
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by XFrequentist 4y ago
Agree that it's a poor headline and that the fructose/Alzheimer's hypothesis is quite speculative, but I don't think calling it a "junk study" or gesturing at evidence hierarchies is particularly helpful. Theor
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by XFrequentist 4y ago
HIT is not HIIT, it's a completely different thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-intensity_training I'm specifically advocating for HIT resistance training, 1x/wk, as a highly efficient method to g
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by XFrequentist 4y ago
YMMV, but I recommend more people try High Intensity Training (HIT). HIT explicitly contradicts several of the (well-supported) claims in the article, but I've personally found it effective, and I think there's a good case that it
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by XFrequentist 4y ago
> haven’t otherwise been studied in large enough populations to understand the ramifications of long-term glucose deficits in the human body How's the "long-term glucose surplus" control group doing? (Kind of kidding, but
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by XFrequentist 4y ago
Wonder if you could use this for regular notes and do something interesting with a method of loci https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci )
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by XFrequentist 4y ago
Huh? COVID-19 is caused by SARS-COV-2, which was entirely unknown at the outset. In contrast there are about 2k Monkeypox cases per year, still lots of unknowns but pandemic potential is near nil IMO.
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by XFrequentist 5y ago
This was a while ago, but IIRC there were some fairly major software-reliability rough edges (frequent crashing/bugs/etc). Beyond that the major shortcoming was that it was constrained to pdf's only, and that's only one
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by XFrequentist 5y ago
https://getpolarized.io/ seems like it's in the same space - it's a product I wanted to love, but was a bit clunky to use and didn't end up sticking in my workflow.
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by XFrequentist 5y ago
A choose-your-own-adventure format would be an interesting layer, since you could embed recall/understanding checks at each decision point.
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by XFrequentist 5y ago
I think this event qualifies as “well documented” by any reasonable standard, there was official public disclosure and an open investigation. As one quick example, here’s a news clip including an interview with the Taiwanese health minister
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by XFrequentist 5y ago
You’re missing something. The author is saying that there was a lab leak involving delta , not that delta originated via a lab leak . The latter claim would indeed be a red flag, but the former is just describing a very well-documented ev
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by XFrequentist 5y ago
I'm a native English speaker, but I'd love something like this for French, Spanish, or Mandarin! Any good products you're aware of?
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by XFrequentist 5y ago
IMO this is the best interpretation.
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by XFrequentist 6y ago
What other explanation is there for more than 100% of GME stock being sold short (genuine question)?
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by XFrequentist 6y ago
Like this? https://www.rationaleonline.com/
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by XFrequentist 6y ago
Very interesting observation, my own experience with GJP, metaculous, and other betting fora agree with this. I wonder if an HN-like forum with prediction at its core would have legs? I always found the best comments in prediction tournam
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by XFrequentist 6y ago
These folks used a synthetic control to do the exact quasi experiment you described: https://www.iza.org/publications/dp/13319/face-masks-conside...
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by XFrequentist 6y ago
I think it would be valuable, I've actually had this idea (but not the competence/bandwidth to actually build it, alas). It could become a platform for courses built around SRS, or learning materials like Michael Nielsen's mn
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by XFrequentist 6y ago
Epidemiologist here: you're right. Testing resources are in short supply, so testing is being performed to guide clinical decisions (ie sick people) rather than public health/science (ie random sample). The handful of serosurveys
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by XFrequentist 7y ago
As was I, terrible title.
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by XFrequentist 8y ago
Canada's CDC (Public Health Agency of Canada, my current employer) is looking for something along these lines: https://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/101.nsf/eng/00029.html
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by XFrequentist 8y ago
>I read a bit I liked a while back about early feminism... Link (and second recommendation) for the curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tyranny_of_Structurelessne...
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by XFrequentist 9y ago
It's a noble plan, but have you considered the harm you could do to scientific progress - if such a plot were discovered, the negative publicity could set back gene drive science by decades. The potential benefits of gene drives are so
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by XFrequentist 9y ago
That's... rather poor behaviour on your part, no?
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by XFrequentist 9y ago
Great comment, I'm curious about all this too. I'd be interested in more precise data than my own vague n = 1 impressions! I actually spent a fair bit of time delivering VO2 max tests to athletes (in a previous life as an exercise
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by XFrequentist 9y ago
Fair to say the study results themselves (as opposed to the authors' assertion quoted in the gp) don't really pertain to the health effect of low carb/keto, at all (ie null rather than evidence for or against)?
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by XFrequentist 9y ago
Anecdatum, but I play competitive basketball on a very low carbohydrate diet (<20g/day), and feel just fine, so necessary seems necessarily false. The missing concept (in the brief quote in your comment) might be "fat adaptat
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by XFrequentist 9y ago
Definitely not "proven" to be dangerous, in fact evidence is more compatible with (low dose) nicotine being quite safe. Best summary I'm aware of (note the many caveats): https://www.gwern.net/Nicotine
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by XFrequentist 9y ago
Ah cool! TIL

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