bayesianhorse

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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
For some years I've been thinking about how to use modern machine learning and artificial intelligence in animal training. Most "automated" uses of animal training involve lab animals pressing some buttons, but it should be p
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
I'd say hyperthyroidism is difficult to overlook. At least I hope nobody is started on long term stimulant treatment without routinely checking simple blood parameters.
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
ADHD has severe consequences on children: less happiness, less self control, more aggressiveness, higher risk of substance abuse and in general much lower grades. Unless a new treatment can demonstrate that it can reduce these consequences
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
Today the population limiting factor for Humans seems to be women's education. No kidding, this seems to be the number one factor in birth-rates. The more education women are getting the less babies are born. And I am generally in favo
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
I don't believe they do, because the death rates just aren't that high. Population-limiting factors for Humans have historically been mostly food supply and childhood diseases. I've heard that Malaria wasn't so much of a
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
How is a doctor supposed to diagnose a Virus like Zika without advanced lab tests? The symptoms are non-specific and often non-obvious. In fact, I doubt Zika virus was regularly tested for.
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
I'd exclude breast cancer because it's detectable with non-medical means before it becomes fatal. I also wasn't speaking so much about medical incidence statistics, but more about perceptions.
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
I sometimes wonder how much of "we never heard of x/y/z disease 10-15 years ago" is due to less frequent testing.
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
Asking people to delay pregnancies will reduce some of the burden. I don't think the mosquito-killing gene editing technology is ready for deployment yet...
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
If you love what you do, you'll never work an hour in your life. So maybe academics shouldn't work at all, since the compensation isn't worth doing something you don't love ;-)
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
It's not exactly a new approach, but it may finally get off the ground...
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
One point of MOOCs is that they are not text books. That does not mean text books are bad or that MOOCs are all you'll ever want. Some MOOCs create video content totally "from scratch", but usually they build on the lecturers
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
I would not subscribe to the statement about what "the evolution says". Evolution does not produce the "best" individuals, it just drives population towards a local maximum in their particular environment, from their par
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
There is no cancer which affects "the old" predominantly. The chances stay pretty much the same (with some exceptions). Also, at some age beyond 60, cancer stops being the main medical cause of death, being replaced by infections.
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
Multicellular organisms have to control the replication and renewal of their cells constantly. In a simplified view, cancer is a loss of that control.
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
I'd also like to recommend the novel series "The Expanse". While not entirely accurate, at least the start of the series deals with a lot of the near-future limits in space travel: lack of gravity and the consequences thereof
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
Well, preventing Cancer has been a priority for evolution since the first multicellular organisms arose. It's just not that easy. Developing a drug is an economically difficult thing: Spend billions for the chance to win billions. The
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
The obvious solution is probably the best: Use an asynchronous framework (like node.js or asyncio) for the REST interface and wait for the completion of the task to return a response. That process wouldn't handle all the details of the
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
He would have, wouldn't he?
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
"Fear of starvation", not "fear of immediate starvation"... And I did not say this is the only problem with poverty.
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
It depends on the living standards... $1.9 doesn't afford you a comfortable life anywhere, but in the developing world, it's enough to not fear starvation. And that fear is a big part of being "extremely poor".
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
The interaction of AI and manual cars will depend on the general discipline of the drivers. There are countries in the world where according to rumours the traffic rules are somewhat open to interpretation...
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
Slightly pessimistic. Also, in 1911 knowledge about what works and doesn't work was a lot more limited. The safeguards modern democracies employ now are far superior. At the very least the control of information doesn't work as we
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
Not necessarily. In U.S. politics the most important persons are always figure heads. Their prominence hides democratic and not so democratic mechanisms behind decision making or electing these figure heads. The more troubling thing about t
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
Luckily IS/ISIS doesn't show any signs of becoming a functioning state. Their income is big for a "terrorist" organization, but small for a state. And with the kind of international "attention" it's gettin
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
Nobody ever said that the invasion of Iraq was to stop a genocide. In my opinion it was mainly revenge for 9/11, even if the association of Saddam Hussein with terrorism is murky at best.
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
Not stopping genocide is morally questionable too. And that's what Assad and IS have been doing.
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
Mono-culturalism has failed for never having existed in the first place!
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
A lot of that going around lately...
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
It doesn't say anywhere that a public defender has to be effective.

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