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by brianchu 6y ago
I have the opposite assumption: the raw data is usually more reliable than an editorial. And I confirmed it: the raw table is more reliable since it is the same survey across different years. The article is inconsistently comparing numbers
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by brianchu 6y ago
Also the domain was registered 3 days ago (August 6th). An earlier version, doctorseb.com (which redirects to the website) was registered July 20th.
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by brianchu 6y ago
Your example is hogswash. Absolutely, the perceived long term value dropped 30% as people feared a million deaths (with lockdown) and dead bodies piling up outside hospitals across the country (with lockdown, and not just New York City). Th
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by brianchu 6y ago
Some models were predicting multiple hundreds of thousands of deaths, with lockdown. The Imperial College model was predicting 1 million deaths, with lockdown. I completely agree cases will rise as places begin reopening. But whatever the o
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by brianchu 6y ago
The explanation is very simple. The pandemic is not nearly as bad as people thought it would be in March. Models were predicting hundreds of thousands of deaths in the USA over the next few months, with lockdown. Many people were predic
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by brianchu 6y ago
The WHO is no longer a trustworthy source. But this is still (mostly) correct, and it's not that hard to dive into the studies directly instead of appealing to authorities. All indications are that it is possible for SARS-Cov-2 to be
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by brianchu 6y ago
With the disclaimer that I'm only using Google Translate, it appears this document is from one hospital and is not a requirement, merely a guideline / informational document.
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by brianchu 6y ago
You can view Swedish ICU admissions data yourself here: https://www.icuregswe.org/en/data--results/covid-19-in-swedi... . New admissions to the ICU due to Covid-19 appear to be flat or possibly even declining.
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by brianchu 7y ago
Yep. Obviously this is anecdotal and limited to my own social circles, but I live in the Bay Area, and almost everyone (90%+) I know in San Francisco does not own a car. The ones that do own cars only use them if they need to get out of t
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by brianchu 7y ago
Shorting a stock is not a basic feature, it's an advanced feature for power users. You can buy put options on Robinhood already.
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by brianchu 7y ago
They are not sealed from the ambient air (not usually), which is what this study is saying is where the bacteria comes from. Regardless of what common sense might say, the point is that the study didn't actually do a direct comparison.
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by brianchu 7y ago
An interesting study, but I wouldn't read too much into it. Who's to say that paper towels don't collect and deposit just as much bacteria onto your hands?
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by brianchu 7y ago
I'm coming to the view that gig workers are neither employees nor independent contractors. Employees don't get to unilaterally set their own hours, and contractors don't get prices unilaterally dictated to them or barred fr
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by brianchu 7y ago
This is really interesting and thought-provoking, but I'm skeptical. 1. In my experience, each data source and each data format requires a lot of custom work. Each kind of prediction task requires additional custom work. I don't s
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by brianchu 8y ago
The interesting thing about the $3000 "upgrade" is that if you actually want to get it, I think you're better off taking the $3000 and investing it in Tesla. Assuming autonomy is make or break for Tesla in the long term: if
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Coinbase Says It Was Wrong About SEC Approval of Acquisitions(bloomberg.com)
2 points by brianchu 8y ago|0 comments
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The Vanity Fair 'Brotopia' party was way worse than it sounds(medium.com)
27 points by brianchu 9y ago|9 comments
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by brianchu 9y ago
Right, but after 3-4 months of full time use (and it's not hard to use these full-time, since models can take days to train), you've spent more than if you just bought one outright.
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by brianchu 9y ago
1. I wouldn't take much away from the LSTM benchmark. It's more a benchmark of Keras since Keras only supports CuDNN's LSTM via Tensorflow right now. AFAIK CNTK does supports CuDNN LSTM but not through Keras. Keras actually i
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Earth to exoplanet: Hunting for planets with machine learning(blog.google)
1 points by brianchu 9y ago|0 comments
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by brianchu 9y ago
When possible, most DL frameworks take advantage of Nvidia's specialized CuDNN libraries, which often provide a 10x+ speedup (and are obviously not available via WebGL). So at least on the latest Nvidia cards, you will likely see a 10x
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by brianchu 9y ago
Cardiogram | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE: FULLTIME Our mission is to reinvent preventive medicine using consumer wearables. Our goal is for Cardiogram to be a “doctor” on your wrist that continuously screens your health based on your exercis
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Palmer Luckey’s new company Anduril interested in AR and VR on the battlefield(techcrunch.com)
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by brianchu 9y ago
I believe the pressure requirements were increased to combat the prevalence of this move. Watching Olympic fencing you don't see that many flicks anymore.
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by brianchu 9y ago
This article is not that detailed, but it's a sentiment I agree with, so I'll add one major shortcoming of Tensorflow: its memory usage is really bad. The default behavior of TF is to allocate as much GPU memory as possible for
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Activehours raises $39M for its new take on cash advances(techcrunch.com)
2 points by brianchu 9y ago|0 comments
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Zenefits' controversial former CEO gets $7M for new startup(cnbc.com)
3 points by brianchu 9y ago|0 comments
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Zenefits founder Parker Conrad takes another crack at HR onboarding(techcrunch.com)
1 points by brianchu 10y ago|0 comments
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Uber will apply for a self-driving test permit in California(techcrunch.com)
1 points by brianchu 10y ago|0 comments
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When Evidence Says No, but Doctors Say Yes(propublica.org)
3 points by brianchu 10y ago|0 comments

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