jogundas

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by jogundas 4y ago
This is about a robot that moves around in a curved space by merely changing its shape. Very cool.
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by jogundas 5y ago
What a cliffhanger -- what did you end up doing? Not sweeping the streets presumably?
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Scientists warn of new Covid variant with high number of mutations(theguardian.com)
14 points by jogundas 5y ago|3 comments
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by jogundas 5y ago
A nice example of overfitting! However, it is hard to imagine an actual application of the process. If I understand it correctly, the author suggests using a set of micro-models for annotating a dataset which is then used to train another m
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by jogundas 5y ago
TL;DR mutations happen. The key paragraph is the following: "We are seeing some mutation coming up in some samples that could possibly evade immune responses," said Shahid Jameel, chair of the scientific advisory group of INSACOG
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by jogundas 5y ago
Both @makomk and @enkid seem to be right [0]. [0] https://www.cochrane.org/CD001269/ARI_vaccines-prevent-influ...
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by jogundas 6y ago
Your point [1] argues that the USSR collapsed due to internal reasons only. I believe that it is an oversimplification. Cooperation with totalitarian states often prolong their existence. An example that comes to mind is the US subsidizing
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by jogundas 6y ago
Sounds very interesting! Could you direct the interested to your favorite review article or another starting point?
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by jogundas 6y ago
Thanks for sharing! Is there a reason why borg is excluded from the comparison?
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by jogundas 6y ago
You might want to be aware that Yandex is a Russian company before moving all your photos there.
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by jogundas 6y ago
This discovery is definitively cool, but not close to the phosphine-on-Venus cool. The present paper is similar to the former finding in the sense that what looked like a natural explanation (a p-wave order parameter) seems to have been rul
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by jogundas 6y ago
Wiki says that "Hydroxychloroquine is being studied to prevent and treat coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‑19), but all clinical trials conducted during 2020 found it is ineffective and may cause dangerous side effects." https:&#x2
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by jogundas 6y ago
Is there something better?
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by jogundas 6y ago
Your comment reads like a quote from Rick&Morty!
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by jogundas 6y ago
The recent JAMA only says that Vitamin D does not help with depression. On the other hand, it seems to be useful in preventing respiratory infections, see the following for a review of randomized studies https://doi.org/10.1
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by jogundas 6y ago
Tried it out on a face in Google Photos. Google Photos IDed the "fawked" face without a problem.
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by jogundas 6y ago
My favorite longshot in that direction is lifting carefully-shaped slobs of stone [0] up and down. [0] https://omegataupodcast.net/299-gravity-storage/
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by jogundas 6y ago
I fully agree that treatment should be prescribed by a human doctor who can explain and answer questions. However, I would not agree that each of the data inputs to the treatment decision should be generated manually. That is already not th
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by jogundas 6y ago
Excellent point. That is what the lengthy prospective study phase as well as periodic auditing after deployment are for. Please also note that there are several important differences as compared to the automotive industry. First, one could
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by jogundas 6y ago
Full disclosure: I am a cofounder at a startup automating chest X-ray reporting. It is true that ML algorithms are almost always trained on radiologist labels on the same modality, and thus take in the reader biases. I also agree that some
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by jogundas 6y ago
From what I understand, NIST has been running a live "competition" on faces of 9 million people for some time already [0]. They are trying to evaluate racial biases in particular [1]. Was there a reason why you decided to not rely
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by jogundas 6y ago
For these B2B applications, it is important to have your potential customers in your network. One can argue that achieving such a network is easier in the US, where most of the potential customers presumably are.
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by jogundas 6y ago
It seems that the mosquito effort was not a success after all [0]. [0] https://m.dw.com/en/genetically-modified-mosquitoes-breed-in...
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by jogundas 6y ago
It seems that the market is big enough to allow unicorns making "plugins" like https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotic_process_automation to emerge.
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by jogundas 6y ago
On the subject of Mongols, I highly recommend the popular lectures by Dan Carlin https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-wrath-of-... . Very entertaining, but also historically accurate and balanced.
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by jogundas 6y ago
It seems that a court has ordered Amazon to deliver only essential products [0], and Amazon's reaction is to suspend all deliveries. They write in their other tweets [1] that the decision is based on (i) the fine of €1M per infraction
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by jogundas 6y ago
Since the other commentor has already tried to address the benefits, I would like to point out that the costs are far from infinite: eg, NASA budget is 0.5% of total US budget (not GDP!). That is arguably a good investment, even if the only
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by jogundas 6y ago
The article quotes him as saying "I did Google reverse image search for their profile photos". I am in Europe and Google reverse image search for faces of people certainly does not work. Is that a recent change? Is that local to E
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by jogundas 6y ago
Is that a SOCKS proxy, or just a HTTP proxy? The github readme does not make that clear.
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by jogundas 7y ago
Surprised to see so few innovations for the sweaty back problem. Are the "trampoline" and plastic with holes really the only solutions in this space?

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