jrfinkel

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by jrfinkel 6y ago
(Author here.) I completely agree on the cognitive dissonance of whether lockdown was the right move. I don’t even think it’s just politicians, but also people. Everyone has invested so much in it, that the idea that it actually caused net
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Covid: Overlooked research which tells a different story(medium.com)
12 points by jrfinkel 6y ago|3 comments
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by jrfinkel 6y ago
You must not be trying very hard. Open the report and zoom in on the graph if you want better resolution. Its pretty clear that the red bars are deaths, the blue bars are cases, and the grey curve is the R0 (range).
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by jrfinkel 6y ago
How is it anti-science when they are literally quoting a report from the Norwegian public health authority: ‘It looks as if the effective reproduction rate had already dropped to around 1.1 when the most comprehensive measures were implemen
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by jrfinkel 6y ago
I don’t think anyone is claiming that it suppressed and contained itself. They’re claiming it’s more widespread and more mild. There’s a good graphic in the economist article showing two different peaks that look the same early on.
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by jrfinkel 6y ago
One of the study authors addressed this on Twitter. It’s certainly not hard proof, but 8 million extra cases would be a whole lot of hypochondriacs. Thread is short and worth a read. https://mobile.twitter.com/inschool4life&
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by jrfinkel 6y ago
I don’t think it’s that simple about the tests. They’re less accurate than people think. Here’s one article about it (if you google you can find more): https://www.wsj.com/articles/questions-about-accuracy-of-cor... Al
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by jrfinkel 6y ago
Here’s a preprint of the actual paper: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.01.20050542v...
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Covid may be far more widespread than we thought(economist.com)
49 points by jrfinkel 6y ago|34 comments
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by jrfinkel 7y ago
"It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission" is actually a Grace Hopper quote, so not Silicon Valley. Depending on the circumstances, it can be good advice. And "move fast and break things" was abou
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by jrfinkel 8y ago
"Some will abuse this." LOL, yeah I'm gonna deal with 9 months of pregnancy, and then several months of recovery, and then raise a kid for 18+ years just so I can get that sweet, sweet leave. Do people not realize that leave
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by jrfinkel 13y ago
Glad you're liking it! I'm one of the backend engineers who designed the system. We devoted a good chunk of time this year to improving our relevance algorithms, and I actually gave a talk on exactly this at Strangeloop in Septemb
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by jrfinkel 14y ago
If you want an invite, this link will work for about 16 more hours: http://getprismatic.com/inviteportal?ref=jrfinkel
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by jrfinkel 14y ago
Merging is pretty simple, and could probably use a little more TLC. The way we do it is that when we get a new document in the system, if the similarity score is above some threshold for documents in two different clusters we will consider
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by jrfinkel 14y ago
1. We do ingest multiple documents in parallel, but we also have a system in place for merging clusters, so it ends up not being a problem. 2. Pure hackery. Tweak, look at data, repeat.
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by jrfinkel 14y ago
Sometimes they're just rewrites of a press release - and those ones are easy to get right - but a lot of the time they really are totally different articles about the same event. Go back and look at the three sets of example clusters and yo
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by jrfinkel 14y ago
It's an in-house system similar to the one i built in grad school ( http://nlp.stanford.edu/ner/index.shtml ).
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by jrfinkel 14y ago
We actually do weight them differently, but the post was already pretty long so I had to gloss over some of the details.