mfworks

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by mfworks 9mo ago
They did in fact control for these factors. > Body mass index (BMI) was calculated from measured weight and height and categorized into 4 groups (<18.5, 18.5–24.9, 25–29.9, and ≥30 kg/m2). Hypertension was defined as systolic blo
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by mfworks 11mo ago
The most magical part of this transform is the search! First learned about this in a bioalgorithms course, and the really cool property is that for a string length l, you can search for the string in O(l) time. It has the same search time c
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by mfworks 2y ago
One of the most unambiguously good things Biden did during his term is appoint the actual most aggressive antitrust individual in the modern political environment to be head of the FTC, and a similar profile in Jonathan Kanter to the DOJ.
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by mfworks 2y ago
Mostly because In the 1980's the mergers guidelines at the FTC were dramatically narrowed explicitly to reduce antitrust enforcement and allow consolidation. It basically kicked off the wave of Corporate Raiders like Carl Icahn that do
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by mfworks 2y ago
PBS Spacetime has a fantastic video on the Higgs Field that explains it about one level deeper that typical pop science, and answers some of the questions I'm seeing in this thread, include "why did the field switch on suddenly?&q
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by mfworks 7y ago
I did 2 rounds (6 weeks) of BEP a few years back. I'd planned to do some technical reading while I was being treated. About 3 weeks in I was unable to really understand or learn any of it. It took about 4 months before I was full speed
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by mfworks 7y ago
Re: studies and reviews of brain impacts of pornography, I'm interested in the sources for the data referenced in this article.
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by mfworks 7y ago
In general, a good place to start is, "Working on tools or engines that other developers use to do really cool things." - Graphics engines like Unity - Cryptography - AI, ML, or predictive Analytics - Image Computing (either medic