nshepperd

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by nshepperd 3y ago
I can't think of any reason why they would do that other than specifically to prevent looping.
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by nshepperd 3y ago
> The DIY community and industry are not in opposition, says Lewis. I would really like to believe that, but given how Medtronic and every CGM I have used have seemingly intentionally sabotaged open source loop compatibility with every n
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by nshepperd 3y ago
I have an AndroidAPS. This is how it works. If the phone loses contact for any reason the device just falls back to delivering insulin at a fixed rate as normal.
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by nshepperd 4y ago
> put a spotlight on the big pharmaceutical companies that had brought them to market — especially Pfizer and Moderna Moderna? The research startup that had only recently IPO'd and didn't have a single commercial product before
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by nshepperd 4y ago
Medical professionals worry a lot about "compliance". It would not be unusual for a doctor to unironically believe that "leverage" like this—forcing the patient to come in for a check-up instead of letting them make thei
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by nshepperd 5y ago
Yes, that's a pretty obvious confounding possibility. It's foolish to draw any causal conclusions from a correlation between 'wealth' and 'choice mindset' when the causality could clearly go either way.
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by nshepperd 6y ago
Why Musk what? The point is that it's not about Musk. We're talking about whether Musk "deserves" his billions in profit and the answer is it's not about Musk, and it's not about "deserve". It's
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by nshepperd 6y ago
Providing up-front funding for crazy ideas like electric cars and reusable rockets when everyone else is too stupid and shortsighted to is itself productive activity. In fact it is the most important productive activity: figuring out what
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by nshepperd 6y ago
Oh, you're right, I misread that part.
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by nshepperd 6y ago
It's interesting how spot-on Coinbase's 'prebuttal' was ( https://blog.coinbase.com/upcoming-story-about-coinbase-2012... ). There's very little in the NYT article that isn't mentioned. The only
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by nshepperd 6y ago
It's an online algorithm. It's meant to be used on essentially infinite streams of data, such as a live dashboard of latencies of a running server. In that context, providing a 5 element, or any finite list as an example seems lik
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by nshepperd 6y ago
Parent said "influence desired career paths", which is not the same as differences in performance. People choose a career path for many reasons besides ability, such as individual personality, ability in alternative jobs (note t
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by nshepperd 6y ago
> Everything's optimized for tiny cellphone screens optimized for text. That sounds great tbh. Not everything needs to be a 4MB bootstrap.js webshit that doesn't even load with adblockers enabled.
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by nshepperd 6y ago
> The team immediately spotted the tradeoffs: while Meet’s captions were built in, there’s no history, meaning each person had to dedicate their attention to the captions to make sure they didn’t miss anything. I actually wrote a js book
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by nshepperd 6y ago
To add to the other comments: because giving a placebo is essential for the experimental results to have any validity, not giving a placebo would be imo way more unethical, since it would mean you are exposing people to a medical risk (ex
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by nshepperd 6y ago
"Face the consequences"? What consequences? Anything you want? Is this supposed to be a license to extrajudicially impose arbitrary consequences on people? I'll note that it's mainly users of Firefox who had to "fac
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by nshepperd 6y ago
There are frequently comments on such threads from people discovering this fact for the first time, so it does seem to be a point worth repeating.
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by nshepperd 6y ago
I screwed the base stations into a piece of wooden 2x4, and stuck the latter to the wall with two bits of Command hanging tape. Super easy. The kit ought to come with these pieces imo.
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by nshepperd 6y ago
This strikes me as having some interesting similarity to the practice in Haskell of placing type class constraints on functions, not data types. A deprecated feature of Haskell used to allow you to write data types like: data Ord k =&
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by nshepperd 6y ago
If Uber or Lyft wanted to help solve generational poverty they'd probably be better off donating cash to organisations like GiveDirectly instead of distorting the taxi market (which will always be less effective per $). Not that they c
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by nshepperd 6y ago
IMO they're not even contracts . The idea that there is a 'meeting of the minds' when I click through an installation dialog or website privacy policy, without even reading it, while screaming at my computer "I do not a
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by nshepperd 6y ago
That would be what is required for an ideal display. Current VR displays get closer to 0.1 degrees per pixel so it would be a ~3x improvement to be competitive with existing tech, as I said.
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by nshepperd 6y ago
Wouldn't the display application here be something like a scanning AR/VR headset which constructs an image directly on your retina with a small number of beams moving very quickly (kinda like an old CRT display)? In which case you
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by nshepperd 6y ago
HEIC is defined as HEVC in a HEIF container. So yes, it's patent encumbered. Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Image_File_For...
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by nshepperd 6y ago
> This kind of "meritocracy" is more like if we held an arm-wrestling tournament, declared the victor to be our new feudal lord, the next 6 runners up to be knights, and everyone else to be peasants. Our position in this new so
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by nshepperd 6y ago
> Early in the rollout of Go I was told by someone that he could not imagine working in a language without generic types. As I have reported elsewhere, I found that an odd remark. > ...[rant about 'inheritance' and 'sub
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by nshepperd 6y ago
Agreed. It's disappointing to see observational study after observational study pumped out and still little-to-no actual causal evidence after three months .
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by nshepperd 6y ago
They're meant to be high. This means "we didn't find a detectable difference in age distribution between the groups" and therefore that the results are (hopefully) not confounded by age.
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by nshepperd 6y ago
He did ask for that, at the end of his post: > It has nothing to do with privacy concerns. The idea that contact tracing can be done with an app, and not human health professionals, is just plain dumb. Human health professionals doing co
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by nshepperd 6y ago
It can't just be producers being contractually obligated to deliver it, can it? If that was the case, couldn't they close out their obligation by buying back some of these futures (at a profit), and "delivering" it to th

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