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by orting 7y ago
> -I don’t know whether their policy differs from country to country Would not be surprised if it did. I remember one rental in the Netherlands where the english text said free parking, but the dutch text said parking available. The prob
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by orting 7y ago
A month is not a well defined unit. There are four different month units: 28, 29, 30, 31 days. If you do calculations respecting this there will be no problem. Complex numbers and vectors are not a good analogy.
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by orting 8y ago
This is a good point. From the article "Once the students were selected, the researchers then administered the Major Field Test in Computer Science, an exam that was developed by the U.S. Educational Testing Service and is regularly up
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by orting 8y ago
There is an interesting version of this with The Netherlands and Belgium The Netherlands: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Baarle-Nassau,+Holland/@51... Belgium: https://www.google.com/maps&#
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by orting 9y ago
I am not criticizing the study. I am highlighting that the conclusion that the paper arrives at i the correct one: That it warrants large scale studies. This work is a prime candidate for being misrepresented as showing that this stem cell
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by orting 9y ago
The phase 2 study primarily looked at safety. There was no correction for multiple hypothesis testing on the efficacy endpoints. So it seems that the only conclusion that is warranted is that the study shows no adverse health effects and th
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by orting 10y ago
Basically we can represent any signal as an infinite sum of sinusoids. If you know about Taylor expansion of a function, then you know that the first order term is the most important, then the second and so on. Same principle with the sinus
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by orting 10y ago
The first thing I noticed was the ringing, which is an artifact of low-pass filtering so it's a nice opportunity to go into problems with that kind of filtering. Other than that I think it was an ok teaser that gives an idea of how com
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by orting 10y ago
It is from Bellman, Held and Karp [0] and has O*(2^n) complexity for both space and time. It is quite simple and based on the idea that "Every subpath of a path of minimum distance is itself of minimum distance." [0] https:/
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by orting 11y ago
As with a lot of "simple" math, the trick is to actually write it down and calculate it, because our intuition (at least for some of us) is often not the best when it comes to this kind of calculation. In this case we write down t
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by orting 11y ago
Forcing a nation is what war is about, and it rarely works out very well. Negotiation is about finding a solution to a problem that leaves all parties better off if they follow the solution than if they don't. It is not always easy and
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by orting 11y ago
There is a lot of stuff the human eye cant see that is very interesting. One of the challenges in medical imaging is getting accurate labelling of images. For many labellings we see large inter- and intra-observer variability. We have both
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by orting 11y ago
> It is not a question of if but when You can say that about almost anything, and the world is still full of factory workers. As a PhD student in medical imaging, you must also know that getting fully automating segmentation methods to
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by orting 11y ago
Stating it as "thousands of patient images a day" is misleading. It would be the same as saying you inspected "thousands of parts each day". As the radiologist further down notes, CT scans contains many slices. While com
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by orting 11y ago
I am curious. Could you highlight some of the technical problems with Firefox?
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by orting 11y ago
Yes it is obviously an error by the doctor and the pharmacists, no one is saying otherwise. The whole point of the article is to investigate how this error occurred. We live in a world where these errors happens all the time and the best th
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by orting 11y ago
That is a good question, and one we should discuss more actively, because if it can go wrong it will go wrong. What happens when an over eager politician learns that "we can predict with X% accuracy if a person will do something bad ne
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by orting 11y ago
I think it is nicer if you just link to the arxiv page instead of directly to the pdf. Then I can read the abstract before downloading it. http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.02401
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by orting 12y ago
I think the points are good, but I am not very happy about this statement "When dealing with small amounts of data, it’s reasonable to try as many algorithms as possible and to pick the best one since the cost of experimentation is low
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by orting 12y ago
A specific critique raised in the press release from IARC is that the study has an "emphasis on very rare cancers (e.g. osteosarcoma, medulloblastoma) that together make only a small contribution to the total cancer burden." and t
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by orting 12y ago
Yes I can do basic arithmetic. My point is that the ratio is easy to interpret, the program ran 6.36 times faster. The only reason I can think of for giving a percentage is to make it sound more impressive.
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by orting 12y ago
That is nice illustration of premature optimization. Instead of thinking "Lets parallelize", one should measure and find out what causes performance problems. Should one choose to go down the parallel path, it's a good idea t
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by orting 12y ago
In general I think the distinction between physical, neurological and psychological is peculiar. It suggests that the mind is not physical but a metaphysical entity that can be be analysed separately from the body and vice versa. My experie
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by orting 12y ago
I think that programmers reasons for choosing a specific language are as varied as the languages. Personally I like programming in C++ because the typesystem and abstraction mechanisms allows me to write reasonably correct and concise code
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by orting 12y ago
I dont like this paper. It makes statements based on references to opinion style articles. F.ex "in practice, run-time type errors in deployed programs are exceedingly rare [TW07]." If we look at [TW07] they state that "even
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by orting 12y ago
I remember visiting family in the states in 2008, we had our 9 month old child with us. Arriving in the US we got fast-tracked through security, allowed to bring formula for the baby with us and was generally treated very politely. In Londo
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by orting 12y ago
I have no problem with the question "Have they considered purchasing power". I could also come up with a dozen possible issues they might not have taken into consideration. But I would never argue that they havent considered them
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by orting 12y ago
So the idea that scientific studies should include people that are not upper middle-class westerns, is wrong because of the purchasing power of $100? There is a link to the published paper in the article[1]. I have only skimmed it, but ther
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by orting 12y ago
You are arguing that we should use anecdotal evidence to guide public health policy. Please stop doing that and use a scientific approach instead. I remember when I was a carpenter apprentice and asked for personal safety equipment and then
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by orting 13y ago
My argument was badly put. What is the benefit of using the same language on the client and server? That the developer only needs to know one language? The server-side code you write has to interact both with the client and the underlying O

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