roland_nilsson

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by roland_nilsson 3mo ago
Can't we use Claude to figure this out
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by roland_nilsson 5mo ago
Except that note-taking systems are meant to help you organize your own mind and understand the world better. Offloading tasks to AI won't help you with that.
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by roland_nilsson 5mo ago
Much needed, as we only had 450,000 apps to choose from before. /s
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by roland_nilsson 1y ago
Well this is a problem worthy of an Ig Nobel.
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by roland_nilsson 2y ago
"I can do anything I want. It's just bits. You don't own me." Fair enough! x-D
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by roland_nilsson 2y ago
I think this problem is at least in part due to the hypothesis testing concept itself. Classical hypothesis testing is asymmetric: there is a "null" hypothesis, which is typically the uninteresting/useless case, and an "
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by roland_nilsson 2y ago
So he proved his point! :)
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by roland_nilsson 3y ago
Reading this I couldn't help thinking of the epicycle theory of planetary motion. Under the holy assumption that planets had to move in perfect circles, people invented increasingly complicated circles-on-top-of-circles models in order
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by roland_nilsson 3y ago
Second that! (No pun intended.) Dunno how many times I have had to explain to people that the kWh is an amount, not a rate.
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by roland_nilsson 3y ago
The yoctomole is a wonderful unit, for example when you want just slightly more than half a cup of coffee! But the mole as a "counting unit" is different from OP's idea of assigning units to things like network requests. The
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by roland_nilsson 3y ago
Just a reminder that "70% higher risk" is a relative value describing the _fractional_ increase in risk. In absolute terms, the probability of developing Parkinson's (prevalence) was 0.33% in group exposed to TCE and 0.21% in
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AI has hacked the operating system of human civilisation(economist.com)
3 points by roland_nilsson 3y ago|5 comments
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by roland_nilsson 3y ago
Yuval Noah Harari argues that AI has hacked the operating system of human civilisation. Storytelling computers will change the course of human history, says the historian and philosopher.
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by roland_nilsson 4y ago
'Like bro, you want to do stuff with “diffusion models”? You don’t even know how to add two normal distributions together! You ain’t diffusing shit!' This made me laugh :) I'm in academia and this post does remind me of certa
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by roland_nilsson 5y ago
From my location in Sweden, sputniknews.com is currently available but www.rt.com is not (error 403). Probably sputnik will go away as well, as the EU ban on these outlets is "expected to cover all means of distribution or transmission
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by roland_nilsson 5y ago
I tried to pay attention to this piece, but the website kept trying to open a pop-up every half minute. After five or so interruptions, I gave up :-/
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by roland_nilsson 6y ago
Increasing automation to push prices might keep the factories within the country, but it won't save manufacturing jobs.
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by roland_nilsson 6y ago
Well I'm no economist, but this seems inevitable if (1) consumers want cheap products and (2) production is cheaper elsewhere. Given those conditions, any company that wants to survive will have to move production abroad (and those tha
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by roland_nilsson 6y ago
Isn't the whole point of graph databases that they can traverse graph edges efficiently by following pointers to nodes, which relational databases can't do? Then it seems a bit strange to implement a graph database on top of a rel
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by roland_nilsson 6y ago
No, I think you must estimate p only using the cohort where people were not treated, otherwise you will underestimate the population fraction. In order to test if the null hypothesis is true, we can't assume that's its true wh
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by roland_nilsson 6y ago
Well, given that 90/15000 = 0.6% in the control group developed the disease, you can consider the vaccine group as a Bernouili trial of n = 15000 with probability p = 0.6%. Then the probability of observing 5 or fewer cases is 3.4*10^-