skat20phys

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by skat20phys 6y ago
It's difficult to go through everything with specific examples, because that would be an essay onto itself. But, for example, in Book 3 (via the Rackham translation; http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Per
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by skat20phys 6y ago
It's been awhile since I've read this. Rereading about it now, it seems like a conceptual mess. I also have this sense, hard to put into words, that it is written from a perspective of socioeconomic privilege and implicitly assume
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by skat20phys 6y ago
My sense of the literature is that it's accurate in the limited sense that masks often don't have statistically significant effects in studies. It's maybe also accurate in the sense that the effects of masks are really being
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by skat20phys 6y ago
In what direction? I think part of the point of this paper is that most masks aren't taking things seriously enough.
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by skat20phys 6y ago
Sometime not too long ago there was a blog post or article covered on HN, about data showing student scores on some academic achievement measure over time. If I remember, all students generally improved on this measure throughout undergrad,
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by skat20phys 6y ago
I also think the random deviation from "best" strategy isn't realistic. In the real world, true randomness is kind of unusual. There's usually some kind of spatial or temporal autocorrelation. So something might change i
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by skat20phys 6y ago
At one time there was intrinsic cost to the lender in the form of risk. It seems not so anymore, or at least less than it should.
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by skat20phys 6y ago
I'd argue that's in part because of the protection racket that's partially at the heart of the moral hazard: the poor regulation of healthcare services, at least in the US. What this should be laying bare is the failure of fe
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by skat20phys 6y ago
One thing about case reporting is that they tend to ignore the denominator, the number of tests. I've been tracking DPH reports in our state since they started, and one thing I've noticed is that although the case counts have gone
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by skat20phys 6y ago
A colleague of mine pointed out it's important to look at the conflicts of interest and funding sources. One of the patients seems to be from a family funding the study, and some of the authors have filed patents on the protocol. ... w
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by skat20phys 6y ago
The protocol is actually fairly intensive and expensive, involving tailored brain scans and all-day treatments over multiple days. It's the sort of thing that I could see in inpatients or partial hospitalization patients, or as an inte
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by skat20phys 6y ago
In the context of the press release it was a little confusing to me because the published paper doesn't really report on anything that would be considered long-term. I assume she meant something like "the less treatment resistant,
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by skat20phys 6y ago
I don't mean to sound snarky, but aren't those two problems related?
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by skat20phys 6y ago
I'm at the point where it shouldn't matter who did it, what should matter is its integrity. I'd prefer everything was anonymously posted at some level so author background didn't go into consideration regarding how it wa
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by skat20phys 6y ago
Most of that is oriented toward yeast breads, but as a minor point that was confusing to me for awhile: At least in the US, there is no technical legal definition for baking powder. So companies vary widely in what is included in baking pow
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by skat20phys 6y ago
I personally don't believe them for a variety of reasons: I don't know that any country's numbers are entirely accurate, the substantial reports of active suppression of reporting about it (leaked communication, disappeared p
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by skat20phys 6y ago
There have been studies of this from previous pandemics. Together with studies from the Great Recession / financial collapse the gist is there's definitely going to be an increase in mental health problems of all those sorts -- su
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by skat20phys 6y ago
This is nice but I'd also like some kind of detached evaluation of how well they function in practice, in terms of pros and cons. My sense is that in the videochat/conferencing area there's a big difference between feature of
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by skat20phys 6y ago
This is great but we really need antibody tests almost as much, if not as much.
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by skat20phys 6y ago
Vulnerable world, meet modern academics.
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by skat20phys 6y ago
Is there actual good data on aspirin/NSAIDs? Because what I've read was a theory communicated in a letter to the Lancet, and the actual data might suggest the opposite.
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by skat20phys 6y ago
A discussion of how regulatory structures contributed to problems in the US (lack of tests, number and variety of providers and services, and so forth).
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by skat20phys 6y ago
I have a lot of respect for Ioannidis's work, and kind of lean toward his perspective in some respects, but I think he's misrepresenting certain data and missing certain points. He's right to point to the Diamond Princess Cru
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by skat20phys 6y ago
I've been there and have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, the boulder has always seemed fishy to me. It's a remote location and I doubt many people would track something that small, or care enough about it to know about
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by skat20phys 6y ago
I've always really liked Rhatigan's (that is, the author of the linked piece) Gina typeface: http://www.ultrasparky.org/work/typefaces/gina/gina_01.html I read something about it evolving into an in
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by skat20phys 6y ago
Those estimates are generally in line with what other independent investigators find, maybe a bit smaller. The elephant in the room in these kinds of discussions is the validity of the tests to begin with. MIT makes a statement that the gen
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by skat20phys 6y ago
I agree with you regarding client-facing staff, and think the parent post has misplaced lack of concern. However, I also think the post makes an important underlying point about hospital administration generally and "where their heads
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by skat20phys 7y ago
There are causal accounts that use mutual information and its variants though. A lot of them introduce notions of directed mutual information and other similar concepts.
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by skat20phys 7y ago
This an aside, but this seems like a textbook example of government regulation of healthcare not only failing but getting in the way and actively causing harm. There are literally 1000s of generally certified labs that they could have said
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by skat20phys 7y ago
Not exactly what you mean but operacast lists opera streaming broadcasts from around the world: operacast.com It's pretty old-school but I've found the schedule pretty up-to-date. I've also noticed that some of the programs a

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