taipan100

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by taipan100 5y ago
Life is Simple https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56643989-life-is-simple
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by taipan100 5y ago
Britain being "historically bad negotiators" is an objectively silly thing to say
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by taipan100 6y ago
Valid mRNA has a start codon and a stop codon. Without these mRNA will be broken down and untranslated. However without translation the vaccine will be useless. So while unintended translation is unlikely it is possible that efficacy would
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by taipan100 6y ago
This is not really correct. CI means we are 95% sure that the true result falls somewhere within the range of -50 to 60. What this really means is that the study lacks statistical power to say anything interesting at all about vaccine effec
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by taipan100 6y ago
All based on the results of a study with 95% CI between -50% and 60% efficacy.
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by taipan100 6y ago
We do not know the Lombardy hospitalisation rate because we do not have an accurate count of how many people have been infected in Lombardy. To get such a count we would need 100% serological testing which has not been done. We know how man
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by taipan100 6y ago
To call the Oxford study "utter rubbish" is foolish. Your "example" of bad data is the only quoted data in that article and it doesn't even mean anything since the implicit assumption of the Gupta model is that we d
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by taipan100 8y ago
Hold on. GitHub has become too much of a monopoly? And this is somehow fixed by being acquired by Microsoft?
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by taipan100 8y ago
I completely agree. The biggest issue here is that we are losing a neutral player as the top comment says. The tech world is that much more monopolistic without an independent GitHub.
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by taipan100 8y ago
There are so many ideas here for how computer systems could be improved. It reads like an argument against the computer in a medical setting (or at least a move away from current, perceived, over-reliance) and yet systems could so easily fi