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by tansey 2mo ago
Academic here. It's actually great for us. You're usually the first to see the implications for your niche area and have a chance to get a hot paper out rather than a moderately impactful one.
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by tansey 4mo ago
The fed tracks this data: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/APU0000709112
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by tansey 8mo ago
Somebody has to pay for the trial. Drugs are expensive and the amount needed to dose a single person is orders of magnitude more than mice. So who funds the study? If it's the government or philanthropic fund, you have to put in a gran
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by tansey 8mo ago
Somewhere between $500K and $2M for an mRNA vax is my guesstimate. You don't have to hypothesize about what the rich might do, though. The co-founder of GitLab was diagnosed with osteosarcoma a few years ago. He relapsed, leaving him w
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by tansey 8mo ago
For all the folks complaining about "it's only in mice! things never work in humans!" -- I work at MSK and we definitely have seen success treating PDAC in humans: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-0
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by tansey 5y ago
PI at a cancer center here. These two ideas are not mutually exclusive. Cancer is indeed not 1 disease but many countless ones. At the same time, cancer diagnoses are based on site of origin and histology (how it looks under a microscope).
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by tansey 5y ago
> Sugar basically doesn’t exist in nature without fiber Honey?
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by tansey 6y ago
It's political news: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfa
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by tansey 7y ago
Here goes nothing: - bio startups rise, ag tech startups rise, food startups rise-- everything to do with engineering life. - second and third tier cities rise in the US while first tier cities ebb. Places like Austin see continued growth,
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by tansey 7y ago
The type of quants talked about in this article probably has a PhD in math, stats, CS (with a focus on machine learning), or something similar.
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by tansey 7y ago
Yes. Exactly this. Building models that assess risks and potential gains. A quant is a catch-all term though, so one person may be working on models that predict some sector of the market and another person could be looking at online alloca
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by tansey 9y ago
This is why people do twin studies. Orphaned twins that were separated at birth are as close to a natural instrument as one could ever hope to get.
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by tansey 9y ago
You can if it's defective: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon_law
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by tansey 9y ago
The problem with the idea of cheap screening tools is Bayes' theorem. If doctors go ordering this for most people since it's just a blood test, and if only 1% of people ever really have cancer when tested then the 1% false positiv
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by tansey 10y ago
Except it seems there is good case law to show that in fact suspected cannot be forced to open a combination lock, as it falls under fifth amendment protection. They can, however, be compelled to provide a key if it is a key-based lock. T
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by tansey 10y ago
The usual way they reduce variance in these man vs. machine poker showdowns is to do "pairs" play. You have two humans playing simultaneously in isolated locations. The decks for both humans are the same, but player 1 and 2 are sw
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by tansey 10y ago
Educate them to do... what, exactly? What could Uber do with two million mostly-uneducated truck drivers that are scattered all through out the country? Most do not want to move, do not have the patience/desire/grit to go through
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by tansey 10y ago
Stan ( http://mc-stan.org/documentation/ ) is arguably the most advanced language. It's especially pushing the bounds of doing automatic variational inference, for the scenario where your model does not have a nice
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by tansey 10y ago
> The data is useless unless it is annotated (e.g. a human labels where the lanes are, where the obstacles are, what the bicylist is doing, etc.) - that's the bottleneck, not collecting large amounts of raw sensor data + driver act
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by tansey 10y ago
Not sure what the source is on that chart, but I'll assume it's credible. If that's the case, then despite what the article says, it's hard to believe that most of this decline is not accounted for by the decline in smok
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by tansey 10y ago
It's not that much data. You're storing about 2M voxel image every 2s or so. There are open repositories out there already: https://openfmri.org/
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by tansey 10y ago
Most (good) encryption schemes have the property that knowing part of the message, or some other information like message length, will not help you decrypt the message.
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by tansey 10y ago
I guess I don't understand what is really novel about this. Don't brands like Digiorno and Freschetta already have highly-optimized pizza assembly lines? Is it really that hard to make the topping/sauce dispensing dynamic ins
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by tansey 10y ago
The contrastive divergence paper that Hinton published in 2006 definitely set the field off again. I remember entering grad school in 2010 and everyone was still really excited about using unsupervised pretraining. However, nowadays no one
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by tansey 10y ago
Isn't the labeling really tricky, though? In my limited experience, EHRs aren't usually setup to handle structured labeling of something like an image. There are lots of different fields for text entry that can be unstructured. Th
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by tansey 10y ago
Just read (skimmed) this paper yesterday actually. Looks interesting-- but there are no timing graphs! It's kind of a strawman argument to say "We can't use Newton's method because it's too slow to calculate the Hes
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by tansey 10y ago
This seems pretty likely to be placebo effect, at least in the human trials which are the only parts of the paper I read. The paper cited [0] pre-registered on clinicaltrials.gov [1] -- which is great and everyone in the field should do so.
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by tansey 10y ago
Very nice write-up. Several years ago, I took a graduate class that covered NEAT and ended up doing a little project [0] to see if you could apply similar ideas (recurrent nets evolved via NEAT). My idea was to use it for multi-agent contr
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by tansey 10y ago
There's a wearables company: https://www.atlaswearables.com/
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by tansey 11y ago
It seems like most of these complaints center around the idea of the inherent subjectivity of the prior. In cases like astronomy and other hard sciences, the prior reflects actual scientific knowledge and is not really subjective at all. In

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