vobios

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by vobios 7y ago
> just preserve it or lose just a little Housing generally underperforms the overall market.
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by vobios 7y ago
Does the data presented in that article really suggest that the apartments are actually empty or is it simply that it takes a while to sell out a new development? It's going to take a while to move a hundred units, especially if you wa
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by vobios 7y ago
> It was much better (lighter, simpler, quicker to load) than Java applets from the mid 90s. People often forget about those.
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by vobios 7y ago
Are there really that many empty apartments? I am sure they exist, but are there really enough of them to make a dent in the market? Having lived in the city for years, I've never actually seen one. I also wonder if you have enough cas
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by vobios 7y ago
There is a section that addresses that specific point: > The Landmarks Preservation Board protects the facades of historic buildings, but not their interiors. Thus landmarking led townhouses once divided into multiple apartments to be co
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by vobios 8y ago
Technically, Queens is part of Long Island.
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by vobios 8y ago
Speaking of distinguishing subtle differences in blues, there is actually a linguistic component. English and Russian color terms divide the color spectrum differently. Unlike English, Russian makes an obligatory distinction between lighte
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by vobios 9y ago
I am looking here and it's great: http://ggplot2.tidyverse.org/reference/aes.html
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by vobios 9y ago
This is super controversial, but no need to use Jupyter. I personally find that Jupyter feels like a hack compared to something like RStudio. You have to open a terminal and launch a web server?
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by vobios 9y ago
A non-insignificant fraction of the R community only exists because of Tidyverse.
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by vobios 9y ago
> less well documented than most R packages I on the other hand, find most R packages provide barely readable documentation. I can just hope that the vignette exists and actually explains the inputs/outputs.
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by vobios 9y ago
By that theory, you should diversify away from those that are not going to be "superstocks" (in the post, Dell grew 550x and pushed up the entire index). For example, HP or Exxon or UPS will probably do okay, but will not outperfo
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by vobios 9y ago
> you can research growth stocks (e.g. pharmaceutical companies undergoing FDA trials) and pick the promising ones Those FDA trials are expensive. Those companies have many experts in the field that believe those trials have a reasonable
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by vobios 9y ago
Each doctor offers hundreds of services/procedures. Each one has a different price. The insurance company needs a certain number of doctors in the network to be competitive and they can't really have hard cutoffs for every single
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by vobios 9y ago
For the doctor, a great benefit of being cash only is you don't have to do billing, a non-trivial task.
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by vobios 9y ago
Do you think the locals don't already have that info? The soldiers are not invisible.
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by vobios 9y ago
But aren't the enemies the only ones that matter?
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by vobios 9y ago
Or you could just not start tracking right at your house. Wait until you get to an intersection, for example.
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by vobios 10y ago
"If you know ggplot2"... but you need to make a lot of plots to get the hang of ggplot2. The "+" syntax (not sure what the proper name for that is) alone is completely foreign and intimidating. If you want to make great
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by vobios 10y ago
Without experiencing base R, you won't appreciate the tidyverse packages, which tend to have more of a learning curve. For example, you can just run boxplot(x) in base R and it will make you a plot. Only after trying to make any modifi
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by vobios 10y ago
This is written for random internet people. Science papers are written for other scientists working in that particular niche. They are not trying to be approachable to the general public.
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by vobios 11y ago
Shouldn't this set off some alert at Facebook since their likes per visitor rate will be much higher than normal?
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by vobios 11y ago
Even commercial products (where they have a financial incentive to provide clear and comprehensive instructions) often take a lot of training before they work properly. How can we expect a small research lab to be better?
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by vobios 11y ago
> we see PhD students and post-doc working 70h hours week on experiments with seemingly random results until the randomness goes their way. There are known and tested protocols that can fail. Not every step can be accurately recorded. It
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by vobios 12y ago
> Only about 10% enroll in clinical trials in the US, which only test one drug at a time. Clinical trials in the US test drug combinations and not just single drugs. > With 90% of the patients not enrolled in a clinical trial we wante
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by vobios 12y ago
> I think the problem is that Notable Labs would be testing combinations of FDA-approved drugs I assume that only previously used combinations are suggested. > This requirement could turn an 'easy comparison' into a lengthy
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by vobios 12y ago
> Two drugs could be very safe on their own, but in combination could cause serious adverse events That is true. My assumption was that only single compounds or previously tested combinations are suggested. > Unless you are running a
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by vobios 12y ago
> You're just testing for efficacy, not safety The drugs being tested are all already approved, so safety would not be really a concern. > Insurance companies (Medicare/Medicaid included), won't pay for cancer drugs unl
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by vobios 12y ago
That's a big leap to go from in vitro to in vivo. That would usually not even be sufficient to enter clinical trials. Besides, given GBM's heterogeneity, I am not sure it's clear which cells you are growing and how representa
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by vobios 12y ago
If you look at the actual data, poor people are less likely to move out after gentrification than before. Nice article that covers this: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/201...

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