waterhouse

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by waterhouse 1mo ago
And if anything, I'd expect machines to have faster reflexes than humans. The Medium article is walled off, but I found another source[1]: "The child reported minor injuries and did not require transportation to a hospital. ... W
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by waterhouse 3mo ago
> It's like asking someone playing roulette to value "13 black", after they bet on it. Even worse, because you don't get better odds or payouts by persuading others to bet on 13 black, but you do when they invest in t
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by waterhouse 3mo ago
Uber and Lyft both provide an option for women to request female drivers. In both cases, they say they can't guarantee it and that they may end up matched with a male driver. (In Lyft's case, they group "nonbinary" wit
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by waterhouse 3mo ago
Surely, if the compensation was high enough, you'd be like, "Sure, I'm happy with that outcome." And then, if the AI company thinks they have a low enough failure rate that the expected cost of paying out the compensati
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by waterhouse 4mo ago
Multithreaded: seq 1 20 | xargs -Iqq -n1 -P0 yes >/dev/null
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by waterhouse 4mo ago
So is it your position that, when the Chinese government imposes takedowns or worse on Chinese people posting Winnie the Pooh stuff, it's primarily because the Chinese government is opposed to anti-Asian racism?
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by waterhouse 5mo ago
> This is arguably rational because the pool is small and there's little to gain by studying harder if you already have a perfect GPA. So there is a low ceiling, and if they instead used MCAT or something with a higher ceiling (wh
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by waterhouse 5mo ago
Theoretically yes. But I think at least part of the decision they've made is to delegate a chunk of the decisionmaking to doctors' guilds. Which—on the one hand, they are experts of a sort, but on the other hand, they have an ob
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by waterhouse 5mo ago
That would increase competition and thus depress wages for existing doctors, who are the ones who make the decisions here. I heard, from a medical school attendee, that she overheard some doctors discussing whether it would be a good idea
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by waterhouse 5mo ago
No matter how many have good grades, you can always pick the top n by grades—unless there's a ceiling that the top m > n have all hit. Which, if you're talking about "grades" as in GPA, is plausible. MCAT seems more
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by waterhouse 6mo ago
Complete androgen insensitivity syndrome, I imagine? That's probably the one category of XY people who have undergone no hormonal masculinization throughout their lives, and the one case where I'd agree with them competing with w
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by waterhouse 6mo ago
https://healthcare.utah.edu/healthfeed/2024/09/uneven-playin... “Women tend to have thinner skulls than men, along with smaller neck muscles, which can predispose female athletes to getting a concussion,” say
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by waterhouse 6mo ago
Googling "fargo police chief resigns": https://www.inforum.com/news/fargo/zibolski-announces-his-re... among other results. That said, it's portrayed as a retirement, and doesn't seem to give a
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by waterhouse 6mo ago
I guess, in theory, this can eventually be countered by people using LLM browser integrations to tell them whether comments are worth reading (and maybe to summarize long comments). Is anyone currently working on that? It might be interes
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by waterhouse 6mo ago
It's one of the relevant factors. It, and related facts, make it usually possible for a man to overpower a woman (and a predator self-selected for being somewhat above average in fighting ability might be confident of overpowering mul
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by waterhouse 6mo ago
If Whites had, on average, 2.5 standard deviations lower upper-body strength than non-Whites, then maybe.
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by waterhouse 7mo ago
A general reason to focus on abuse instead of immediately visible outcomes: if the abuse is not dealt with properly, then that may lead to the abuse becoming increasingly widespread and blatant, which will affect future outcomes.
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by waterhouse 8mo ago
Has anyone here switched roles from programmer to manager (of human programmers), and is it a similar feeling?
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by waterhouse 8mo ago
> need not bother with teachers outside that top 25%. To simply "not bother" with lower-quality teachers sounds like you find it easy, as an institution, to determine teachers' quality. That seems far from a solved proble
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by waterhouse 10mo ago
> Its primary outcome is a modest reduction in propofol and fentanyl dose under a very specific anaesthetic protocol. Ooh, that sounds like p-hacking. How many other protocols, and other potential outcomes in general, did they look at b
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by waterhouse 10mo ago
Guessing those rewards are in the hundreds of dollars, probably a fraction of the engineer salary that went into the technical work.
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by waterhouse 11mo ago
To be sure, is it possible that, on each subsequent iPhone release, the hardware got better at handling weak signals, and thus a mediocre signal for iPhone N was decent for iPhone N+2 and would give great throughput on iPhone N+4?
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by waterhouse 11mo ago
More generally regarding poisons, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithridatism . TLDR: YMMV. "Mithridatism is not effective against all types of poison. Immunity is generally only possible with biologically co
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by waterhouse 1y ago
> Doctors aren't paid by the hour. Not explicitly, but do you think the salary wouldn't change in the medium to long term if the hours changed significantly? Of course, in the short term you can burn out your doctors by maki
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by waterhouse 1y ago
I have encountered this definition of "spectrum", as a vector of numbers that go 0 to 100, rather than a single number that goes from 0 to 100 (which you call "continuum" IIUC). But... I mean, if you asked 100 people wha
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by waterhouse 1y ago
Yup. In real situations, one element is that sometimes things are misunderstood, and in particular sometimes collaborating is mistaken for defecting, so if all sides are playing pure tit-for-tat, then one can end up in a defect-defect loop
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by waterhouse 1y ago
> couple studies on Somali immigrant population in Minnesota and Sweden - where such dark skinned population naturally gets very low on vitamin D - showed such correlation as autism rates in that population is higher than back there in S
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by waterhouse 1y ago
"Modern features" are one thing; "security updates" are another. According to the blog post, security updates are guaranteed for 1 year.
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by waterhouse 1y ago
Looks to be (1269 words into the article according to wc): > [Parker and Stone]’s lawyer, Kevin Morris, insisted that any South Park revenue not derived specifically from broadcast on the cable channel would go into the pot for calculati
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by waterhouse 1y ago
As you say, it's because the speech may later give way to force. It does go farther than American free speech law permits: the latter draws the line at something like "threats of immediate criminal action", whereas this wo

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