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by wjn0 6y ago
I'm not sure if this is it, but assuming the correctness of the test is independent of the sample quality, a sample could be split and tested multiple times to obtain a result with a much better FPR.
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by wjn0 6y ago
I think this might be a bit premature. For the bulk of these tools (pandas/numpy/tensorflow/torch), most of their users have probably been using them for 3-5 years max. A universal API standard is a nice idea, but I don'
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by wjn0 6y ago
Without some form of compression, I don't think it is. In particular, consider your example (5 horcruxes with 3 needed to reconstruct). View the original file as the interval (0, N) and view it as a set covering problem. If each horcru
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by wjn0 6y ago
> possession of 12 grams of LSD Reader's note: that's between 50k and 100k doses. Not that I disagree with your point.
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by wjn0 6y ago
Surely you mean the number of publications, or some other superficial metric (e.g. being the third "supervising" author on a paper with a dozen authors). If I read a paper and have a great appreciation for the ideas, and have a se
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by wjn0 6y ago
> * Public access to research results, methods, and data, with some exceptions (such as PII) You mentioned PII, so I'm assuming some familiarity with the health field. I'm curious about your thoughts on the position that one sh
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by wjn0 6y ago
Agree, I don't think salary caps have much to do with the poor alignment of incentives under discussion here.
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by wjn0 6y ago
That's an interesting idea that could stop very specific types of fraud, certainly in the life sciences. But it's not feasible for all kinds of research, and in fact could hinder lots of research. > All papers would be required
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by wjn0 6y ago
Very neat. It sounds like they're curating a dataset ripe for machine learning.
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by wjn0 6y ago
Sorry, I didn't mean to detract from that point. I completely agree.
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by wjn0 6y ago
I'm not saying the policy is worthwhile or even justifiable, but the comment I replied to later used the word "treason" (sorry, I didn't quote it) which implies that these actions aren't endorsed, and certainly not
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by wjn0 6y ago
> Don't you think that C-levels of all of them were previously dying to get into China, and were ready to do anything? > ... > treason In the case of China, doesn't the US government in some ways encourage this? I forget
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by wjn0 6y ago
Not to be over-speculative, but I think OP is probably referring to the rebound effects of corticosteroids which have been documented recently as related to skin conditions [1]. [1] https://www.jaad.org/article/S0190-96
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by wjn0 6y ago
Influenza viruses are not coronaviruses.
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by wjn0 6y ago
So cool. In my opinion, so many of the open problems in biology can be approached from the direction of specificity - from specificity in measurement to specificity in targeting interventions. For example, tools like this for elucidating co
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by wjn0 7y ago
Gain-of-function literally only means the protein has, in some sense, gotten better at its "job" (or has taken on an additional "job"). In this case, the "job" of the protein is to infect organisms more effecti
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by wjn0 7y ago
Good for execs, bad for Europe (is perhaps what the grandparent comment meant)?
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by wjn0 7y ago
That's exactly the point.
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by wjn0 7y ago
> higher crime rates Source? Everything I've read suggests that crime rates are pretty much the same across race and ethnicity when controlling for economic status. The primary variable is contact with the justice system, i.e. getti
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by wjn0 7y ago
ah, yes, why squint at a PDF when you can squint at LaTeX compile errors instead
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by wjn0 7y ago
Okay, as a layman, can you clarify a scenario where (even huge-scale) money laundering would pose a similar threat to the stability of the Icelandic banking system as the misbehaviour of banks on an international level leading up to 2008?
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by wjn0 7y ago
Speaking generally, money laundering is probably good for small, cash-poor countries. Probably not much motivation to stop it besides, well, things like the topic of this article.
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by wjn0 7y ago
If genes are the data, then methylation is more like an additional piece of metadata directing the cell (potentially different across cells) how to use the data. One possible use for this metadata is potentially error correction, but it doe
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by wjn0 7y ago
A few questions that might help people answer better: 1. Where do you currently live? 2. What country/countries do you have citizenship for? 3. Do you have the equivalent of (what we would call in the US/Canada) a high school dipl
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by wjn0 7y ago
What you're talking about is counterfactual inference, which is a non-trivial problem even in well-controlled settings. The effect of large-scale protests would probably be very difficult to quantify with the rigour you're alludin
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by wjn0 7y ago
Well of course it's within the government's purview, but we have to draw a line between law enforcement and military-run surveillance somewhere, and it seems to me drug enforcement (violent or not) falls staunchly within the forme
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by wjn0 7y ago
Is anyone else extremely bothered by the false equivalence of narcotics trafficking and the need for homeland security? This blurring of the lines between a multi-billion dollar _business_ (probably around 1% of the world's GDP) that i
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by wjn0 7y ago
It's not immediately clear to me that the energy involved in creating a "more controlled environment" would make the investment a net positive.
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by wjn0 7y ago
Is this a joke? I mean, I understand the sentiment, and agree with it, but (probably unfortunately) the current value of education is more highly correlated with the ability to _prove_ that one is educated than education itself - the "
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by wjn0 7y ago
Lots of people in this thread talking about the quality of the customer support here, and I think they're missing the point. The support staff seems to be doing their best to provide reasonable explanations for the changes. But there&#

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