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by wxnx 2y ago
It is unfortunate that the only way to get through the regulatory process is copious $ - but it does work. If this project were better funded, it would likely have gotten through. There is an entire political party representing something li
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by wxnx 3y ago
My perception is that the parent commenter is referring at least partly to "subcriminal" or nearly subcriminal behaviour. There is/was nowhere to "put" this kind of individual when they come from these settings, for
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by wxnx 3y ago
I really want to know this, too.
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by wxnx 3y ago
This is cool. I hooked up Llama to an open-source TTS model for a recent project and there was lots of fun engineering that went into it. On a different note: I think the most useful coding copilot tools for me reduce "manual overhead&
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by wxnx 3y ago
Prior evidence suggests that sedentary behaviour increases blood biomarkers of cardiometabolic dysfunction. They studied a hunter-gatherer tribe in Tanzania and found that despite having similar patterns of sedentary behaviour, their blood
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by wxnx 3y ago
Eh, with one confirmed injury, I'm comfortable calling it "conceivable". The testimony of the injured worker in that case even reflects the fact that a spiked tree does not guarantee injury or death to the operator -- indeed,
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by wxnx 3y ago
Tree spiking is one example of this. It's so common as to be illegal in the United States [1]. Unfortunately, without strict worker protections, it's conceivable that workers would be the ones to pay for their employers' (or
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by wxnx 3y ago
IANAL, so I genuinely can't answer that, but in this particular case I'd hope so, yes. More generally, I suspect circumstance dictates. Prosecutors' responsibilities under Brady do seem to be a topic of conversation in the co
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by wxnx 3y ago
I think there's good evidence that by the time it reaches common use, it will be used that way. Consider ShotSpotter, which uses an array of microphones in an urban environment to detect gunshots (and often then deploy officers to the
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by wxnx 3y ago
Nope, you're thinking of regression coefficients, where you'd be correct that usually the null hypothesis is $\beta = 0$. In this case, what's being reported are odds ratios, so the null hypothesis would be that OR = 1. The p
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by wxnx 3y ago
Any evidence for them being a fad? I definitely remember my parents' generation having dedicated one-on-one meetings with their managers on a regular basis, regardless of what field they were working in (skilled labourers, but none of
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by wxnx 4y ago
Even in Western medicine (at the research stage, at least), that is not necessarily true in patients suffering from certain conditions. There is some evidence (in the sense of evidence-based medicine) that a low-FODMAP (fermentable *sacchar
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by wxnx 4y ago
Yeah, that's a fair point, and I agree. I don't think it's ideal.
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by wxnx 4y ago
Hm, in what way do you find that DVC requires creating new branches for experiment tracking? I find the following workflow works well, for example: 1. Define steps depending on a `config.yml`. 2. Run an initial experiment (with an initial c
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by wxnx 4y ago
A timely study, certainly. It's important to note that risk factors for mortality overlap significantly with the risk factors for other serious adverse events (see e.g. disability status [1], or HELPP syndrome [2]). In a sense, mortali
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by wxnx 4y ago
I wrote some Python code recently that uses a similar data structure (Futures instead of Promises, without knowing necessarily about the data structure's use in JavaScript). It wasn't really for caching. I modeled mine on the Djan
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by wxnx 5y ago
Thanks for your comment. I'm also a computational biologist by training, but have never worked in the private sector. I'm familiar with the idea of re-purposing drugs for rare disease treatments (most of my adjacent work has been
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by wxnx 5y ago
Sure, but to what end? The posture of the current government of Ukraine is quite pro-EU, and the people of Ukraine tend to agree (although I suppose one could argue that these surveys are biased?).
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by wxnx 5y ago
Sorry, I hit submit before realizing it might seem rhetorical. I've updated it to clarify that no, it was not purely rhetorical, even though I doubt the veracity of the claims in the article.
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by wxnx 5y ago
What would be the motivation for American/European officials fabricating a story about the Russian military escalating the war in Ukraine? I don't think this article is credible, but my question above is asked in good faith. There
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by wxnx 5y ago
This is awesome to see! I had a very similar idea recently (representing "big" preprocessing pipelines in Python as DAGs), but for research-scale projects. Funnily enough, I was also motivated by a time series project that has res
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Research Reveals Inherent AI Gender Bias In Identifying PPE Masks(wundermanthompson.com)
1 points by wxnx 5y ago|0 comments
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by wxnx 5y ago
Thanks very much for answering! Sorry, if I'd had the foresight to use a throwaway I'd drop a link to our group, but I prefer not to publicly associate my HN account with work. We're a small team of software and data engineer
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by wxnx 5y ago
This is really interesting as someone who works as part of a group who takes products similar to this to market! Thank you for sharing. You mentioned the medication is as effective in women as it is in men. While I understand men are unders
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by wxnx 5y ago
Yeah, I agree completely. Pre-made Anki decks vary in quality. Some are great. But none that I've found have the "themes" that personally keep me motivated to language learn long term.
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Talking to science deniers and sceptics is not hopeless(nature.com)
1 points by wxnx 5y ago|0 comments
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by wxnx 5y ago
I work on large multi-center clinical trials as a machine learning engineer. One of my projects involves the semi-automation of the detection of fraudulent data. There's one link in the chain here missing that some people here seem to
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by wxnx 5y ago
I think the evidence is pretty much in on that -- namely, yes, if your data is too small, a reasonably large neural net (a.k.a. basically any computer vision model from the last 3-4 years) is perfectly capable of memorizing the training ima
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by wxnx 5y ago
The notion of a standard language is a modern idea (not in the sense of modern vs. postmodern, but historically). The idea that the only valid basis for distinguishing between dialects is geography strikes me as odd, but suppose we accept i
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by wxnx 5y ago
There's confounding here that you're ignoring. For reference, I'm a machine learning research scientist who started in bioinformatics, initially lured by the possibility of a machine learning solution to the protein folding p

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