jrfinkel

You must not be trying very hard. Open the report and zoom in on the graph if you want better resolution. Its pretty clear that the red bars are deaths, the blue bars are cases, and the grey curve is the R0 (range).

How is it anti-science when they are literally quoting a report from the Norwegian public health authority: ‘It looks as if the effective reproduction rate had already dropped to around 1.1 when the most comprehensive measures were implemented on 12 March, and that there would not be much to push it down below 1… We have seen in retrospect that the infection was on its way down.’

Are you saying that their public health authority is anti-science?

I don’t think anyone is claiming that it suppressed and contained itself. They’re claiming it’s more widespread and more mild. There’s a good graphic in the economist article showing two different peaks that look the same early on.

"It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission" is actually a Grace Hopper quote, so not Silicon Valley. Depending on the circumstances, it can be good advice.

And "move fast and break things" was about code, not about the world at large. It's a coding "philosophy" for getting shit done, that worked very well for Facebook and did not actually harm people.

"Some will abuse this." LOL, yeah I'm gonna deal with 9 months of pregnancy, and then several months of recovery, and then raise a kid for 18+ years just so I can get that sweet, sweet leave.

Do people not realize that leave benefits are necessary if you wish to attract high skill workers?

Merging is pretty simple, and could probably use a little more TLC. The way we do it is that when we get a new document in the system, if the similarity score is above some threshold for documents in two different clusters we will consider merging those clusters. We then make the yes/no decision by comparing random documents from both clusters and averaging the scores, but the threshold we use here is a bit lower than the non-merging decisions (since we have the additional information of this new document doing a good job of linking the clusters).

1. We do ingest multiple documents in parallel, but we also have a system in place for merging clusters, so it ends up not being a problem. 2. Pure hackery. Tweak, look at data, repeat.