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Logit is log odds, not log probability: logit(p) = log(p / 1 - p)

Some decision tree algorithms use it to decide what variable to split on when creating new branches.

Not necessarily. I don't know about other countries, but I remember there being a campaign here in Ireland (with one of the highest rates of cystic fibrosis in the world) to get Orkambi covered under the Drug Payment Scheme when it was new.

Opinion columns are not the same as editorials. But anyway, the Financial Times is well able to publish pieces that say "this currently profitable endeavour will blow up in everyone's faces". It's a serious newspaper.

HN is social media.

I also primarily write ML-focused Python. For me, having originally learned R and C at the same time, nothing has ever surpassed RStudio as a dev environment. For the past several years my preferred setup has been tmux and Vim with vim-slime in one pane and IPython in the other.

(Personally, and speaking only for myself, I hate Jupyter notebooks with a burning passion. I think they are one of the worst things ever to have happened to software development, and definitely the worst thing ever to have happened to ML/data science.)

Bit of a tangent maybe, but according to some expert I heard on the radio this morning, it's a submersible and not a submarine precisely because the vehicle is so totally dependant on the support ship. That includes everything from communication to getting in and out.

Surely you don't consider your grandparents' childhoods to be "eternity" ago.

It's not just about the USA. Twitter has to follow the law wherever it operates. The way the company went about announcing redundancies in the Dublin office could well fall foul of Irish employment law (IANAL etc), and people have legitimate cause for annoyance if Musk feels he's rich and powerful enough to get away with doing it anyway.

My GP has extra qualifications hanging on the wall for things like minor surgery, ear syringing, that kind of thing. Others near me would mention things like asthma treatment on the website. Beyond that kind of stuff you're not really dealing with General Practice anymore.

Genetics and psychology in particular seem way too specialised for a GP to be able to offer in any serious way. It's their job (for better or for worse) to refer you to the specialists once you need/want something outside of what a GP generally offers.

The EEC became the EU in 1993.

Scientists aren't a monolith though. There few better career boosts than proving everyone else wrong, and the satisfaction of poaching work off a competitor who messed up isn't restricted to any one industry. Research into dangerous viruses isn't going to stop, no matter what happened in Wuhan, and it's far from the only risky work going on in labs around the world anyway.

Whatever about the strength of the natural origin theory, the idea that there's a conspiracy of silence from all the scientists in the world (including ones who would love to give the Chinese authorities a black eye) just doesn't seem plausible. You said it yourself - all it takes is a single dissenter to bury a paper.

You can (almost) always buy CDs and rip them. I'd be mildly surprised if an artist was selling music without either a presence on Bandcamp or a store on their own website that you could download from.

I'm certain I've bought a handful of albums from Amazon and Google over the years that I've put onto various phones and MP3 players. Is that not possible anymore?

With Joyce it also helps if you're familiar with Dublin city accents.