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Comment · 2 months ago
Comment · 4 months ago
> The document is literally made for you to read...

It’s disingenuous to assume every PDF is actually crafted to communicate to its recipients, even more so to pretend LLM users are in a position to understand all the PDFs they receive

There’s a lot of gray area where help understanding a document is fully reasonable

Comment · 5 months ago
Can’t claim to know for sure, but I’d assume some kind of measurement limitations: the resolution and upper/lower limits of pulse ox are probably calibrated to some medical need, not to detect changes beyond what’s medically necessary
Comment · 5 months ago
Comment · 8 months ago
Ah, yes, part one of the ole

That didn't happen. And if it did, it wasn't that bad. And if it was, that's not a big deal. And if it is, that's not the IDF's fault. And if it was, they didn't mean it. And if they did, Gaza deserved it.

Comment · 8 months ago
Seems like you’re asking “what’s the point of investigating crimes against humanity?”

And if that’s a question you have to ask, then clearly something is very wrong.

Comment · 1 year ago
Definitely a unicorn success story. I’d be curious about Balatro in a similar vein—-labor of love turns wildly successful
Comment · 1 year ago
Their job, in this case, is probably more of a signal than a clear indicator

Plenty of front-running companies have hired plenty of…not-solid or excessively imaginative data scientists

From what the other comments say, this one seems to lack a grounding in science itself, which frankly is par for the course depending on their background

Comment · 1 year ago
I understand the strategy isn’t to find a niche in the sense of a specific set of users, but to broaden and cover more niches

The niches exist (overlapping niches aside), but agree with the skepticism since I also wonder whether the switching cost is worthwhile for many users

Comment · 1 year ago
Not completely—as far as ecosystems there are RStudio addins, but I wouldn’t bet addins are extensively used
Comment · 1 year ago
Computation isn’t likely prohibitive when using the bedrock of predictive models, linear regression, especially w some optimization. Could also vary observation time so you only need a prediction once every ten minutes or whatever

The real issue is the cost of false positive detection of cheating is negligible since the vast majority of positives are probably true positives—it’s the cost of doing anti-cheat business (minimal)

But yes cheats would be modified to just below thresholds of detection

Comment · 1 year ago
Could you share a reference for those wanting to learn more?
Comment · 2 years ago
Had a lot of fun reading this. I’d love to see some of the author’s code to get a sense what the journey produced, if that’s even possible
Comment · 2 years ago
I’m not sure why you’re confused.

An occupying force holding its own elections in an occupied place is indeed illegal (your reference was about Israeli people holding elections in the Golan heights).

Comparing an _occupied_ people’s attempt to hold elections in the occupied place (Palestinian people in Palestine) to two separate non-occupied states (USA and Canada) is nonsense.

Hope that helps.

Comment · 2 years ago
That second study didn’t use as robust of methods as the first, and they each used observational data that benefit from advanced methods (propensity score analysis).

With an RCT, the evidence is substantially increased.

I’d conclude sildenafil reduces risk of age-associated cognitive decline

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