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Comment · 2 years ago
Triton has an AMD backend, although work is still ongoing.
Comment · 4 years ago
Schmidhuber has written about recursive self-improvement since his diploma thesis in the 80s: "Evolutionary principles in self-referential learning, or on learning how to learn: The meta-meta-... hook".
Your quote sounds like it could just as well have been from that thesis.
Comment · 4 years ago
Poland will definitely accept them, they have publicly stated so.
Comment · 4 years ago
Myocarditis isn't that dangerous, it's acute and can be managed. Infection is much more risky.
Comment · 4 years ago
I wish that people who say things like "learn to live with it" actually meant it. We do indeed need to learn from the past two years, and that will result in something quite different from pretending that we're still in 2019.
Comment · 4 years ago
Zeynep has been wrong so many times during the pandemic that it hurts. She will not admit to it, though. She claimed that the Delta variant would end the pandemic, in the same way it is claimed for Omicron now. She's very naive about how the immune system works.
Her writing is generally more propaganda than science.
Comment · 4 years ago
This seems very similar to the research program led by the late Patrick Henry Winton: https://groups.csail.mit.edu/genesis/index.html
Besides, I wish that causality had been mentioned more than once in passing. Due to the existence of the ladder of causality, many important queries cannot be answered by mere observation, or even by intervention; such queries require counterfactual reasoning, and structural causal models generalize because they describe something that is very invariant in the world.
Comment · 5 years ago
They're processed foods, but not ultra-processed. Generally that means advanced factory processes and chemicals that are only used in industrial settings. Factory made bread is likely to be ultra-processed, however.
Comment · 5 years ago
The smog is just the Chinese cloud.
Comment · 5 years ago
Sounds like a case of Goodhart's law,
"Any observed statistical regularity will tend to collapse once pressure is placed upon it for control purposes."
Comment · 5 years ago
Semantic Scholar exists, and does a decent job mostly, in my opinion.
Comment · 5 years ago
If heavy consumers under-reported in an observational study, that would make drinking less seem worse than it really is.
Comment · 5 years ago
But that amount is based on available research, so what is your point? See e.g. https://www.jacc.org/doi/full/10.1016/j.jacc.2017.07.710
Comment · 5 years ago
https://www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.jacc.2017.06.054
What do you make of studies such as this? Their baseline was strictly lifetime abstainers, absolutely no people who stopped drinking for medical reasons. Still, moderate drinking results in lower all-cause mortality.
Comment · 5 years ago
Lowering your expected lifetime probably also lowers your expected time until disease.