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ChaseT

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    Comment #38758190

    Got curious about this too, there's some graphs of the relationships on page 992 and 993 of this paper https://www.resolutionmineeis.us/sites/default/files/referen...

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    Comment #38540322

    I've used Beeper for about a year with Facebook, Signal, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, and iMessage. Instagram signs me out once a month or so for security suspicions, but I just r…

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    Comment #35036028

    The course is free and funded by Open Philanthropy. It's not taught by James solely, but there's weekly discussion groups on readings chosen by a mix of alums from OpenAI and Oxfor…

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    Comment #24165987

    What a shame, especially that the dome reflector was damaged too. I remember visiting in person and being awestruck by the sheer size and engineering skill needed to make this. Plu…

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    Comment #24140675

    Unsure if you mean solution for migrating or solution for a good alternative platform, but Ghost has received a decent amount of praise. https://ghost.org/vs/medium/

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    Comment #22979038

    Making this worse, the final size of an epidemic can be estimated as not p=1-1/R0, but rather p=1-e^-R0 [1]. With this, those R0 estimates give a final infected population of 95%-~…

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    Comment #22845823

    My favorite quote from the article; "start off your book with a statement such as, 'None of the data in this book matters.' "

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    Comment #22543703

    We got similar news at Cornell today, with professors being advised to go online asap but will be forced to in early April which is also when students will be sent home. The proble…

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    Comment #22523742

    For reference, the generally accepted standard for determining age from blood is the Horvath clock [1]. It seems to be accurate and only uses a penalized regression. Keep in mind t…

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    Comment #21882493

    And 60+ years later their guess is semi-confirmed by this study; if humans want to be in space for a long time they'll need artificial gravity to avoid most of the harms mentioned …

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    Comment #21727346

    Does this violate any of the Google or Apple's Play Store TOS? People are calling for the government to step in but a quicker move would be to remove them from the app store; at le…

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    Comment #21184532

    I was in one of Hopcroft's courses (an author of this book) for a while and if this book is on brand with his style and fields of study, it's super theory heavy. You won't write a …

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    Comment #20945133

    Japan did negative interest rates in 2016. https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?stor...

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    Comment #18649123

    I think one of the takeaway's from Aaron's piece is that there IS no universally good source of information. That's okay, because the news you need to hear or that actually impacts…

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    Comment #18649068

    Having been introduced to this idea by CGPgrey on the Hello Internet podcast, I didn't know there was such a concise version of this idea written so well. I've tried to spread this…

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    Comment #18073199

    The Indicator and Planet Money are both great. They do a good job of explaining economic subjects from the yield curve to farming insurance for Africa in a fun/digestible way.

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    Comment #16614551

    I'm not the original commenter, but I could find it by getting your name from Github, then googling it. Your LinkedIn was the first result, and there was LA.

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    Comment #13108778

    NPR's Planet Money podcast did a story two months ago with the inventor of the self checkout machine, Howard Schneider. At the end of the end of the episode he was asked what his "…

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    Comment #11016082

    It was caused by a positive earnings report. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-17/google-app...