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DanAndersen

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    That's true -- though the figure you're linking focuses specifically on measles cases rather than overall mortality, which is what the OP article is focusing on. (as an aside, it's…

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    Very good link. I think a lot of people get intimidated by the idea of emergency preparedness because it feels like such a big, overwhelming thing to deal with. One cause of this i…

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    Comment #21560798

    Agreed, the GPS priors are very helpful -- the ability to specify prior known positions/orientations of photos, to some known error tolerances, is one of the power features in Agis…

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    Comment #19750992

    Perhaps an AI-assisted version of Ben Folds' "composing a symphony on-stage"? [0] [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BytUY_AwTUs

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    Comment #19727539

    What should be the exact dollar amount to avoid "looking like he's using it to drum up publicity"? You presumably have some idea of what the "right answer" is since your gut is tel…

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    Additionally, what I find particularly frightening and unsettling is the possibility that we'll never be able to know just how harmful microplastics are, due to the rapid loss of a…

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    This is true, which is why machine learning has long since learned to not even think of what you describe as a meaningful measure of accuracy. If you look at the linked paper [0], …

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    Comment #19623744

    A question for anyone who does collecting of stamps/coins/baseball cards, etc.: How do you deal with / feel about the trend of the creators of the collected items making things spe…

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    Comment #19443390

    If you list job requirements, make them actual requirements and don't try to upsell the talent you get by exaggerating the requirements. Some applicants are naturally more haggle-f…

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    To any Google employees who read HN: please raise this general issue in your internal groups and try to push to change this culture of faceless algorithmic decision making. Compani…

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    >Is this research somehow tied into the relationship between UI and imaging AR head mounted displays or are you focussing on tablet/phone AR? It's focused on having virtual/AR cont…

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    As someone doing AR research, I can definitely echo the importance of higher FOV for getting closer to the "holograms." I am currently doing some investigations involving tracked h…

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    Far be it from me to fall into the "everything I don't like is a Russian/Chinese covert action" conspiracy theorizing that is increasingly common these days -- but if I were an adv…

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