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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47676174 Dropbox is a lot more than file storage. The syncing itself has been through serious tests to characterise its behaviour. Sure, some m…

There was a discussion of a self-built dropbox on the frontpage ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47673394 ). This is just to show that dropbox is thoroughly tested for all ki…

Actually it can. See https://youtu.be/FUQwijSDzg8?si=LWd5gVNYRd3HH9rJ Or just search for the James-Stein paradox.

For (1) you can prepay i think up to 10 years? And every year you just prepay 1 year again and you will have 10 years to remember that you forgot to pay a domain registration bill.…

Well a good surveyor would take into account order effects, i.e. the order in which questions were asked for example using Latin square designs.

The thing is that with such a sample, we don't really know 1. If the effect is real. i.e. had the patient not been given the injection, would his/her condition improve spontaneousl…

N=1 study should not have made it into headlines. > Although the research marks a milestone in the search for treatments of type 1 diabetes, it’s important to note that the study i…

And also have parity built in for file recovery. The alternative will be to use par2 to create parity files.

Just have sane firewall rules and you are good. E.g. if I install openssh-server and it auto starts, it doesn't make it out of my machine because my nftables does not allow inbound…

causal inference with GenAI

It swings both ways. In some circles, logistic regression is AI, in others, only AGI is AI.

There are many reasons this comparison is not made. I will just touch on one. The target medium is different. For html, you have monitors of different sizes as well as windows that…

browser() ?

Granger's causality is a very restrictive and incomplete view of causality. Pearl's counterfactual system with do calculus is a more general way to think about causality. This SURD…

I have not found an employer that values skills in multiple languages + quick at learning new ones. I assume these are the basic req for your type of work. Please share if you can …

I am quite curious about your approach, Do you have an example code somewhere?

Mindstorms is an example of what did not work. I want to provide an example of what does. BBC microbits. It has a visual programming interface that is translatable to python or Jav…

For this problem specifically, I have found that turning off auto mic volume helps to eliminate the "mute for first x secs if speaking".

The claim may just be a result of how cause of death is determined.

The screening target should be for malignant cancers, not all cancers.

Use this to get the functionality without setting up a windows server instance https://github.com/kimmknight/remoteapptool

I can't find a privacy policy and it's free so...

one reason is to make sure that the best and brightest are distributed amongst different industries.