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I have the opposite assumption: the raw data is usually more reliable than an editorial. And I confirmed it: the raw table is more reliable since it is the same survey across diffe…

Also the domain was registered 3 days ago (August 6th). An earlier version, doctorseb.com (which redirects to the website) was registered July 20th.

Your example is hogswash. Absolutely, the perceived long term value dropped 30% as people feared a million deaths (with lockdown) and dead bodies piling up outside hospitals across…

Some models were predicting multiple hundreds of thousands of deaths, with lockdown. The Imperial College model was predicting 1 million deaths, with lockdown. I completely agree c…

The explanation is very simple. The pandemic is not nearly as bad as people thought it would be in March. Models were predicting hundreds of thousands of deaths in the USA over the…

The WHO is no longer a trustworthy source. But this is still (mostly) correct, and it's not that hard to dive into the studies directly instead of appealing to authorities. All ind…

With the disclaimer that I'm only using Google Translate, it appears this document is from one hospital and is not a requirement, merely a guideline / informational document.

You can view Swedish ICU admissions data yourself here: https://www.icuregswe.org/en/data--results/covid-19-in-swedi... . New admissions to the ICU due to Covid-19 appear to be fla…

Yep. Obviously this is anecdotal and limited to my own social circles, but I live in the Bay Area, and almost everyone (90%+) I know in San Francisco does not own a car. The ones t…

Shorting a stock is not a basic feature, it's an advanced feature for power users. You can buy put options on Robinhood already.

They are not sealed from the ambient air (not usually), which is what this study is saying is where the bacteria comes from. Regardless of what common sense might say, the point is…

An interesting study, but I wouldn't read too much into it. Who's to say that paper towels don't collect and deposit just as much bacteria onto your hands?

I'm coming to the view that gig workers are neither employees nor independent contractors. Employees don't get to unilaterally set their own hours, and contractors don't get prices…

This is really interesting and thought-provoking, but I'm skeptical. 1. In my experience, each data source and each data format requires a lot of custom work. Each kind of predicti…

The interesting thing about the $3000 "upgrade" is that if you actually want to get it, I think you're better off taking the $3000 and investing it in Tesla. Assuming autonomy is m…

Right, but after 3-4 months of full time use (and it's not hard to use these full-time, since models can take days to train), you've spent more than if you just bought one outright…

1. I wouldn't take much away from the LSTM benchmark. It's more a benchmark of Keras since Keras only supports CuDNN's LSTM via Tensorflow right now. AFAIK CNTK does supports CuDNN…

When possible, most DL frameworks take advantage of Nvidia's specialized CuDNN libraries, which often provide a 10x+ speedup (and are obviously not available via WebGL). So at leas…

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I believe the pressure requirements were increased to combat the prevalence of this move. Watching Olympic fencing you don't see that many flicks anymore.

This article is not that detailed, but it's a sentiment I agree with, so I'll add one major shortcoming of Tensorflow: its memory usage is really bad. The default behavior of TF is…