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craigdalton

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About craigdalton

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    Comment #46913044

    As a doctor, this sounds like an engineers job.

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    Comment #46440672

    How will you do this, one author I don't trust (sent them an error they missed in their paper - didnt correct it, has systemic bias in their writing) was invited to write a review …

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    Comment #46440044

    The personas have to paper specific I believe, addressing the content and methods. I guess an LLM could do a once over of the paper or meta-analysis to determine the best disciplin…

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    Comment #46440012

    I really disagree with this and there is ample evidence that science is not "self-correcting". Read Retraction Watch. I personally wrote to a journal on 3 occassions and phoned the…

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    Comment #46432920

    Excuse the blunt metaphor, but there is a risk here of turning on a fire-hose of "fresh" garbage. John Ioannidis, one of the doyens of evidence based medicine very persuasively arg…

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    Comment #46273240

    Where do you submit the one month free trial code on the site?

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    Comment #46014373

    "The universe they operate in isn’t a world—it’s a superposition of countless incompatible snippets of text. It has no unified physics, no consistent ontology, no object permanence…

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    Comment #44036684

    How about fines go into a sovereign wealth fund (but not be seen as major source for the fund- more a bonus) so there is no short term budget planning based on fine revenue.

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    Comment #43984076

    I don't think this is new. When I moved from Australia to America in 1992, I was struck by the much greater identification with cultural ideas rather than wealth and class compared…

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    Comment #43740818

    Anyone interested in the history of English dialects will love The Story of English, BBC 1986. Some snippets of recorded speech showing the evolution of the language and proximitie…

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    Comment #43533157

    There are well established hierarchies of evidence in health studies and this study would rank as low quality evidence due to inability to control for other factors. See https://gd…

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    Comment #43514156

    How are you defining "accuracy" - recruitment success takes weeks to months to assess new recruit fit.

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    Comment #42682307

    With an average US blood lead level of about 1 microgram per deciliter, an increase of 76% is still less than 2 micrograms per deciliter which would have an imperceptible impact on…

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    Comment #42682250

    They could just report their findings to the FDA if above allowable limits.

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    Comment #41099578

    To clarify, my prompt was: "Please search for events of animal to human transmission of avian influenza H5N1 in the USA since March 2024." Same verbatim search in Google - top resu…

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    Comment #41099564

    I would really like this to work - lots of public health applications monitoring for events - but it didnt work for the query below - any idea why not, I thought the prompt would b…

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    Comment #41013376

    Wasn't that revolutionary from an "isolation" perspective. There had been people waking around with small "pocket" radios with earphones for maybe a decade before Walkman was relea…

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    Comment #39474469

    Maybe go forward positively, suggest to your client that you believe the product is worth much more and you will be developing a newer better version for a wider conference market …

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    Comment #39271005

    Would you be willing provide a live demo (via web interface) - as a preludebto providing a similar training bot as a consultant?

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    Comment #39151347

    BIT my tongue. Maybe should have written "your own fears", not just neurotic fears, hard to differentiate really.

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    Comment #39151320

    As a parent of twenty somethings,I would advise parents not to pressure their kids to do anything much unless it's really stupid dangerous (not just dangerous). Wouldn't/didn't pre…