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(Author here.) I completely agree on the cognitive dissonance of whether lockdown was the right move. I don’t even think it’s just politicians, but also people. Everyone has invest…

You must not be trying very hard. Open the report and zoom in on the graph if you want better resolution. Its pretty clear that the red bars are deaths, the blue bars are cases, an…

How is it anti-science when they are literally quoting a report from the Norwegian public health authority: ‘It looks as if the effective reproduction rate had already dropped to a…

I don’t think anyone is claiming that it suppressed and contained itself. They’re claiming it’s more widespread and more mild. There’s a good graphic in the economist article showi…

One of the study authors addressed this on Twitter. It’s certainly not hard proof, but 8 million extra cases would be a whole lot of hypochondriacs. Thread is short and worth a rea…

I don’t think it’s that simple about the tests. They’re less accurate than people think. Here’s one article about it (if you google you can find more): https://www.wsj.com/articles…

Here’s a preprint of the actual paper: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.01.20050542v...

"It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission" is actually a Grace Hopper quote, so not Silicon Valley. Depending on the circumstances, it can be good advice. And "m…

"Some will abuse this." LOL, yeah I'm gonna deal with 9 months of pregnancy, and then several months of recovery, and then raise a kid for 18+ years just so I can get that sweet, s…

Glad you're liking it! I'm one of the backend engineers who designed the system. We devoted a good chunk of time this year to improving our relevance algorithms, and I actually gav…

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Merging is pretty simple, and could probably use a little more TLC. The way we do it is that when we get a new document in the system, if the similarity score is above some thresho…

1. We do ingest multiple documents in parallel, but we also have a system in place for merging clusters, so it ends up not being a problem. 2. Pure hackery. Tweak, look at data, re…

Sometimes they're just rewrites of a press release - and those ones are easy to get right - but a lot of the time they really are totally different articles about the same event. G…

It's an in-house system similar to the one i built in grad school ( http://nlp.stanford.edu/ner/index.shtml ).

We actually do weight them differently, but the post was already pretty long so I had to gloss over some of the details.