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read up on what confidence intervals are.

I like the idea, but I am pessimistic. The more experienced I get (aka getting older), the more I see administrative bloating as the cancer of institutions---a somewhat equally ine…

The abstract indicates that there was no control group without treatment, but two groups given two different mushroom combos. As such, the "baseline" clearance is not revealed by t…

can the generated tree be downloaded in some common format? I could not find any option like that.

> eBay says that it is removing and blocking “more than 99.9%” of the listings cited by the DOJ. Is this an admission?

Thank you.

The company announced yesterday that its CEO of five years, Kevin Johnson, is stepping down.

> the lower average distance has indeed decreased Yes, that was indeed the point I was trying to convey! In an even sillier example, assume word vectors X, then calculate "proposal…

yes, that's what i meant by range.

As others have said, the usage of similar words is no convincing evidence for homogenized ideas. I would like to add that the publication referred to in the article notes that ther…

Indeed. Yet, this graph shows the distribution of averages. See the x-axis. I didn't want to be so blunt, but due to its shoddy presentation, I cannot trust what this page is showi…

Hmm that chart is also pretty weird. What is any one salary on this chart averaged over? States? Years?

They, in poor form, report the "average" without explicitly specifying if they are referring to the mean or the median. Your perception would be shared by the majority of people if…

Why even ask for a grant proposal? Require some evidence that the applicant is serious, and then let luck decide. You might be suggesting this already (but your last sentence read …

While the vitamin D result was significant, this is not a slam dunk result. 123 (treatment) vs 155 (placebo) had a confirmed autoimmune disease. Low incidence rate with a small eff…

It is pretty obviously so, and it's also not controversial really. e.g. https://www.channelnewsasia.com/commentary/covid-omicron-var... >Do the unvaccinated populations fuel the em…

Lol, right---I did not recognize this as the agent of one of the "deadliest pandemics" starting in 1889 (Wikipedia) in history. But what is your point? Are you of the opinion that …

That virus has also not caused a global, multi-year long pandemic. In this context, your reference seems tangential to me. Vaccinations ought to reduce SARS-CoV-2 variant emergence…

I agree with this, and I do not think it contradicts my original statement. You cannot prevent new variants, but you can reduce the rate of their emergence. The paper you cite supp…

Interesting. Indeed animal hosts could be problem. I would counter two points: 1) Assuming animals were a major source of variants, it quantitatively but not qualitatively changes …

I think the hospital capacity is a key argument indeed. But there is another aspect to consider. Each viral replication is a potential event where a new variant can arise, thus the…

That does not follow in any way, and is just plain wrong.