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lofatdairy

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About lofatdairy

Interests: healthcare, bioinformatics, literary criticism, history, chess.

Trying to work on my writing. Training to become a physician-scientist.

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    I mean its fair to say that its deliberately on the nose. However, I would argue that despite being definitionally correct, Palantir still represents a misinterpretation by discard…

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    >Postmodernism did indeed follow modernism and come into being as a reaction to modernism. I definitely agree that, strictly speaking, postmodernism is a somewhat loose label for a…

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    Comment #47290012

    This is only tangentially related, but regarding: >>Post-modern?! >It's a joke. If Neovim is the modern Vim, then Helix is post-modern. It's interesting that postmodern is so often…

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    Comment #45324539

    There's a weird intersection in ultra-elitism where true blue-blooded snobbery is indistinguishable from middle-class envy.

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    Comment #44030164

    It's a good video. He based his work on / followed the protocol described in the Nature paper published by the lab mentioned in the article ( https://www.nature.com/articles/nature…

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    Comment #43655969

    Completely agree, I think that an abundance of caution is extremely important to practice when engaging with these systems, especially given the political climate. I just think tha…

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    Comment #43655649

    You're missing the point. Obviously people need to be careful right now. But framing this situation as the fault of victims rather than the fault of bad policy makes it seem like b…

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    Comment #43655304

    I think this is placing the blame on the victims rather than the policies that are actually allowing these things to happen. Like the PI clearly made a mistake, but it's a minor on…

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    Comment #42309976

    I mean I still think this is a good idea. Seems like a combination of poor communication and probably an incomplete understanding of edge cases but illegal parking is a huge proble…

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    Comment #41460935

    To be clear, I don't think anyone distrusts the benchmarking work nor even the reported architecture, but also no one should need to operate on faith when it comes to work that pre…

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    Comment #41449684

    I mean it shouldn't be enough to publish in nature. The whole point of science is that it can be validated. It's totally fine that they're hosting their models for free on closed s…

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    Comment #40538325

    I meant complicated as in not necessarily good/bad. I agree it's not complicated in the general sense that it's an intrinsic part of supply and demand. That said it's definitely mo…

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    Comment #40535255

    I didn't see anyone saying induced demand in and of itself is the thing being avoided, just that induced demand for driving caused by highway construction is being avoided, as this…

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    Comment #40517790

    Fountain Pen Hospital in NYC is also pretty good. Kolkata is probably a lot less expensive though haha

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    Comment #39820661

    I feel like stock counts haven't really been considered in this modeling which is fairly non-trivial as each outcome isn't as binary as rock-paper-scissors. There's an argument to …

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    Comment #39454714

    Idk, this article seems like it's from the perspective of someone either entirely removed from subculture, or like, just failed to think clearly about the intersection of online sp…

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    Comment #39400126

    Better reference would be an ELISA test (which is actually brought up as the reference in the paper)[^1]. That seems to also run about $5 per kit per antigen[^2]. However this devi…

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    Comment #39400072

    Sensitivity matters in this case because the medium is saliva which contains a fraction of the antigens contained in serum. Specificity is challenging when the biomarkers are non-s…

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    Comment #39399688

    I appreciate the links but I think this actually misses the point. The novelty isn't in diagnosis of cancer but in sensitivity/cost-efficacy in detection of known biomarkers for br…

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    Comment #39269660

    Wow, I love how the physical copies of Fabrica are as interesting as their author and their historical context and importance to Western medicine. Another interesting copy is the o…

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    Comment #39225024

    Similar thing in nyc where columbia and nyu are facing property taxes.

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    Comment #39045970

    Say what you want about Facebook, the size of their dataset and computational resources definitely make them competitive, and their data science and ML teams have been always top n…

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    Comment #38916289

    I think pretendo kinda does this? Someone who's more familiar should probably confirm/give caveats but I believe at the very least there are tools to pull down courses + metadata, …

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    Comment #38914408

    On my end as well, Mac + safari