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Can't we use Claude to figure this out

Except that note-taking systems are meant to help you organize your own mind and understand the world better. Offloading tasks to AI won't help you with that.

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Much needed, as we only had 450,000 apps to choose from before. /s

Well this is a problem worthy of an Ig Nobel.

"I can do anything I want. It's just bits. You don't own me." Fair enough! x-D

I think this problem is at least in part due to the hypothesis testing concept itself. Classical hypothesis testing is asymmetric: there is a "null" hypothesis, which is typically …

So he proved his point! :)

Reading this I couldn't help thinking of the epicycle theory of planetary motion. Under the holy assumption that planets had to move in perfect circles, people invented increasingl…

Second that! (No pun intended.) Dunno how many times I have had to explain to people that the kWh is an amount, not a rate.

The yoctomole is a wonderful unit, for example when you want just slightly more than half a cup of coffee! But the mole as a "counting unit" is different from OP's idea of assignin…

Just a reminder that "70% higher risk" is a relative value describing the _fractional_ increase in risk. In absolute terms, the probability of developing Parkinson's (prevalence) w…

Yuval Noah Harari argues that AI has hacked the operating system of human civilisation. Storytelling computers will change the course of human history, says the historian and philo…

'Like bro, you want to do stuff with “diffusion models”? You don’t even know how to add two normal distributions together! You ain’t diffusing shit!' This made me laugh :) I'm in a…

From my location in Sweden, sputniknews.com is currently available but www.rt.com is not (error 403). Probably sputnik will go away as well, as the EU ban on these outlets is "expe…

I tried to pay attention to this piece, but the website kept trying to open a pop-up every half minute. After five or so interruptions, I gave up :-/

Increasing automation to push prices might keep the factories within the country, but it won't save manufacturing jobs.

Well I'm no economist, but this seems inevitable if (1) consumers want cheap products and (2) production is cheaper elsewhere. Given those conditions, any company that wants to sur…

Isn't the whole point of graph databases that they can traverse graph edges efficiently by following pointers to nodes, which relational databases can't do? Then it seems a bit str…

No, I think you must estimate p only using the cohort where people were not treated, otherwise you will underestimate the population fraction. In order to test if the null hypothes…

Well, given that 90/15000 = 0.6% in the control group developed the disease, you can consider the vaccine group as a Bernouili trial of n = 15000 with probability p = 0.6%. Then th…