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It is unfortunate that the only way to get through the regulatory process is copious $ - but it does work. If this project were better funded, it would likely have gotten through. …

My perception is that the parent commenter is referring at least partly to "subcriminal" or nearly subcriminal behaviour. There is/was nowhere to "put" this kind of individual when…

I really want to know this, too.

This is cool. I hooked up Llama to an open-source TTS model for a recent project and there was lots of fun engineering that went into it. On a different note: I think the most usef…

Prior evidence suggests that sedentary behaviour increases blood biomarkers of cardiometabolic dysfunction. They studied a hunter-gatherer tribe in Tanzania and found that despite …

Eh, with one confirmed injury, I'm comfortable calling it "conceivable". The testimony of the injured worker in that case even reflects the fact that a spiked tree does not guarant…

Tree spiking is one example of this. It's so common as to be illegal in the United States [1]. Unfortunately, without strict worker protections, it's conceivable that workers would…

IANAL, so I genuinely can't answer that, but in this particular case I'd hope so, yes. More generally, I suspect circumstance dictates. Prosecutors' responsibilities under Brady do…

I think there's good evidence that by the time it reaches common use, it will be used that way. Consider ShotSpotter, which uses an array of microphones in an urban environment to …

Nope, you're thinking of regression coefficients, where you'd be correct that usually the null hypothesis is $\beta = 0$. In this case, what's being reported are odds ratios, so th…

Any evidence for them being a fad? I definitely remember my parents' generation having dedicated one-on-one meetings with their managers on a regular basis, regardless of what fiel…

Even in Western medicine (at the research stage, at least), that is not necessarily true in patients suffering from certain conditions. There is some evidence (in the sense of evid…

Yeah, that's a fair point, and I agree. I don't think it's ideal.

Hm, in what way do you find that DVC requires creating new branches for experiment tracking? I find the following workflow works well, for example: 1. Define steps depending on a `…

A timely study, certainly. It's important to note that risk factors for mortality overlap significantly with the risk factors for other serious adverse events (see e.g. disability …

I wrote some Python code recently that uses a similar data structure (Futures instead of Promises, without knowing necessarily about the data structure's use in JavaScript). It was…

Thanks for your comment. I'm also a computational biologist by training, but have never worked in the private sector. I'm familiar with the idea of re-purposing drugs for rare dise…

Sure, but to what end? The posture of the current government of Ukraine is quite pro-EU, and the people of Ukraine tend to agree (although I suppose one could argue that these surv…

Sorry, I hit submit before realizing it might seem rhetorical. I've updated it to clarify that no, it was not purely rhetorical, even though I doubt the veracity of the claims in t…

What would be the motivation for American/European officials fabricating a story about the Russian military escalating the war in Ukraine? I don't think this article is credible, b…

This is awesome to see! I had a very similar idea recently (representing "big" preprocessing pipelines in Python as DAGs), but for research-scale projects. Funnily enough, I was al…

Thanks very much for answering! Sorry, if I'd had the foresight to use a throwaway I'd drop a link to our group, but I prefer not to publicly associate my HN account with work. We'…

This is really interesting as someone who works as part of a group who takes products similar to this to market! Thank you for sharing. You mentioned the medication is as effective…

Yeah, I agree completely. Pre-made Anki decks vary in quality. Some are great. But none that I've found have the "themes" that personally keep me motivated to language learn long t…