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xyz100

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    Comment #48610620

    An adverbial clause at the front of a sentence should have a comma? Or is that not what it is?

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    Comment #48149931

    Do Apple Watches sufficiently track sleep apnea? Or is going in for a sleep study the only way to get a decent signal of if one is suffering from sleep apnea?

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    Comment #48149617

    It seems the case. I used to think weed was for enlightened individuals given how it was portrayed as a natural alternative to pharmaceuticals (e.g., for pain or psychological reas…

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    Comment #48145501

    Alternatively, you win the highest prize in your field and the only path you see forward is solving the most impossible problem in the field, which of course you will fail to do.

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    Comment #47666241

    Since I am hitting the reply depth: You “solve” a dataset or task when you translate some model into actual real world problems by creating a model that actually “works” (not just …

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    Comment #47665078

    If you want to be literal with language, then do you ever really “solve” anything? Even tying your shoes is not solved. One day you may tie them better, but for practical purposes …

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    Comment #47654539

    MNIST (the number classification task) has been “solved” a billion times and it is hard to imagine any subsequent advances there as scores using a variety of methods have hit the s…

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    Comment #47646431

    You solve a dataset when you learn what there is to learn about the phenomenon of interest. The limit of such phenomenon is “cure all disease”, and clearly this is not solving that…

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    Comment #47639772

    What makes this dataset or problem worth solving compared to other health datasets? Would the results on this task be broadly useful to health?