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> We don't really need truely objective assessments. As an analogy, imagine we randomly added or subtracted 3 minutes to the finishing times of all the runners in the Boston marathon. We wouldn't have a truely objective assessment of each runner, but it's still a useful guide about who is likely to beat whom in the next marathon.

I don't think the analogy fits. There's no single metric (like runner speed/time) to evaluate competence.

> This problem can be alleviated to a large degree by risk-adjusting the outcomes: For each patient, estimate the most likely outcome and compare the actual outcome to the estimate.

Agree.

> I don't see this as an insurmountable obstacle. For example, you could have an independent body randomly sample the reported outcomes to check that they are accurate, and apply some kind of penalty if they are not.

That would be a good solution. Part of the problem is finding a truely independent body. Medicine is over-run with various governance and regulatory bodies (several of which have been shown to be little more than rent collectors). And again, there's the problem of deference to eminence combined with small in-bred communities within each speciality or sub-specialty (who would likely be the only people with the training to evaluate their peers reliably).
I was just listing things that one could do, I'm not sure what the best strategy would be vs. Amazon.
If they get better it may be ok, but it was just too much. As I said - trying too hard
Another thing that seems pretty suspect is that this article makes no mention of ideas of empathy, emotion, or love. I don't have kids, but it seems a little cold to raise a child without an emphasis on understanding their emotions and the emotions of others. Teaching rationality is all well and good but it's no substitute for helping kids learn softer skills -- since the human interactions they facilitate in later life are probably more important than being able to solve a hard math problem.

Also the section that "Children Aren't Fragile" is a gross oversimplification. Kids are extremely fragile when it comes to things like neglect, abuse and instability in their environment.
There is a difference between the naive sample size (just your raw n value), and the information content of your sample size.

How many crashes has bitcoin had? Depending on how you measure it, somewhere between 3-10? And even then, these crashes varied in magnitude, and some occurred at times when bitcoin was fundamentally different than it is now.

The point is, you can have the richest data sources you want, at any time granularity, but you can't solve a hard information problem, which is that you only have a small small handful of true points to train on.

The rest of the training data is going to be extrapolating or learning from small movements, which should have different dynamics from crashes.
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The alternative is medicare for all bundled with something that looks like per capita allocations to take care of a patient population. Patients pay nothing at the point of service. Hospitals must drive down costs to make a profit. If they start cutting corners, they lose their bonuses. If they really aren't making enough money to do their job and can prove it to an independent board, their allocations can be increased. You can imagine some kind of bonus system based on YOY improvement or maintenance of patient outcomes.
My main problem is that, driven by emotion, the crew attempted to make a _logical_ argument, substantially based on fallacy ("these other species don't have this attribute you claim you have, so you mustn't either"). Their ultimate argument was, in the end, a pretty solid one, based on real evidence, however they didn't seem to bother looking for evidence until the very end, when all other avenues were exhausted. It wasn't a rational way to behave and I don't think this would have ever happened in TNG (did it? An episode doesn't come to mind).

In TNG, Data would also have found the whole thing very confusing and grounded the crew somewhat. Isaac was notably absent in this episode.

The ending was interesting and I think this episode could have been _much_ better if the rest of it was handled better but the irrational behaviour of the crew was so bad it broke the suspension of disbelief for me.

I may be naïve to think I can do better but I'd do it something like this:

- Crew asks, in a great deal of detail, what exactly the aliens believe the problem is and why they believe it's there

- Aliens respond with their concerns and that they are primarily based on custom/legend and there is no modern evidence

- Crew asks if it would be possible to gather evidence

- Aliens say no

- Crew tries to justify their search for evidence with the arguments presented in the episode as it was originally written

- Aliens rightly point out that those arguments are invalid, continue to say no

- Crew gathers evidence on their own, sneaking around and maybe getting in a bit of diplomatic trouble

- Crew finds evidence, makes argument

- Argument is overruled, episode keeps its nice ending
we just went for aiohttp. django channels didn't scale on even very simple benchmarks. while aiohttp didn't even sweat.

that said, making everything async in the python sync world was some effort. ;)
Good to know, thanks. I will actively avoid living in places (like AFAIK most of US/UK), where this isn't completely normal. In Switzerland, children are sent alone to (and prepared for) Kindergarden at age 6 - I hope that we'll be able to do that as well once my 2yo is at that age.
The 'Majority Rule' episode reminded me of Brexit vote.
First of all, Gödel talks about the provability of true statements in formal systems, not the explain-ability of laws, and second of all, in any nontrivial formal system there are things that can't be explained, namely the axioms.
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> Do you really think that surveillance like this gives the government any more power than it already has over the common person?

That's a truism. If we play Battleship and you can see my battleships but I can't see yours, who is going to win?

But your questioning of a truism makes me think you don't agree with a hidden premise of civic life: that there will be times where the citizenry will be rightfully at odds with law enforcement tasked with protecting it. Many stripes of civil disobedience depend on that hidden premise.

> Let's concern ourselves with electing good governments, not the capabilities they develop to defend us from criminals.

Unfortunately it doesn't work like that. Trusting a future elected "good government" to keep the FBI honest with their black box capabilities-- capabilities which they reflexively claim are necessary as currently implemented to combat terrorism-- isn't a viable solution in a democracy.

A "good" government itself includes a fearless press and a strong judicial branch which citizens can use to force the FBI to be more transparent about what it does. That strong judicial branch can also be used to revise the capabilities of LE if they are found to be ripe for abuse and corruption.

Our ability to do this at all is itself a measure of how "good" our government is.
No, that would be fine. They can do that even if they don't lose.
Probably going to sound naive, as I'm not at this stage of my training yet, but if not saying anything led to patients dying or suffering, I don't think it's worth whatever career prospects were potentially attainable. It's ethically horrendous to consider that would be my life until I too held a superiority complex.
That's such a wonderful description of parenting!
A framework like Phoenix would be awesome. Even something more lightweight (Express-like) would be pretty handy. Clojurescript front-end, Clojure backend...
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That cannot be the reasoning behind imposing import restrictions. And even then I find the economic reasoning fault.

> That it was the spirit of monopoly which originally both invented and propagated this doctrine cannot be doubted; and they who first taught it were by no means such fools as they who believed it. In every country it always is and must be the interest of the great body of the people to buy whatever they want of those who sell it cheapest. The proposition is so very manifest that it seems ridiculous to take any pains to prove it; nor could it ever have been called in question had not the interested sophistry of merchants and manufacturers confounded the common sense of mankind.
"3 times more likely to die" - what? The likelihood of dying is, for everyone, 100 %. So these people die with 300 % likelihood? #statistics
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What's the point of adding "optional" extensions, versus just incorporating them as features in later compiler versions?
While directly accepting ETH is certainly beneficial, it would make more sense for retailers to accept an erc20 based alternative to BTC (see BTH [1]). Ethereum is a platform. Digital currency is but a single application.

1. https://medium.com/@bitether/introducing-bitether-bth-the-ne...
...we know what the graph would look like. the author knows what the graph would look like, the editor knows what the graph would look like.

The article isn't about the curve proves, the article is about what the curve means.

(it also says in an early paragraph that you will see different distributions for different diseases/operations; there isn't just one curve)
"Over $1M" in total is not indicative of notable amounts of money laundering.
In fairness, misdiagnosis of appendicitis is largely down to utilisation of technology. Most modern institutions utilise imaging (ultrasound/CT) and this results in a high specificity for appendicitis (especially CT, which doesn't suffer from the user variability that ultrasound does).

Old school surgeons will insist that they can reliably make the diagnosis without imaging (and that's probably where you get a 20% false positive from). Some institutions will push this notion too - either to reduce imaging expenditure or increase surgical turnover (sad but true).
> Selling the digital codes separately, while renting the physical item? That sounds like kind of ridiculous behavior

Why?

If Disney sold a DVD with a bundled toy, and Redbox wanted to rent out the DVD and sell the toy separately, would that be "kind of ridiculous behaviour"?

They bought the DVD+toy fair and square, I don't see an issue here.
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I don't see how that's a very good measure at all.

Nevertheless, in the haskell companies I've worked at, we've used haskell for network packet inspection (not programming) and marketing automation. In both, our frontend was dependent on Haskell as well: in the former, through purescript, and in the latter, directly using reflex-js.

You'd never know it interacting with our site.
You can set all the flags in your cabal file. How is this not a fix? This is like specifying your compiler version.

We have a fairly hefty haskell code base at work, and we never use LANGUAGE pragmas anywhere.
Since DP is royalty free, why wouldn't most consumer electronics companies push for it as well? Only minority would demand royalties, while majority would be forced to pay them. So why not ditch the patent encumbered standard if majority would benefit from it?
You might want to know which code is relying on an extension that's found to be a Bad Idea(tm) and rolled back or seriously changed.
This fun local hack is related to binary planting vulnerabilities, where a dynamic resource can be planted on-disk prior to program execution for later loading due to being in the load path.
There is little or nothing in this agitprop essay that actually undermines or even directly confronts McCarthy's original points. There's two irreconcilable philosophical positions at play here: either you believe that there are things - like preventing people from seeing "hurtful" humor - that are more important than freedom of expression, or you believe that freedom of expression is foundational for all other human freedoms. Neither side is ever going to convince the other because they want to live in fundamentally different worlds. If you're on the former side, your only option is to silence your opponents; if you're on the latter, your only option is to resist being silenced.
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If you plan on running a ZFS file server at home, which enthusiasts prefer because it's one of the only filesystems that supports full file checksumming to prevent bit rot.

Anyway, the ZFS approach is to inherently trust the data that's in RAM over the data on the drive if there's a discrepancy, so ECC RAM is required to maintain the integrity of data on RAM.
.... IANAL but yeah I think you're right. walp
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The web APIs are described using the Web IDL and I believe that could be translated to C++ , Haskell and pretty much any language with more or less effort.
In fact I think there are bindings for some languages such Python and Objective C though they are not open. I see no reason why a WASM interface could not be exposed (the code itself could be developed in C/C++ and compiled to WASM)for the web APIs and exposed to the client.

https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Co...

https://www.gnu.org/software/pythonwebkit/
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For many years, my employer's SDK release notes were stored as a Haskell DSL, which could be compiled and executed to produce HTML or plaintext. As far as I know, it was the only "production" Haskell in the company.
> They're doing it because knowledge is power. And power in a dangerous world is necessary to keep us all safe.

But the world is safer than ever before. It isn't a dangerous world. It is the safest world we know of...

I think we are at least partially at fault here. We demand action everytime the is a tragedy but perhaps sometimes the best course of action is to stay the course with no change in plan. I don't know. I'm just making assumptions tbh.
> Give participants (patients, doctors) access to subscribe to health data or symptoms (input) and create a consensus of possible treatment plans, iterate through those plans ordered by some metric (reputation, time, cost, availability).

I'm still not sure I understand what you mean. Could you give an example?

> When cure confirmed by patient, diagnosis is proven correct, data is captured, reputation increased among participants in consensus that were correct.

It's not that simple. Most patients are not either 'cured' or 'not cured'. There are multiple possible outcomes at each stage of diagnosis and management.

> You could even use this as human-in-the-loop machine learning model training for open models.

Doubtful. Current machine learning algorithms are painfully inept when given clinical data (outside of very limited use cases). I'd love to be proven wrong though.

> If you want to explore what it might take to build this, we've just launched an alpha of our data/ml network that can facilitate a dapp built on top of Synapse https://synapse.ai/
Happy to reach out and chat more.

Sure, email?
It's pretty clear from the article and anyone who cares to glance at the news today that the 'freedom of speech activists' do plenty of silencing themselves. Afterall, the issue at Stanford was that minority groups were being causally belittled and excluded. But hey: no one is allowed to descriminate against the right to descriminate!
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This is nowhere in evidence in the article. Disagreement is not exclusion or silencing.
Are there other abilities shown to be like this, especially with the sexes reversed?
Why can't we say, "hey, no slurs please" without civilization collapsing into a communist authoritarian nightmare? It works in basically all aspects of public life and things seem (more or less) alright.
As others have noted, this article is terrible.

That is unfortunate though, because the book it is based on looks really really interesting. I am thinking that The New Yorker (although is seems with Mr. Cohen's help) just chose the most "out-of-touch-liberal-that-only-has-rich-people-for-friends-way" to spin the book. That is sad because again, the book looks good.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1620972107/
>It's pretty clear from the article and anyone who cares to glance at the news today that the 'freedom of speech activists' do plenty of silencing themselves.

It's not clear to me. How about a few examples?
There's also a major difference between someone saying "hey, no slurs please in my house" and the gov't pointing a gun at you and saying "no slurs ever".
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I agree. A lot of this drama can be avoided if we just all act like adults.
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At the time of this writing the price of XRP/USD is roughly $0.25.

It is a well known fact that Ripple Inc has roughly 55 Billion XRP in its possession.

Ripple has roughly 160 Million Shares outstanding, yet the secondary market for shares of Ripple Inc are trading around $10 to $12 a share, which implies roughly a $1.6B valuation. This reverse interpolates to the same thing as XRP roughly if we wave our hands a bit, being valued at $0.025/XRP. Yet the total market cap of all XRP in the world is $25B (100B XRP @ $0.25). How can this be? Do investors on the secondary market really think that XRP should be discounted by this much? Wouldn't it clearly be a better investment to buy shares of Ripple Inc than XRP itself? You would also get exposure to revenue from software Ripple sells too, which XRP does not capture at the moment.
1a. Make (but don't immediately communicate) a best guess based on initially determinable requirements (functional and non-functional), which includes a large amount of contingency.

[It is ideal to understand the problem with "use cases" and "stories" is that they are a poor building block for estimation and development because they inevitably require further and further decomposition.]

1b. Formally (in writing) present the estimate, together with the known requirements upon which it is based.

1c. Include in writing that changes in requirements (and undiscovered requirements) w ill affect the estimate.

1d. Document and immediately communicate in writing all new and changed requirements.

When your boss's boss (inevitably) asks him what the problem is with this project taking so long, and he responds to him that you the developer (or team) "keeps finding problems and more work to do", you can at least rely on a written record of the project's changing scope.
Bitcoin is not designed for privacy. Period. Monero is.
In the context of formally meeting his senior officers for the first time, and this being the only question raised by the officer, it is amusing. If you're after "ba-dum-tssh" one-liners maybe it's not for you.
Never underestimate the power of a mortgage to make smart people bend over backwards to not notice something.

Someone close to me, a very experienced nurse, reported some misconduct on the part of a senior physician. This was both required by law and an ethical duty.

She essentially got blackballed from that hospital as a result.
Actually what would be naive would be to think that you would be able to change the situation by whistleblowing.

And before you judge anyone too harshly, talk to me again when you have 300k of debt and you're a fourth year resident stuck in a singularly focused career pathway.

Also, the reality is most people have so much else going on to concern themselves with that these things are given little thought.
Not to mention that sideloaded apps are still checked by Play Services on Android.
Sure it is certainly more risky than the manual reviews done on the play store, but that's a weak argument for disallowing side load.
Especially as the OS does it, with a huge warning telling you that it is less secure.

I have had to deal with Apple reviews for a long time, I am absolutely convinced that blocking sideload on iOS is 99% a business decision, not a security one.
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LeMarr's sometimes oafish behavior has been a bit one dimensional but was well explained in this week's episode. Even though each episode stands on its own, they're doing a nice job on character development.
There’s no reason reparations would need to be dominated by direct cash payments. Infrastructure, capital improvements, investment in schools, scholarships, and subsidies that historically white people got but black folks didn’t would be great, and wouldn’t involve any more Cadillacs.
It isn't a binary decision and it is incredibly dishonest for you to frame it like it is. Freedom of expression is not foundational. Certainly inciting violence, advocating genocide, or engaging in targeted and repeated harassment does not fall under the auspice of an unalienable and foundational right. In consenting to governance and inclusion in society one forfeits some absolute freedom that society has deemed unacceptable. That is the nature of society. The argument should lie in what and how society deems things acceptable because there is certainly a debate to be had there. Concerns about oppressive governments or censorship of thought are valid and just but do not and should not require declaring expression limitless. Society has deemed some expression harmful and participating in society requires accepting that. I believe it is a good thing that there are things society has deemed unacceptable and acknowledge that I give up some of my absolute freedoms to live in such a society.
Mostly politics. It is a lot easier to add opt-in features than get consensus to change the language.

Opt in extensions also allow you to avoid worrying about the longtail of backwards compatability.
The consumer electrons industry is dominated by a handful of companies. Those companies also happen to be the ones who own the patents on HDMI. They control enough of the market that the smaller players are forced to pay up to be able to interop with the dominant companies' products.
I’m not so sure about that. How many programmers that are senior build up a system only to have it nearly fall to pieces after they leave?
I am quite familiar. However, your argument holds no merit.

Even with the term "banana republic" there was an economic endgame in sight (e.g. cheaper fruit).

This current Venezuela farce has absolutely no redeeming qualities unless you're a member of the ruling elite (of Venezuela).

By your reasoning, every economic and/or political collapse in Central/South America can be blamed on the history of United States intervention, absolving the government of all accountability.
You have to look at reality and not just a some simplified model. Does this happen in countries with universal health care? I don't think so.