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Got curious about this too, there's some graphs of the relationships on page 992 and 993 of this paper https://www.resolutionmineeis.us/sites/default/files/referen...

I've used Beeper for about a year with Facebook, Signal, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, and iMessage. Instagram signs me out once a month or so for security suspicions, but I just reconfirm my account with 2FA. Other than that, no issues.

The course is free and funded by Open Philanthropy.

It's not taught by James solely, but there's weekly discussion groups on readings chosen by a mix of alums from OpenAI and Oxford's Future Of Humanity Institute.

What a shame, especially that the dome reflector was damaged too. I remember visiting in person and being awestruck by the sheer size and engineering skill needed to make this. Plus it provides needed tourism revenue for PR; I hope it's not abandoned.

Unsure if you mean solution for migrating or solution for a good alternative platform, but Ghost has received a decent amount of praise. https://ghost.org/vs/medium/

Making this worse, the final size of an epidemic can be estimated as not p=1-1/R0, but rather p=1-e^-R0 [1]. With this, those R0 estimates give a final infected population of 95%-~100%... we can't let herd immunity be the solution.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3506030/

My favorite quote from the article; "start off your book with a statement such as, 'None of the data in this book matters.' "

We got similar news at Cornell today, with professors being advised to go online asap but will be forced to in early April which is also when students will be sent home. The problem here is that most upperclassmen live off-campus and can't be forced to disperse. Furthermore, many students are from NYC where they'll visit during spring break and then come back to Ithaca. The atmosphere on campus is very nonchalant; most are more upset by cancelled events than the possibility of encountering the virus.

For reference, the generally accepted standard for determining age from blood is the Horvath clock [1]. It seems to be accurate and only uses a penalized regression. Keep in mind this represents what your age is in reference to a "healthy" person. For example, a 50-year-old who smokes may have the equivalent practical age of a 60-year-old who doesn't. The Horvath clock is useful for evaluating lifestyle changes and your overall healthspan.

If people want to learn more about how DNA methylation relates to aging, I recommend reading Lifespan by David Sinclair.

[1] https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/DNA-methylation-aging-...

And 60+ years later their guess is semi-confirmed by this study; if humans want to be in space for a long time they'll need artificial gravity to avoid most of the harms mentioned in the article. Amazing that 90% of his genes returned to normal expression. I wonder how long humans can withstand microgravity before that number drops severely, or if it's a gradual decline...

Does this violate any of the Google or Apple's Play Store TOS? People are calling for the government to step in but a quicker move would be to remove them from the app store; at least if there's a violation.

I was in one of Hopcroft's courses (an author of this book) for a while and if this book is on brand with his style and fields of study, it's super theory heavy. You won't write a line of code; you would not be useful to a company hoping to apply data science in the world.

Japan did negative interest rates in 2016. https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?stor...

I think one of the takeaway's from Aaron's piece is that there IS no universally good source of information. That's okay, because the news you need to hear or that actually impacts you will make it's way to you through hearsay. The people you talk to in real life are a good filter. If you like podcasts, there's a nice discussion here http://www.hellointernet.fm/podcast/11

Having been introduced to this idea by CGPgrey on the Hello Internet podcast, I didn't know there was such a concise version of this idea written so well. I've tried to spread this message to my friends irl, and Aaron puts it better than I ever could.

The Indicator and Planet Money are both great. They do a good job of explaining economic subjects from the yield curve to farming insurance for Africa in a fun/digestible way.

I'm not the original commenter, but I could find it by getting your name from Github, then googling it. Your LinkedIn was the first result, and there was LA.

NPR's Planet Money podcast did a story two months ago with the inventor of the self checkout machine, Howard Schneider.

At the end of the end of the episode he was asked what his "dream" supermarket would be, and he said one where people don't have to check items out. They walk in, grab something, walk out, and are automatically charged.

This seems to be exactly what Amazon has done. Pretty amazing to see the realization of his dream be announced only two months after his interview.

It was caused by a positive earnings report. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-17/google-app...