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As ridiculous as it may seem that this is a TEDx talk, it was incredibly effective for me. After seeing this about 3 yrs ago, I have never used more than 1 paper towel to dry my hands.

Nice to see some Penn alum on HN :)

This is (imo) the right course of action to (at minimum) alert countries wrt the gravity of this outbreak; however, I was disappointed to see the tiptoeing around potentially offending China. From the press conference, it seemed that Dr. Tedros made it painfully (maybe even unnecessarily) clear that this action wasn't faulting China for their handling of this situation. It's just weird to see that global politics is creeping into these public health decisions.

I know, but it seems from the author's post that they were just locked out completely with no option to use google takeout to retrieve their photos etc.

Wouldn't it be best for google to allow you to download a takeout of all your files in the case that your account is suspended?

Monoclonal antibodies are just antibodies that are monospecific (ie they bind one target really well). And it looks like there a number of drugs under this category (anything ending in -mab usually) are in stage II/III of clinical trials (meaning they are likely to be approved in the coming years).

What you mention about cell division rates being slow was solved by the hybridoma protocol where you fuse two cells, one of which is a myeloma (cancer that is a rapidly reproducing cell line) and another is a B cell that produces Antibodies that are specific for your intended target. Since then there have been a lot of strides in monoclonal antibody production. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoclonal_antibody#Production]

Monoclonal antibody drugs will flood the market soon and usher in a new era of treatment for several diseases (MS, AD, certain cancers, etc).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoclonal_antibody

Original paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-019-0620-5

Yay. Big plus for keeping search result page load sizes roughly the same.

Sorry, I didn't mean for it to come off that way. I genuinely meant that it was a good writeup; however, tutorials that make it to the front page (I have noticed) usually have some content that's new/uses some newer or relatively unknown technology. The author definitely has a lot of other more interesting and in-depth writeups e.g. a 3 pt fullstack series on using svelt w/a node backend (https://tahazsh.com/fullstack-app-with-svelte-and-node-part-...) that barely got attention upon HN submission.

It's just surprising that out of that content, this makes it to the frontpage. I'm not faulting the author, I'm just curious as to what insight HN readers got out of this article.

Nice writeup...but why is this on the front page? Socket.io apps w/a node backend are run-of-the-mill for any CS course dealing with web dev in javascript.

So how does it really do the skipping feature? Do you transcribe the podcast and look for standard advertising copy for companies like Squarespace, hello fresh, etc? Would it register a false positive if one of those company names is said?

Agreed ^ if you’re someone who routinely undergoes bouts of allnighters (esp for uni) it’s pretty easy to fool yourself into thinking you’re fine from a cognitive standpoint

Of course /r/WallStreetBets did this.

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20570025

Tl;dr:

* This is dense

* This is hard to understand if you don't have an education in mathematics

* This is not really meant to be an "introduction to X" book unless you have the background knowledge

* Gallier (who imo is an awesome professor) really values rigor and not hiding anything behind hand-wavy statements. He is an incredibly serious mathematician + computer scientist (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Gallier). Accordingly, this book (work in progress) tries to be incredibly detailed on the topics it chooses to cover (and may miss out on some areas of CS + ML solely bc it chooses detail over comprehensiveness).

This is basically a summary of the Duke paper from a few days ago.

See discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21037400

Yeah. Reading the opinion, it looks like SFFA only could make an argument via statistics and it failed to establish how those statistics related to reality. About 20-30 pages of the opinion are about comparing and contrasting Card and Acidiacono and honestly...it seems to me that both models are just inconclusive. Neither ends up taking into account what goes through the mind of an admissions officer and leaves out (what are arguably) critical components in an applicant's profile. In general, it does not seem there is a way for us to point to statistics and say "look...this is discrimination" there are human factors involved that are too complex (whether that be school support ratings, racial biases of interviewers/admissions officers, or just luck of the particular application cycles we have data on). I'm unsure whether the supreme court would take this case on...there doesn't seem to be much here that SFFA could argue in its favor.

Nah just curious.

It's refreshing to see a statistical analysis that is free from the whole "affirmation action" rhetoric that's posted in articles about this case. Though I always had a general sense that ALDC's were admitted at a higher rate, I never knew that it was this high.

Really tangential...but major props to the time mag web dev team for making an unobtrusive reading experience that has graphics and animations that are helpful for driving home key points of the story.

So its basically community moderation and you should "Only rescue civil, substantive contributions to the site". In a sense, I think its something you only do as a special-type thing, but one vouch on a post won't rescue it (there need to be multiple vouches if I understand it correctly)...so vouch if you want to, but make sure you're doing it for the right reasons.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10298512 Maybe that will answer your question. But just exercise common judgment, think of a possible reason as to why a particular thing was flagged [dead] to begin with, and then determine if it's unfair.

Perhaps consider paying for NYT? I think if you're frequenting the site enough to be getting paywall warnings, then you're probably someone who is interested in their journalism.

usmle step1 exam scores are a determining factor for whether students can match into certain residency programs in the US. Typically individuals who score high on their step 1 match into competitive residency programs (which include surgical specialty residencies, dermatology, and radiology)

I think they are objectively the smartest doctors (or at least most knowledgable) out there because of the fact that their step scores need to be the highest in order to even match into derm. The skin is a very complicated organ and its disorders often cannot be diagnosed on an initial look (necessitating biopsies in most cases).

Minor point: While I do agree that ethics course should be a part of CS curricula, wouldn’t managers be the ones who likely pushed for the pattern you’re remarking upon? (Ie ethics classes would be more useful for them?)

I love professor gallier! He's an incredible person.

That being said, this is faaaaaar beyond basics. It'd be more appropriate to call this an incomplete (aiming to be comprehensive) guide to almost everything you need to know in computer science (related to math).

Really cool PoC. Though there is a lot of work that has to be done to get this production-ready, I really can't imagine it being more than $1-5m. I'd be really interested to see how the $86m breaks down.

But they get a number of upvotes (which could be considered a proxy indicator of interest). In some instances the show page top submission has a higher up vote count than most of the front page but still does not show up.

How does this compare to Haar Cascade?