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amitdeshwaron Traveling with Apple Vision Pro

You can use your CPAP machine with a external battery pack on airplanes. I do this regularly when flying long distances. In principle you should be able to also just plug in to the power sockets but for some reason this goes against most airlines policies.

amitdeshwaron Justin Trudeau announces $2.4B for AI investments in Canada

I'm not an insider, but as far as I can tell they never had a vision or a strategy, so ended up just doing "AI" consulting for random enterprises. Surprise, surprise that wasn't a path to a successful business.

amitdeshwaron Justin Trudeau announces $2.4B for AI investments in Canada

Bought by ServiceNow. https://www.servicenow.com/company/media/press-room/servicen...

amitdeshwaron All models are wrong, but some are completely wrong

What about 538?

amitdeshwaron Breathing and Exercise: Strength Training for Your Diaphragm (2018)

Is it worth getting the electronic versions vs. the manual ones?

amitdeshwaron Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2019)

Deep Genomics | Toronto | Onsite | Full-Time | deepgenomics.com

We are hiring ML and CompBio scientists! Deep Genomics is a small (~40 employee) startup that is using machine learning to discover and develop therapeutics for genetic disease. A very fun and academic environment. We'll be hiring engineers soon! Job listings can be found here: https://jobs.lever.co/deepgenomics

Deep Genomics is a Toronto-based startup company that is changing the future of medicine using artificial intelligence. Founded in 2015, Deep Genomics brings together a multidisciplinary team of world-leading experts in machine learning, genomics, chemistry and biology. Together we are on a mission to develop an AI-powered platform for rapid discovery and development of the best genetic medicines, focusing on oligonucleotide drugs for the treatment of patients with rare genetic diseases.

amitdeshwaron Why New York City Stopped Building Subways

No, Eglinton line is bored tunnels, only the stations are cut and cover. http://www.thecrosstown.ca/stay-informed/fact-sheets-backgro...

amitdeshwaron Justice.exe: Bias in Algorithmic sentencing

That's not a bias of the programmer

amitdeshwaron US Senate votes to undo FCC internet privacy rules

Too bad the Republicans with principles couldn't muster up enough principle to actually vote no instead of abstaining.

amitdeshwaron Affordable Care

There is none: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/01/10/there-will-be-no...

amitdeshwaron The Story of Apple's $14B Tax Bill

How is that "double taxation"?

amitdeshwaron Microsoft, Rebooted, Emerges as a Tech Leader

Incognito mode

amitdeshwaron American Express will give all parents 20 weeks of paid leave

It's more like 75% because only one person stays at home while the other keeps working at 100% salary.

amitdeshwaron A Nasal Spray That Was Supposed to Replace Sleep

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

amitdeshwaron Reddit overhauls upvote algorithm to thwart cheaters

Can you elaborate on what you mean by "men are psychologically torturing women just by enacting common male body movement patterns in the workplace" ?

amitdeshwaron FDA Agrees to New Trials for MDMA as Relief for PTSD Patients

Let's not forget tax-expenditures like the home mortgage interest tax deduction.

amitdeshwaron No Evidence of Aloe Vera Found in the Aloe Vera at Wal-Mart, CVS

Counterfeit != defective

I agree though that those bloomberg stories indicate that defective drugs are in fact reaching consumers :(

amitdeshwaron The Curse of the Modern Office

I read it. It's good focus practice (and I enjoy it).

amitdeshwaron No Evidence of Aloe Vera Found in the Aloe Vera at Wal-Mart, CVS

Do you have evidence that defective drugs made it to customers?

amitdeshwaron Deutsche Bank to fight $14B demand from U.S. authorities

Or dilute shareholders by selling stock.

amitdeshwaron United States Health Care Reform: Progress to Date and Next Steps

Yeah the millions of Americans who gained health insurance are going to be real mad that a doctor had to pay a little more money for his health insurance.

amitdeshwaron The Secret of Billions

Decreasing marginal utility of money plus "fairness" (everyone sacrificing an equal proportion of their utility).

Fairness is in quotes because it's a complicated word.

amitdeshwaron The Apple Watch

The Ars review talks about the poor battery life: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/09/moto-360-review-beaut...

amitdeshwaron $4 ARM PSoC prototyping kits

Does anyone know what the programming environment is like for these boards?

amitdeshwaron The Curse of Dimensionality in Classification

Can you provide a link to an article discussing how you can treat the latent characteristics as a point in Euclidean space?