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I work with data and on Homelessness. I am learning Portuguese. I live in Belfast
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Dreaming French, from the same guys who did Dreaming Spanish, is coming soon
dreamingfrench.com
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Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
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Looking forward to it
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lincoln was not, at least before the war, an abolitionist nor was he a racial egalitarian. and when accused of being an abolitionist or racial egalitarian, he denied both charges. but he was also a clear and vigorous opponent of the expansion of slavery.
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I love this series btw:
yjunechoe.github.io/posts/2022-0...
And I understand at least 60% of it!
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Cool
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People who obsessively check for grey hairs (‘screen’ for them) will, on average, find them earlier in their life. This means, on average, they will live longer ‘post-diagnosis’ than people who find their greyness later in life.
9/18
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Without a screening programme, greyness may not be spotted until enough grey hairs have sprouted to be visible without close inspection. With careful regular ‘screening’, greyness may be diagnosed within a few days of the first grey hairs appearing.
8/18
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To illustrate the effect of lead time bias more concretely, consider a scenario in which we are interested in ‘diagnosing’ people with grey hair.
7/18
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Time-limited survival rates (typically given as five-, ten- and twenty-year) can improve because cancers caught earlier can be treated more successfully, but also because patients identified at an earlier stage of disease would naturally live longer, with or without...
4/18
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Love the idea
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Totally. Luck is a huge part of it. You can play badly and get a great run events and weapons. Or play well and come across a ship that your current weapon struggles with.
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"Next run will be better", you say as you lose an entire day to it
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I write for simplicity not speed. My code is rarely limited by speed. My code is usually limited by how stupid I am.
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My attitude is to go with the tidyverse first and use base only if I need it because: 1) tidyverse is easier to read in pipes; 2) tidyverse has built in safety that smarter people than me added
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I write for simplicity not speed. My code is rarely limited by speed. My code is usually limited by how stupid I am.
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My attitude is to go with the tidyverse first and use base only if I need it because: 1) tidyverse is easier to read in pipes; 2) tidyverse has built in safety that smarter people than me added