If 3% of the population is unvaccinated, and another 3% has vaccines that don't work, I would by probability expect about 50% of the sick cases to be among vaccinated people. It looks like the vaccines are working.
It's still how math works. You can't prove everything true based on axioms (as Godel showed), but in practice we just don't prove those things. We prove what we can.
Yeah that's true, it's like giving a gift to your kid, "now you don't have to go through what I went through!" In terms of suffering, vaccines are way better than the disease, even without the risk. If you don't realize that, and all you see is the child crying when he/she gets injected, then your perception is different.
Yearly fu vaccines are of questionable value. Unless you're high-risk, or interact with high-risk people a lot, you can probably just skip it. It's not the same as measles.
If we don't know how actual intelligence really works, how can you be so sure we don't already have it?
There are ways to prove that an AI algorithm is incapable of doing what a human can do. It's a fairly complicated proof, but if you take an undergrad computational theory class, you'll figure it out.
It's most likely that some of these people are actually quite intelligent, they just aren't very good at collecting correct information about the world. Some of them actually spend a lot of time and effort into researching the topic, so you can't even say they are lazy. What is it that they are missing that prevents them from collecting accurate information about the world? A lack of knowledge about statistics?
You can actually get the raw data they used to calculate the temperature record off of NASAs website. I downloaded the files and started doing analysis on them (I wanted to see how many thermometers there were in different eras, figure out what margins of error there were, etc), but I got distracted before I did anything concrete.
You're still looking at it as if you were the customer. The advertisers are the ones Google sells to, and Google+ got them what they wanted, which was your user info. Google analytics is kind of amazing these days.
It works better than Word, and also it has a plugin to work anywhere you type (in the browser, in text documents, on your iPhone, on Android). It's really obsessive about commas, and it gets confused by more complex sentences.
The primary target is ESL speakers (including Indian and German and Chinese), who feel unconfident with their grammar. As one user/employee told me, "I feel uncomfortable when I don't use it, I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong." This probably results in a better experience for those who read the emails, as well. If you're a native speaker, you'll find the spellcheck UI rather nice, you'll be flattered by the weekly emails telling you how good your English is, and you'll be annoyed when occasionally it corrects your English incorrectly.
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If 3% of the population is unvaccinated, and another 3% has vaccines that don't work, I would by probability expect about 50% of the sick cases to be among vaccinated people. It looks like the vaccines are working.
Not sure what your point is. I see the numbers and they seem reasonable.
It's still how math works. You can't prove everything true based on axioms (as Godel showed), but in practice we just don't prove those things. We prove what we can.
Nice find, thanks!
97% of the measles vaccines (2 doses of MMR) are effective.
Yeah that's true, it's like giving a gift to your kid, "now you don't have to go through what I went through!" In terms of suffering, vaccines are way better than the disease, even without the risk. If you don't realize that, and all you see is the child crying when he/she gets injected, then your perception is different.
Yearly fu vaccines are of questionable value. Unless you're high-risk, or interact with high-risk people a lot, you can probably just skip it. It's not the same as measles.
They claim to have no memory bugs. It was written in F* and compiled to C.
Or until some programmer reuses the nonce....
Generally, you fall back to some very axioms that everyone agrees on. That's the way math works.
Chemicals, eh? Wait until you realize your body is full of poisonous chemicals that your own body created. Hormones, too.
You can look at the data. This graph is really clear.
I'm still not convinced that any of the flat-earthers are actually serious.
For the most part, vaccines also work at the individual level. In most individuals, the vaccine actually does prevent them from getting the disease.
It's why you'll see country kids vaccinated, and city kids not.
Is that really true? Country kids are much more likely to be vaccinated than city kids?
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If we don't know how actual intelligence really works, how can you be so sure we don't already have it?
There are ways to prove that an AI algorithm is incapable of doing what a human can do. It's a fairly complicated proof, but if you take an undergrad computational theory class, you'll figure it out.
Its called an IQ, they just don't have any.
That's not the problem, everyone has an IQ.
It's most likely that some of these people are actually quite intelligent, they just aren't very good at collecting correct information about the world. Some of them actually spend a lot of time and effort into researching the topic, so you can't even say they are lazy. What is it that they are missing that prevents them from collecting accurate information about the world? A lack of knowledge about statistics?
There is something really wrong with people who don't vaccinate. I don't know what it is exactly, but they are not seeing the world clearly.
You can actually get the raw data they used to calculate the temperature record off of NASAs website. I downloaded the files and started doing analysis on them (I wanted to see how many thermometers there were in different eras, figure out what margins of error there were, etc), but I got distracted before I did anything concrete.
That's extremely unlikely, considering how little urban area there is in Canada.
. (Tested it in this box. With some known grammar mistakes.
What kinds of known grammar mistakes?
You're still looking at it as if you were the customer. The advertisers are the ones Google sells to, and Google+ got them what they wanted, which was your user info. Google analytics is kind of amazing these days.
So which one, a semicolon or a colon? They aren't interchangeable.
It works better than Word, and also it has a plugin to work anywhere you type (in the browser, in text documents, on your iPhone, on Android). It's really obsessive about commas, and it gets confused by more complex sentences.
The primary target is ESL speakers (including Indian and German and Chinese), who feel unconfident with their grammar. As one user/employee told me, "I feel uncomfortable when I don't use it, I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong." This probably results in a better experience for those who read the emails, as well. If you're a native speaker, you'll find the spellcheck UI rather nice, you'll be flattered by the weekly emails telling you how good your English is, and you'll be annoyed when occasionally it corrects your English incorrectly.
Overall its grammar correction is rather good.