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  1. Re:Smoke and mirrors on Alzheimer's Disease Affects 'Twice As Many People' As Experts Thought (nypost.com) · · Score: 2

    I don't think they meant literally asking them "Do you have dementia?" But going from the question, "Do you have dementia?" and answering it by asking the other questions which would say "Yes you do." or "No you don't." But that line of questioning wouldn't catch those without symptoms, but with the pathology. The idea is to examine those without the symptoms to find if they have the pathology. This could help to find how early the disease begins to develop before any symptoms show up.

  2. Re:it is hugely different on Why Google Stadia Will Be a Major Problem For Many American Players · · Score: 1

    So you're saying there are a handful of possibilities for pausing, on a service so far has a total of 3 titles listed as being available, to figure out a way for their services to know when the game is paused? It sounds like games need to be made for Stadia, not just any game ever made that I can install. So Stadia puts in a requirement to be on their service, when you pause you send out a pause signal that the server gets notified and sends that to the client that it won't be updating the screen until it receives a play signal, or you don't get to publish the game on the platform. It's not like you have a dumb client that is purely a video streamer, the client side can have commands it receives from the server that are things other than video frames, just as it is sending input from the client to the server. It's a two way communication.

  3. Re:it is hugely different on Why Google Stadia Will Be a Major Problem For Many American Players · · Score: 1

    Are you certain that's how they implement sending the pause screen? Why wouldn't they do the same thing for game streaming as they do for movie streaming?

  4. Re:But there is no good way on Is Social Media Losing Ground To Email Newsletters? (qz.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think this is one of the great features regarding an email newsletter. I can create filters in my inbox, and sort them accordingly. It's the polar opposite of the newsfeed algorithms which wrest control from the individual who is seen as the product. Every social network I've seen, which may not be many, being mostly Facebook, Google+/Google News, and Strava, have gone the AI algorithm route, meaning you have less control over the content of your newsfeed, you can't weight your friends for which ones you want to see at the top, it's predicted for you by past interaction.
    With email I can have folders that I sort things into, even automatically by rules that I setup, not the company that hosts my email service, and determine which ones I might prioritize. Sometimes it's nice to let a folder get backlogged with 20 unread emails, then once a week go through that particular folder, rather than being inundated with everything, and paid posts, all day long with an endless scroll. It was the endless scroll "feature" which really showed me how worthless social media is, and the waste of time it had become. No way to know you're caught up, no way to know you didn't miss a particular post from a friend.

  5. Re:another way to save money... on Renewable Energy Reduces the Highest Electric Rates In the Nation (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    I sort of laugh at the savings of $30 when I look at my electric bill being $38. I could lower that by using less electricity, a single monitor instead of two. Certainly using my own solar system I could save up to $38. I live in Portland, OR, so it's pretty mild year round. In a green certified building I don't use A/C in the Summer, a window fan is enough, and occasionally need to open the window in the Winter as it gets too warm. We've been here for two winters and have never turned on the heater.

  6. His optical tweezers are used in material science. They are also used in laser eye surgery.

  7. Re:Special screw... on A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won't Be 'Assembled in USA' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Were they restricted by their contract with the one screw machine shop from contracting additional machine shops to bump up supply?

  8. Re:Right wing religious nuts on State of Emergency Declared in Washington State Over Measles Outbreak (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 2

    The outbreak is in Clark County, the conservative sinkhole of SW Washington and the Portland Metro area. It is across the Columbia River, in a different state. They are also responsible for not allowing a new bridge to be built across the Columbia because there would be tolls on the bridge to pay for it, just like there were for the original bridge.

  9. Re:Right wing religious nuts on State of Emergency Declared in Washington State Over Measles Outbreak (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Those aren't mutually exclusive. Clark County is SW Washington's conservative sinkhole.

  10. Re: Put Jenny McCarthy in jail on State of Emergency Declared in Washington State Over Measles Outbreak (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    The statistic of 1 in 60 is for ALL children, vaccinated or not. A study done on 95,000 children, 15,000 of which were not vaccinated shows no link. There were actually more in the non-vaccinated group, but theorized that is due to parents who notice signs of autism before vaccination begins and then delay vaccinations due to fear that vaccines cause autism.

    https://www.autismspeaks.org/s...

  11. Re: Put Jenny McCarthy in jail on State of Emergency Declared in Washington State Over Measles Outbreak (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Stating a single statistic doesn't give a full picture. What is the rate of autism in non-vaccinated children? Then we would have something to compare. If the rate is the same then it sort of disproves your point.

  12. Re: Lets be antivax! on State of Emergency Declared in Washington State Over Measles Outbreak (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You're describing Clark County, the conservative sinkhole across the river from liberal Portland.

  13. Re:Property is dead on Android Q Will Include More Ways For Carriers To SIM Lock Your Phone (9to5google.com) · · Score: 1

    Good to know, it has been since the iPhone 6s first came out that I have bought a phone. At the rate things are going it will probably be about as long again until I need a new phone.

  14. Re:Property is dead on Android Q Will Include More Ways For Carriers To SIM Lock Your Phone (9to5google.com) · · Score: 1

    When I bought my iPhone 6s full price from AT&T I called them that night and had it unlocked, then tested out a T-Mobile SIM in it and it worked right away. If you've paid for the phone you can get it unlocked.

  15. Re:THis is stupid on The Economics of Streaming is Making Songs Shorter (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps it's being anonymous that reduces your reading comprehension. I'll quote him and add my own emphasis:

    In the hey day of AM radio the songs aimed for 2 min 30 seconds. It's not economics. And on top of that, comparing averages to individual songs is also silly. Half fo them will be longer than the median. Lastly Album oriented music tends to be longer than radio/stream oriented music because the former has a larger story telling context and the latter is about a catchy vibe.

    I also provided a few examples showing there isn't much correlation between the median and the mean, they can be vastly different as they are showing different information for the data. A standard deviation would be a bit more enlightening, as the average distance of each value from the mean.

    The mean is correlated to the data, and the median is correlated to the data, does not mean that the mean and median are correlated to each other. Given a mean you can't predict the median, and given the median you cannot predict the mean.

  16. Re:THis is stupid on The Economics of Streaming is Making Songs Shorter (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    You're mixing up means and medians. The mean does not necessarily correlate to the median. Given a set of song lengths in minutes S={1,1,1,1,11} the median length is 1 minute, the average length is 3 minutes. All songs are as long or longer than the median in this case, but only 1 song is longer than the average, while 4 are shorter.

    Given a different set, S={1,1,2,4,22}, Then the median length is 2 minutes, and we do see that about half are below, and half above, but the average is 15 minutes! With again, 4 values below the average, and 1 above.

  17. Re:Reuse Old Code on GitHub Seeks Feedback on 'Open Source Sustainability' (github.blog) · · Score: 1

    Life begins at the keystroke and deserves a chance to make it upstream. We aren't going to pay for keeping it upstream, and if it goes unmaintained and gets security holes we are't going to pay for that, we aren't socialists, but you can't simply git reset --hard HEAD^. It doesn't matter if it was a drunken night of keyboard tapping, it still has rights.

  18. Re:"as far as we know" on Man Says CES Lidar's Laser Was So Powerful It Wrecked His Camera (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's pretty obvious which picture it is when 1-100 are good, picture 101 has two dots and a self driving car, and pictures 102 and beyond have that too. Anyone with a camera who detects that problem would go back through their photos and find 101, and self driving cars aren't being sold to the masses yet, it would be easy to track down who owns it; it's not one of millions of individuals, it's one of a handful of companies licensed to operate them.

  19. Re:1080p is not very good these days on HP's Omen 15 is the First Gaming Laptop With a 240Hz Display (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    I have a Lenovo Yoga 920 which I run Archlinux on which has a 4k touchscreen display. 8th gen Intel i7, 16Gb of RAM. Used to have to blacklist the wifi driver, but a recent kernel fixed that.

  20. Kurzweil is a Shill on Will the End of Moore's Law Halt AI Progress? (mindmatters.ai) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Kurzweil pretends to know what he's talking about because he can fit a graph with lots of tampering with the data. He fails to see that what he calls exponential growth is nothing more than the beginning of a sigmoid function. A good analysis of Moore's law and computational power shows a sigmoid function, as with many technologies they start off slow, build up quickly, then tapper off.

  21. I actually use Portland's system every day. Certainly the street car sort of sucks, not that taking the street car is slow, but when my destination is a 15 minute walk and the next car is 15-30 minutes I just end up walking. The Max on the other hand works wonderfully for me. As a student at PSU I enjoy reading or sleeping on the train for the 40 minutes it takes to get me home. Traffic on the major freeways during commute time can often take longer than that. As a cyclist also I would rather have the rails underground as they can become a mess for bicycles to navigate across.

  22. Re: It's the success on 'Amazon Prime is Getting Worse' (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Yet they allow exclamation points.

  23. Re:Top 5 school, $8,000. Ferrari isn't the only ca on Who'd Go To University Today? (spiked-online.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    I've averaged 20 credits a quarter for six quarters, finished my community college in 1 year, and am on track to finish a double major in CS and Math by the end of my third year. What allowed me to do that was already having a strong foundation in programming from years of experience, and being good at Math. I also went into it focused, and knowing what I want to do. No credits wasted on switching majors, or exploratory classes.

    Similar to the GP's suggestion I spent about a month or so refreshing on mathematics and taught myself trigonometry so that I tested straight into Calculus. This has meant that every credit I have taken has gone towards my degree, no need to build up taking low level college math credits that don't count for anything but electives.

    My toughest quarter was 23 credits, with 3 math courses, physics, and assembly programming and maintained a 3.97 GPA. Nothing particularly savant, and have never cheated, but I have made sacrifices and prioritized my education. Some classmates go out and get drunk on the weekends, showing up to class with hangovers, and I spend my time studying my subjects in more depth, or exploring other subjects of interest.

  24. Re:So what do they DO about it? on AI Researchers Predict Alzheimer's Years Before Diagnosis (sciencedaily.com) · · Score: 2

    For one, if this is accurate in the sense that there were no false positives, then it could be used to see how effective preventative treatments are as they can then determine people who do not have Alzheimer yet but would normally develop it. They can also look at the difference in why some people developed it 2 years later, and others 6 years later. If some treatment delays it by 10 more years then that's fantastic, and they can begin working on methods to better trace the progression, perhaps realize different stages that happen before our current methods of diagnosis, similar to stages of cancer.

  25. Re:That's going to really tick off people on Netherlands Proposes Legislation To Ban Use Of Phones On Bicycles (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    That's why we banned stereos from cars decades ago, it's a good idea to hear what's going on around you.