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The Bet on Juniors just got Better

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1 points·by pablobaz·قبل 7 أشهر·0 comments

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pablobaz
·قبل 8 أيام·discuss
The bear case being set at 40% of employee costs is still quite wild.
pablobaz
·قبل 3 أشهر·discuss
Sorry to hear about your aunt. My condolences. I think your misinterpreted my intent, I would dearly love a good diagnostic test for ME/CFS and agree research has been hugely underfunded.

I have followed closely the research for many years and there has been false promise of good diagnostic tests previously. What I'm arguing for is that we need a test that is specific for ME/CFS. E.g. it will test positive for a patient with ME/CFS regardless of they are obese or not, but more importantly it will not test positive for everyone who is obese. This is known as the sensitivity and specificity of the test.

What I've seen in the past is some previous ME/CFS tests show positive for groups with related symptoms but who don't have ME/CFS. This then becomes a worthless diagnostic tool. For example this would not have helped your aunt.

Hope this explains my thoughts!
pablobaz
·قبل 3 أشهر·discuss
I think I would need to see testing on a control group of housebound patients with other conditions to believe this. It's easy for ME testing to pick up markers for being housebound and limited exercise for an extended period of time.
pablobaz
·قبل 4 أشهر·discuss
which bits of this do you think llm based agents can't do?
pablobaz
·قبل 10 أشهر·discuss
Or:

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

:-)
pablobaz
·قبل 12 شهرًا·discuss
That could work. 15 managers doing 10 1:1 meetings each isn't so hard. It can get tricky with people being on vacation etc. But very possible and normal.
pablobaz
·السنة الماضية·discuss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pit0OkNp7s8 This Irish Sheep farmer is my favorite example of a hard to understand Irish accent. I've lived nearby to this location and can attest that it is quite common.
pablobaz
·السنة الماضية·discuss
Some of the west of Ireland accent also reflects pronunciation prior to the Great Vowel Shift. For example pronouncing "tea" as "tay" and "meat" as "mate"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift
pablobaz
·السنة الماضية·discuss
If the child had practiced on a balance bike for balance and a tricycle for pedalling it all comes together quite easily.
pablobaz
·قبل سنتين·discuss
In my experience with very large codebases, a common problem is devs trying to improve random things.

This is well intentioned. But in a large old codebase finding things to improve is trivial - there are thousands of them. Finding and judging which things to improve that will actually have a real positive impact is the real skill.

The terminal case of this is developers who in the midst of another task try improve one little bit but pulling on that thread leads to them attempting bigger and bigger fixes that are never completed.

Knowing what to fix and when to stop is invaluable.