> Since COVID-19 mainly affects the elderly, experts expected an increase in the percentage of deaths in older age groups. However, this increase is not seen from the CDC data. In fact, the percentages of deaths among all age groups remain relatively the same.
This directly contradicts the excess mortality data published by CDC itself. [1] From the article it's unclear to me what evidence led to the claims presented. So far the article seems very unconvincing. Seems like John Hopkins has good reasons to take it down.
Also bear in mind that the excess mortality we've seen so far is with all the measures to limit the impact of the pandemic. It's fair to assume that excess mortality would be a lot higher without those. Our World In Data has a well explained international overview and analysis. [2][3]
I did read it fairly early and it had an quite an impact on my life and thinking. It put into words a lot of my discomfort with a life focused on materialistic success. And it was inspiring seeing an intelectual combining so many of the thoughts and topics he developed during his lifetime into one coherent and approachable book.
As far as i understand it, it's not so much that you can't do that anymore but that it's not automatic anymore. You can still let your mind do it's thing, e.g. hop on the thought train and let one thought lead to another. It's more that you choose to do that whereas for most people it just happens (automatically and subconciously)
'Google doesn't post a public list of IP addresses for webmasters to whitelist. This is because these IP address ranges can change, causing problems for any webmasters who have hard-coded them, so you must run a DNS lookup as described next.'
I'm not sure what you mean by 'statistically' above.
In general you can't say whether a sample size of 2000 will get you within a specific margin of error without additional information. It very much depends e.g. on what the hypothesis you're testing is or what you're trying to estimate.
This search yields 110 041 results across all disciplines covered by springer that should be free to download in complete. Only 11 451 books from the same time range are 'preview-only'.
I'm not certain that this is intentional. I haven't found any statement by Springer that they make available all ebooks older than 10 years. Does anyone know more?
I tried locating the paper "Novel Phase of Carbon, Ferromagnetism and Conversion into Diamond" by Jagdish Narayan and Anagh Bhaumik which is given as one of the sources for the artikel and was supposedly published yesterday. I can't find it though :(
The DOI doesn't check out and it's not on the Journal of Applied Physics homepage. Can anyone point me to it?
Meta-Analysis of 209 studies published 2013 in Clinical Psychology Review: "Conclusion: MBT is an effective treatment for a variety of psychological problems, and is especially effective for reducing anxiety, depression, and stress." [1]
[2] is a recent meta-analysis published in the same journal and looking into identifying the underlying mechanisms of mindfulness-based therapy aka how it works:
"These findings are largely consistent with the theoretical
underpinnings of MBSR and MBCT. Evidence for mindfulness, cognitive reactivity and emotional reactivity as mechanisms support the key theoretical premises underlying MBSR and MBCT that the cultivation of mindfulness skills leads to insight and non-reactive acceptance of one's experience which in turn lead to positive outcomes."
The underlying theory of this course is sound and has been shown to be on a similiar level of effectiveness as other therapies including pharmacological ones.
Whether this specific online course (or any online course) is effective i can't comment on.
Gummiboot recently added support to create a single EFI executable that contains the /etc/os-release file, kernel parameters, bzImage and initrd [1] You should then be able to sign this file and configure UEFI Secure Boot so that only files signed by you can be booted. I guess that's the reasoning behind it.
writeup from the author linked in the video description