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There are constant new outbreaks, at the rate of several per year. (If you want to try to keep up, see here: https://promedmail.org/ ) The vast majority fizzle out, and for the rest, travel restrictio...
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show context + On: YouTube bans coronavirus-related content that directly contr
> "There is no specific evidence to suggest that the wearing of masks by the mass population has any potential benefit. In fact, there's some evidence to suggest the opposite in the misuse of wea...
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show context + On: YouTube bans coronavirus-related content that directly contr
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Not the only position that changed radically over time. Head of WHO in early March:> First, COVID-19 does not transmit as efficiently as influenza, from the data we have so far.> With influenza, peopl...
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Current WHO advice: "If you are healthy, you only need to wear a mask if you are taking care of a person with COVID-19." [0]Where we live, due to local laws, we are now obliged to wear a mas...
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> You can more easily generalize this solution to other arithmetic sequences.The closed form as sums of exponents also easily generalizes. You can find the roots of an associated polynomial, and the t...
show context + On: Fast Fibonacci numbers using Monoids
show context + On: Fast Fibonacci numbers using Monoids
Here's a nice blog post about the algorithm https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/61306 .It definitely makes sense, recurrence relation does have its own polynomial. Even the naive polynomial multiplicati...
show context + On: Fast Fibonacci numbers using Monoids
show context + On: Fast Fibonacci numbers using Monoids
Okay, so the .NET big integer implementation is like two orders of magnitude slower than it could be? I will have a look into that, I always assumed that all big integer libraries are more or less com...
show context + On: Fast Fibonacci numbers using Monoids
show context + On: Fast Fibonacci numbers using Monoids
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A monoid is an algebraic data structure that has a binary operation (+, *, ++, etc), and an empty element (0, 1, [], etc). In terms of relationship to other algebraic data structure, it "inherits...
show context + On: Fast Fibonacci numbers using Monoids
show context + On: Fast Fibonacci numbers using Monoids
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It depends on what you mean by introduction. I think the Typeclassopedia entry on Semigroups and Monoids is pretty good, if you are familiar with basic Haskell syntax.https://wiki.haskell.org/Typeclas...
show context + On: Fast Fibonacci numbers using Monoids
show context + On: Fast Fibonacci numbers using Monoids
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Surprisingly, no.When companies are making easy money, there is very little incentive to improve efficiency, and a lot of incentive to continue the status quo. It's only during tight times do companie...
show context + On: Coronavirus may mean automation is coming sooner than we tho
show context + On: Coronavirus may mean automation is coming sooner than we tho
They must go through their state's unemployment office. The CARES [0] act added $600 per week to state unemployment benefits, expanded unemployment coverage to self-employed workers[1], and extended t...
show context + On: Coronavirus may mean automation is coming sooner than we tho
show context + On: Coronavirus may mean automation is coming sooner than we tho
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It seems that it must be a really difficult problem to work out the optimal solution for having spare capacity to allow time/location shifting of workloads to minimize carbon per unit of compute.This ...
show context + On: Our data centers now work harder when the sun shines and win
show context + On: Our data centers now work harder when the sun shines and win
Disclaimer: Not affiliated with Tomorrow.Unfortunately, the crux is data availability and reliability from system/transmission operators. For example, there is no online data available for the Norther...
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show context + On: Our data centers now work harder when the sun shines and win
That looks like a good opportunity for an (at least tangentinally related) big shout-out to your great electricityMap (https://www.electricitymap.org/map) website!I wish there would be more countries ...
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show context + On: Our data centers now work harder when the sun shines and win
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From Lichtenstein's 2008 paper [1], mentioned in that article as the start of it:> Ultrasound has long shown its utility for plain organs.6 Although the lung has traditionally been excluded from its r...
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show context + On: Portable Ultrasound Proves a Potent Weapon in the Fight Agai
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The normal range of each phase is described in https://patient.info/news-and-features/coronavirus-how-quick...The average is 5-6 days to show any symptoms. That is the figure that you are remembering...
show context + On: An update on a pre-registered result about the coronavirus
show context + On: An update on a pre-registered result about the coronavirus
> The current count is ~21,000 with the number of confirmed daily cases declining for 6 days straightYes, but all of those 6 days are still higher than 7 & 8 days ago. In fact, all the days you picked...
show context + On: An update on a pre-registered result about the coronavirus
show context + On: An update on a pre-registered result about the coronavirus
> Given that Japan's official count is ~11k, is there reason to believe 1/4 of all official cases are "severe"?Yes. That fits data out thus far.https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6912e...
show context + On: An update on a pre-registered result about the coronavirus
show context + On: An update on a pre-registered result about the coronavirus
Looks like the breakdown in provision of care will happen before the end of April after all.https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1252836409406152709?s=21> NHK confirms that coronavirus-appropriate hospi...
show context + On: An update on a pre-registered result about the coronavirus
show context + On: An update on a pre-registered result about the coronavirus
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Quarantine measures were widely implemented in major cities during the 1918 pandemic, but at different times in response to different catastrophes and with a very different result in deaths per capita...
show context + On: An update on a pre-registered result about the coronavirus
show context + On: An update on a pre-registered result about the coronavirus
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