...'cause _historically_ contextual advertising doesn't work better than targeted. And contextual targeting is hard, because determining context is hard and it can fail catastrophically (I recall the ...
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I expect TfL's "Tube departure boards, line status and station status"[0] feed would suffice. It's updated every 30 seconds. Plenty more data available too.[0]: https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/o...
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On: London tube map made from a working circuit board
It might be nice to be able to see train delays and flow.Circuit-board transit maps face the challenge of showing train flow with their few LEDs. Online transit maps have lots of pixels, but face the...
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It's really not low single digit. Firstly it's a proposal for ~€100bn (not ~$100bn), the current program is ~€80bn. Secondly if you look at the spending[1] more than 50% of it by any reasonable measur...
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On: CERN approves plans for a $23B, 62-mile long super-collider
I recently posted a link to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_particle_discoveri... in another thread.Go on and look at it. Cross off composite particles like Antihelium-4 and antihydrogen, j...
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There have reports both ways. It seems quite reasonable that nobody has been looking very hard where there aren't any symptoms. https://www.livescience.com/can-kids-get-coronavirus.html...
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My grandfather never had a formal education and I've seen old articles of his with citations in three different languages. That was in the early 1900s. In the early 2000s the majority of my high schoo...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_to_the_European_Parl...> The allocation of seats to each member state is based on the principle of degressive proportionality, so that, while the size of the po...
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On: Welcome to the 21st Century: How to Plan for the Post-Covid
In this Google trends chart, which unfortunately has no data before January 2020, Coronavirus was not a thing until Mid of January:
https://www.regenhealthsolutions.info/2020/03/21/google-laun......
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I'll respond in the hopes that you learn.First, your general assessment is wrong. The news was already reporting about US intelligence knowing about this in autumn of 2019, as well as China knowing ab...
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Can I just add that seasonal influenza varies widely from year to year? [0]It just so happens that this year was a moderately bad year in the US. I don't know about China. But, they'd have to exclude ...
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Sorry, I cant replicate your result even with your link above. Is Google Trends showing the same results for you and me?There is actually a recent study that finds deviations in the Trends' results de...
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According to European surveillance data [1], diarrhea is also a very rare symptom. The authors don't have a convincing argument why this should be a good indicator for COVID-19.[1] bottom row in this ...
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There is another report that suggested mobile data indicated the Wuhan lab "was closed from Oct. 7 through Oct. 24, 2019, and that there may have been a "hazardous event" sometime between Oc...
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Not to mention the PCR tests and the antibody tests got combined into "total cases" in several data sets, mucking the numbers:https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/05/cdc-and-s......
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Independent testing of the Abbott assay found lower sensitivity, 94%. The blood samples used to establish sensitivity are also from patients who got sick enough to seek medical care, who likely have h...
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First, if you're talking about swabbing, then I think you're talking about the test to see whether a person is currently infected with the virus. That's what the article you linked was regarding.The a...
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