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These tests always make me wonder: What qualifies as a valid pattern rule?

For example, why wouldn't "0" be a correct answer here (rule being "every other number on the right should be 0, other numbers do not have a pattern")?

The information you can get from light miscroscope images is quite limited though.

On the other hand, maybe it would be enough to filter out every cell that is not identified as a blood cell. This should be an easier task.

Probably we could direct only a small part of blood into this filtering machine at a time. Sounds like it would be still more like a machine detecting if there are cancer cells present in the bloodsteam rather than a machine eliminating metastasization.

I think the "cure cancer without biology" approach makes somewhat sense (I assume you would still need some biology :) ). Don't many surgeries already fall into this category? Let's say we made an automated colonoscopic machine that scanned the whole intestine and destroyed all abnormal colonic crypts. Now if this machine worked well, you would essentially cure at least those colon cancers that go through some aberrant crypt stage.

This is interesting since I remember having much lower latency for 3G, perhaps < 50 ms, about 10 years ago. :) At that time, some of my friends were even using the home 3G to play games.

Most of these historical disruptive technologies seem to affect only a relatively small group of professionals or then small part of human skills. Therefore there are not too many people complaining and also most of these people can find some new jobs, perhaps after retraining.

On the contrary, AI could affect large groups of professionals and large (if not all) part of human skills. The protests opposing AI might then be completely different scale than the previous protests.

Also the an individual losing their job would suffer more since there might be nothing they could do, even after retraining, that AI couldn't.

And I thought this would be about keeping your work laptop safe. :-)

I think the point of "But it is only electricity" means that _currently_ the situation is not as good as one might think based on electricity production.

You can use the median of medians with quickselect to guarantee the O(N) time complexity.

...and seems that Nebula Genomics also outsources their sequencing:

> At its discretion, Nebula may use third-party laboratories to perform DNA extraction, sequencing, and data analysis.

(https://nebulagenomics.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/3600243...)

I would guess the samples are eventually sequenced by BGI although Nebula FAQ (https://nebula.org/faqs/) says they sequence in EU.

I assume this is yet another sequencing company outsourcing the actual sequencing?

>> Do you sell or share my data with anyone?

> No, we do not sell or share your data, including your DNA data, with anyone.

However, in their privacy policy:

> Your Personal Information may be shared in the following ways:

> With our service providers, allowing them to provide their services to us.

edit:

More clearly stated here:

https://sequencing.com/ordering-dna-test-kit-and-genome-sequ...

> When you purchase the Ultimate DNA Test or Ultimate Genome Sequencing test, your test will be processed by our Laboratory Partners. We will provide our Laboratory Partner with only your basic contact information so that it can send you a DNA collection kit; we will not share your billing information with our Laboratory Partner but will pass on your payments to them.

Yup, passed the hiring committee. Also the team is happy to have me.

:'(

In my case the only step left was supposed to be getting the offer and compensation approved, surprise!

I guess the problem, and the point of the parent post, is that the full containment of the omicron variant might be very difficult in the long term.

Also since the omicron is milder and vaccines rather effective (as long as you don't refuse taking one), it's worth asking how much collective good is gained by personal inconvenience.

At least some people in South Korea seem to think that in the current situation the old restrictions are not worth it: https://www.ft.com/content/4be21b01-efd3-4f67-b353-7bad9eb33...

Just tried using the portal both with the mobile phone authentication and non-Nordea bank authentication. Everything works smoothly.

I'm also not sure how important these two initiatives are in practice since it's clear that the politicians are already very much aware of the increased support for NATO membership.

In some European countries there is a New Year tradition of melting lead and pouring it into water (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molybdomancy). The sale of these kits was only banned in 2018.

I don't understand what the problem is: The data in the double-blind study clearly shows no statistically significant effects (just look at N and the standard deviation bars) and the company doesn't claim that there would be such effects.

The company only says there is a "positive trend" which there indeed is.