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And prior:

2008 happens, fed takes interest rates to zero in final days of GWB.

Ultra-low interest rates through 2019 under Obama and then Trump.

Trump demanding negative rates and interest rates dropping again, rates are dropped again even prior to covid also artificially juicing things.

Then the covid era and interest rates dropping to near zero again.

The road to where we are at now with housing is long and involves many politicians, presidents and parties.

It is about PEPFAR, a massively successful US foreign aid program.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/President's_Emergency_Plan_f...

I have experienced the flip of this: a less experienced MD specialist not recognizing a lab error, and wanting to act on it, which was recognized (correctly) as an error by PA primary care and confirmed in retesting. In this case the MD was significantly younger/less total years of experience and maybe that had to do with it?

PA experience isn't the equivalent of training as a resident (and I think we should be training more MDs) but the MD isn't always right either.

These are all topics in the article, which doesn't deny energy in = out at all.

It specifically points out that it's clear that this is how the medical interventions discussed in the article work: reducing calories by altering eating behavior.

Also the article: it isn't taboo to say "don't eat less", just that it is as ineffective as telling people with compulsive alcoholic behaviors to "just drink less".

"The vast majority of new infections are through gay men having sex. IV drug use only accounts for 7% of new infections"

In the US.

The vast majority of infections (90%) in Africa are from heterosexual sex:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12665438/#:~:text=Abstract,a....

The primary driver of the enormous epidemic ongoing in Russia is by far IV drug users (and heterosexual sex):

https://www.politico.eu/article/everything-you-wanted-to-kno...

"Although needle-sharing among drug addicts was one of the main reasons the disease spread so quickly, most HIV transmissions in Russia — 57 percent — are now a result of heterosexual sex. Drug use is responsible for 40 percent, while gay sex accounts for around 3 percent, according to Russia’s Federal Research Center for AIDS Prevention and Control in Moscow."

The majority of people living with HIV worldwide are straight women (52%):

https://www.unwomen.org/en/what-we-do/hiv-and-aids/facts-and....

I agree with you that the claim from some people to make like sex and number of sexual partners has nothing to do with STDs is ridiculous. It annoys me a great deal.

Gay men are disproportionately at risk and affected due to number of partners and type of sex. But most people with AIDS are straight.

Anyway your LGB link is funny because it claims (I think out of confusion) that lesbians have more partners as well. But lesbians also have the lowest std rates of any group. Making them obviously the best and most morally superior of the orientations.

Basically because it affects performance. You really don't want to write any buffers!

This is sort of a deep topic, so it's hard to give a concise answer but as an example: CuBLAS guarantees determinism, but only for the same arch and same library version (because the best performing ordering of operations depends on arch and implementation details) and does not guarantee it when using multiple streams (because the thread scheduling is non-deterministic and can change ordering).

Determinism is something you have to build in from the ground up if you want it. It can cost performance, it won't give you the same results between different architectures, and it's frequently tricky to maintain in the face of common parallel programming patterns.

Consider this explanation from the pytorch docs (particularly the bit on cuda convolutions):

https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/notes/randomness.html

Floating point math is not associative: (a + b) + c != a + (b + c)

This leads to different results from accumulating sums in different orderings. Accumulating in different ordering is common in parallel math operations.

Only guitar in that list comes to English from a Spanish etymology, the others come from Arabic via medieval Latin, French and Italian, not Spanish.

CMU School of Computer Science has its own admissions for undergrad which is dramatically more selective than CMU as a whole. It really is well known for undergrad CS, it's not just a halo effect of the grad program.

This was a common theme for HIV/AIDS denialists and was actively embraced in South Africa with tragic results.

South Africa pursued an anti-treatment strategy for a period: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/magazine/spr09aids/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS_denialism_in_South_...

Obviously I can't tell you if a partially remembered book with no name and no date has ever been fact checked.

Shingles is the latent chickenpox you already were infected with reactivating so people who already had chickenpox is exactly who the vaccine is for.

You can have shingles multiple times, any time the virus reactivates.

Yes, shingles is reactivation of latent herpes zoster (chickenpox) usually acquired in childhood. The vaccine prevents these reactivations You can have shingles multiple times, and some people are more prone to recurrences.

But that's the top marginal rate filing single. A California tax payer earning $677,272 pays 49.3 percent on each additional dollar but 43.9% is the effective rate on whole income. This is a very high single earner income.

A married couple with this income pays only 37.5% and doesn't max out until going over 1,359 million, at which point they pay the 43,9 effective.

You have to be a truly massive earner to hit 50% effective in CA.

Coast redwoods (sequoia sempervirens) are not serotinous. Giant sequoia (sequoiadendron giganteum) are, but that's not what's in Big Basin.

Coast redwoods propagate by stump sprouting and seeds which don't require fire. Fire is important in their ecosystem for clearing out fuel but is not at all required for reproduction.

https://ucanr.edu/sites/forestry/California_forests/http___u...

It's been very incremental and spread out.

Another commenter pointed to "Attention is all you Need" as particularly breakthrough. Even that paper just merged at the time current trends in attention, normalization, seq2seq and doesn't yet start to have all the interesting empirical results were later found using that architecture to scale up other problems.

The papers with huge numbers of authors tend to be empirical results with a large element of systems/engineering, much large scale LLM work is like this.