mactournier

Don't waste your time. There are so many statistical atrocities in this article that it makes me shiver.

Contrary to the HN title, the paper is not about causal inference, it is a case-control study. A good primer on the limitations of case-control studies can be found here: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/280936#limitations

You can read it with your ACM/O'Reilly subscription => https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/docs-for-developers/978...

Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) has some well-known benefits in short term, in diseases such as Parkinson's (ref https://www.nature.com/articles/s41582-019-0145-9). Although, long term effects tend to fade in a lot of cases, and some patients have permanent neurologic damage after the procedure. Although exciting, there are a couple of non-surgical treatments to pain that have to be tried before invasive approaches.

They totally ignored the open source package in their site. https://github.com/snorkel-team/snorkel Moreover, based on the commit history in github, and their README.md , my understanding is that they will stop supporting their open source repo. Best of luck for them.