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The author tried this treatment on herself. I was unable to find data associated with this self-experiment, such as lactate measurements on multiple days while applying the treatment. Is there another article I missed that covered this?
FogBugz just sent out a retraction. Their intention was to retire the free service and offer the opportunity to upgrade to paid accounts at a 50% discount. If anyone was charged and didn't already receive a refund, the email to request a refund is fogbugzbilling@ignitetech.com.
Here's the beginning of their retraction email, in which they explain how this happened.
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Dear FogBugz User,
Mea culpa — sincerely.
We’ve become well aware of the maelstrom of concern and comments caused by a series of emails that some of you received, but to explain, we were just as surprised as you when multiple emails were sent. Our original and only intended email, which was controlled by humans, was to inform you that the “free,” non-expiring version of FogBugz is being phased out on October 17, 2022. Additionally, we wanted to offer you the option to continue using FogBugz by updating your account to a paid subscription. This was the entire, planned effort.
However, once we updated the accounts that had been identified as free and non-expiring in the internal FogBugz accounting system, the software automatically generated a form email, notifying you that we had summarily converted you to a paid account, and worse, actually triggering collection/dunning notices to some. This was unintended and is not accurate. Yes, we’ve owned the software for some time and should know all of the nooks and crannies by now. We don’t know if this was a nook or a cranny, but it decided to act on its own. Truth. It’s embarrassing, and we’d react the same way as many of you have. So this email is to set the record straight.
We do not automatically charge any customer for usage of the software unless a subscription has been expressly elected, despite what the erroneous auto-email stated.
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We're a small, sharp team within one of the world's largest companies.
As a Lisp/Clojure Software Engineer, you will design, create, and maintain software that interfaces with clearinghouses, Medicaid agencies, and plan sponsors. As part of a small team, using technologies such as Clojure, Lisp, and MarkLogic, you will be responsible for the accuracy of our most critical data and solve difficult engineering problems in a distributed system with terabytes of data while ensuring performance and scalability. This is a very data-focused software engineering role - heavy emphasis on data integrity and performance, not user interfaces.
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With some assistance and teaching, cats and dogs are capable of learning to speak in sentences. In 2018, a speech pathologist named Christina Hunger, who used AAC devices to help special needs children learn to talk, tried applying a similar approach to her dog, Stella. It worked surprisingly well. Stella could speak in four-word sentences with a vocabulary of around 15 words by her first birthday, and was up to 49 words by her third birthday. Since then, many other people have followed the same process to teach their pets how to talk.
Why Sars-Cov-2 is a suspect:
1) Many of these hepatitis patients tested positive for Sars-Cov-2 when they arrived at the hospital for hepatitis.
2) Sars-Cov-2 is changing fast. Just in the last few months it has changed substantially several times. Increased hepatitis risk in kids might be one of those changes.
3) The usual causes of hepatitis were not present, and no better explanation has been found yet.
Investigation still in progress. Might be one of these two viruses. Might be something else that hasn’t been detected yet.
Last week’s WHO emergency announcement of the same issue: https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/a...
Top suspects are both viruses: Sars-Cov-2 (COVID-19) and adenovirus 41. But the real cause could just as easily be something else that hadn’t been detected yet. It’s just too early to be certain.
The most damaging hurricanes rely heavily on warm water over their last 2-3 days before landfall. Suppose we focused these bright cloud emitters on the water in front of a tropical storm, as a way to prevent it from strengthening into a hurricane?
Imagine the city of Miami deciding that eliminating local hurricanes would benefit its local real estate market. They invest in a fleet of hurricane blockers to be deployed off their coast during hurricane season to reduce the odds of getting hit by any hurricane, and almost guarantee no more cat 5 hurricanes. This project is worth it for Miami because it has a dramatic effect on home values and insurance costs... And the world also benefits from the cooling that Miami's hurricane shield produces.
Very disappointing that the top comment on this article is COVID misinformation. The forcry account was created 3 weeks ago and specializes in COVID misinformation.
No, CDC isn’t messing with the tests like this. And all this fancy talk about CT values is just cover for a false statement about CDC policy.
Imagine the CDC yelling: "Don't throw that away! I need more details! Please! If you won't finish the job, please let me do that work!"
That's my translation of the document I found when looking into this issue. More details below...
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"CDC is suggesting CT value of 28 for detecting breakthrough infections after vaccinations... So that means, a breakthrough infection needs to have 128 times viral load in someone who has been vaccinated to be considered as positive, than it is required to have considered as positive in a non-vaccinated person."
This sounded strange to me, so I searched for more information about it. It looks like you just misunderstood the CDC's policy.
This document regarding breakthrough case investigations was the second result in a Google search for "cdc ct value 28". The relevant text can be found on page 5 of that document.
https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/105217/cdc_105217_DS1.pdf
"If SARS-CoV-2 sequencing will not be performed locally and a specimen is available, the state public health laboratory should request the residual clinical respiratory specimen for subsequent shipping to CDC. For cases with a known RT-PCR cycle threshold (Ct) value, submit only specimens with Ct value <=28 to CDC for sequencing."
In other words... Imagine some lab just found a breakthrough case. And this breakthrough case had an especially high viral load (Ct 28). And the lab was just going to report a positive and throw away the sample...
Imagine the CDC yelling: "Don't throw that away! I need more details! Please! If you won't finish the job, please let me do that work!"
That's what the document is saying. There's a rare event that needs extra analysis. CDC is just letting the labs know in advance that if they ever see this event, and didn't have the resources to fully analyze it, please send that sample to the CDC so it gets the attention it deserves.
Nothing to do with whether the test is considered positive or a breakthrough - just about whether to put extra effort into gathering more details on that particular case. CDC is volunteering to do this extra effort only for higher Ct values. Whether or not they do this extra work, it's still a positive result either way.
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Adaxa Technologies | Lisp/Clojure Software Engineer | ONSITE Ft Lauderdale, FL (remote for now due to COVID-19) | Full-time
Adaxa Technologies creates software that powers dental insurance plans for over 4 million members across 8 states.
As an EDI Software Engineer, you will design, create, and maintain software that interfaces with clearinghouses, Medicaid agencies, and plan sponsors. As part of a small team, using technologies such as Clojure, Lisp, and MarkLogic, you will be responsible for the accuracy of our most critical data and solve difficult engineering problems in a distributed system with terabytes of data while ensuring performance and scalability. This is a very backend-focused role – very minimal user interface and UX skills are necessary.
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If each phone generated 500 numbers per day, then TimeIntervalNumber is a number in the range of 1...500. So generate 500 codes using all of the numbers in that range. If any of those 500 codes match one of the codes that you actually saw in the wild, then you were near that person.
I’m part of the CoEpi project, one of the member projects of the TCN Coalition. I see that some of my teammates are searching through the OpenTrace code to see if anything there is worth taking, such as their device-specific bluetooth range calibrations. I don’t think there’s been any two-way communication between these teams.
Think of the daily key as the seed to a random number generator. If two people pass the same seed into the same random number generator, they can generate the same list of 500 random numbers. This provides a compact way for someone to say: "I just learned that I was infected. These are the 500 identifiers I broadcast on that day. If you recognize one of them, then you might also be infected."
The approach outlined by Apple and Google is very similar to, and likely based on, the TCN protocol developed by a coalition of open source projects. If you'd like to discuss possible vulnerabilities and propose further improvements, there's an active community already doing that who would be happy to have one more contributor. :-)
This is excellent news. Many open source projects have been working on this contact tracing approach for a while now and have been asking Apple and Google to provide this kind of support.
TCN Coalition is an umbrella group for open source projects who have agreed on a common protocol, which Apple and Google are also following fairly closely. I am one of the developers for CoEpi, a member of the TCN Coalition.
Link to the TCN Coalition: https://tcn-coalition.org/
I am one of the developers working on Co-Epi, and am very happy to see that Apple and Google are improving their APIs to support our work.
An NTD reporter had a similar idea, but focused on total deaths in the city of Wuhan rather than just flu-like deaths. A funeral home staff member said that deaths per day was 4-5 times higher than before this epidemic started, but that only 6% of those deaths were labelled as "confirmed cases" that would count toward the official numbers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYYV1B1lRKY
Assuming a similar rate of undercounting across other funeral homes in the city, that would put the real death count so far at about 14,000. This is despite extraordinary efforts by the Chinese government to prevent the spread of this virus.
(NTD has an axe to grind on this issue, but they have a reputation for factual honesty. I trust NTD's numbers far more than those of the Chinese government. https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/ntd-tv-new-tang-dynasty/ )
The main idea of this article is to use what you already know and just get it done, rather than experimenting with new tools. The author already knew how to use most of these tools from a previous job. He stuck with the technology that he already knew, so that he could focus more on business aspects rather than new technology.
In that spirit, you should use the App Engine that you already know for as long as it seems to be working well for you. When you run into a problem that can't be solved in App Engine, that is the time to ask for advice on how to solve your problem.
This seems very close to being a tool I would use.
My wife and I like to play escape rooms together. There's just two of us, and we prefer a team size of 5-6. So I often hunt through booking pages for rooms that already have a team of 3-4 signed up, so that we can join them.
This tool lets me search for rooms that are available (which is almost all of them) or booked (which I think means fully booked - not clear). I would want to search for rooms that are partially booked, preferably with 3-4 people and room for 2 more to join.
Totally separate issue - the hardest part has been finding locations that we like. So far we've found two that we love a lot: the Great Escape Room in Miami and the Master Escape Room in Boca Raton. Of course we've played every room in both places. Yelp reviews are mostly written by people who just did their first escape room, and even frequent escape roomers like us seem to vary a lot in preferences.
Udacity has a course that focuses on flight. I know several people who took this course and are very happy with it.
Agreed that Udacity's AI for Robotics was a weak course. I highly recommend some of Udacity's recent paid-only courses on robotics:
Self-driving car engineer nanodegree (not the one with "intro" in its name) https://www.udacity.com/course/self-driving-car-engineer-nan...
Robotics software engineer nanodegree https://www.udacity.com/course/robotics-software-engineer--n...
Flying car and autonomous flight engineer nanodegree https://www.udacity.com/course/flying-car-nanodegree--nd787
Just as a sample, this is one of many projects I completed as part of the self-driving car engineer nanodegree. My code controls a car driving on a highway with other cars.
I've heard that ROS is difficult to setup and that YARP can be easily setup in around 2 minutes. I haven't used either myself.
The article is very unclear. Here's another quote in the same article that says the hacks against the RNC failed. The NY Times is basically telling us that they received conflicting reports from different anonymous and similarly credible sources.
"One senior government official, who had been briefed on an F.B.I. investigation into the matter, said that while there were attempts to penetrate the Republican committee’s systems, they were not successful."
MIT's "moral machine" site presents a set of ethical dilemmas involving driving so you can explore your own perspective on morality.
http://jalopnik.com/this-mit-online-activity-lets-you-choose...
The goal is to create open source software for self-driving cars. That's a win if the quality is anywhere close to what Uber and Tesla have developed.
The first challenge is to create a conv net that decides how to turn the wheel to stay in the lanes, similar to what Nvidia described in their devblog.
https://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/deep-learning-sel...
Expect data to be released within a week. Join the Slack team at http://nd013.udacity.com for more details (channel: challenge-1).
"Does Udacity have any technical talent that would even be relevant to this? (I'm betting they don't have any computer vision experts.)"
Sebastian Thrun is a cofounder of Udacity, and one of the world's top experts in self-driving cars. Sebastian Thru won 1st place in the DARPA Grand Challenge in which self-driving cars raced across the Mojave desert. He is also a VP at Google, where he has worked on Google's self-driving car technology. One of the first courses at Udacity was called "Artificial Intelligence for Robotics."
All interesting points. Even without them, Phoenix does great in this benchmark.
My takeaways from this article were:
1) Phoenix and Rails are clear winners on API.
2) Rails performance is unacceptable, which makes its nice API irrelevant.
3) All others are good enough that if I wanted to choose them for other reasons, this article wouldn't stop me.