Link. The war is between the cognitive elite and the non-college fundamentalists. Sound familiar?
Monthly Archives: August 2020
Why Does California Have So Many Wildfires?
Link. Climate change, population, accumulated fuel.
“P-Best, for Pooling-Based Efficient SARS-CoV-2 Testing — successfully detected positives in pools of as many as 48 samples”
Link. Algorithm works best with low positivity rate.
“allegations were a cynical attempt to manipulate the powerful emotions surrounding sexual misconduct and assault.”
Link. Shock.
Kenya: “Covid-19 has so far infected 700 health workers and killed more than 10″
Link. Lots of disease, worse IFR.
Regenerating cartilage in mice: “the method of awakening the dormant cells is relatively simple, and the drugs required are already on the market.”
Link. Orthopedic surgeons are sure to try this.
Managing the demented driver: use a fake key fob.
Link. Doctors need this one. Has to match the real fob.
“News Feed Preferences are absolutely worth exploring if you want even the slightest bit of curation in what you see on Facebook”
Link. Great overview of latest reboot.
“It was very clear that people who were donating were donating for rebuilding efforts,”
Link. Definitely. The racial justice pivot is wrong.
“If the whole Earth were broken up into pebbles, and each of those pebbles smashed into tens of thousands of specks of grit, you would still have fewer pieces of grit than the world has virions.”
Link. Gray goo.
“a fifth of single-celled plankton are killed by viruses every day”
Link. Bloody hell.
Unicode: “You may be surprised to learn that some code comparisons, such as Swift’s NSString.isEqual(), don’t work properly across normalised forms, but others such as == do”
Link. Gets deep.
Aperture For Catalina
Link. “make sure to copy the NyXAudioAnalysis.framework from /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks from your Mojave or earlier OS. It’s not present on Catalina.”
“I just can’t stop thinking about Brayden’s triumph.”
Link. Imagine the guy’s parents. I’d be a wreck.
“the men and women rode more often during the two weeks with e-bikes, averaging about five rides a week then, versus three a week with the standard cycles.”
Link. Less intense but more frequent exercise. I would buy one for Emily so I can go faster on our rides.
“there’s a whole beautiful if troubled country out there. We just have to figure out the way back.”
Link. There is one more chance.
Computer Search Settles 90-Year-Old Math Problem
Link. “They supported it with a long proof — 200 gigabytes in size — justifying their conclusion.”
The Republican Embrace of QAnon: “coming conflagration between President Trump and what they allege, falsely, is a cabal of Satan-worshiping pedophile Democrats who seek to dominate America and the world”
Link. Either the GOP dies (to be reborn) or America dies.
“Over 70 former Republican national security officials including ex-CIA and FBI chiefs will endorse Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Friday”
Link. The final hour.
Xi wants a Maoist purge.
Link. Uneasy sits the head …
Testing monoclonal antibodies in nursing home outbreaks
Link. Excellent.
Apple PE Ratio 2006-2020.
Link. Now similar to Facebook. Historically Apple was relatively undervalued, now is in range of other tech companies.
Transcript: Barack Obama’s DNC speech.
Link. The ripping Trump to shreds part is surprisingly brief. The bigger focus is a call to vote, to not let democracy die. (He only indicts GOP indirectly in terms of Trump enablers.)
Obama analysis: “The fear that we ourselves will not sufficiently attend to the notion that our “unique polity” and “way of life” are worth preserving, and that this is the ultimate existential threat to them, because this is what leaves us vuln
Link. Evangelicals are one group not fond of democracy.
How Probability Misleads Us About The Universe
Link. In general medicine it is fairly common to see a rare disease, but uncommem to see the same one twice. There are a lot of rare diseases.
COVID myocarditis.
Link. “in young patients who had seemingly overcome SARS-CoV-2 it’s fairly common for the heart to be affected”
“To gain full access to any privacy-protected directory, all an attacker has to do is establish an ssh connection”
Link. Apple left this open intentionally? Hard to grasp why unfixed.
“higher the B.M.I., the lower the blood flow to five regions of the brain that are especially vulnerable in Alzheimer’s disease …”
Link. Correlation is not causation. Obesity is inversely related to education.
Why Pooled Testing for the Coronavirus Isn’t Working
Link. Need positivity < 10% to be effective
COVID plasma therapy: meh.
Link. Not a game changer
“French said he did not understand the magnitude of the issues homeless people suffer from, including mental illness, addiction and the predators who take advantage of them”
Link. Few understand.
The most disturbing perception demo ever.
Link. Overload failure of the lossy neuro-ophthalmic algorithm.
Worldwide Cyclery – painless purchase with Amazon and Google Pay
Link. They showed up in a web search for some grips and I knew their reputation. Surprising part was how painless checkout was. I didn’t have to create an account.
“large projects employ international surveying firms whose employees are unaware that America has two feet”
Link. Nobody knew.
“testing remdesivir and placebo against remdesivir and beta interferon.”
Link. A prior combo trial is thought to be negative. Science!
Ex-C.I.A. Officer Is Accused of Spying for China
Link. Clever sting
A Senescent Cell Therapy for OA fails.
Link. Not great news, but I didn’t know senescent cell therapy was a thing. OA is a mess of things we don’t understand at all.
Herd immunity reconsidered: “Rather than uniformly vaccinate all groups, governments could identify and immunize those most likely to be exposed in “superspreader” events”
Link. New models could make limited vaccine supply more effective.
“Her concern, when it comes to China, is maintaining Giant’s work force there. Young people’s interest in factory jobs is declining.”
Link. Giant is an interesting company.
Native document versions in macOS
Link. I don’t think they are worth the complexity
In Norway, where college is free, children of uneducated parents don’t go.
Link. Free college and hideously expensive American college have similar class-based attendance patterns and in both countries only about 1/3 adults complete a four year degree.
Can you do a Time Machine backup to a USB flash drive (thumb drive)?
Link. Seems to work. I wouldn’t bet my data on it, but useful when traveling and better than nothing.
FDA “approved” KN95 masks available on Amazon – $4 each.
Link. Some N95 are also becoming available though not on Amazon. We should have had this by March.
“FDA approved” KN95 Face Masks – $38 for 10 (Powecom)
Link. There is a “Guangzhou Powecom Labor Insurance Supplies Co” on FDA list.
Race vs Class on the Left
Link. I used to think Class was bigger, but I’ve changed my mind. However Class-based fixes may be more achievable.
Trump broke law with DHS appointments. Will do it again.
Link. Blame McConnell.
TeleTracking Technologies, Trump’s COVID concealment team, says NDA blocks Senate inquiry
Link. Blame McConnell.
China dials back attacks on US
Link. Preparing for a sane administration.
[toread] “Australia’s flu vaccine rate tends to be modest, but this year demand was high.”
Link. Good news.
Where to Buy N95 Mask For Sale: Shop FDA-Approved Respirator Face Mask.
Link. Another from America’s new CDC.