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That’s not accurate in the case of osteopenia. It’s defined by a T score. The quantile of the distribution of bone density measurements of young, healthy people that matched the bone density of this patient. Treatments for osteopenia are basically making sure you’re getting enough calcium, vitaD, and high impact exercise…if everyone did all those things (and they worked), the rate of osteopenia would drop to zero.

I really want to learn eMacs but most of my work is in Jupiter notebooks in terra.bio - can eMacs interact with that?

Is one month really enough data to distinguish signal from noise?

2.8% doesn’t seem that crazy to me? Don’t we target like 2-2.5?

How do you think developing counties come up with their poverty lines? This new international number is just the median of those…

I think the goal is to understand someone else’s situation

Was the politician suggesting everyone should do those things or just observing one way to do things?

Right to someone else’s blood supply via placenta?

I guess I forgot to directly respond - point I was trying to make is that I don’t find this insane.

It’s a question of values. I’m happy to pay taxes because my vision for how the world should work includes people who are thriving (like me) helping those who aren’t. Same reason I’m happy to get vaccines even if they don’t help me much (though most, maybe all, are worth it even if I only care about myself).

What do you mean by the “$100k parking spaces” bit?

What fraction of the people who could benefit from LASIK get it? Would you be okay if cancer worker like that?

Interesting idea - where do you hear this?

I’m not sure I fully agree but I like it

this doesn't sound right...but I don't know enough about etymology to dispute it

Can you explain how this works in more detail - I’m intrigued!

Could potentially speed it up by

1. Preferentially exploring branches that are closer to the target. A reasonable distance metric would be min number of steps needed to get from “here” to goal.

2. Explore forwards and backwards.

Corollary - let’s say I start exercising more and lose weight. I used to eat 100kg now I weigh 90kg. Where did the 10kg go?

Statistical* genetics Whoops

How can I get in touch with you?

I’m a medical doctor (general internal medicine) in the United States. I have some technical background having done a lot of R and programming during my PhD in statistics genetics. I don’t have an active project but I’m interested in joining in with anyone who could use me. Skills: medicine, genetics, bioinformatics I also feel like I am a good communicator with business types, for what it’s worth.

This seems reasonable to me.

article doesn't provide any citation to the article it is summarizing...

My sense is that all soaps are the same from a chemistry/physics perspective. But of course they could be in different concentrations. Maybe Dawn has more amphipathic molecules per liter aka is more concentrated?

Banning private schools is an extreme position, but I see some sense in it. Here's how I think about it.

It tends to be the wealthier, better connected, more influential people who send their kids to private schools. So, we have a situation where the influential people don't have a lot to lose if public schools happen to be under-funded (their kids get private education). So it is more politically tolerable than it should be to under-fund public schools.

Fair point. I don't think you need to bring in the gun analogy. If you're definitely not going to have sex, you don't need any STD prevention.

Every episode of “Nathan for You” is amazing. The episode about this phenomenon is no exception. “The Diarrhea Times”...lol

I would replace mentee with telemachus. That’s who mentor taught!