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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5888459 (quoted here for convenience)
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Formally, ordinals start at zero too :-) [0]. We owe their latest definition to Von Neumann, but AFAIK, the former definitions were similar. [...snip...]
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[0] This is meta-meta-contrarianism.
- The layman counts from 1
- The uptight programmer counts from zero, because Dijkstra said so (or so he thinks).
- The meta-contrarian (I used to be one) says fuck it, ordinals start at one.
- The meta-meta-contrarian reads Wikipedia[1], realizes he was formally wrong, and goes one step further in pedanticity, back to zero [0].
That being said, my brain prefers 1-indexing programming languages like Lua, Julia, R and Matlab...
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal_number
[0] Help! I'm stuck in a Boolean algebra[1][0]!
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boolean_algebras_canonically_de...
[0] ... where xor is an addition that wraps around ...
My kids' school also uses zero-based tables.
"Natural" is a very loaded and ambiguous term, best avoided if you hope to have sane discussions.
Middle-aged men in lycra
> the average person doesn't seem to care about all of these invasive data privacy issues.
I know, anecdotally, I became half a pariah in my family for refusing to register and share pics of my kids on WhatsApp. That was after the FB purchase, but before they changed the terms of service. I didn't trust FB, and was ultimately proven right.
IIRC, the Trump used that data set to send targeted ads to ~90M independent and republican voters. Independents got ads attacking Clinton and emphasizing prominent Trump supporters. Republicans got turnout-oriented ads.
Provided he won by less than 100k votes (and lost the popular vote), the cost to the median US citizen was likely quite large.
I didn’t know the same demographic markers had been baked into the platform. This is very concerning.
It is very concrete, but that would automatically alienate quite a few people...
Young kids will put anything in their mouths. Eating dirt is not an uncommon behavior.
From my understanding of the scriptures, they're supposed to be ultimately punished...
... and therefore I behave in unethical ways. It's not my fault, it's destiny.
It is about believing that people deserve their fate, however hard life has been to them.
It is basically HTML’s WASM moment.
WebKit is the last browser not to have it, but it is about to land too...
But... I actually read your comment too quickly, you were not making that point :-)
By default, you have a linear, IM-like UX, but it is trivial to fork conversations on specific topics.
this https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.222658699
and this https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/am-pdf/10.1002/eat.22531
among many others...
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=7%2C39&q=ser...
A key point is that the same anomalies are seen in anorexia, binge eating and bulimia.
https://soundcloud.com/user-876103472/lennui-cest-loxyge-ne
Long story short: screw the meatbags, let's get rid of atmospheric oxygen...
Neither the linked article nor Morita's mention Serguei Fetissov's pioneering work on the topic though, which is disappointing, given that he and his colleagues have long documented the link between E. Coli, the immune system and eating disorders.
The gist is that E. Coli produces a protein (CLBP) that mimics a feeding-related hormone (IIRC melanocortin). That protein ends up in the blood stream and can bind the corresponding receptors. It can also generate an immune response, and these antibodies are cross-reactive, causing autoimmunity and complicating the story.
They did stop the spread of the historic and alpha variant in Israel, with a 55-60% rate of vaccination (I mistakenly thought it was 70%, it was even lower). Before the onset of the delta wave, the virus was about to go extinct there.
You can check the graphs. May 11 2021, there were 4.66 new cases per million inhabitants. By June 9 it was down to 1.5. Compare with the surrounding countries, where the alpha wave lasted much longer, and was still lingering when the delta variant came around.
https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor...
June 9 coincides with the point where the delta share crossed the 50% threshold.
https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor...
But the global vaccine rollout was criminally slow.
I don't know how hospitals devise their COVID policy in the US... In France you need a "Sanitary pass" to access healthcare facilities. You must either provide a negative test taken in the last 24 hours, or a proof of some level of immunity (either up to date vaccination, or a COVID recovery certificate from less than 4 months).
This is our first interaction, not sure why you think I keep thinking something I never thought.
There might have been a need for boosters, it would have been possible to contain the epidemic had we not let covid mutate into more faster, more contagious and evasive variants. And the variants were much more likely to spring up as we let the epidemic go rampant.
No vaccine is 100% effective.
The vaccines were sufficiently effective to let Israel skip the alpha wave altogether with ~70% of the population covered. At the lowest point in June 2021 they were down to less than 20 new cases per day. Then the delta variant came out of the bush (from India which had much less coverage at the time, the more infections, the higher the mutation risk). It's R0 was higher than alpha's and the epidemic kicked back up.
Had there been an initial, aggressive push to vaccinate globally we might have been done with the virus by the summer of 2021.
It should also be noted that COVID has cumulative effects. The all around risk of complications is about twice as high for the second infection (I don't think there's data for more than two, so we don't know if the trend is additive, multiplicative, a combination thereof, or if it peaks there). Among other things, it culls the naive lymphocyte population weakening your immunity to bugs you haven't met yet.
... well, up to the thirteenth, at least... I suppose one could continue to name diatonic intervals above that for really convoluted chords.
Without the off-by one error, one could do interval arithmetics in a way that intuitively makes sense... It's really weird such a bad convention caught on to begin with.
Edit: going down the rabbit hole... It looks like the off-by-one error for diatonic intervals goes back to the greek antiquity. The Romans named the fourth and fifth diatessaon and diapente, which have greek roots, but their chromatic intervals start a zero (tonus, ditonus, tritonus which gave the (semi-)tone and the tritone). The "semi" prefix means "subtract half a tone", not divide by two... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interval_(music)#Latin_nomencl...
Neither the Greeks nor the Romans had a concept of zero, so it starts to make sense as to why we started with a crooked convention. Inertia and habbit made it stick around.
There's another rabbit hole for microtonal interval names... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pitch_intervals#List
The unison is an interval of zero notes, the second an interval of one note, etc...
Nonsense.
Everyone knows it’s "si"!
Edit, also B is also sometimes notated as H. In that case B means what is usually Bb.
Edit 2: also, I just discovered that Eb was sometimes called S. What a mess :-)