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jclos
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  1. Yes I expressed myself badly. I meant risk mitigation plan. Usually in grant proposals we are asked to identify what are the major risks (in terms of incidence x impact) for each work package and produce a mitigation plan in case it happens.
  2. This is very cool, but I feel like I should tell you from a marketing perspective that in French "etron" means turd.
  3. This looks interesting, and like it could fill a gap for the planning of research grants. Any chance it could integrate task-level risk management plan, and export as a Gantt chart?
  4. More like CICO, but make sure to eat high satiety carbs, a variety of vegetables, a lot of protein, enough good fats, and have a way to estimate your overall activity level and keep it constant or even slightly higher than usual (e.g. a step counter) to account for NEAT decrease.
  5. The core issue of CICO as you pointed out is that it's a truism that ignores key aspects of a diet that usually come with a restriction in caloric intake - hunger can lead to poor food choices (decrease in TEF) and leads to lethargy (decrease in NEAT) which can account for up to 500 kcal/day (don't quote me on this, just trying to remember the papers I had read a long time ago) and completely negate the dieting effort. That's not even accounting the approximations of CI.
  6. Anything that states that an entire macronutrient is more satiating than another macronutrient is crank science and you should dismiss it. High fibre "carbs" for example are incredibly satiating.
  7. One person's dread will be another's business opportunity - is there any good search engine/recommender system for podcasts?
  8. A few things that come to mind from having worked in many coffees in a few countries where those were implemented would be to institute an off-peak/peak time policy where people are asked not to work during peak time (e.g. lunch), have some sort of subscription model which comes with a faster wifi and X drinks a month.
  9. It looks very nice. Only thing I am worried about is how you plan to make it sustainable. I don't fancy spending time filling a profile for everything to disappear in a few months.
  10. Mostly about generating explanations for the classification/tagging
  11. That's fantastic. I was about to start a project in October building something that's almost completely there already, for a specific use case (annotation of therapy sessions).
  12. I wish my university had something like this for internal use (student projects, research).
  13. Not to mention some higher percentage threshold have been floated around as necessary for some of the more contagious variants of the virus.
  14. > if you ask normal people, they will hate this - only some data fanatics want this feature.

    Show the evidence. Wanting data privacy is far from the fringe minority sentiment you imply it to be, otherwise GDPR wouldn't be so popular.

  15. "Astrology for nerds" is one way of describing it that I always liked even though I don't know who is the original author of the expression (if there even is one).
  16. It reminds me of the old Eureqa software [1], which I used almost 10 years ago in some research work. It got bought out by a company and kind of shut down, so it's nice to see alternatives. Since then some good packages like gplearn have emerged [2], what are you offering that it cannot do?

    As a side note if I were you I would be a lot more selective about what you put in your blog, because your post on the inadequacy of neural networks is a bit embarrassing, and paints a pretty bad picture of your own tool.

    [1] https://www.creativemachineslab.com/eureqa.html

    [2] https://gplearn.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

  17. If treating their workers with decency is such an insurmountable hurdle then yes I would argue that we are much better off without your friend's company.
  18. > How about we don't force people into things.

    That's all great in theory, but in practice you are always forced one way or another. If you are not forced to take paternal leave, then social pressure forces you to not take it.

  19. This looks nice, and I might give it a try to transcribe the live Q&A sessions I am doing for the course I teach. My question is how well does it handle accents? My slight French accent often trips the Cortana-powered transcription that is integrated in PowerPoint, but I assume your models are a bit more complex than those.
  20. I have a couple of Google Home Minis but I never paid for them, one was gifted by Spotify and one by Google when they were getting rid of their stock of the old model. I usually use them to control the lights and Spotify/Netflix when I am too lazy to get off the couch in the middle of an episode. They are also getting less and less useful because the voice recognition is getting steadily worse (false negative and false positive recognition of wake-up sentence has easily doubled since I got them). I could easily live without them but I still think the technology is cool. When they stop working I will probably look for a full-blown local alternative that doesn't rely on the Internet.
  21. Thank you for the explanation, I was wondering the exact same thing and I know nothing about optics.
  22. Fair enough, in that sense yes I agree that a lot of people don't have a good understanding of the inner workings of their government.
  23. It's an interesting idea but doesn't that go directly against the TOS of most phone providers?
  24. > The internet is really good at keeping us in our bubbles, making a lot of assumptions on geolocated IPs.

    PocketCast, and I assume a lot of other podcast apps, let you change your country in the settings when you are browsing for new podcasts to listen.

  25. I hope you do realise that life is so easy because we are always complaining and not in spite of it. Worker rights and social safety nets did not magically appear out of thin air.
  26. It looks very clean, well done. What I meant though is to have a link (or some pictures) on your main page so that people see what the result looks like before having to sign on.
  27. Maybe I missed it, but your landing page could use a couple of example stores built with your tool, and a better description of the features/personalisation options.
  28. If you are not writing a paper, building a product, or treating it as scientific knowledge does it really matter?
  29. That's only a problem if you are trying to generalise your discovery and say write a paper or sell a product about it. If it's just "a thing you do" and it makes you feel good, then biases don't really matter as much as the end result.

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