@leslietownes Hey, concerning that conversation about health we had the other day, I might be terrible with citations, but at least I was able to find this one once more: covidchartsquiz.com
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To those brave enough to "take the quiz": so you trust your overlords, still?
To be clear: I am not suggesting that one disrespect those who have due power and authority since all lawful jurisdiction comes from God; I am suggesting that we should respect their positions and authority while scrutinizing them and seeking the truth in their words, and to determine whether or not what they say is true instead of taking it as true on the merit of their words alone versus another's.
Hold them accountable to their words to their benefit and the benefit of the people.
For computing reciprocals, I settled on just using PM 2Ring's suggestion to use Newton-Raphson for now and find something better later when I've made the tools to do so, so I can compute $\frac{1}{x}$ now which means I could use Newton-Raphson to also compute $\ln(z)$, but I'm still curious to know if there is a better way.
You're not stupid enough to suggest that mask mandates, for example, is not necessary to curb the spread, are you? If that's what the quiz is trying to say by demonstrating the graph of UK then it's just anti-scientific propaganda.
$\int_{0}^{1} \frac{x^3}{1+x^3} dx$ I evaluated this by writing the numerator as $x^3 + 1 - 1$ and splitting the integral, followed by using partial fractions; it got fairly lengthy. Is there some easier way to solve this?
@AMDG Thanks for clarifying. I would suggest knowing the decades of science of how viruses spread to see that mask mandate is completely consistent with a scientific approach to a solution to this pandemic. Have a look at Hong Kong's graph as evidence, where they have been consistently wearing masks since their last SARS breakout, unlike US and UK.
@AMDG Just because mask mandate in US didn't work doesn't mean masks are bad, it means US failed to implement it correctly. Did you not listen to what I said? Hong Kongers have been consistently wearing mask since their last SARS breakout.
One of my questions is: If a lattice is diffeomorphic to an integral lattice, and if you can define a flow on the integral lattice, can you define an analogous flow on the lattice diffeomorphic to the integral lattice?
An imbalance of the objective or the subjective leads to error. If one relies too much on evidence without objective principles, there is error. If one relies too much on objective principles without evidence, there is error.
I did the first section of the quizz and got all but one diagram wrong. The curves clearly show that wearing masks delayed the propagation of the infection. The total number of death not put in comparison to how rural/dense the state is makes no sense, but it is the narrative that the quizz is pushing to "prove" masks do no work
I could say that France has 6 times as few deaths than the USA, and claim that this is because we had strict lockdowns and mask mandates in France. But that's forgetting that France has 6 times fewer inhabitants
The data set presented in the quizz is not enough to reach any conclusion, and is wrongfully being used to push a narrative that masks are inefficient.
Right, but then there's also the liars in the public media of which I am not content with any of the public TV stations, even the so-called conservative ones like Fox.
Which is why, especially as someone doing maths, you shouldn't rely on the media to explain the data to you. Especially when said media shows you 5 beautiful graphs and then makes controversial statements like "look, masks don't work"
Masks are one thing. If it were just masks, I wouldn't complain, but we're talking about entire economies destroyed, not because of a virus, but because of the questionable decisions of our leaders.
Actually, you're the one who said that. I'm not denying the purpose and efficacy of masks, else I should say that surgical masks should not be required to perform surgeries.
I live under a rock and hardly watch mainstream media or news. I have merely taken the side that seems most reasonable with what little has been presented; I'm not quick to trust a bunch of liberals on the TV, nor a bunch of neocons who are, at least in appearance, die-hard patriots of my country and constitution.
When I grew up, I had the privilege of not having friends to influence me, so my opinions and ideas have effectively developed without the influence of others.
@BalarkaSen Yeah, and I'm not very trusting of modern medicine and medical journals by extension for that reason. They toss out tradition. Not to mention my experience above all with regards to my Crohn's disease and all the research that I've done that suggests all of modern medicine is borked and only works because it is internally consistent.
Science works by tossing out traditional believes and replacing them with evidence-based findings, yes. A traditional part of surgery was to not wash your hands before cutting your patients up; someone suggested that they should wash their hands before and that dramatically reduced mortality rates.
There's lots that modern medicine doesn't know. I am not a 11 year old who just reads Richard Dawkins all day. I reserve my skepticism, but I don't go around suggesting masks don't work.
You act like tradition is worthless which is exactly the error with modern medicine. Old traditions that seem to work should, in light of new findings, be scrutinized and rigorously tested for veritability, not merely dismissed.
I don't think tradition is worthless. I think some things work and some things don't. If tradition says masks don't work then that particular doctrine of tradition should be thrown out of the window.
Bruh, these doctors can't even tell me what's healthy to eat. If I want to eat something healthy, I eat what the doctors say is unhealthy, and if the doctors say it is healthy, I avoid it like the plague.
@BalarkaSen Or, more accurately, someone suggested that you should wash your hands after carving up a cadaver and before delivering a baby, everyone laughed at him, he died, and then surgeons started washing their hands. It took a long time for the medical community to accept the idea of "cadaver particles".
(and the theory of "cadaver particles" was not quite on the money, anyway---it took more work to sort that out)
So, if someone cannot get such simple facts of diet correct, what reason do I have to trust them with these things? Sure, these doctors do indeed have legitimate knowledge about the inner workings of the body, and I will trust a surgeon to do his job, but as for the rest, it is questionable.
well, there is nothing like an autoimmune disease to shake your confidence in medicine. they have no idea about most of that stuff. it is better with other types of illness.
@XanderHenderson Based on what evidence? The evidence presented today consists of low-quality studies that consist of such powerful study mechanisms as questionnaires about what you ate for breakfast a year ago.
Starving or not, what they ate was healthier then than what we eat in general today as a result of all of these novelties in both the food industry as well as medical science.
can we include tradition prior to discovery of fire, as they were rather ancient, and as they say, tradition ages like wine? then most of the time we were eating uncooked meat
Meats, red meats in particular, are high in readily-absorbable nutrients compared to plant foods that require significantly more work to process by the body, and are often prepared improperly today compared to back then.
Then you've got modern science and "wisdom" such as the lipid hypothesis and "red meat gives you cancer" theory.
@AMDG OK. I hope you don't eat red meat on a regular basis based on this alternative science of yours, because it won't bode well for your Crohn's prognosis.
@BalarkaSen I have literally survived without the help of doctors and modern medicine by eating red meats often and daily. I have not required biologics in spite of having been diagnosed with severe Crohn's disease.
If I eat anything remotely close to what the doctors consider healthy, I will probably end up in the hospital again for another round of antibiotics etc.
Rapeseed oil (Canola oil) is absolutely cringe yet for some reason it's suggested for cooking.
AMDG diet is a very weird and understudied topic. my wife went to some very expensive specialists who deduced that soy and potatoes, which she had previously relied upon, were the worst thing for her. she cut them out and her health improved overnight.
What most laymen are ignorant of (and apparently the people who suggest cooking with these things) is that unsaturated fats are converted to free radicals in the presence of high heat. Saturated fats are more stable and less likely to develop into free radicals.
Soy is trash in high quantities unless fermented to remove phytoestrogens; tofu is fine every once in a while; things like these soy-based "plant burgers", however, have more (phyto)estrogen than is prescribed in estrogen pills by doctors.
@BalarkaSen I was diagnosed with severe Crohn's disease in November of 2017. I am 21 now.
Much of my daily diet consists of eating sausage, raw milk cheese, raw milk yogurt, eggs, coffee with raw milk cream and Frangelico, some wine, beer, and that's probably about it.
Almost all of these we get from a farm that uses high quality animal feed and ingredients.
I love sushi. That stuff is great, but most of the problem is that for some reason, I still can't list all of the ingredients by just looking at it, so I avoid it. :)
Which is to say they still load up these simple meals in a manner that is no-so-simple with perservatives and flavor-enhancers which is all just vanity.
I mean they do it because they don't really care about quality products, just optimizing profits, but y'know...
The farmed varieties tend to have higher levels of the same toxins naturally present in wild-caught fish. Can't remember if it was arsenic or some other toxin.
I think it was mercury
Not to mention what kind of horrors they feed them with and put in the water.
I'd be glad to at least link some videos to a channel that I trust. All the places that I got my information from have effectively been forgotten--I mean who remembers citation links? However, there's a particular YouTube channel that I like because his videos summarize all the research that I've done since I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease.
You've probably come across his videos. The channel "What I've Learned".
He does a good job of sifting the sand for gold.
He explains his sources as well as the sources of counterarguments and does a good job of pointing out the flaws.
her rheumatologist is a nice person. she recommended a good italian restaurant. but when it comes to lupus i think doctors are all making it up as they go along. the good ones are honest about it.
Well, I'm actually fairly certain that FMT is a means to cure Crohn's disease and other inflammatory bowel disease. Unfortunately, I have no way to determine that because, well, the issue is finding a suitable donor.
Secondarily is the issue of processing and administration
And even just before-hand, eat what the donor does and clear out my intestines. I have several herbal medicines that are safe and effective at clearing out my bowels.
Well, I'm one man working on his own as far as I'm concerned, and I have the disease, so... yeah.
The FDA won't help. A simple legal statement keeps me from receiving FMT outside of experimental or last-resort uses.
It's retarded.
I should be able to just sign a waiver, get the treatment, and move on with my life.
But nah. Instead of having the food administration and the drug administration, we get the Food and Drug Administration.
as an attorney, one thing that interests me is the complete absence of treatment-oriented research that would, by necessity, require testing and monitoring that lasts longer than the patent term.
interesting place where a term of years in the law has real world consequences.
well a lot of medical research is theoretical. only some of it is oriented toward helping people. that's what i meant by treatment oriented.
the patent term in the us is 20 years from filing. if you have a treatment for something that might not manifest in symptoms for 25 years, nobody is going to research it.
These things don't bring about cures; these things don't bring about health. They bring about the appearance of health and well-being. The world is only good at failing to deliver reality.
the math genealogy project is funny, because if you do go back, it's not long before you have people whose dissertations were on methods of identifying witches, and stuff.
and then bunch of guys will come out like they are defending innocent from bulliy and gang bang me out so I will shut up for now for sake of defending my streak of not getting banned
@SrijaM.T The story behind my name is story that is pretty unrelated to my name. My name is variable but temporary constant within certain interval and when that ends I change to whatever I want.
@robjohn , the only application of little-o that comes to mind is in a Taylor series, which I would guess is the most common application, but by far not the only one. In my particular problem, one is Taylor expanding an unknown function $f$. Then of course the remainder is also unknown, which makes any analysis of the rate of convergence of the estimate impossible.
I was running some neural networks that try to find the melody of songs on the digits of pi and I was pretty shocked by what I got at the end ngl bit.ly/3iqd94K
i like to see my family, but its a frantic trip because they are all around the country. its not that big, but the 3 groups are about 2hr apart from each other.
and i no longer enjoy driving
my 20 yo daughter is flying in from london to meet me
"t used to be something that people said in a streamers chat when something remarkable happened but now its an overused shitpost meme that makes me laugh every fucking time for some reason"
he gave up fighting and became a franciscan brother
he was a decent fellow. not the brightest, but smart in his own way and always treated people with dignity (which sometimes meant a kick in the pants).
that sounds similar to how it's in Mexico, there's a pretty good template of what you have to do to fit in and if you stray away people will make your life tough
