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New comment by oldgradstudent in "Covid-19 mRNA Vaccination and 4-Year All-Cause Mortality"

oldgradstudent — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 20:15:16 +0000

If true, that means the groups are different in many other aspects other than the vaccine.

The study does not control for the differences. No causality can be inferred.

New comment by oldgradstudent in "Covid-19 mRNA Vaccination and 4-Year All-Cause Mortality"

oldgradstudent — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 13:42:36 +0000

So what you're saying is that they are comparing two distinct self-selected populations that differ in many other aspects than just taking the vaccine.

Why would you ascribe any difference to the vaccine rather to any other difference between the groups?

New comment by oldgradstudent in "Covid-19 mRNA Vaccination and 4-Year All-Cause Mortality"

oldgradstudent — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 13:30:34 +0000

You're basically saying that the study compares two distinct populations that differ in many other aspects rather than just by vaccine.

Why then do you ascribe the difference in mortality to the vaccine?

New comment by oldgradstudent in "Shor's algorithm: the one quantum algo that ends RSA/ECC tomorrow"

oldgradstudent — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 12:27:43 +0000

In your flying car, no less.

New comment by oldgradstudent in "Windows GUI – Good, Bad and Pretty Ugly (2023)"

oldgradstudent — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 00:12:38 +0000

I was working in customer support for one of the first ISPs in my country when the switch from Windows 3.1 to Windows 95 happened.

Windows 95 was a massive jump in usability.

Regular people simply do no understand the overlapping windows metaphor. When a windows disappears behind another they are often completely helpless. The taskbar was a life saver.

New comment by oldgradstudent in "Human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world"

oldgradstudent — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 15:06:42 +0000

Nothing in the study actually supports the claim in the headline and much of the text, though.

New comment by oldgradstudent in "Kosmos: An AI Scientist for Autonomous Discovery"

oldgradstudent — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 16:27:23 +0000

I too always claim my position is the null argument.

To Have Machines Make Math Proofs, Turn Them into a Puzzle

oldgradstudent — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 21:34:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/to-have-machines-make-math-proofs-turn-them-into-a-puzzle-20251110/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45893199

Points: 3

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New comment by oldgradstudent in "Kosmos: An AI Scientist for Autonomous Discovery"

oldgradstudent — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 21:06:30 +0000

The statistical argument is basically:

Multiplying a number beyond our comprehension by an unknown probability >= 2

Right?

New comment by oldgradstudent in "Kosmos: An AI Scientist for Autonomous Discovery"

oldgradstudent — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 15:56:12 +0000

How exactly extraterretial life is a statistical fact?

New comment by oldgradstudent in "I Tried the Robot That's Coming to Live with You. It's Still Part Human"

oldgradstudent — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 23:10:40 +0000

There's a video review on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3c4mQty_so

New comment by oldgradstudent in "1X Neo – Home Robot - Pre Order"

oldgradstudent — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 23:09:21 +0000

The more modern approach is fake it until a liquidity event.

I Tried the Robot That's Coming to Live with You. It's Still Part Human

oldgradstudent — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 23:08:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/i-tried-the-robot-thats-coming-to-live-with-you-its-still-part-human-68515d44

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45754289

Points: 5

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New comment by oldgradstudent in "French ex-president Sarkozy begins jail sentence"

oldgradstudent — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 18:02:05 +0000

> motivated by Netanyahu's almost certain knowledge that he'll go to prison if and when he loses his grip on the reins.

Guilt beyond a reasonable doubt is determined by trial in an open court where defendent has the right to cross examine witnesses and present evidence. Do not assume guilt or innocence based on heavily politisized reporting.

For anyone who is not following the trial, Netanyahu was charged with bribery and a few lesser charges which do not have a direct US equivalents. As soon as the prosecution's case-in-chief was over, the judges publicly notified the prosecution that they should drop the bribery charges as they are unlikely to be able to prove them.

The prosecution case for briberty was built on a hypothesized meeting in which Netanyahu supposedely instructed the director general of the ministry of communications to serve the interests of Elovitch.

During cross examination, the defense managed to prove conclusively that such a meeting, as described, could not have occurred. They also showed that the prosecution had in its possession all the necssary evidence to show such a meeting could not have occurred.

https://www.kan.org.il/content/kan-news/local/409910/ (use Google Translate)

New comment by oldgradstudent in "Andrej Karpathy – It will take a decade to work through the issues with agents"

oldgradstudent — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 20:41:51 +0000

Any day now.

New comment by oldgradstudent in "Ask HN: How did Soham Parekh get so many jobs?"

oldgradstudent — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 20:36:06 +0000

But they haven't checked his employment eligibility or he wouldn't have started his first week.

New comment by oldgradstudent in "U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites"

oldgradstudent — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 21:24:39 +0000

This is simply not the case.

Edited: removed some inflammatory language I shouldn't have used.

New comment by oldgradstudent in "U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites"

oldgradstudent — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 12:18:40 +0000

Why investigate if we can simply assume the accused is guilty.

New comment by oldgradstudent in "U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites"

oldgradstudent — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 19:07:03 +0000

> Case 3 - seemingly similar to Case 2, a large news website offered to portray Bibi in a better light if he would push through regulatory changes as Minisiter of Communications.

Favorable coverage was the original charge (סיקור אוהד). However, since this website was exteremely hostile to Netanyahu, the charge was changed to being unusually responsive* to requests from Netanyahu's spokespeople (הענות חריגה).

New comment by oldgradstudent in "U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites"

oldgradstudent — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 18:11:33 +0000

>There are multiple charges of corruption against him, which he is probably guilty of.

For anyone who is not following the trial, as soon as the prosecution's case-in-chief was over, the judges publicly notified the prosecution that they should drop the bribery charges as they are unlikely to be able to prove them.

During cross examination, the defense managed to prove conclusively that such a meeting, as described, could not have occurred. They also showed that the presocution had the evidence to show it could not have occurred.

Don't assume guilt or innocence based on heavily politisized reporting.

https://www.kan.org.il/content/kan-news/local/409910/ (use Google Translate)