I think there should be a feature wherein every new community can designate a parent community and a minimum traffic threshhold; and if traffic falls below the threshold, posts and subscriptions are folded into the parent community until traffic picks up again.
It looks like this study isn’t actually about the effect of the drugs, but about the best way of communicating expected treatment outcomes to patients.
Right—I was just thinking that limiting or scaling downvotes based on quantity rather than upvote/downvote ratio would address the criticism that it could be gamed with fake upvotes.
As long as you don’t observe it.
Hmm… as an alternative, what if the weight of a given user’s downvotes on a given server were divided by the number of downvotes that user made over the last (say) week?
So for instance the downvotes of a user who downvotes a hundred posts will have a tenth the weight of a user who downvotes ten posts.
An expanded genomic analysis of the dbSNP database revealed that this substitution was present in all but six of 650,058 human sequences, five of which were from individuals of Asian descent (Supplementary Fig. 1a). As the samples are deidentified, it is not possible to assess additional details about these individuals.
Seems like we could learn a lot more about the effects of this substitution by finding and studying some of the modern humans who don’t have it, rather than by introducing it into mice.
There’s a certain neurological disorder where people can look at their own reflections and believe them to be fake or inhuman. I would expect them to make posts very similar to this one.
If anyone’s interested in adding similar functionality to their own MediaWiki installation, you can use the ModernTimeline and SemanticMW extensions without the need for an AI to parse the pages for dates.
Would ex-Canadians be able to run for President?
Why not? The current president is from South Africa.
Nobody notices things that conform to their expectations—but when anything violates their expectations, they assume it’s a deliberate message. (Even if it’s fiction violating their genre expectations in the direction of reality.)
And if they can’t figure out what the message is supposed to be, they let other people tell them. And if people tell them different things, they go with the one that makes them feel the strongest reaction.
Same for those who hear the music in their heads whenever they see the title.
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The optimist in me says they’re doing this to avoid piracy.
Won’t pirates just buy their source copies on a different platform, so now Amazon loses the original sale as well?
The Great Gatsby, The Great Dictator, and The Great Escape.
Casablanca, LotR, and Princess Bride.
That’s just (synthetic) sapphire, right?
Most of it is not actually in verse.
Misleading/wrong posts don’t usually spoof the origin - they post the wrong information in their own name.
You could argue that that’s because there’s no widely-accepted method for verifying sources—if there were, information relayed without a verifiable source might come to be treated more skeptically.
So do the “bactoneurons” have something like physical axons that target other individual bactoneurons for different signals, or are they “connected” by different chemical pathways that different types of bactoneuron are listening for?
Or in other words, is the bactoneural network wired or wireless?
Move them together until their arms cross and it’s a new ad for X.