- Oct 2024
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www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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Der kurz vor der COP16 zur Biodiversität veröffentlichte Living Planet Index zeigt das Ausmaß des Biodiversitätsverlusts in den vergangenen 50 Jahren, auch wenn an den dabei angewendeten statistischen Verfahren starke Zweifel bestehen. Die Wirbeltier-Populationen haben nach diesem Index um 73% abgenommen, am stärksten in Lateinamerika und der Karibik. Die wichtigste Ursache ist die veränderte Landnutzung. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/10/collapsing-wildlife-populations-points-no-return-living-planet-report-wwf-zsl-warns
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- biodiversity loss
- Living Planet Index
- Matthew Gould
- Susana Muhamad
- COP16 biodiversity
- fragmentation of natural habitats
- Mike Barrett
- Zoological Society of London (ZSL)
- Mathematical biases in the calculation of the Living Planet Index lead to overestimation of vertebrate population decline
- by: Patrick Greenfield
- IUCN’s Red List
- Hannah Wauchope
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- Sep 2022
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www.bio-rad.com www.bio-rad.com
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But Poisson statisticspredicts that there will be some empty droplets (1,642 empty droplets) and gives a preciserelationship between the average number of copies/droplet and the expected fraction ofempty droplets.
@Esther?
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- Apr 2021
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www.bio-rad.com www.bio-rad.com
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Formula for Calculating Concentration
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- Aug 2020
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slatestarcodex.com slatestarcodex.com
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Imagine you prompted the model with “What is one plus one?” I actually don’t know how it would do on this problem. I’m guessing it would answer “two”, just because the question probably appeared a bunch of times in its training data. Now imagine you prompted it with “What is four thousand and eight plus two thousand and six?” or some other long problem that probably didn’t occur exactly in its training data. I predict it would fail, because this model can’t count past five without making mistakes. But I imagine a very similar program, given a thousand times more training data and computational resources, would succeed. It would notice a pattern in sentences including the word “plus” or otherwise describing sums of numbers, it would figure out that pattern, and it would end up able to do simple math. I don’t think this is too much of a stretch given that GPT-2 learned to count to five and acronymize words and so on.
This is also borne out in my own tests. Easy calculations, the likes of which the model must have seen or easily learnt, it does well on. More exotic ones not so much.
What is interesting is that what predicts whether or not GPT3 is able to do the calculation is not the difficulty of the calculation, but the likelihood it occurred in its training.
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covid-19.iza.org covid-19.iza.org
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On the Effects of COVID-19 Safer-At-Home Policies on Social Distancing, Car Crashes and Pollution. (n.d.). IZA – Institute of Labor Economics. Retrieved August 4, 2020, from https://covid-19.iza.org/publications/dp13255/
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- Jul 2020
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www-ncbi-nlm-nih-gov.ezproxy.rice.edu www-ncbi-nlm-nih-gov.ezproxy.rice.edu
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LoD = LoB + 1.645(SD low concentration sample)
LoD is the lowest analyte concentration likely to be reliably distinguished from the LoB and at which detection is feasible. LoD is determined by utilising both the measured LoB and test replicates of a sample known to contain a low concentration of analyte.
LoB is the highest apparent analyte concentration expected to be found when replicates of a blank sample containing no analyte are tested.
LoB = meanblank + 1.645(SDblank)
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- May 2020
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www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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Bui, Q., Katz, J., Parlapiano, A., & Sanger-Katz, M. (2020, April 22). What 5 Coronavirus Models Say the Next Month Will Look Like. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/22/upshot/coronavirus-models.html
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- Apr 2020
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blog.revolutionanalytics.com blog.revolutionanalytics.com
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R 4.0.0 now available, and a look back at R’s history. (n.d.). Revolutions. Retrieved April 30, 2020, from https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2020/04/r-400-is-released.html
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- Feb 2020
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marxdown.github.io marxdown.github.io
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the area of the triangle itself is expressed by something totally different from its visible figure, namely, by half the product of the base multiplied by the altitude
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In order to calculate and compare the areas of rectilinear figures, we decompose them into triangles
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- Apr 2018
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www.epa.gov www.epa.gov
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Number of tree seedlings grown for 10 years
Calculating carbon sequestered
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- Oct 2013
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www9.georgetown.edu www9.georgetown.edu
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When, however, something is to be done, and we are speaking to those who ought, but are not willing, to do it, then great matters must be spoken of with power, and in a manner calculated to sway the mind.
The word calculated carries overtones of manipulation without emotion or concern
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