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It does. Rational people evaluate the known risks and take a reasonable guess what the unknown risks might be. Conspiracy people gonna conspiracy.

I agree. Sorry for the misdirection - the panic is something I observed when I was experimenting with it, and I misinterpreted it.

Ah, you're right. I was using the same ordering for success and failure. It is possible to use AcqRel in the success case.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/sync/atomic/struct.AtomicU32.h... It's accepted by the compiler, but if provided, it compiles to a panic.…

Ah, good then, I didn't know that, thanks for the cite. I haven't studied the CUB code on it carefully.

I don't think CUB is doing decoupled look-back, the reference you want is: https://research.nvidia.com/publication/single-pass-parallel... It doesn't use the word "…

In general spinlocks are a bad idea, but you do see them in contexts like decoupled look-back. As you say, thread granularity is a problem (unless you're on CUDA on Volta+ hardware, which has i…

Also: it remains difficult to fully nail down the semantics of sequential consistency as well, especially when it's mixed with other memory semantics. Very likely next time Russ updates his artic…

A GPU followup to this article. While on CPU sequentially consistent semantics are efficient to implement, that seems to be much less true on GPU. Thus, Vulkan completely eliminates sequential consist…

Kinda. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27232401 I think CSIRO disbanding the team was a huge mistake, but in any case they weren't producing the kind of success metrics that…

You are right, thanks for the correction!

You are correct here. The conversion from one color space to another when the gamuts are not identical is an artistic decision, and there is no scientifically "correct" way to do it. There c…

The right image is not in sRGB, it's in Display P3. The difference in reds is pretty subtle, so most likely if Paint.NET is showing a dramatic difference, it's misinterpreting the color spac…

I'd absolutely give her this one. This is the relevant line from LinkedIn: > Investigating the effects of human genetic variation on the efficacy of adeno-associated virus (AAV) variants in or…

Very little in the way of public health implications. Quite a bit in terms of geopolitical implications. I do think people confuse the two a fair amount.

Another good introduction to wide gamut and HDR is this talk about HDR in Krita from LGM 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MrocfwJd4k There, the main focus is on very bright shad…

I second your recommendation of Alina Chan, as she has the scientific credentials, is careful with the science, and as you say is balanced in that she doesn't dismiss the natural origins hypothes…

Nope, apologies if there is any confusion. That's just my opinion. I'm basically trying to make the point that this overfocus on origins is more of a political question than one with direct …

Huh? The title of the piece is "Why Do Exceptionally Dangerous Gain-of-Function Experiments in Influenza?" The introduction specifically criticizes entire categories of GoF research, stating…

Prominent, respected virologists have been questioning gain of function research for a while. Here's a cite[1] from 2018 from Marc Lipsitch, who would be on most people's top ten list of tru…

I'm not understanding the case you're making. The most notable action by the NYT on yellowcake (the main citation in the Wikipedia article) was publishing the op-ed by Joe Wilson indicating …

The paper has now been retracted.

> Is ‘folk wisdom from internet forums’ worth exploring as a genre of blog post? Yes. I found this very well done and useful. One other (not entirely unrelated) potential area that immediately come…

I'll quote the expression of concern, in case people don't click through your link and see it: The journal is issuing this expression of concern to alert readers to significant concerns rega…

Child deaths from Covid-19 in the US as of 6/24 [1]: 336 Child deaths attributed to vaccines [2]: 0. We can break this down further: 3 deaths from blood clots attributed to adenovirus vector vacc…

That is not consistent with the "Vaccination status" definition in the paper I cited. The tl;dr on that is that "first dose" starts 21 days after vaccination, and "second dose…

They are considered "interchangeable" by the National Advisory Committee on Immunization of Canada. [1]: https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/immuni…

It's likely that the 80% figure you mention was based on protection against "ancestral type" virus, as would have been measured in the main trials. The gap between first dose and second…

There's very strong evidence, particularly against the Delta variant[1]. That paper cites a 33.5% effectiveness after one dose, compared to 87.9% after two doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vacci…

For people who are curious about this and want to read further than the original Ioannidis and the Meyerowitz-Katz papers, here are two citations I found enlightening. The first is a frequentist analy…