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micouay | 2 years ago | on: A smarter CD command. Supports all major shells

I did something similar but based on matching abbreviations:

https://github.com/micouy/kn

For example

    kn pho/eutri
to enter photos/europe_trip. It doesn't track frecency or anything, just matches strings. My algorithm is also used in nushell's cd command.

kn also supports multiple dots:

    kn ..  # enters parent
    kn ... # enters grandparent
etc.

micouay | 3 years ago | on: “You meant to install ripgrep”

`rg` has only one version, and one line of code:

    println!("You meant to install ripgrep: type `cargo uninstall rg` followed by `cargo install ripgrep`");

micouay | 4 years ago | on: The Wason Selection Task

This supposedly proves that humans are much better tracking social contracts than arbitrary, abstract ones. But I feel like it's actually the wording that makes the puzzle hard. We don't think:

> If somebody is drinking beer, they are 21+.

We think:

> To drink beer, you must be 21+.

And if you formulate the other puzzles in the same way, they are much simpler:

> If a card has a circle on one side, it must have the yellow color on the other side.

Is this your impression too? (Actually, after writing this comment I realised I hadn't checked the red card... But I also hadn't checked the 17 yo lol.)

micouay | 4 years ago | on: “YouTube is shutting down dissenting Biology PhDs and MDs”

Then why administer the vaccines? (With potential side effects due to the short period of clinical trials compared to the use of Ivermectin.) The way to control the epidemic is to make enough people immune to drive it to extinction. It would be preferable to use all available means to attain that. This way you protect all people (not only the people who got the treatment), including the vulnerable ones.

micouay | 4 years ago | on: “YouTube is shutting down dissenting Biology PhDs and MDs”

Have you read the FDA's article? Let me summarize. Thou shalt not use Ivermectin because:

> Ivermectin tablets are approved [...] for some parasitic worms.

> Taking large doses of this drug is dangerous and can cause serious harm.

(Unlike any other drug.)

> There’s a lot of misinformation around, and you may have heard that it’s okay to take large doses of ivermectin.

...while also...

> The FDA has not reviewed data to support use of ivermectin in COVID-19 patients to treat or to prevent COVID-19; however, some initial research is underway. Taking a drug for an unapproved use can be very dangerous. This is true of ivermectin, too.

> Ivermectin Products for Animals Are Different from Ivermectin Products for People

Scientific authority is an oxymoron.

micouay | 4 years ago | on: “YouTube is shutting down dissenting Biology PhDs and MDs”

Ivermectin is not a newly-discovered drug. There were hundereds of millions of courses administered world wide (it even got a Nobel prize). It has been used for decades. [1]

The only unknown right now is the long term effect of ivermectin in patients with covid. It seems to me that it's the same unknown as with the vaccines. You don't have a clinical trial for effects of the vaccines after 5 years, do you? Why don't we wait for it, just to make sure? And it's even worse for the mRNA vaccines, which have not been around for decades and only got the emergency authorization.

Btw the emergency authorization can only be granted by the FDA if there are no alternatives. [2]

> For FDA to issue an EUA, there must be no adequate, approved, and available alternative to the candidate product for diagnosing, preventing, or treating the disease or condition.

I'm not sure if "approved" (as a treatment for covid) would have applied to Ivermectin at the time the EUA was granted but it's not like there were trials to decide that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivermectin#Cost [2] https://www.fda.gov/regulatory-information/search-fda-guidan...

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