🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

@fediverse I remember when 8 mb was a lot, neverming GB, even our hard drives werent that big!

@icedquinn

That is a pattern (the whole denying the study on ethical grounds) im just now hearing about. Yes that is concerning if true.

We can get medical data without control groups mind you, and get a sense of if a vaccine is safe or not. But its a lot less reliable if your not doing it with a control group and double blind.

@marcuse1w @lupyuen

@math
That time a mathematical proof to an unsolved math problem was just casually posted anonymously to 4chan... Mathematicians found it some time later and realized, remarkably, a long outstanding problem in maths had finally been solved...

Sometimes life is funnier than fiction

https://youtu.be/OZzIvl1tbPo

#Math #maths #mathematics #4chan #Science

@Spanishflu

I hope they do, easy winnable case to sue for a nice fortune if they do

@icedquinn @marcuse1w @lupyuen

@JustCaptcha hi there

@icedquinn

You can have a study that uses people who are unvaccinated because they personally object to being vaccinated and do not wish to be, however in doing so it wouldn't be double blind.

The truth is, they absolutely can do a study where a control group is not vaccinated (even though they are willing) haven been given a placebo. I understand why it may seem unethical, but in reality we do it all the time.

In fact we've done unvaccinated control groups for past vaccines as the norm over long periods as well.

With that said there is no solution to distrust of the board or doctors, the system only works when your doctors are acting ethically and honestly.

@marcuse1w @lupyuen

## 100 Pots Puzzle

About a year and a half ago I presented the 100-pots puzzle, which is by far my favorite programming/logic/math problem I have ever come across. It took me a while to solve it the first time I heard it (most of the work day which is where I heard it). I also was at an advantage because the solution comes from a field of math I have particular expertise in, so most people will probably have a harder time solving it.

I don't think anyone was able to solve it last time I presented it, and had to give the official answer, I could be wrong, I need to dig up the thread. @Absinthe however did write a simulation for it in python after I had posted the answer.

Anyway here is the problem for anyone who wants to take a stab.

**All answers or hints must be CW'ed**

### No tricks

First off some background. The problem is not a trick question, as much as it may seem like one. There is no play on words, no hidden exception. Everything in this problem is exactly how it is presented and the answer doesn’t rely on any slight of hand. Take this puzzle at face value.

### The Puzzle

There is a room with 100 jars with lids on them all in a row. There is also a stack of papers, 100 papers each labeled 1 to 100. The papers are shuffled and one paper placed into each pot randomly.

You and your assistant are in an a joining room. Your assistant is allowed to enter the room, look in all 100 pots, and if they wish they can pick any 2 pots and switch the paper in them. They can only do this one time, they do not have to do this they can choose to also do nothing. At this point they leave the room, without talking to you.

Next, someone tells you a random number from 1 to 100. Your goal is to enter the room and open a pot that has that number in it. You are allowed to open, at most, 50 of the pots.

Whatever process you use to open those pots must guarantee that by the time you open the 50th pot that the number you were given will be found. Obviously your assistant didn’t know what the number is at any point.

What rules do you give your assistant, and what rules do you follow, to ensure you are successful?

@math #Math #Maths #Mathematics #Puzzle #Puzzles #logic #LogicPuzzles #Programming #algorithm #algorithms

@lupyuen I've got a few SDR here but mostly cheap ones, my high end radios are conventional transceivers... I really need a proper professional SDR.

@icedquinn

When so many doses are given out you imply cant draw conclusions from individual incidents.. but i agree, no way this should be administered right now when we lack long term case studies which is mandatory with past vaccines.. so the fact that its pushed through at all is already alarming.

@marcuse1w @lupyuen

@Spanishflu

No, for the most part not true.. my doctor only stores my medical records on paper and it is specifically against the law for my data to be shared without my permission. The only exception to this rule is state-wide databases regarding controlled substances.

@icedquinn @marcuse1w @lupyuen

@icedquinn

Its too early to say if any of those specific concerns are real (and a few I know dont really have any good evidence supporting them yet).. but the unknowns are so great that stuff like those listed might be very real problems.. when we have data we might know, but we are kinda blind right now in terms of long term effects.

@marcuse1w @lupyuen

@icedquinn

Completely agree, its a huge violation, morally horrific especially considering the lack of safety on the current round of vaccines, and a slippery slope of monumental perportions (privacy of my medical record is sacred in my mind)...

Even Biden mentioned it breifly at his DNC acceptance speech sometime back and was the top reason i opposed him as president.

If ever such a thing came about, even though i am not anti-vaccine and would have normally vaccinated after 1 - 2 years once the current vaccine has been tested ong term.. if they do a vaccine passport type deal I would aggressively protest it, and specifically refuse vaccine and do everything in my power to refuse cooperation with such a scheme.

@marcuse1w @lupyuen

@marcuse1w

I can tell you this, if businesses do make a "no vaccine no beer policy" I would actually refuse to vaccine, even after a year, as a form of protest to that and explicitly lie at bars, again as a form of protest.

I find it unacceptable that it should be legal for a person to effectively be forced to take a life-threatening vaccines (one that has not had the usual safety procedures) if they wish to participate in society. So I would do what I can to protest should that ever become a reality.

As for putting their patrons at risk.. the whole idea of a vaccine is if the staff an the people choose to be vaccinated they arent at risk, so the argument for such a policy is extremely weak in the first place.

@lupyuen

@marcuse1w

How do you "check the covid vaccines very thoroughly" for long-term effects.. They have never been able to skip that step in past vaccines, there is no magical way to skip it now.. Be as thurough as you want you simply cant do a long-term case study in a short term period.

Keep in mind there are scientists in significant enough numbers who have raised formal objections to the skipped safety procesdures and some on the CDC and other organizations who quit in protest. This is hardly something that can just be hand waived away.

As for why we pick 1 or 2 years as a good number is because when we have tested vaccines in the past we have found thats the amount of time needed to expose the sorts of concerns which are typical for vaccines that show up long-term. ADE being the most notable concern doctors have which is about on the order of 1 - 2 years for that to start cropping up.

As for the idea that its more dangerous to wait because you will infect more people... well, simply put, we are completely in the dark about making that assertion as we have no long term data, so we are fairly cluess outside of some educated guesses how dangerous, if at all, the vaccine will be long term. Best case there are no problems, worst case, the virus causes extreme ADE or one of the other possible complicationsa nd everyone vaccinated now has a lethal response should they come across the virus. The risk of this is low but the mortality rate should it happen in a worst case scenario could be devastating, we simply dont know.

What compounds the risk even more so is that the viruses being administered are using a route that has never before been used for vaccines or on humans. So there is a really huge unknown there that is exceptionally worse than if this were designed more similarly to a conventional vaccine.

All in all there is little denying the risks, and even the medical researchers have voiced these concerns, so you cant hand wave them away.

@lupyuen

@math

I am way too excited by this novel little discovery of continuous complex fibonacci sequence.. I need to play with this!

https://youtu.be/ghxQA3vvhsk

#math #maths #mathematics

@FailForward

I saw a picture claiming a store doing exactly that.. Id be ok with it. I'm already well aware my food was sentient.

@funny

LOL! @funny

100% down with this