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  1. Justin Fisher's avatar

    To be worth using, a detector needs not only (A) not get very many false positives, but also (B) get…

  2. Mark's avatar

    Everything you say is true, but what is the alternative? I don’t think people are advocating a return to in-class…

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    Cyber security professional here -reliably determining when a computational artifact (file, etc.) was created is *hard*. This is sorta why…

  5. sahpa's avatar

    Agreed with the other commentator. It is extremely unlikely that Pangram’s success is due to its cheating by reading metadata.

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Blood pressure meds and coronavirus, again: conflicting evidence

Following up on an earlier post, there is a new analysis of the evidence so far.  Here is how Dr. David Ozonoff (Boston University), who kindly sent me the paper, usefully summarized it:  

[T]here is evidence in animals that would allow one to infer that: (a) ARBs [one kind of blood pressure medication] via ACE2 could improve lung function; (2) ARBs via ACE2 increase the chances of lung injury. So we have contradictory inferences and which require further work to sort them out. In the meantime, hypertension experts (through their societies, which don’t represent every possible judgment about the persuasiveness of one or another inference) are continuing to say we should default to current recommendations on managing hypertension. It is the conservative (not in the political sense) position, which is not surprising.

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