American puritans at play against a French film, cuties. It depicts a reality the film maker, a woman, wanted to show, see her words below. Puritans make misleading comments about a film they haven't watched. There is no child pornography in this movie. Silly #cancelNetflix
As a transition from debunking disinformation to kaggling here is a thread debunking several myths about Kaggle, including lack of relevance to real world, overfiting, automl performance on kaggle, etc. Bear with me. 1/N
I am discussing Kaggle competitions. Kaggle is more than that, way more even, but competitions is what interest me most on Kaggle. The first myth about Kaggle is that it is irrelevant to real world. There are several ways to address that. 2/N
First, why would companies pay Kaggle to host a competition? It must be that these companies see some benefit out of it. Second, Kaggle hosts science competitions where the challenge is to advance state of the art in some specific domains. 3/N
Ils est tres malin @raoult_didier : en testant massivement a Marseille il inclue des asymtomatiques dans le statistiques, et le nombre de cas graves par cas detecte est plus faible qu'ailleurs. Je suis surpris que ce point ne soit pas plus discute. 1/n
Le faible nombre de cas grave (ou deces) par cas detecte est pourtant l'argument principal utilise maintenant pour "prouver" que son traitement marche.
Il repose sur l'idee fallacieuse que la proportion de cas detectes est la meme partout en France.
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Et pourtant il est facile de voir que plus un pays teste, plus la letalite du virus est faible.
Bref, il y a deux facons de faire baisser un taux: baisser le numerateur (soigner les gens), ou augmenter le denominateur (tester plus de gens) 3/n