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Really neat solution.

Is this in any way based on Amazon Polly?


It would be equally worthwhile to see the impact of famines in Sub-Sahara Africa on genes of Africans (especially across the Sahel).


Worthwhile, yes, but harder to do. Those countries have less reliable data to work with, and not such a nice sharp cutoff. Here, babies born in the winters of 43-44 and 45-46 can serve as control groups for those born in the winter of 44-45.


The reliability of demographic data across Sub-Sahara Africa is a significant problem for a multitude of research disciplines.

But there's been a host of severe famines since World War II across the Sahel. It is possible that the reliability of birth data would have improved over this period to a degree sufficient to support research techniques.

In fact, there's been research along these lines in SSA already, especially regarding the impact of malnourishment on intellectual development among other factors.

Still, important research that goes to show that famines have generational effects that extend all the way to the genetic level.


What a bloody delight!


It would be quite a joy if there were a way to curate/aggregate in-store music playlists and then serve them such that visitors could search by store.


I wonder what if there really is a significant difference between streaming a song in a store vis-a-vis placing it in a TV ad.

That said, of the two playlist selection companies that I have only just read about, the charge for streaming in-store is between $34 to $199 per location per month.

[1] Soundtrack Your Brand, a ‘Spotify for B2B’ nabs $22M for expansion - https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/17/soundtrack-your-brand-a-sp...

[2] Restaurant music emerges from the background - http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20170807/ENTERTAINMENT/...


What a delightful discovery, this playlist selection vertical.

Going down that rabbit hole, I discovered some gems:

[1] Restaurant music emerges from the background - http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20170807/ENTERTAINMENT/...

[2] Who Picks The Music You Hear At The Mall? - https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2012/11/28/165947927/...

[3] Gap In-Store Playlists 1992 to 2006: The Monthly Playlists at Gap - https://gapinstoreplaylists.blogspot.com


Thank you for letting me know...avoiding dupes...tragic that I failed this time. Timely study on an existentially important topic.


Also, might be of interest to head over to the supplemental information: http://www.pnas.org/content/suppl/2017/07/25/1710519114.DCSu...

...p. 4 esp: 1) Analysis of ME/CFS Cases vs. Healthy Controls (case versus control means comparisons): We employed pseudo-likelihood ratio testing (8)2 to compare pMFI means between a) each disease severity group versus control and b) the equally-weighted average across all three severity groups versus control.


The comment sections (Alas1, this is Youtube after all), on the other hand, are depressing.


Thanks for the heads up, essayist. Will be much more careful not to flood the forum with duplicates next time.


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