Tobacco control advocates sometimes referred to a "scream test": the more vigorously the industry opposed a measure, the more likely that the measure was effective.
Yeah but don't tobacco control advocates want to kill the tobacco industry? We don't want to kill the tech industry - surely the tech industry's pain is widely felt sometimes.
They dont want to kill the industry, they want consumers to be informed of the risks and stakes. If that makes consumers not want to consume tobacco then tough luck but the tobacco industry cant be allowed to operate based on lies and misdirection
This is very interesting code that uses Umbra v0.2-957, PostgreSQL 17.2, and DuckDB v1.1.3.
One minor point: some of the problems could not be implemented in DuckDB due to a missing xor operator - but the documentation includes an xor function (https://duckdb.org/docs/sql/functions/numeric.html#xorx-y) for the same version. Is the form of the function not suitable?
"PSA" can also be probabilistic sensitivity analysis. I do health economic evaluations for prostate cancer screening -- which leads to interesting ambiguities:).
The article references the SSJ Java package which is developed by the author and his colleagues. This provides implementations for many RNGs -- and some nice tools for simulations:
https://github.com/umontreal-simul/ssj
ErgoAI is as "an enterprise-level extension of the Flora-2 system" which was recently open-sourced: https://github.com/ErgoAI . It seems to be well documented.
