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> “It should be noted that ecDNA is a feature of cancer and not healthy tissue, so that raises hopes that when we find ways to remove it – through drugs or some form of therapy – then it will not have unpleasant side-effects" Hopefu
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A Guide to DIYbio (2021)(thatmre.medium.com)
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Unfortunately, doctors might be replaced by diagnostic AIs. It'll be AIs all the way down by then.
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The Last of Us: Perspectives from an epidemiologist and a plant scientist(yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com)
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Killer Yeast and Smart Fungicides (2016)(inverse.com)
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My understanding is that we don't even know for sure if it went extinct. We just don't know what it actually was/is. There's been a number of extant species that people have proposed as being silphium, but it's very
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New programmable gene editing proteins found outside of CRISPR systems (2021)(broadinstitute.org)
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Derek Lowe is one of my favorite bloggers for sure. I also really like his "Things I Won't Work With" series, for example: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-wor...
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I've not read it myself, but An Elegant Defense [1] by Matt Richtel has come highly recommended to me. My understanding is that it takes a more human-interest angle, but also does a good job explaining how the immune system works and
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Wonderful Progress Against Severe Lupus(science.org)
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Understanding concentrated lactic acid sourdough (CLAS)(brotgost.blogspot.com)
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I don't really understand how stack ranking is supposed to work. If 5% of employees must be ranked low, and they improve, they'll either be ranked low again or someone who wasn't ranked low will be ranked low- even if that pe
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Because I doubt that the ranking system will be objective or even closely tied to any real measure of skill, performance, merit.
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I hope some of those trees are still around somewhere waiting for someone to find them.
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The contents of the mind should be sacrosanct- the deployment of technologies for reading the mind should go no further than it has except in medicine and research, and only then with explicit informed consent, of course. Honestly if this t
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Has anyone ever done research to see if pervasive use of facial recognition has any real effect on reducing crime?
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I read that initially as "Forthtran" and I can't tell if that sounds like a good idea or an awful one
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Powering the lunar base, version 2(caseyhandmer.wordpress.com)
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> "manufactured by robots from local resources or asteroid mining." I feel like this just creates the new problems of operating, powering, and maintaining the robots, plus all the difficulties associated with mining asteroids a
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This seems like a chicken-and-egg problem. Wouldn't you need power in the first place (and therefore transmission lines) to even extract and refine aluminium locally?
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Programmable editing a target base in genomic DNA without dsDNA cleavage (2016)(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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Wonderful Progress Against Severe Lupus(science.org)
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If you want some more things that ChatGPT isn't good at, try to get it to form novel anagrams, palindromes, or other such wordplay. It's good at regurgitating textbook examples of those, but I found you can trip it up by asking it
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Depends on the kind of math, it can do basic things reasonably consistently, but for other things it will confidently respond with the wrong answer (e.g. matrix arithmetic). In my testing, I found that it will absolutely fail every time at
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This particular example doesn't really alarm me, but it does make me think about a scenario that I believe is plausible in the near future. Imagine a world where AI enables anyone to write complex programs, regardless of skill level. I
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There was a debate about whether it really couldn't be better explained by something other than life, then there was a debate as to whether they actually detected phosphine in the first place. See, for example, https://www.w
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I feel like spectroscopy would only give you suggestive evidence of life at best, like if significant quantities of oxygen were detected in the atmosphere of an Earth-like exoplanet in the habitable zone. I think your best bet for direct de
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Isn't WASP-39b a gas giant? Is it even possible for such a planet to have active volcanism?
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Esoteric programming languages. When you remove the need for a programming language to be useful or understandable, what you get is a combination of challenging puzzles, humor, and some actually interesting ideas. Right now I'm actuall
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How about you give it a try yourself and post the results to HN? I would be curious what you find.

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