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by Balgair 2y ago
So, I've seen Bredo Morstoel, the Frozen Dead Guy of Nederland, Colorado[0]. The 'tour' you could go on was ... something. But, at the end, we were asked to help keep Bredo frozen and helped pile on dry ice. So, they had to o
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by Balgair 2y ago
a pile of anecdotes is ... data?
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by Balgair 2y ago
how so?
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by Balgair 2y ago
Semi-related rant: Boulder's 20mph residential speed limit is so annoying. I have a stick, and it likes to be in 3rd gear at 25mph. At 20mph, it's reving high in 2nd and annoys the hell out of me. The same is mostly true for my au
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by Balgair 2y ago
Wait, there is another way? Looking at the comments here, I'm going to have to try to figure out how to use a debugger in pycharm on Monday! Any tips or good videos on this?
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by Balgair 2y ago
oooooh, got it. That wasn't clear.
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by Balgair 2y ago
Okay, that was about as clear as mud to me. Maybe I just need more coffee, but nothing about it led me to understand why there is a 50% chance with 23 people. Can someone else explain this? The odds that someone else shares just your birthd
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by Balgair 2y ago
Wait, how is the math clear? There was no math presented on the site, I didn't see a single formula
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by Balgair 2y ago
Bear's Neuroscience: Exploring the Brain Purves's Neuroscience Kandel's Principles of Neural Science (grad level, but really the bible for neuro) Dayan and Abbot's Theoretical Neuroscience (good for compneuro) The Art
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by Balgair 2y ago
I've made the jump from physics to neuroscience, so I can talk to the engineers here (I've taken a lot of EE and worked professionally in it too). The linkages between neurons is somewhat similar to how and RNN looks. But you must
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by Balgair 2y ago
> it just treats them as a baseline which are then adjusted over time according to the person’s lived experiences. So like the randomization process that seeds the values for RNN weights?
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by Balgair 2y ago
A tip for anyone trying to access such documents: Email the authors, if you can find them. 99/100 times, they will just send it to you for free. Now, finding the authors isn't easy for standards docs, but it can be done
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by Balgair 2y ago
I mean, there is a pretty big difference between how your body language affects your communication and like 'Where is the apple?'.
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by Balgair 2y ago
Aside: We're teaching the kiddos ASL but all of us are hearing. Yeah, it is a different language and culture as a result. Not any worse or better, just different. You have to be a lot more expressive in ASL to get the points across and
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by Balgair 2y ago
https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/ Also, though I'm having trouble finding the source, I do remember Orwell publishing a preface to Animal Farm (?), but only in illegal bootleg copies behind the Iron Curta
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by Balgair 2y ago
One rule I have found useful with dentists: If you can see another dentist from the parking lot of the dentist you are going into, find a third.
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by Balgair 2y ago
Per their use in MREs, yeah, nicotine is a really good drug to have when you're likely to be in combat in the next four or so hours. It drives blood to the core and away from the periphery, it heightens alertness, it increases testoste
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by Balgair 2y ago
The old adage here applies: "How do you sell ice to Eskimos? You call it French ice." Same kinda thing. You call the net-negative calories: French calories or some other crap like that.
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by Balgair 2y ago
Um, anyway for me to put in my money and see where I rank? I'd just love to know how bad things really are.
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by Balgair 2y ago
For those of you like me that had never heard of Bloom's 2 Sigma effect : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom%27s_2_sigma_problem "Bloom's 2 sigma problem refers to the educational phenomenon that the av
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by Balgair 2y ago
So, I was just talking about this with a boss in another division (we're in biotech). They said that using the AI tools developed internally were, in about 2 years, going to be mandatory. Now, they are in the customer facing documentat
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by Balgair 2y ago
I want to point out here: These are PhD students that the author is talking about. Granted, it seems like the class is a bit of a 'BS' requirement from the department. Like Ethics classes and HR trainings, i.e. a class that isn&#x
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by Balgair 2y ago
Generally, the fields that have a Nobel in them attract the glory hounds and therefore the fraudsters. The ones that don't, like geology or archeology for example, don't get the glory hounds. Anytime you see champagne bottles up o
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by Balgair 2y ago
The iron laws of bureaucracy are: 1) Nothing else matters but the budget 2) Over the long run, the people invested in the bureaucracy always win out over the people invested in the mission/point Science is just as susceptible to 2) as
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by Balgair 2y ago
I mean, the replication crisis had come and gone, about 5 years now. The fraudsters are running the place and have been for at least the last half decade, full stop.
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by Balgair 2y ago
Aside: One issue that you'll come across for allergy tests is that they are pretty much useless. It's been a while, but if I recall correctly, the false positive rate is ~10% and the false negative rate is ~45%. This is for both t
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by Balgair 2y ago
Their function effectively becomes one of emotional/vibe meetings. You and your coworkers are 'drunk', so whatever you say has an excuse now. Because of the stiff upper lip, so to speak, culture of the normal workdays, you ca
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by Balgair 2y ago
Thanks for the AMA. I want to get my genetic data, but, like obviously I don't want to go through one of these services where they ingest all that data and keep it around forever. Honestly, I'd like to be the only person with acce
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by Balgair 2y ago
Most of it is in San Diego or Boston, really. I'm not sure on remote devs, as honestly, biotech isn't really dev heavy (much to it's detriment). I'd look at the larger players in the space for jobs there, as they will li
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by Balgair 2y ago
I'm in biotech and WFH is here to stay in this industry, for what it's worth.

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