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   by Blahah 11y ago

   #icanhazdf, Sci-Hub, libgen, etc. are all symptoms of the disease. Science is in something like turmoil as it adjusts to the internet. Of course, the rest of the world has already adjusted to the internet - science hasn't because publi
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   by Blahah 11y ago

   That's great, but it is not the universal experience (at a minimum, many past authors are now dead). And of course many scientists need to read a lot of papers. Having to go through the rigmarole of emailing authors, waiting for a re
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   by Blahah 11y ago

   If there's one thing you can depend on, it's that Elsevier will fuck things up at every opportunity.
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   by Blahah 11y ago

   That has little to do with the fact that they are ebooks, and everything to do with the fact that they are about data science. Just about the sexiest 'academic' topic right now, and in extremely high demand outside academia. For t
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   Canada government suspends scientist for folk song about prime minister(theguardian.com)

   1 points by Blahah 11y ago|0 comments
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   by Blahah 11y ago

   Ohh this is cool. Very nicely put together!
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   by Blahah 11y ago

   So it does, and it looks nicely executed too. Wish I'd found it back when I had an iOS device.
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   by Blahah 11y ago

   Aozora Bunko ( http://www.aozora.gr.jp/ ) is the only legitimate source I know of for ebooks (and they are free). Long term it would be really great to get some Japanese publishers to commit to ebooks, but I know that histori
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   by Blahah 11y ago

   OP, this is wonderful. I'm a long time japanese learner and I wrote the iOS Anki app. Just looking through the website (unfortunately I don't have an iOS device on hand), you've got some killer features here that I've wa
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    by Blahah 11y ago

    What do you know about life inside each company? About the culture there? It's something that will affect your life day to day. More than anything else, remember that it doesn't matter that much which you choose. You've got t
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    by Blahah 11y ago

    I also admire Julia for the commitment she showed. She made it work, and by the sound of it, it was damn hard. Don't get me wrong, YC clearly provides great support in general for its founders. What I'm suggesting is that I would
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    by Blahah 11y ago

    Impressive that Julia hustled so hard just to be there at YC, but disappointing that she had to. Why doesn't YC provide some basic support for its founders to attend the program? At a minimum, room, board and transport for founders and
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    by Blahah 11y ago

    Currently reading this and while it's pretty good, there's a considerable amount of fluff in the earlier chapters.
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    by Blahah 11y ago

    A good option is to look for winners of science book prizes. The Royal Society Winton Prize is excellent: http://www.theguardian.com/books/royal-society-science-book-... . Some personal favourites: The Incredible Unlike
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    by Blahah 11y ago

    Thanks! They should really add this to the guide, because it's a confusing step at the moment.
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    by Blahah 11y ago

    So, according to this the .COM TLD server, when asked to resolve dnsimple.com, would say 'ask ns1.dnsimple.com'? That still requires resolving dnsimple.com, which seems circular. Surely the .COM TLD server would give the IP addres
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    by Blahah 11y ago

    I think what Erdos did is almost the opposite. I say this as someone who has thoroughly explored both extremes. Intellectual pursuits provide intelligent people with the stimulus they need. When they are bored, in particular when they are p
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    by Blahah 11y ago

    It is clearly both, which is what I said above. Synchronising the entire global economy is harder and less tractable than engineering photosynthesis, so we should be working on both (which is exactly what we are doing).
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    by Blahah 11y ago

    This is partly true, but is not helpful. The goal is for nobody to go hungry. By increasing crop yields in the most common staple crops, we have a clear technological engineering problem to solve and various ways to approach it, all achieva
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    by Blahah 11y ago

    It absorbs light which prevents other plants fro being able to access it lower in the canopy. The absorbed light doesn't get converted to food, but is absorbed as heat energy which is radiated away. To use your analogy, there is a set
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    by Blahah 11y ago

    I forgot to add a second reason why there are few innovations in photosynthesis. In most ecosystems, photosynthesis is not the limiting factor. Other things like water, space, mineral nutrients and predation are more important, so there is
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    by Blahah 11y ago

    I think this is extremely unlikely. This is because the engineering projects we are talking about involve co-ordinating the regulation of dozens of genes (at least 40 in my project). To build the system we have to transfer in the components
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    by Blahah 11y ago

    You can think of C3, C4 and CAM as interchangeable functions, yes. They take in CO2 and energy from sunlight, and they output sugar: def photosynthesis(co2, energy) # C3, C4 or CAM return sugar end to your second question,
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    by Blahah 11y ago

    Supplementing nitrogen comes with a whole host of environmental trade-offs. In particular there are problems with pollution, where nitrogen added to fields gets washed off in the rain and ends up in waterways. There it can totally destabili
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    by Blahah 11y ago

    There are two parts to the answer. Firstly, some plants have evolved to do photosynthesis more efficiently. One of the projects in the article (the one I work on) is to take a particularly efficient kind of naturally occurring photosynthe
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    by Blahah 11y ago

    Yes, it will. Plants need nitrogen to make proteins, and the most abundant protein in plants is RuBisCO - the one that fixes CO2 in the air into carbohydrates to store the energy from sunlight. Most plants have to produce a vast amount of R
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    by Blahah 11y ago

    I'm working on one of these projects, trying to make C4 photosynthesis an installable module. Happy to answer questions.
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    The Plan to Feed the World by Hacking Photosynthesis(gizmodo.com)

    57 points by Blahah 11y ago|60 comments
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    by Blahah 11y ago

    I use Google Play music and have found the discovery algorithms to be astonishingly good. My music taste is very specific and covers only two or three genres, and within those genres I get suggestions that I love perhaps 90% of the time.
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    by Blahah 11y ago

    Whatever your career, if you earn money then effective altruism is an evidence-based approach to improving the world: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_altruism https://centreforeffectivealtruism.org&#x