Estragon

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by Estragon 17y ago
Huh, I haven't read it for years, because it tended to report whatever people told it as gospel, without doing a scintilla of fact-checking. Perhaps I'll check it out again, one of these days.
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by Estragon 17y ago
It looks as though it just gives you data about sleep phases. How they're going to turn that into helpful advice for improving sleep is a bit of a mystery.
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by Estragon 17y ago
There are thousands of people working furiously on all of those problems, though. I was working at Janelia Farm until last year. You should see what those guys are planning for neuroscience. It's going to be huge. It's a mistake to ass
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by Estragon 17y ago
The two main features I depend on in org-mode are the todo functionality (dates and agendas, mainly) and the easy hyperlinking. I find that incredibly useful for development notes.
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by Estragon 17y ago
That's an argument from the authority of Nature . Why don't you read the paper and decide for yourself?
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by Estragon 17y ago
There are two aspects to this. Firstly, postmodernism hardly concerns itself with venturing into scientific arenas at all. The endeavors which Sokal et al. deride are not representative of postmodernism as a whole. Secondly, while I hav
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by Estragon 17y ago
what's the problem with [2]? It tries to draw conclusions about the relative divergence times of different genes based on degrees of sequence similarity. This evidence is extremely weak, as there are much more likely explanations for the
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by Estragon 17y ago
Thanks, I'll edit out the markdown markups, then.
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by Estragon 17y ago
Hmm, can someone point me to the documentation for Hacker News's markup system, please?
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by Estragon 17y ago
There's a lot of crap in postmodernism, probably more than in other disciplines, because it recognizes every framework of inquiry as contingent, and this can be abused to excuse sloppy inquiry. But the fact is, there's crap in every discip