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by Fomite 4y ago
A huge portion of my research agenda is trying to get math and CS colleagues to apply pretty standard techniques to novel problems. If it works well, you get to push clinical science forward. Then about half the time, "This seems like
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by Fomite 4y ago
This. I am a PI. What I spent my day doing was dealing with managerial tasks, fiddly stuff for funding applications, etc. I got to actually code for a whole day last week, and it was marvelous . It was also only possible because it was an
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by Fomite 4y ago
Heck, you can see this in the difference between member contributed submissions to PNAS and ones that go through the normal system.
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One of the most interesting things that comes out of Academia StackExchange when students are asking about what to do about academic dishonesty violations is how quickly they go to the "Cell Block Tango" defense. "I didn&#x27
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I once graded an assignment handed in that still had hotlinks in blue underlined text from copy and pasting.
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In contrast, in my experience students relying heavily on tidyverse love it - but are also poorly positioned for doing anything that's not contained in an easily found template.
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Because it's one of those classic "The story is about what happens when we accept the conceit of the setting" sci-fi approaches. It's a train, because there's exploration to be done around what happens on a journey
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by Fomite 4y ago
I have a deep and abiding fondness for phage, but they're not quite as awesome as they seem at first glance. From the perspective of an infectious disease epidemiologist who has been super-interested in phage for my whole career (liter
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One of the problems is that the bloodstream is good at delivering antibiotics everywhere , which encourages resistance and many of the side effects of antibiotics. That, plus wounds with poor circulation, or as the article notes, infection
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by Fomite 4y ago
This was absolutely my impression too. "One is Tropicana, the other is the slightly upscale store brand."
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"water for cooling affected vehicles for a couple hours is plentiful. It's a ship after all." Flooding a ship's hold with water is generally regarded as a bad thing.
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"That is, it's still serving a large market, creating a competative advantage (which "regular businesses" rarely have), has compounding growth - it just doesn't need to rush to make it all happen in a few years in a
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`If you want bigger cultural diversity just treat everyone equally?` As a brief thought experiment for you: - You have one pool of workers who work well in an environment with ambient noise and distractions - You have a second pool of worke
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The logic behind this is that work from home allowed greater participation from not-these groups. Folks whose physical or mental health was improved in a work from home environment (I know someone with chronic migraines, for whom the typica
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The logic behind this is that work from home allowed greater participation from not-these groups. Folks whose physical or mental health was improved in a work from home environment (I know someone with chronic migraines, for whom the typica
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Washington State University | Pullman, WA | Full-time | Remote or Onsite, VISA | The Paul G. Allen School for Global Health (Allen School) at Washington State University (WSU) is seeking to fill two positions to support multiple research pr
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The "world" is algorithmically generated, rather than being deliberately designed.
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It's been awhile since I've gotten to use my "Why phage aren't quite as awesome as it seems on first glance", from the perspective of an infectious disease epidemiologist who has been super-interested in phage for m
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A lot of my infection control colleagues are rightly terrified of keeping people on ECMO or mechanical ventilation due to infection risk, that are extremely hard to treat. This was especially acute during the early phase of the pandemic,
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"both are still way behind Robinhood in terms of ... addictiveness." Good.
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I'd add Vanguard to Schwab and Fidelity. But actually helping retail investors isn't particularly sexy.
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Arguably, knowing your user base is by and large fairly unsophisticated investors who still want to be able to bet big on meme stocks suggests you should probably be building a substantial dragon horde-scale reserve for surges like this.
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Schwab will happily teach you, and then provide you access to the tools, rather than just asking you to install an app with instant push-button access to potentially life-ruining downside risk.
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They market themselves as helping and serving the little guy, because of their commission-free trades. As with most things that are free, one needs to realize that if you're not the customer, you're the product. Robinhood makes it
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But you often can . All journals are selective. This would select for "We know why, and there's practical knowledge to be gained from the why."
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"Would anyone really care to subscribe to, let alone publish in, the American Journal of Discarded Hypotheses, the Annals of Failed Experiments, or PLOS Dumpster?" I have often half-joked about the Journal of Cautionary Tales, and
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I think we need a new term to distinguish "Compostable in an industrial composting facility" vs. "Toss this in the average at-home compost bin". It's hard to tell with any given product, and most manufacturers in th
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As someone who does a fair amount of scientific computation in the field, power consumption as it relates to battery life is not an irrelevant metric.
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Former VT employee: It's not just Microsoft. Virginia Tech has a problem with their stuff getting flagged as spam.
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There's definitely a sweet spot, and I don't think we're near the optimum. For a lot of people, I think grants actually aren't "Fund me thinking up an innovative idea", but are taking an innovative idea that&#x

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