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by Gatsky 6y ago
https://usesthis.com/interviews/shiro.kawai/
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by Gatsky 6y ago
Kary Mullis tells a similar story about inventing PCR (polymerase chain reaction), for which he won the Nobel prize in Chemistry.
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by Gatsky 6y ago
Sigh, biology. We spend years working on the disease with no progress, and don’t manage to work out the cause before it starts going away by itself magically...
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by Gatsky 6y ago
Ah, it’s a shame they are doing this. Finding garbled gene names is a quick way to pick a poor quality paper when reviewing.
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by Gatsky 6y ago
Cancer is the most difficult health problem humans face. It will still be there long after we conquer neurodegeneration, atherosclerosis and diabetes. It is a major failure mode of all multicellular life. Dinosaurs got cancer. Every animal
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by Gatsky 6y ago
This is a MITM attack on one of our highest forms of art.
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How to profit from Covid-19 testing(liorpachter.wordpress.com)
1 points by Gatsky 6y ago|0 comments
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by Gatsky 6y ago
A company built on a caricature of real social interaction... perhaps this is a trend, where profits are extracted by taking some basic human activity and creating a facsimile that exploits our worst characteristics. Fast food does this for
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by Gatsky 6y ago
The Government has a somewhat anti-University agenda. This isn't necessarily a bad thing. Universities in Australia have drastically grown in size over the last 20 years, funded by international students. The other trend seems to be a
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by Gatsky 6y ago
I don’t think you are listening to me. I am not disputing his point. I think it could well be valid and is certainly plausible. The idea is pretty clever. Attempts should be made to understand it more and minimise the effect. Great, add it
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by Gatsky 6y ago
I've heard everything he said. I'm well aware of the concept. Again, everyone knows that all mice come from the same place (because it's written in the papers), and that they are very different to wild mice or mice from elsew
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by Gatsky 6y ago
One was a post-doctoral scientist, called X. The lab I was in was asked to take X on by the institute because they had a falling out with another lab, the details of which were not disclosed. A year later, after very poor productivity and v
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by Gatsky 6y ago
I have to disagree with this 'good people gone bad' analysis. None of the research fraud I have witnessed fits this model.
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by Gatsky 6y ago
This Weinstein mouse model thing is blown completely out of proportion, and is only so prominent because his own brother Eric put it on The Portal. The point is that everyone knows mouse models are imperfect, but they are still useful. Poin
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by Gatsky 6y ago
Research fraud gets a lot of attention because it is so black and white. But it is a symptom of larger problems. One issue is that the pace of progress is slowing, and as a result incremental gains are more prominent. This is fertile ground
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by Gatsky 6y ago
Ok but personally I would have started with the people in the Panama papers.
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by Gatsky 6y ago
Builders will just skimp where they can to improve their effective profit. Eg: - not painting the tops of doors - not grading slabs for drainage - not following basic instructions about hanging a door - carelessly filling the drainage chann
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by Gatsky 6y ago
Criticising the media’s biased coverage of a scientific topic doesn’t seem politically motivated to me. The statements you highlight could just be ‘true’?
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by Gatsky 6y ago
This is obviously a rubbish comment, but nevertheless it raises an interesting point. Deep learning has entered a phase where, due to the excellent tooling (PyTorch, TensorFlow etc) and freely available data, there is a massive ingress of n
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by Gatsky 6y ago
I don’t think that’s what they are saying: “Inside the miners a large tissue was simultaneously infected by a population of poorly-adapted viruses, with each therefore under pressure to adapt. Even if the starting population of virus lacked
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by Gatsky 6y ago
They propose that the virus evolved the furin site during infection of the miners. It wasn't pulled from lung mRNA, but evolved due to random mutagenesis. This seems to me to be the weakest part of the whole story. But they argue that
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by Gatsky 6y ago
My understanding is that SARS-CoV-2 has novel amino acid sequences (eg. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7114094/ ). Shuffling genes from other viruses wouldn't achieve this. The original arti
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by Gatsky 6y ago
One question is whether you can learn non-cognitive skills from chess that transfer to other fields eg. tenacity, dealing with loss, the ability to sit and think for long periods of time. I probably had some of the most memorable failures o
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A Proposed Origin for SARS-CoV-2 and the Covid-19 Pandemic(independentsciencenews.org)
4 points by Gatsky 6y ago|6 comments
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by Gatsky 6y ago
Yeah but actually building the proteins is the non-trivial and most difficult step. It is not sufficient to merely say that it could be done.
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by Gatsky 6y ago
You are confusing ‘making’ a virus with designing one with particular virulence and transmission characteristics. The latter is what I am talking about.
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by Gatsky 6y ago
This is very unlikely. The technology to design a virus reliably just isn't there. What is much more likely is that a lab was studying coronavirus isolates from animals, and had a failure of containment. This has happened multiple time
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by Gatsky 6y ago
Homemade yes, DIY not really.
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by Gatsky 6y ago
Ancillary Justice was pretty good, very tightly written. I find Iain M Banks' (RIP) books quite a bit more entertaining though, as far as the genre goes. Ancillary Justice also didn't blow my mind like The Diamond Age, which I tho
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by Gatsky 6y ago
This is the typical pop-sci cycle, and it happens over and over again. Someone neatly packages and oversimplifies a concept (power posing, the importance of sleep, even thinking fast & slow), which is swallowed whole and heralded as a w

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