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by Gatsky 7y ago
The importance of government research is waning. Most academics vying for government funding are in various states of despair. The blow up in the size of universities and the number of PhDs etc has created a lot of competition with perverse
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by Gatsky 7y ago
It is possible this hasn’t happened. The final step of implanting an embryo in a human still involves a lot of trial and error. In IVF it is basically fired into the uterus and fingers are crossed. There us quite a high threshold for gettin
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by Gatsky 7y ago
Is anyone else concerned that facebook has an interest in MRI?
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by Gatsky 7y ago
In the life sciences, I feel like bioarxiv is the most useful publication medium. The very long publication times for journals is one factor, it is just too slow to be practical. The other is that preprints paradoxically are becoming higher
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by Gatsky 7y ago
This is exactly it. Unviersity education in particular has developed an irresistable cachet that means people keep coming even under the most diabolical conditions. The other part of it is a lack of good other options, and also a great redu
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by Gatsky 7y ago
Wow, hadn’t heard of Meshroom before, amazing functionality.
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by Gatsky 7y ago
There is a sad history in Australia of treating the indigenous population as nothing more than a bunch of savages. This had its origins as a kind of reality distortion to justify taking their land and in some cases, exterminating them entir
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by Gatsky 7y ago
Interested to know why the ultrawide made such a difference, compared to 2 side by side?
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by Gatsky 7y ago
Most grants worth having have a success rate of <15%. It’s got to be at least 30% to get someone to pay you to write their grant.
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by Gatsky 7y ago
It is a mistake to conclude that if there was a big difference, we would have found it with largely observational data. There are many counterexamples to this idea. I’m not so sure that the data proves that there isn’t much difference. The
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by Gatsky 7y ago
Surprised this rant is the top comment, seeming to put the feelings and convenience of the parents in prime position. You may think that is ok, but it is not the basis of proper argument. It’s really quite simple - have we have proven that
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by Gatsky 7y ago
Really nice piece of work. The key patent makes for interesting reading [1]. They use neodymium permanent magnetic rings. I wonder if building a crude version of Hyperfine’s machine is within the realms of a DIY project. [1] http:/&#x
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by Gatsky 7y ago
There is some weird thinking about bullying, where the victim has to take care of it by themselves, the bullies are allowed to do whatever they want, and everyone who isn't a victim or a bully is just not involved. I was lucky, I hardl
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by Gatsky 7y ago
Is this a tech company? I don’t get it.
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by Gatsky 7y ago
Is there some proof that we can never detect consciousness?
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by Gatsky 7y ago
Nice work, very comprehensive， ‘A’ for effort, good for citing in reviews. The results are well known from other studies (eg sequencing cancer precursor lesions) and theoretical predictions over 40 years old. They try to elevate the signifi
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by Gatsky 7y ago
I have to say, this stuff is really cool. Maybe one day we’ll get good enough at shifting atoms around so that custom computing substrates can be built much faster and cheaper.
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by Gatsky 7y ago
This raises some good issues but does ramble. Coming from a country where tertiary education is more accessible and cheaper, there is decent free healthcare and more social welfare, all of which give more people the option of higher educati
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by Gatsky 7y ago
Yes it’s a good point at the end, from now on digital caches of unpublished material will escape into the world much more easily than closely guarded letters. But then what would we learn from a current James Joyce’s tweets or facebook post
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by Gatsky 7y ago
A great feat of engineering... but uh what is the actual use case for Spot?
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by Gatsky 7y ago
Well this is interesting, but of course lots of smokers never quit and you only need one cell to turn into a cancer and kill you. On a related note, I think the demonstration that lung cells and lung cancers bear the stigmata of tobacco rel
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by Gatsky 7y ago
The issue is that other sciences are not held back by these problems. We still have bridges, semiconductors, space flight and new cancer treatments. This is partly because it is much easier to measure and verify experimental phenomena (you
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by Gatsky 7y ago
Of all the risible things one could say about gender and science, chief among them would surely be that testosterone leads to better scientific discoveries. Also you ignore the fact that the status quo which Galileo and Heaviside had to con
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by Gatsky 7y ago
If you are talking about the seeming 'wokeness' of this research well yes, that is probably a fair comment. But that would be fine if they actually did a proper experiment. I don't think it is a coincidence that particularly
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by Gatsky 7y ago
Right, well there you go...
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by Gatsky 7y ago
Note that Rosenhan was a social psychologist. The list of faulty or outright fraudulent experiments done by psychologists grows ever longer. The entire field seems bankrupt to me. Part of the problem are perverse incentives. Get one positiv
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by Gatsky 7y ago
I don’t think this is a relevant point. It is after all used for photosynthesis despite the low concentration. The low concentration is an advantage in one way, because you have to remove a relatively small amount. The low concentration mea
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by Gatsky 7y ago
Good. 5 years earlier would have saved lives. If only they could go back and haul up all the tobacco executives from nursing homes and golf courses and do the same.
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by Gatsky 7y ago
I’m surprised that 23andMe have not released any new products since they started. They still offer the same SNP chip based test fundamentally. The interpretation of results has if anything become less interesting due to regulation. It may b
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by Gatsky 7y ago
Yeah so this was an interesting podcast, if you have listened to previous episodes. Eric claims that he, his brother, and his wife have all made important scientific discoveries in theoretical physics, biology and economics which were eithe

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