Merrill

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by Merrill 6y ago
The distributed newsroom is proof that good quality video is pretty easy, but good quality audio is really hard.
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by Merrill 7y ago
The most efficient path seemed to be a BS in the home country, followed by an MS in the US, followed by employment in the US. The result is a lot of foreign students in grad school getting their ticket punched, while US students go on to wo
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Aerosol emission, superemission during human speech increase with voice loudness(nature.com)
1 points by Merrill 7y ago|0 comments
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by Merrill 7y ago
The root cause failure was not complacency about medical supplies. The root cause failure was complacency about the contagiousness and mortality rate and the failure to contain Covid-19 to China by stopping all international travel.
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by Merrill 7y ago
Liquid helium to cool superconducting magnets in MRI machines is also at a premium. This may use a much less expensive machine.
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by Merrill 7y ago
By the time they reach the Masters, students should know how to learn independently. Masters students often have some work experience as well. The Bachelors is the period where students go from being taught in High School to learning on the
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by Merrill 7y ago
The airline industry needs to be resized as well as bailed out. Business travel will be permanently impacted by the shift to digital communications that is being forced upon business now. Leisure travel will not come back until there is a C
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by Merrill 7y ago
WW I is the more important because it destroys the power of the royal families that ruled the empires of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Russia, Turkey and China. By the end of WW II most royal families were reduced to figurehead status, except f
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by Merrill 7y ago
The Thirty Years War also confirmed that the primary legitimate basis for power would be noble birth instead of ordination by God - a shift begun by the Reformation. The French Revolution/Napoleonic Wars began the shift away from noble
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by Merrill 7y ago
> It is salutary to remember that we do not really understand why the devastating pandemic of 1918-19 was so severe, and that we cannot therefore be confident that our modern medical measures would succeed against a similar future challe
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by Merrill 7y ago
I worked in a building designed by one of the great architects. The roof leaked. I ran into a guy responsible for roof repair for company buildings on a flight. He said, "the greater the architect; the worse the roof leaks."
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by Merrill 7y ago
Sheltering in place would be less necessary if everyone would stay at least 2 meters apart, wear masks, wear gloves, not talk unnecessarily or cough/sneeze at anyone, and wash up with soap when they get home. Some people seem unable to
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by Merrill 7y ago
>“We don’t have a clear exit strategy,” Dr. Ferguson said of the recommended measures. “We’re going to have to suppress this virus — frankly, indefinitely — until we have a vaccine.” This seems to dismiss the possibility that drugs such
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by Merrill 7y ago
Chloroquine Prevention of Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) in the Healthcare Setting (COPCOV) Sponsor: University of Oxford The study is a double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled trial that will be conducted in health care settings. Afte
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Does severity of Covid-19 depend on viral dose?
3 points by Merrill 7y ago|2 comments
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by Merrill 7y ago
Traders, Guns and Money: Knowns and Unknowns in the Dazzling World of Derivatives by Satyajit Das
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by Merrill 7y ago
Great course. It deals with the actual financial plumbing and how it has evolved from simple beginnings to the current complexity.
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by Merrill 7y ago
The US death rate is about 0.83%. The current raw death rate of COVID-19 is 2.6%. A quadrupling of the US death rate in a year is likely to cause concern. Consider all the concern over the far smaller number of firearm deaths.
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by Merrill 7y ago
In the next one to two months, your risk is mainly having shared a flight with someone who has coronavirus and being forced into 14 day quarantine. Later, your chance of actually contracting coronavirus during the flight goes up. Your chanc
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by Merrill 7y ago
Worldometer has a nice semi-log graph of total cases outside of China. Since about February 20 the slope has increased to about a factor of 10 every 12 days. If that continues, most of the global population will be sick in about 3 months.
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by Merrill 7y ago
This whole topic recapitulates all the arguments for business units acquiring and operating their own servers versus continuing to suffer the internal bill-backs from the corporate data center. Some of the same caveats apply with respect to
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by Merrill 7y ago
England had an advantage in that coal mines, iron mines and limestone quarries were reasonably close together, facilitating the smelting of iron.
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by Merrill 7y ago
The first steam engines were motivated by the need to pump water out of coal mines. https://www.egr.msu.edu/~lira/supp/steam/ This was long before Bessemer and less expensive steel.
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by Merrill 7y ago
PhD students tend to adopt the value system of their advisors mentors and others at their university. Advisors value academic careers, partly because that is usually the only thing that they know, and look down on PhDs that go into industr
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by Merrill 7y ago
An acquaintance teaches a course one night a week at the local community college. The pay is really low - $1200 per semester course. On the other hand, he has interned and/or hired some of the best students, so there are other advantag
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by Merrill 7y ago
Detecting small numbers of COVID-19 cases against the larger background of flu and other respiratory illnesses is not easy. It's quite likely to go undetected clinically until there is a fairly large number of unexplained pneumonia dea
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by Merrill 7y ago
It seems odd that there are no cases reported in Laos, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Indonesia. https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/situati... Possibly these countries have no way of mon
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by Merrill 7y ago
The introduction of potatoes led to a rapid population increase in Europe during the first half of the 19th century. https://www.history-magazine.com/potato.html Sugar cane and sweet potatoes also produce similar calories p
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by Merrill 7y ago
A history of population within the circle would be interesting. The population of China since 2000 years ago appears to have been a series of plateaus with brief periods of increase and a couple of brief decreases. The plateaus represent po
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by Merrill 7y ago
Even if you recover from pneumonia, it can take time off your life expectancy. Pneumonia is linked to shorter lifespan: A discussion with Dr. Maurice Mufson https://www.mdlinx.com/infectious-disease/article/883

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