Metacelsus

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by Metacelsus 6mo ago
If they're going to all that effort to make allele-specific guides why not just cut out the centromere and eliminate the chromosome entirely? This seems like an overly complicated solution.
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by Metacelsus 6mo ago
TIL Backblaze doesn't back up the /Applications folder on Mac! Time to move everything to ~/Applications
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by Metacelsus 6mo ago
I guess they're not Kerbals :)
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by Metacelsus 6mo ago
The name "mythos" seems a bit too eldritch for my liking. Brings to mind Cthulhu.
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by Metacelsus 6mo ago
>Legit password resets for example come from more random top level domains with "microsoft" in it, like microsoftonline.com Or aka.ms
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by Metacelsus 6mo ago
Yeah, missing the booster sep was a real bummer
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Investigating the replicability of the social and behavioural sciences(nature.com)
3 points by Metacelsus 6mo ago|0 comments
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by Metacelsus 6mo ago
Interestingly, in "The Island" Dr. Merrick pitched investors on growing brainless clones, but actually kept the brains in, because it worked better (and gave him a labor supply).
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by Metacelsus 6mo ago
Anecephaly is a thing. Though those babies don't survive much past birth.
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by Metacelsus 7mo ago
And if the price reflected the externalities of factory farming, eggs would be even more expensive!
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by Metacelsus 7mo ago
IN MICE
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by Metacelsus 7mo ago
As a stem cell biologist: my guess is that it doesn't help much
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by Metacelsus 7mo ago
I'm glad to see Dario and Anthropic showing some spine! A lot of other people would have caved.
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Ovelle Bio Wants to Give Women More Eggs(corememory.com)
1 points by Metacelsus 7mo ago|1 comments
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by Metacelsus 8mo ago
According to benchmarks in the announcement, healthily ahead of Claude 4.6. I guess they didn't test ChatGPT 5.3 though. Google has definitely been pulling ahead in AI over the last few months. I've been using Gemini and finding i
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by Metacelsus 8mo ago
MS sucks. We need to end Epstein-Barr virus!
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by Metacelsus 8mo ago
It was known in 2006 but rediscovered recently: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20060281113A1/en
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by Metacelsus 8mo ago
The Church lab came up with this in 2006, sadly it never took off: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20060281113A1/en
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by Metacelsus 8mo ago
>"What is 2+2?" apparently "Applied.....*_dAK[...]" according to my iPhone At least the machine didn't say it was seven!
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by Metacelsus 8mo ago
>Harold Shipman Saved the lives of thousands Probably not though, I don't think a typical GP saves thousands of lives
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by Metacelsus 8mo ago
Next up: "Coffee in Austria recalled due to high concentrations of heavy metals"
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by Metacelsus 8mo ago
>“The fact that the paper still exists means that medical students, pharmacy students, and, presumably, genetics students are being taught this as if it’s a real thing, and it has implications,” Juurlink told Scherer. Yup. This paper was
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by Metacelsus 9mo ago
Reminds me a lot of Andrew Schally's "growth hormone releasing hormone" that turned out to be a contaminating peptide derived from pig blood.
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Prototaxites(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by Metacelsus 9mo ago|0 comments
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Going Founder Mode on Cancer(centuryofbio.com)
4 points by Metacelsus 9mo ago|2 comments
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by Metacelsus 9mo ago
Don't read it, unless you're in for psychological trauma. That book is messed up
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by Metacelsus 9mo ago
at least it wasn't designed by Bloody Stupid Johnson!
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by Metacelsus 10mo ago
The post says "Unfortunately, in introductory texts, their operation is often explained in confusing ways." and this is 100% true. I remember being baffled by them in high school (when I was taking an online college-level EE cours
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by Metacelsus 10mo ago
"LIVE! Melinda Gates on How Empowering Women Changes the World" lol
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by Metacelsus 10mo ago
See also: evaporative cooling of group beliefs ( https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZQG9cwKbct2LtmL3p/evaporativ... )

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