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by Reelin 7y ago
> As part of my learning in data science, I need/want to gather data. Also not web scraping, but a few other public data set sources to check. https://registry.opendata.aws https://github.com/awesomedata&
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by Reelin 7y ago
Why is this marked as a dupe now? It doesn't appear to have made the front page since December 2018.
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by Reelin 7y ago
The reasons are particularly relevant in this case. https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/03/29/mo... https://science.sciencemag.org/content/335/6072/103
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by Reelin 7y ago
This article about the paper is likely to be more informative than the paper itself. ( https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2018/12/13/we-jumped-from-planes-w... ) The study is an absolutely ingenious way of simultan
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by Reelin 7y ago
Original paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2148-5
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by Reelin 7y ago
I was also skeptical, given that each power conversion step will necessarily be less than 100% efficient. I was surprised to learn that high wattage electrical motors can commonly achieve better than 95% efficiency. I assume the generator c
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by Reelin 7y ago
It's working in Firefox on Linux. You do need to allow some scripts from the author's third party domain though.
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by Reelin 7y ago
This is amazing! I used to do academic research, and I had _no idea_ that community biotech labs existed! https://crosscut.com/2019/03/seattles-only-community-lab-put... That article mentions the cost of equipment
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by Reelin 7y ago
Original paper is here ( https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-020-0552-y ) - I didn't see a link in the article.
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by Reelin 7y ago
This matches what I saw in academia. Many non-academics seem to have this view that science is full of senior researchers with political motivations stifling good ideas and gaming the grant system for personal gain. I can't say that pe
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by Reelin 7y ago
> A refresh rate in a digital system is global: the clock is the source of truth I suspect you're already aware of this, but nonetheless - asynchronous digital logic (ie no clock) does exist! I've never had the chance to play w
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by Reelin 7y ago
Via the FFI declarations you manually wrote to your favorite graphing library that exports a C API? All major Common Lisp implementations have threading built in, and unlike Python performance is excellent without dropping to C. As an examp
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by Reelin 7y ago
In Python, I fight with dependencies and the GIL (try getting Matplotlib to update an interactive graph in real-time, it's not fun). In Lisp, I lose time manually writing FFI wrappers. It really makes you appreciate the size of Python&
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by Reelin 7y ago
> My opinion is most people are going to buy thing they don't need. That's... kind of a large part of the point as far as I understand. It doesn't matter where the money gets spent (rent, necessities, luxuries, hobbies, wh
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by Reelin 7y ago
In the US, small businesses (<= 500 employees) can get loans (among other things). Any portion of it can be forgiven, depending on how the funds are used. https://www.npr.org/2020/03/26/821457551/whats
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by Reelin 7y ago
A summary: https://broadbandnow.com/report/municipal-broadband-roadbloc... The law (there might be others though): https://app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=54.16.330 It looks like I may have b
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by Reelin 7y ago
> ... none of them have been called out for 3 weeks. Everything is stopping. I had naively assumed (in the US) that agriculture and rail would be considered essential industries and continue as usual? Is this all due to migrant labor iss
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by Reelin 7y ago
In the US, 3 (content freedom) is a clear first amendment guarantee. It also seems to be working out just fine elsewhere in the western world.
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by Reelin 7y ago
As a counterexample, authoritarian regimes in countries with private ISPs have cut off or filtered internet access by fiat. A private ISP isn't magically exempt from government demands. I believe Turkey is a recent example of this. Ira
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by Reelin 7y ago
> Would making internet a public utility just mean giving a government granted monopoly to one provider per region and forbidding anyone else from selling internet service? Quite the opposite, generally. Many places legislate common acce
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by Reelin 7y ago
In Washington state, this is only permitted in rural counties. The public utility district is allowed to lay fiber, but not to sell access to it directly to consumers. The law requires them to provide common access to the infrastructure at
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by Reelin 7y ago
It's worth mentioning that MDs and pharmacists in the US both have approximately 4 years of schooling (among other things) in addition to their bachelors.
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by Reelin 7y ago
I completely agree - I had (mis)interpreted what you previously wrote to mean throwing them out entirely. I just can't stress enough that despite all their issues, the FDA still plays an absolutely essential role in keeping our society
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by Reelin 7y ago
Woah. Hold up. I will repeatedly and loudly criticize the US government response to COVID-19 so far as inept, particularly the FDA in the early days. Brittle laws combined with their failure to move quickly hamstrung our chance at containme
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by Reelin 7y ago
> my disagreement is your belief that biological warfare is readily available to small groups or individuals As a counterexample, have you considered that much of the cutting edge biological research takes place in academic labs? The vas
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by Reelin 7y ago
> You are implying that individuals could release a bioweapon upon the world - sorry, but again I think this is pure alarmism, and absolutely not what we need right now. Honestly, it's not alarmist at this point and it's not ju
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by Reelin 7y ago
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but the discovery of CRISPR a few years ago means that gene drives are more accessible than ever. I'm not sure if it will be feasible to defend against them at all for the foreseeable future.
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by Reelin 7y ago
I completely agree. To that end, it actually seems like fully decentralized client side contract tracking would be a useful technology to have a set of government supported open specifications for. Building the functionality into the OS, se
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by Reelin 7y ago
> I will continue to be mystified ... people in Singapore give some data to authorities and they can still go out and live their lives. I want material freedom ... not some sort of religious dogmatic privacy ... For what it's worth,
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by Reelin 7y ago
Along the same lines, Embeddable Common Lisp can optionally be configured to use a bytecode interpreter. I have no idea if said bytecode can be exported and moved between platforms though.

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