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by WWWWH 6y ago
More realistically, he was just speaking casually. It’s highly unlikely anyone would be stupid enough to put everything into one stock.
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by WWWWH 6y ago
Sincerely, I wouldn't worry about it. This is a powerfully written, emotive, bombshell. Anyone who is genuinely worrying about apposite word choice and non-native syntax is missing the wood for the trees.
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by WWWWH 6y ago
It’s doable already. I do this with some low priority emails and marketing newsletters—-a gmail filter sends to a custom email address of my rss reader. It’s useful for getting low priority stuff out of my inbox.
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by WWWWH 6y ago
Because print magazines have a mix of content of different lengths and different purposes. A short article presenting an unusual stat providing a different perspective on a current topic doesn’t appear completely unreasonable.
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by WWWWH 6y ago
I have a DPT-RP1 and use it for reading (and annotating) PDFs. It's excellent provided you accept its limitations. It really is a single use device for reading PDFs. That said, I also use it for handwritten notes (easy to export as PDF
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by WWWWH 6y ago
A streaming marathon vs an actual marathon...
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by WWWWH 6y ago
I use emacsforosx and am perfectly happy with it. Seriously man, don’t worry about it just go for it. If you find out that you really need something that doesn’t have then you can always compile yourself. It’ll be trivial to transfer your s
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by WWWWH 6y ago
Quite right. And the Nobel laureate in question is a structural biologist--so his expertise is directly relevant.
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by WWWWH 6y ago
I don't think it's off topic :) This is a really useful and I suspect under-rated feature. There was a similar feature in an older version of the Livescribe digital pen software. You could search for any text string, without havin
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by WWWWH 6y ago
This and how stable are the active ingredients to oxygen? Are they stored under inert gas in the blister pack?
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by WWWWH 6y ago
I’m a big fan of all of these. Clayden is very gentle (or maybe that’s just Org being easy...). But Atkins gets hard quite fast—-the chat from first years is that beginners will find it a bit tough. I’d generally recommend the cut down Atki
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by WWWWH 6y ago
It’s jargon. I think of it as animations are a subset of builds.
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by WWWWH 6y ago
Yes, yes, yes! This is such a good idea. Working at a University, I’ve often thought this would be the ideal way of advertising seminars. I suspect the problem is chicken and egg, the technological barrier is just a little too high for this
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by WWWWH 6y ago
Tinderbox if you’re on a Mac.
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by WWWWH 7y ago
I don't know the specific detail of OP's position, but (all?) post-docs in the UK are members of the same pension scheme as all other academics in their institution. Your fundamental point is quite right--short-term contracts are
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by WWWWH 7y ago
Interesting, was this when the High school (Glasgow High) was closed? I’m not clear on the dates, but the secondary must of reopened in the early 70s.
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Roadmaps and the Bat Signal(medium.com)
1 points by WWWWH 8y ago|0 comments
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Q&A: The sci-fi optimist (Neal Stephenson interview in Nature) [paywall](nature.com)
1 points by WWWWH 12y ago|0 comments
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by WWWWH 12y ago
Looks good; I'll be doing the same thing and passing this on to the students.
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by WWWWH 12y ago
I tend to disagree. Everyone has to do even the simplest of tasks for the first time and reinventing the wheel is often a waste of effort. If you think that everyone just knows how to do this, take a close look at your last set of reviewer
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by WWWWH 13y ago
> Why should we measure medical technology at the rate of new drugs developed? Well, I'd stand behind the assertion that it is a reasonable approximation to our ability to understand and modify a biological system. But, I'll ha
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by WWWWH 13y ago
Your point about sequencing is a good one, but this is the only area of biological research clearly improving exponentially... Without being too argumentative, I'd put the odds of increases in computer power leading to biological break
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by WWWWH 13y ago
Unfortunately, medical technology is not even remotely advancing exponentially. The rate of new drug approvals is decreasing (and costs are rising); we are appallingly bad at turning biochemical knowledge into medical technology. Now, I kno
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by WWWWH 15y ago
Absolutely, although I guess that the advantage of this is if you want to play with someone else's analysis you don't have to install the same analysis software. I guess I'll be sticking with org mode though and trying Tangle ( http://worry
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by WWWWH 15y ago
OK, this is interesting but as best I can tell he's talking about splitting profitable from unprofitable courses. But there is another way of drawing the line between the functions of modern unis. The offer is; + undergraduate education + p
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by WWWWH 15y ago
I always enjoyed Peter Medawar's response: "No, and if I do it by accident, I'll be very sorry"
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by WWWWH 15y ago
"Correlation does not equal causation. Another possible explanation: She was a monster at predicting project success and worked her way onto projects that were going to succeed with or without her." Fair point, but what would you pay for kn
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by WWWWH 16y ago
Looks like the original, open access, paper can be found here: http://mbio.asm.org/content/2/1/e00005-11.full I'd guess the obvious first question is, is this a sequencing artifact? I wouldn't like to judge, but it looks like they are ali
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by WWWWH 16y ago
Good point, I'd missed that. All the same, I'm not sure how she was on the tenure track given that no UK academic appointed (or promoted!) after 20 November 1987 has tenure. Perhaps there is a more complex story with her date of appointment
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by WWWWH 16y ago
Er, she worked in the UK where tenure was abolished in the late 80's.

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