_Wintermute

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by _Wintermute 11y ago
Thankfully there has been a shift recently by the funding bodies to increase the stipend beyond the required minimum. Many in biomedical programmes are offering £18-20k a year.
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Just so credit it given appropriately, magrittr was from Stefan Milton Bache.
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I don't just base graphics because making a simple legend is a PITA, when every other plotting library seems to handle it fairly easily.
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by _Wintermute 11y ago
I really disagree with the argument about heatmaps. It's hardly difficult to convert a matrix into into a long dataframe that can be used with ggplot. Literally one more word. ggplot(melt(matrix), aes(x = Var1, y = Var2, fill = v
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by _Wintermute 11y ago
> Following your logic, even all vaccines are a lie, how can we know that the vaccines that we take every year are doing anything? By having a basic understanding of the scientific method and control groups.
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The point is you can outrun a bad diet. Anyone who puts serious miles/time into an endurance sport knows this. Though as a weight loss strategy it's definitely not ideal.
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Lander has financial ties through the Broad institute and Third Rock Ventures to Editas medicine, which is one of the companies hoping to profit from a CRISPR patent.
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The researchers are chasing grants and funding to be able to carry out research. You don't go into research if money is your motivating factor - there are plenty of easier ways to earn a living.
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> I am paying for a self-professed expert in pedagogy, whose has spend devoted their proffesional [sic] life to the art of shoving information into arbitrary people's heads That's not what you're paying for. They're n
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by _Wintermute 11y ago
The use of inbred animals isn't a cost saving technique. Inbred strains are developed over many generations so that individuals are genetically homogeneous. You know that any different results you get are due to different treatments fo
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by _Wintermute 11y ago
If you come from a programming background then Hadley Wickham's book is probably the best place to start. http://adv-r.had.co.nz/
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I'm sceptical that ggplot's default was inspired by Tufte, it goes against almost every point he makes in 'The visual display of quantitative information' in terms of data to ink ratio. I have to disagree with yourself a
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by _Wintermute 11y ago
Strange that Jeff Leek trusts packages on Bioconductor more than CRAN. Unless they've started some more stringent checks recently, there's some truly awful code on there -- in the lines of absolute file paths pointing to the devel
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It's already an issue in academic labs that many studies are statistically underpowered. If academic labs blowing through millions each year are producing questionable results due to cost-cutting, then the limited budget of DIY labs is
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by _Wintermute 11y ago
Most large-scale projects already involve automated liquid handling such as Tecan EVOs and Beckman Coulter BioMeks - these have been around for years.
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Why not just remote into your workstation from any old laptop?
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http://www.thetalkingmachines.com/ is the best I've found for ML.
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Problem is that scientists get paid pretty terrible wages, though this is expected and pretty much drilled into you since undergraduate 'If you wanted to be paid for your brains, you should have gone into finance' and so on. On th
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Replication without proper controls is just confirming a poorly designed experiment.
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The basal metabolic rate between individuals is far less variable than most people think. Whenever people start spouting that they have a 'slow metabolism', the effects are actually minimal.
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The researchers in R&D are making significantly less than your typical clinician. It's not a career path you take if you're prime motivation is money (or job security).
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You do realise how marketing works? The idea is that the money spent on marketing is more than recuperated. You could argue that without the money spent on marketing, that R&D budges would be significantly lower.
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by _Wintermute 11y ago
Not sure where you have got that description of telomeres, a better analogy would be protective caps on the ends of your chromosomes.