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There's an interesting detail around Gunter Grass; he was part of the big literary voices asking the uncomfortable questions, which was part of his success in the 1960s and 1970s. Long after that success, in 2006, he revealed that he w
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Yes I agree, but OP's link is not aimed at academics, it's aimed at the general public. And you can't expect the general public to know that distinction: they see 'AI', they think 'ChatGPT', not Random For
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>I don't think it was a modern BSL-4 standard lab, but smallpox escaped and killed someone in the UK. That was in 1978! I believe we didn't have biosafety levels back then in the UK. Edit: at least the BSL levels came 6 years l
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This is the code used in the paper: https://gitlab.com/machine-biology-group-public/pancleave >This package implements a scikit-learn-based random forest classifier to predict the location of proteoylytic cleavage s
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Most of the plasticware labs use comes from China, it's just cheap. There doesn't have to be a conspiracy here. Edit: had not seen the update to Prestige BioTech. I can't find any 'Prestige BioTech' online, but I do
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As someone who first saw the show, then the real-life thing, it's weird how different they are! For starters, the real-life restaurant is incredibly dark and huge with much weirder interior decoration.
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yes true! But by default, `conda env export > env.yml` will include the version numbers of the current environment, which is how I usually use it.
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It's why I like conda's yml files, every dependency listed with its version number and from which conda-channel it came from
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I think that's a direct result of the 'weird' way our economy works: we've moved away from customer satisfaction to investor satisfaction. Nowadays, companies exist to increase their stock value so their managers get big
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This kind of happens in the life sciences, PLoS has editors that look through biorxiv and invite submissions: https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/jo... eLife also has started its own pipeline
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Ah yes, my old supervisor was very fond of that strategy. "Make it sound like we do cool stuff; but don't make it so precise that they can re-implement what we do. Let them come to us so we can co-author papers."
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>They seem to be very hard to keep outside their natural swamp environment... As the NatureServe status says: >The Venus Flytrap, a carnivorous species, is a narrow endemic of the coastal plain of North and South Carolina in the south
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iNaturalist sightings are fed into gbif.org and obis.org, the two major databases of biological sightings that collate everything. From my experience in my niche, iNaturalist sightings generally agree with the 'professional' sight
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As another ex-academic: maintenance is even bad for your career! You're being evaluated based on how many papers you can publish, so the academic process selects for good (well, fast...) writers, not good coders. Papers are selected fo
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Advanced Python Mastery(github.com)
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Another great course is David Beazley's Advanced Python Mastery; he just put it all up on github (PDF of all slides + exercises) https://github.com/dabeaz-course/python-mastery It's designed as a four-day wor
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HN discussion around this quote, around 12 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2378013
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There's an interesting link between K-129 and the current 'boom' around deep sea mining: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Azorian The cover-story to build the Glomar Explorer to recover K-129 was th
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You shouldn't shame the student, you should absolutely shame the system that wastes people's life-times like this. 7 1/2 years of being a PhD student means 7 1/2 years of missed career growth, missed retirement funds,
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I also run Hugo via GitHub Actions. It took me about 2 hours of setting up; could've sped the process up enormously if I would've just copy-pasted the hugo-theme's example blog. https://gohugo.io/hosting-and-d
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by a_bonobo 3y ago
One of the main open questions is how abuse will be handled. Mastodon is operated by volunteers with little extra time, in the worst case you handle abuse by just de-federating from an entire instance. Saves time for Mastodon mods. I don&#x
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I miss 3dfx :) But the 3dfx remnants got swallowed by NVIDIA, so in a way, it lives on. It's funny that ATI got swallowed by AMD.
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As an ex-academic, this isn't a secret. The mental health of the entire sector is in shambles, see https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01708-4 The Nature article and OP's article identify one culprit:
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Now Nauru is getting that money back via Australia's off-shore detention program! A bipartisan program by previous governments that spends hundreds of millions on private security companies to run private prisons for asylum seekers who
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There are some beautiful examples around immune systems!! Especially plants have benefited from 'domesticating' transposons to shuffle their disease resistance genes around for increased diversity -> increased chance of defense
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There are some really cool examples from marine environments with similar stories, where this jumping seems to occur more frequently (water is probably a better vector for those viruses than air) My favorite one is the family of TEs that in
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It's a unique mix of true earnestness, over-generalisation, very short sentences of roughly similar length, some insights, and a preachy tone. and a 90s website design :)
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Somewhat related, Kevin Gross and Carl T Bergstrom just put up this preprint on risk aversion in science: https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.13816 > incentives to motivate effort clash with incentives to motivate risk-takin
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>I think a lot of people will decide, like Hamming did, that they want to be where the action is, that they want to participate in transforming the world, that that is what makes them happy. In my 37 years of experience: people do want t
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It's the same with IMDB, isn't it? Toxic subgroups and communities 1-star bombing movies that haven't even come out yet. The wikipage on review bombing doesn't even list Goodreads but has many examples from IMDB: https:

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