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by a_bonobo 5y ago
> You blink once in each direction. So first left, then right. Or the other way around. I've had this a few times from truckers driving through Germany, too, when I let them merge. Truckers in Germany are from all over Europe so it&
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by a_bonobo 5y ago
What's interesting is that in the weeks leading up to the agenda, the Chaos Communication Club put up their own demands written like a digital agenda, essentially prewritten rules. And it turns out that the new agenda includes many of
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by a_bonobo 5y ago
I tink the main workhorse supercomputer GPUs are not out yet. They announced the MI200 GPU with 128GB of memory, two supercomputers (Setonix, Frontier) are suppose to include them but both will only be launched next year https://
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by a_bonobo 5y ago
Australia has had people living in it for 60,000 years, with basic animal husbandry, fish traps, basic agriculture, a messaging network, a national trading network - we don't know how long each of these aspects existed of these 60,000
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by a_bonobo 5y ago
I've seen lots of good come out of GNNs in the biomedical space. For example, in drug discovery you can treat any molecule and its biochemical properties as a graph so you can store the entire structure as a graph. So you make a millio
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by a_bonobo 5y ago
Exactly! The data makes the opposite point. https://hbr.org/2021/09/who-is-driving-the-great-resignation >Employees between 30 and 45 years old have had the greatest increase in resignation rates, with an avera
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by a_bonobo 5y ago
Please cite the papers for the tools you're using. Impact is main thing scientists are judged for in job and grant applications, and that is usually measured using the number of citations. If you'd stop citing papers for tools y
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by a_bonobo 5y ago
you're thinking of GNU parallel :) That one always prints a citation notice https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/parallel.git/tree/doc/cita...
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by a_bonobo 5y ago
Same in Australia, buying a SIM card is impossible without ID by law. https://mojoknows.com.au/en/prepaid-sim-card-activation-in-a... For Australians that's driver license, for visitors that's passport + vis
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by a_bonobo 5y ago
>Am I missing anything ignoring closed source Windows and MacOS? I went back to Windows with WSL. My employer relies heavily on Outlook and especially the Outlook calendar. The equivalent in Thunderbird does not work well at all with mis
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by a_bonobo 5y ago
There's a difference between acting and public speaking/music! I've just finished reading Impro: Improvisations and the Theatre from Keith Johnstone, one of the pioneers of impro theatre, and he delves deep into how actors li
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by a_bonobo 5y ago
Similarly, he once met 'with the world's greatest novelist', 'He sees noone', but wouldn't say who: https://twitter.com/normmacdonald/status/899367320006443008?... It could've be
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by a_bonobo 5y ago
it's not that Facebook is boring or interesting, it's that we're hostages [1]. If I would delete my Facebook, I would lose contact to a whole slew of people I've encountered over the years, who I chat to once in a while
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by a_bonobo 5y ago
I'm really impressed by sandbox.bio, which is also built on top of WebAssembly: https://sandbox.bio/ It lets you run bioinformatics tutorials in a shell on your own machine via JavaScript (xterm.js)/WebAssembly
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by a_bonobo 5y ago
>. The country leaders have been legitimately elected, which means the leadership is the direct reflection of the country people's will. People consciously elect incompetence that bears the incompetent leadership Counterpoints: 1. A
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by a_bonobo 5y ago
The text links to 'Rise and Kill: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations', which is amazing. It's great at explaining the motivation/reasoning behind the killings of the Mossad.
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by a_bonobo 5y ago
Vendor lock-in is due to hybrid vigor, not due to GM technology. Many modern crops are high-yielding due to hybrid vigor, when you cross two distantly related cultivars their offspring will outperform their parents. However that vigor disap
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by a_bonobo 5y ago
A good development - depositing papers in OA journals is extremely expensive and internationally, most funding bodies requiring OA don't give you money to publish OA. For example, Nature Communications charges around $5,000 for a singl
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by a_bonobo 5y ago
one's sugar water, one is at least identifiable chicken! it would be closer to KFC secret herbs and spices on bushmeat
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by a_bonobo 5y ago
Isn't it a bit... terrifying to buy and eat food, when nobody wants to tell you what that food actually is??
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by a_bonobo 5y ago
isn't that the same problem of open source software, open-anything? Somebody could do this work and get paid, but you're putting it on github for free, for companies to benefit from.
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by a_bonobo 5y ago
Yes, some journals will desk-reject your submission if it's on arxiv/biorxiv. If you not post the preprint and submit, you're defeating the purpose of preprints, isn't it? We're back to square one! Normally yeah, pe
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by a_bonobo 5y ago
Speaking as a biologist working in Australia: 1) Older collaborators with more power are being 'scared' of getting scooped when they post preprints. They're slowly coming around as the argument makes no real sense, preprint =
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Case in point: The ARC, the biggest Australian Research funding body, recently explicitly banned the mention of preprints in grants. You can't include your own arxiv/biorxiv/etc. preprints in your grants to show your work! To
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by a_bonobo 5y ago
>It’s a VC’s job to keep the door open. Many were ‘blown away’, then passed before the second meeting. This is normal. I'm sometimes working with US-Americans and not being US-American myself, I feel like this is also a US-cultural
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by a_bonobo 5y ago
You might want to take a look at the Shuttleworth Foundation, the Forrest Research Foundation, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundations as templates. They're all billionaire-funded foundations enabling research. Shuttleworth works
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by a_bonobo 5y ago
Oh definitely! During drought times it's cheaper to shoot the cows on the field than to feed them. Here's a good article around water-costs for cattle farmers in Australia: https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural&#x
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by a_bonobo 5y ago
> I've been on farms in my area, that have land that is not usable for farming, too many rocks, too hilly, etc. The land has enough natural rain-fall and grasses that grow on it to sustain sheep/cattle where there would otherwi
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by a_bonobo 5y ago
Sounds similar to Ousterhout's Philosophy of Software Design! https://www.amazon.com.au/Philosophy-Software-Design-John-Ou... The main point is that a software developer's job is to fix stuff so you end up introdu
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>I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops. Stephen Jay Gould, "Wide hats and narrow

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