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R is going away??!?!? The tidyverse, Rstudio, and modern ecosystems like bioconductor have led to a huge boom in the use of R in life sciences, to the point that I teach more Python than R. I reckon R is now the language of choice if you ar
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There are three main hormone replacement pills, depending on your therapy: Estradiol, Premarin, Estratab. If you look at pictures they come in all kinds of colors depending on dosage https://www.drugs.com/estradiol-images.ht
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I think this works extremely well in custom applications, small family farms etc. - here's another beautiful example from a small Japanese cucumber farm https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/how-a-ja
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It would be funny if note forgers would use the same software for improved authenticity, re-type the text, and do it correctly - the forged notes could be easily spotted since they use the correct text.
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I don't think this argument counts, drivers are not airplane pilots and don't know the airplane lingo
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There's a free O'Reilly book from last year: https://www.datascienceatthecommandline.com/ awk is pure magic.
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Introduction to Data Analysis with Rtemis(egenn.github.io)
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Here's a very cool GitHub repository which uses unsupervised learning (ULMFiT) in the genomics space: https://github.com/kheyer/Genomic-ULMFiT Very impressive accuracies on hard tasks, and it's open source!
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FYI, there's a new edition of Geron's book coming out in August which will include Keras: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40363665-hands-on-machin...
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Related, Australia just decided that organisms which have genes knocked out as in OP's article using CRISPR do not count as 'genetically modified' as they're indistinguishable from 'naturally' occurring knockou
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It's like convergent evolution in nature - there are only a few possible 'best' solutions, so at some point everyone uses that one. One example would be eyes in mammals and eyes in cephalopods: they are extremely similar saf
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The Unix Heritage Society has a fun wiki where they delve into some older code bases: https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php Here's a paper of theirs where they dig into a 'first edition Unix': https://www
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Aaron Swartz on The Power Broker: >I cannot possibly say enough good things about this book. Go read it. Right now. Yes, I know it’s long, but trust me, you’ll wish it was longer. I think it may be simply the best nonfiction book. http:
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by a_bonobo 8y ago
On a similar note, buy land in Ukraine - Ukraine has the most fertile soil in Europe, but agriculturally it's very under-developed due to corruption and bad government. It could be the bread basket of all of Europe. https:/&#x2
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There is more background in other articles on Samsung's prediction: >Samsung said it received fewer orders from cloud service providers, such as Amazon, as well as from handset makers, such as Apple, which has recently seen a slowdo
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by a_bonobo 8y ago
I have Youtube Kids on my mobile phone, the recommendation engine only recommends child-friendly videos - Blippy, one of the millions of videos where people play with toy train sets, Wiggles, etc., it hasn't yet recommended a Neonazi v
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There was an amazing couple of papers recently on polygenic risk scores (now trendy in human genetics in place of GWAS, since PRS can include tiny effects from genetic variants that GWAS ignores) Editorial on both papers here: https:/
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In the fast.ai course, there are two or three amazing videos where Jeremy Howard explains the basic concepts of deep learning (convolutions in this case) using Excel spreadsheets, highly recommended. I agree with mkagenius, I've played
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by a_bonobo 8y ago
I too use ExpressVPN - `expressvpn list` gives you a list of all VPN servers in all countries, not all of them are blocked. Support has been helpful (< 5 minutes reply time in an Australian Saturday night) in ferreting out one that works
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by a_bonobo 8y ago
From the text it sounds like there was a large amount of time between the hospital/medication (that was in the mid-Nineties) and the meditation retreat, which I assume was relatively recent - I don't think he was on meds by then?
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One of the issues with problems of reproducibility in the social sciences/psychology is that early studies usually choose WEIRD (white/educated from a rich/industrialised/democractic country) subjects, which are often un
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It should be noted that this is about 'most highly exposed' farmers who were (presumably) exposed to large amounts of Roundup, unprotected. Regular consumers don't get these exposures in their lifetimes. This has been shown
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NPR had a very interesting article on scammers in the 1800s: https://www.npr.org/sections/npr-history-dept/2015/02/12/385... The first guy would be a perfect fit for GoFundMe.
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Having just finished reading Rise and Kill First on the history of Israel's targeted killings, getting your target to introduce themselves by talking loudly about their interests around them for several days is a tried-and-tested Mossa
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If you want to know more, there are two related books you can read: The Greatest Estate On Earth, Bill Gammage, on how Australian indigenous land management was much more extensive than commonly thought Dark Emu, Bruce Pascoe - this one cit
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This blew my mind coming to Japan for the first time, coming from a European country full of castle ruins people have decided to keep in-tact, not restore - similar to the Ise Grand Shrine described in OP's article, most 'old&#x27
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Some books: Two books by Erich Fromm, a German/American philosopher of the 50s/60s: The Art of Loving . Some points: To him love is a skill that has to be practiced and learned, love in a relationship is constant hard work, love
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>* Imagined Communities - the notion of a "nation" is only 300 years old and has no objective basis, only the fact that a group of people agree that it is a thing. The Penguin History of Europe series is great for this, espec
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Which airport is that, BMK? Similar thing in Germany - I used to live close to Frankfurt-Hahn in Germany, which is nowhere close to Frankfurt, it was renamed to Frankfurt-Hahn at the request of Ryanair. Three times I bumped into people as
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> and coal mining continues to this day. Actually they just closed the very last mine - http://time.com/longform/germany-coal-mine/ >Coal was once the lifeblood of Germany’s economy, providing energy, jobs a

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