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by a_bonobo 8y ago
If anyone is interested in the scientific literature on learning, Greg Wilson has been writing a book based on Software Carpentry materials on how to teach programming, which cites a lot of the scientific literature, it's free here: h
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by a_bonobo 8y ago
Most forms of organic farming still use pesticies, just different ones, with similar or worse health risks. >In head-to-head comparisons, natural pesticides don't fare any better than synthetic ones. When I compared the organic chem
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by a_bonobo 9y ago
I have received results from BGI (Beijing Genomics Institute), which is the biggest genomics company in the world by now which does a lot of genome sequencing and assembly on demand. They employ a massive amount of undergrad and postgrad st
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by a_bonobo 9y ago
You apparently can change the font in config.lua: https://itch.io/t/58932/configure-system-font-and-palette-in...
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by a_bonobo 9y ago
With the minor caveat that gdpr-info.eu looks official due to the .eu domain, but is actually run by 'intersoft consulting services AG' as advertising for their consulting service (the content is just the laws of course)
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by a_bonobo 9y ago
There is a set of rules that are followed when determining a fine: https://www.gdpreu.org/compliance/fines-and-penalties/ These rules look at whether your company has infringed before, whether you've notified
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by a_bonobo 9y ago
From what I've seen, it's partially like in the US - each EU member has its own data protection authority which imposes those fines, but they are closer linked than the US states' laws. I can definitely see some EU countries
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by a_bonobo 9y ago
> If your revenue is less than €20m their fine is flat €20m, As I posted elsewhere, this is NOT true. >The $20 million fine is not automatically applied. Here's a flow chart which details the process of a GDPR breach: https:&#x2
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by a_bonobo 9y ago
>food safety rating, which you can work on and improve But the GDPR works like this too? The $20 million fine is not automatically applied. Here's a flow chart which details the process of a GDPR breach: https://40uu5c99f
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by a_bonobo 9y ago
On sci-hub.hk I get a non-SSL connection, if I try the 'trick' of http://journal_name.springer.com.sci-hub.hk/path/to?article I get the revoked SSL certificate Firefox 59
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by a_bonobo 9y ago
Interestingly, there's a parallel for this in the Rwandan genocide. A lot of the violence was prepared and fueled by a Hutu-run radio station: >Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines (RTLMC), which broadcast racist propaganda, ob
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by a_bonobo 9y ago
Along with Meadows' Thinking in Systems I read Mitchell's Complexity: A Guided Tour, which is just that - a reasonably superficial tour over many examples. It's a very good starting point since it's got a long bibliograp
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by a_bonobo 9y ago
Here's an interesting in-depth article that cites a slightly lower number: https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/S-F-spends-recor... But it's from 2016 so it probably grew since then. A lot of the
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by a_bonobo 9y ago
This could be useful with DNA/protein sequences - there's dna2vec and similar approaches to mine sequences for regulatory elements and more, the problem when compared with word2vec is that you have an order of magnitude more wor
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by a_bonobo 9y ago
I don't think it's that easy. Having a toxic sub-community leaks into other communities. I've noticed that myself, the /lit/ subboard no literate on 4chan has been taken over by /pol/ users. It has been sh
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by a_bonobo 9y ago
I should quote from an older book called 'Confessions of a Yakuza', on the Yakuza from about 80 years ago, it's just so fitting: >The real reason why the police set him up, of course, was to improve the district’s anti-cri
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by a_bonobo 9y ago
There is a bit of very recent, new epigenetics controversy in this preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/09/20/170506 >Frequent lack of repressive capacity of promoter DNA methylat
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by a_bonobo 9y ago
Not only is Sky shaky, but it's advertised as 'free as in beer', if you want to talk for more than 2 minutes you have to pay. Everybody wants to talk for more than 2 minutes.
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by a_bonobo 9y ago
Sometimes the sale price is $49 (during Thanksgiving), NOT including shipping costs which can be large depending on country
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by a_bonobo 9y ago
>Such predictions, at first hit-or-miss, are becoming more accurate. One test described last year can guess a person’s height to within four centimeters, on the basis of 20,000 distinct DNA letters in a genome. I find that comparison hig
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Upgrading/restoring a large PostgreSQL database(rausch.io)
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by a_bonobo 9y ago
But you can slow down that process by crop rotation, for example in canola there are many known resistance genes for blackleg (fungus) infections. Farmers are in many places advised to rotate their canolas to different resistance genes so t
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by a_bonobo 9y ago
>It’s easy to see why Nietzsche sociopathic ravings would have inspired so many repugnant movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including fascism, Nazism, Bolshevism, the Ayn Randian fringe of libertarianism, and the Ame
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by a_bonobo 9y ago
That is, frankly, bullshit. For a rebuttal of that myth see npr: https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2012/10/18/163034053/to... This dates back to a time where a farmer planted 95% GM canola o
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by a_bonobo 9y ago
Patents for plants expire relatively fast, then the problem is to keep up seed production - code can be copied forever, seeds have to be 'made'. Costly especially if your plants' yield depends on hybrid vigor, which is lost i
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by a_bonobo 9y ago
You might enjoy reading Yihui Xie (bookdown, Knitr)'s very honest blog post on his problems that sound similar to yours: https://yihui.name/en/2018/02/career-crisis/
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My Early Career Crisis (2014 – 2015)(yihui.name)
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by a_bonobo 9y ago
I also uninstalled Facebook, and their messenger, and I was extremely surprised how much more responsible by Galaxy S5 became! Those two seem to hog a lot of resources, even if you're not logged in
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by a_bonobo 9y ago
Those numbers can't be right, honestly. Bjoern Brembs has been writing a lot about open access publishing and the costs associated, here he cites a few numbers: >There is ample material on how much the publication of a scholarly ope
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Magpies' brain power may be boosted by living in larger groups(abc.net.au)
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