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by a_bonobo 9y ago
If you want a great book on the history of Drosophila research including circadian clocks and the genetics of memory, get Jonathan Weiner's "Time, Love, Memory" All three Nobel Prize recipients appear often.
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At least 202 people were killed on that day. Dong Xiaojun, Lin Renfu, Wang Peiwen, Tian Daomin, are among those identified who have been crushed by tanks. Older list: http://www.hrichina.org/en/list-155-victims-beijing-
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by a_bonobo 9y ago
The Keras blog also has a good post on using CNNs to label text from newsgroups with their respective newsgroups: https://blog.keras.io/using-pre-trained-word-embeddings-in-a... It achieves 95% accuracy without many tricks,
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by a_bonobo 9y ago
How does Tesla's 'autopilot' fare with German streets? I've only seen videos from wide multi-lane US-American streets, nothing with cramped 100-year old German inner-city streets
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Lysenkoism is a prime example where an ideology influenced the researcher so much that it all broke down. tl:dr for the younger folks: Darwinism was disliked by the Soviets as it was bourgeois pseudoscience implying that the people are diff
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Sci-Hub provides access to nearly all scholarly literature(peerj.com)
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>If you don’t like it leave As a (European) foreigner living in Australia, I hear the same sentence when trying to discuss a problem...
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There is a weirdly slow car crash scene in Night Of The Living Dead - this was written into the script since someone borrowed the car and drove a dent into it, and they needed to explain the new dent in the movie...
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I know this is kind of a joke comment but the community is tiny : https://write.narwhal.space/u 23 users 7 users that are semi-active (more than 5 posts) None of which seem 'professional writers', but it's h
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That's it - a publication from the postdoc is, in career terms, worth a fortune, while a paper review is worth a nickel
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>Foreign Postdocs studying in the United States are desperate for a Green Card. They peer review as many papers as they can as quickly as they can to prove something or other for the purposes of a securing a Green Card. Some of these for
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by a_bonobo 9y ago
>and didn't learn much I couldn't have taught myself. I've been thinking a lot about this recently, and I think this could be a fallacy brought on by the weird way we remember things. When I think about what I learned duri
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This is correct - there are many mnemonic devices strewn throughout the text of the Illiad and the Odyssey, for example, 'rose-fingered dawn' shows up many, many times as a 'stopping point' for remembering. There are man
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by a_bonobo 9y ago
Looks like this comes from a wordpress plugin (The Champ), I don't think the author knows that blocking JavaScript triggers this
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Had to alter the original title a little bit to fit into 80 characters
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Scientist Didn’t Disclose Data–and Let Everyone Believe Glyphosate Causes Cancer(motherjones.com)
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There's more to running a journal than that - you have formatting editors who make the PDF look good and give it a thorough last read (finding for me several errors that peer review never found - missing or switched references, for exa
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Nobody benefits from a revolution? Tell that to the French and the Germans!
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The piracy/terrorism link has been used often before, an example: http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/03/21/1047749921225.h...
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If everybody behaves like you then the above comment becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy...
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I don't know, I was under the impression that Macs are almost Veblen goods, expensive to raise their status in the eyes of the customer. A cheap Mac could break that impression and cause damage to the brand.
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by a_bonobo 9y ago
All the big robotics companies are in Tokyo, to quote Wikipedia: >The Robotics industry is more important in Japan than any other country in the world. Japan employs over a quarter of a million industrial robot workers. In the next 15 ye
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by a_bonobo 9y ago
This is gaining popularity in bioinformatics too. When you sequence a genome with a sequencing machine in tiny pieces you get the same piece several times, it's not even coverage, some pieces show up a lot, some pieces show up rarely s
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Statistics books I liked: Motulsky's Intuitive Biostatistics - this one goes over all the usual methods used in science from distributions to t-test to ANOVA to regressions etc., the basics, but doesn't introduce the maths (you us
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by a_bonobo 9y ago
There's also Project Rosalind: http://rosalind.info/problems/locations/ The problems are mostly bioinformatics related, which often boils down to string manipulation/comparison, graph theory
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by a_bonobo 9y ago
This is how the great fast.ai course begins - download VGG16, finetune the top layer with a single dense layer, get amazing results. The second or third class shows how to make the top layers a bit more complex to get even better accuracy.
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The ten books the series is based on are currently getting an 'official' translation, I think they've now published 4 books out of 10 in English. It's not very different from the series but definitely not as time-consumi
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For a Japanese twist, read Eiji Yoshikawa's novels - he fictionalized historical accounts into novels, Taiko is set before Shogun and is about the rise of Oda Nobunaga, who was succeeded by Clavell's Tokugawa Ieyasu. Musashi i
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This is a good take which, IMHO, fits the dominant out-of-Africa data Quote: >I think we should take seriously that Graecopithecus premolar root morphology may be yet another demonstration that supposed “hominin” characters actually evol
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>use principal components to successfully control away population structure PCA doesn't perfectly control away population structure, especially if you have cryptic tiny subpopulations in your dataset that only few individuals are in

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