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by a_bonobo 10y ago
I've been reading Zielenziger's Shutting Out The Sun on the hikkikomori phenomenon, and among many depressing story there's one that stuck out: a father, mother and their early 20s hikkikomori son were sharing an apartment, w
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by a_bonobo 10y ago
I think there will be more concrete information in the next few days, as the proposal is a bit long, you can find it here: http://berec.europa.eu/eng/document_register/subject_matter/... But it starts well: &
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by a_bonobo 10y ago
There's heaps of marketing tools (random example: http://who.unfollowed.me/ ) around to track who followed you and to auto-follow and un-follow people based on whether they're following you. Many accounts on Twitt
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by a_bonobo 10y ago
Fun coincidence: A vomitorium (any modern person associates that with vomiting, i.e., stuff coming out of your mouth) was the name for entrances in Roman amphitheatres.
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by a_bonobo 10y ago
I don't understand why this is in Nature Scientific Reports - a relatively new, small journal that has published some bad things in the past. If this is true and well-supported it would belong into the 'main' Nature or Scienc
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by a_bonobo 10y ago
The difference between the long-term experiment and the OP one's here is that the E. coli could survive many, many generations since it was growing on a limited, but not depleted medium. The 'novel' bacteria in OP's text
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by a_bonobo 10y ago
I think he talks about Chaos Monkey: http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/07/chaos-monkey-released-in... GitHub: https://github.com/Netflix/SimianArmy
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by a_bonobo 10y ago
Do you have any proof for either statement? All I could find is the 2014 report on the FIRB which said they would never initiate court proceedings; http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-11-27/foreign-buyer-rule-enf... I
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by a_bonobo 10y ago
>Being used as scapegoats That's what it looks like for me with the Australian housing market where the Chinese are being blamed for increasing prices. China is the biggest foreign investor in the Australian housing market followed
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by a_bonobo 10y ago
I don't think you can calculate E^2 without the "true model", which you practically never have. The code uses the "true model" too: https://github.com/johnmyleswhite/r_squared/blob/mas
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by a_bonobo 10y ago
It's weird that his color theory is such a minor thing in the article: I've recently read his "Conversations with Eckermann" (highly recommended: a long book of notes from Eckermann where he summarizes, well, myriad talk
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by a_bonobo 10y ago
Thank you for the answer! So JupyterLab would have much more funtionality
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by a_bonobo 10y ago
How does this differ from Rodeo [1]? [1] http://blog.yhat.com/posts/introducing-rodeo.html
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by a_bonobo 10y ago
This is actually interesting in terms of GWAS - there used to be a large difference between "heritability" (~the measurable variance offspring shares with their parents, like height in cm, which can be influenced by a ton of param
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by a_bonobo 10y ago
One possible mechanism: One of the proposed reasons for the recent rise in levels of autism is that more autistic children are sent to the psychiatrist. You need to be relatively "rich" to be able to afford sending your child to t
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by a_bonobo 10y ago
His AMA answers cover much of what Herzog is covering in his book "A Guide For The Perplexed", including traveling by foot (he once walked from Bavaria to Paris as some kind of pilgrimage for a sick friend there). Highly recommend
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by a_bonobo 10y ago
Some people have been pushing to use BAM files for unaligned reads too - the upside being that it's a) compressed and b) you know when the file is incomplete as the BAM ending is missing. You don't get that with FASTQ. Most notabl
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by a_bonobo 10y ago
They only apply population stratification from Figure 2 including onwards: >The results so far do not control for population stratification because we wanted to characterize overall similarity. However, it is important to remember that s
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by a_bonobo 10y ago
tight_layout() gets rid of all that whitespace :) There are some alternatives with pretty defaults - I personally love seaborn [1] which builds on top of matplotlib, but seaborn is even more "do it the way I like it or suffer the conse
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by a_bonobo 10y ago
Perhaps off-topic but there's one fun thing about "green" in traffic lights - in Japanese, "ao" is blue and green together, so most Japanese natives speaking English will shout "blue!" when the traffic lig
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by a_bonobo 10y ago
I guess it depends on research field and journal - in biology most journals require you to deposit your raw genomic reads to the Sequence Read Archive, this is still sometimes missed by editors and reviewers. Random example for the requirem
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One recent example is Reddit trying to "catch" the Bostom marathon bombers, where Redditors went through the security cams, "identified" a university student as the culprit, which led to immediate harassment of the stude
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by a_bonobo 10y ago
An alternative proposal: Wittgenstein studied engineering before he became a philosopher, his doctorate is on planes and kites, and he did some research on how kites behave in certain situations. Could this be another reason for the focus o
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There are some cool overlaps between Australian aboriginal oral traditions and past events: https://theconversation.com/finding-meteorite-impacts-in-abo...
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by a_bonobo 10y ago
Or the reason for the JHKL vim arrow keys - I've read quite often how ergonomic that is, but it's just historical: http://www.catonmat.net/blog/why-vim-uses-hjkl-as-arrow-keys... (then again, maybe the origin
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by a_bonobo 10y ago
Julia Reda, MP for the German Pirate Party with Greens/EFA in the European Parliament, has recently launched a campaign to introduce EU laws against geoblocking: https://juliareda.eu/2016/05/end-geoblocking&#x
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by a_bonobo 10y ago
Some people have done similar things using the XBox Kinect, see for example http://makezine.com/projects/from-kinect-to-makerbot/ It's still not easy though!
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by a_bonobo 10y ago
>To give you a perspective, the amount of DNA sequencing required to fully research Grail's test has been estimated as the equivalent of decoding the genomes of about 400,000 people. I've been a customer of Illumina, and I&#x27
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>I hope - and believe - that as game devs get more experience with VR, they'll design VR games differently to take into account its strengths and weaknesses. Nintendo did this nicely with the Wii controllers - you can flail your arm
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by a_bonobo 10y ago
As long as universities and funding bodies - i.e. your potential employers and the people who give you money - judge you by the quantity of your publications and the impact factor of journals you publish in I'm afraid this won't h

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