a_bonobo

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   by a_bonobo 14y ago

   Keep deleting your cookies OR restart your Firefox in private mode, I had to restart about 7 times until I got the $49 offer.
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   by a_bonobo 14y ago

   I just bought the kit for Australia - it was $49 + $74 shipping, the updates are _not_ included - in fact, I think they stopped offering these. The value used to be that you get the newest research linked to your SNPs, i.e., if there's a ne
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   by a_bonobo 14y ago

   It used to be back when the $299 price was offered that you had to pay $99 for a year of subscription to their annotation updates, not sure what's going on now.
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   by a_bonobo 14y ago

   You'd like the weconsent-guys (led by John Wilbanks) which tries to fulfill all of the given aims by a) being a central repo for medical data and b) introducing the required legal paperwork (for example, a license or contract which prohibit
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   by a_bonobo 14y ago

   Crabtree is measuring nothing, his arguments are just based on assumptions, there is no gene expression data in these two papers.
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   by a_bonobo 14y ago

   For completion's sake, yes you can do that in Python, it's just slightly uglier (as far as I know) using ''.join(filter(None, [a, b])) and itertools.cycle([None, None, 'Fizz']) itertools.cycle([None, None, None, None, 'Buzz'])
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   by a_bonobo 14y ago

   I just googled around for that, and here's a brutish one in Ruby: https://gist.github.com/3230825 And because I had to fiddle around manually to understand it (not good at Ruby's inbuilt methods) here's how it works: It generates two long
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   by a_bonobo 14y ago

   Cory Doctorow has quite the charisma - I love his speech at last year's Chaos Computer Conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUEvRyemKSg Don't really like his novels (subtlety is French to them) but his speeches are great.
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   by a_bonobo 14y ago

   All of the insurgents in these conflicts have been armed by third parties. The Vietcong got weapons and supplies from China and Cambodia, the Afghani insurgents got weapons and supplies from the US to fight the Soviets (including explosives
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    by a_bonobo 14y ago

    So we can all learn something from that G+-post - if you want to apologize for your behaviour, don't imply that it wasn't really your fault, apologize for everything . Especially Japanese company-leaders handle this very well, often resign
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    by a_bonobo 14y ago

    Probably this one: "Evaluation of Evidence-Based Practices in Online Learning A Meta-Analysis and Review of Online Learning Studies" http://www.geteducated.com/images/pdfs/doe_online_education_... That's a paper from the DOE from 2009 on
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    by a_bonobo 14y ago

    It's just that an e-mail filter is the last thing most scientists working in biology, chemistry, physics, medicine are actually working with, so it's (in my opinion) a rather unfitting example, you might be selecting against these people wh
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    by a_bonobo 14y ago

    >4. How do you determine if a given data sample is statistically significant? That's a weird question - what am I to prove? Are there differences in the dataset? How does the data look like? Is there a second dataset against which to co
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    by a_bonobo 14y ago

    I absolutely agree, I work in bioinformatics and everyone I work with fits the bill blog-post describes. I would add that hunting people in the relevant communities should work, as well, for example biostars.org or seqanswers.com for bioinf
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    by a_bonobo 14y ago

    <conspiracy_nuthead> But wouldn't it be in the best interest of the prison/weapons/security-industry to keep this fear of Zetas-inspired civil war growing until they can sell contracts for TSA-style security in every US neighbourhoo
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    The Problem With Measuring Digital Influence(techcrunch.com)

    7 points by a_bonobo 14y ago|1 comments
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    by a_bonobo 14y ago

    Best medical journal (Lancet), proper sample-size (579), from first glance it looks OK! From their discussion there are some caveats: - mostly white people checked (so if you're Asian, this might not happen) - MRI has a known bias towards p
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    by a_bonobo 14y ago

    Doesn't that destroy the allegations of voting fraud in the US? (Not a US-citizen here) If there was widespread fraud with the voting machines as alleged elsewhere, the voting outcome should have diverged widely from the predictions. The pr
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    by a_bonobo 14y ago

    This is not /r9k/, please take your misogyny there.
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    by a_bonobo 14y ago

    I think that the word "miscarriage" carries extreme connotations with it, you instantly imagine giving birth to a dead baby. In Germany, if a fetus or embryo does not continue development at an early-ish stage and is expelled by the womb, m
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    From Sun Type 5 to PS/2 in under $15: my PIC-based converter(snafu.priv.at)

    2 points by a_bonobo 14y ago|0 comments
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    by a_bonobo 14y ago

    It's not dismissive, it's skeptic, and rightfully so - there are many flaws in this article (as outlined above) that might not come from the scientists, but from dodgy reporting. Who describes that guy as "the happiest man"? Is it the scien
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    by a_bonobo 14y ago

    Here's a longer article on using the same bcrypt-gem inside the Authlogic-gem, useful if you already deployed a system and want to switch from SHA512 or similar to bcrypt: http://www.binarylogic.com/2008/11/22/storing-nuclear-launch...
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    by a_bonobo 14y ago

    It's not that basic, it's stochastics for beginners, which in my biology undergrad was taught in Maths II, and in my sister's med. undergrad was taught in the last year I think, and she still struggles with p-values (especially how to int
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    by a_bonobo 14y ago

    Looting?? Germany divides a substantial amount of its money to these nations so they don't collapse and take the currency with them!
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    by a_bonobo 14y ago

    I once listened to a lecture by a guy at the ACPFG (Australian Centre for plant functional genomics) who was working on computer vision - the problem is to evaluate a large amount of pictures of plants to gather information about each indiv
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    by a_bonobo 14y ago

    It looks like healthcare systems in Greece are now collapsing: http://www.naturalnews.com/036257_Greece_economic_collapse_h... But I have no first-hand accounts of that and know no-one living in these countries, but it looks like you're r
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    by a_bonobo 14y ago

    Does your country really head towards a "permanent vacation"? In Germany, we have a great social system, with (basically) free university, healthcare for everyone (until a couple years ago it was unheard of that a person didn't have health-
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    Hyped GM maize study faces growing scrutiny(nature.com)

    1 points by a_bonobo 14y ago|0 comments
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    by a_bonobo 14y ago

    It is large (much larger than the market-share of Linux on the Desktop) but it makes the previous discussions on "Linux-users are more willing to spend money than Windows-users" moot, as the percentages have shifted so much since start of t