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by avani 9y ago
I have waited in the rain for a taxi to stop for me in Manhattan for 20min before a nearby white guy saw me and hailed one for me (and didn't let the bastard leave when he saw me). Accountability is awesome.
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by avani 9y ago
Those act like they're doing you a favor. "Our service will show up in an hour window if you call a day in advance, and you'd better be grateful, lesser human" I really fucking hate seperate but "equal" solut
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by avani 10y ago
But.. but.. it's in PloS One! :)
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by avani 10y ago
I see no reason to automatically equate "elderly and disabled" with "poor" (bodega?!). Ubers/Lyfts are not terribly expensive compared to owning and maintaining a car+insurance in the city, especially if only used
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by avani 10y ago
Fun fact: buying out usually means "use grant money to cover hiring an adjunct for a term," not forgoing salary. Adjuncts are cheap (they cost less than a grad student, since they don't get benefits), and a successful resear
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by avani 10y ago
- Journals are also often volunteer based, at least in the sciences. - Publishers really don't do much for spelling/layout. They give you a format to fit in, and then put up an automated system for you to check against. - Fraud i
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by avani 10y ago
Many universities actually do have a program to give townfolk library cards, including journal access. That said, the best way to get a research paper in CS is to check the author or lab's website and, if it's not there, e-mail th
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by avani 10y ago
That's a perfect way of phrasing why I think reader is the best social network Google ever made. Thank you.
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by avani 11y ago
Our research group is looking at this exact question, and it turns out that there are several factors that effect the balance between cost and reliability/longevity in an archive. Paper: http://www.ssrc.ucsc.edu/Paper
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by avani 11y ago
Summed up nicely by Alexis Verger on Twitter: "#CRISPRFacts: CRISPR is so powerful it can edit its own history."
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The Mysterious Aging of Astronauts(lemire.me)
152 points by avani 11y ago|55 comments
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by avani 11y ago
"We didn't find anything" is fine for a random journal (there is a saying in academia that everything gets published eventually), but that's not going to get you into Cell, Nature, or Science, or a similarly top-tier ven
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by avani 11y ago
Anecdata: As a wheelchair user and frequent traveler, Uber has never ever failed me, but hailing a cab was nearly impossible (was, because at this point even if uber charged twice what a cab does, I'd still use them every time for the
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by avani 11y ago
The key with Ayasdi's work is that they manage to layer the TDA with different ML filters, which does stunningly well for the datasets they like talking about. I also second the notion to read papers from the Carlsson lab, particularly
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by avani 12y ago
I would pay a lot to be able to use ATOMIK as primary input again. Everything since has been strictly worse for me.
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by avani 12y ago
Posting for an associate who would like to remain anonymous: Location: Atlanta, GA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: HPC infrastructure, MapReduce, frontend Résumé/CV: 10+ years as a Google software engineer. Please e-
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by avani 12y ago
Daphne Koller, Nir Friedman, and Michael Jordan are the biggest names that come to mind not already mentioned. Also, I follow the work of Sridhar Mahadevan in reinforcement learning.
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by avani 12y ago
I'm really looking forward to playing with these; thanks for releasing them, especially since there is so little failure data out there.
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by avani 12y ago
Afaict, there is a single checkbox to click ('Allow some non-intrusive advertising') to not see white listed ads. I do not see ads from Google, MS, etc. when it is unselected.
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by avani 12y ago
Instead, they provide a reliable service. All the discounts in the world are useless when it's raining and the ramp is stuck, but "no worries, we'll send someone to you in 30 minutes." I have a lot of strong opinion
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by avani 12y ago
+bignum. I never minded impossibly proportioned Marvel heroines, but Cerberus put me off of comics for years.
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by avani 12y ago
Even if the only difference between Uber and taxis was that Uber seamlessly takes credit cards, that's enough to increase demand vs. walking / public transit for the growing population that doesn't carry cash. Add in that an
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by avani 12y ago
Since a lot of people are running out to download Adblock Plus, you guys might want to contact Google to try and get the spam app "Adblock Plus" from exgam.com removed from the store. Apps typically show up above extensions, so I
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by avani 12y ago
Pablo Garcia and Golan Levin at CMU reconstructed the Camera Lucida, which was a common artists' tool up until the last century, and describe the history of it here: http://neolucida.com/history/lucida-history&#x2F
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by avani 13y ago
I'm not about to read through 600 comments to find out if someone has already asked, so apologies in advance, but what is the state of viable dropbox alternatives right now? Through their college promotions and puzzle hunts, I have ~2
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by avani 13y ago
I used to feel that way. Then, I realized I had no one to talk to when I saw blatant sexism affect my friends because there were no tenured woman on the faculty whom I knew. I've been lucky that it hasn't hit me, but it's o
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by avani 13y ago
There was an employee "contest" to e-mail people and let them know, but we're (sadly) pretty insular out here. Make sure to sign up ahead of time to walk or take a lab tour ( http://www.salk.edu/stepintodiscov
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by avani 13y ago
Here is the sign up sheet for lab tours during the event. I'll be volunteering there and am happy to talk about computational methods with anyone who is interested. http://www.salk.edu/stepintodiscovery/exploresal
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by avani 13y ago
I'm a computer science postdoc at the Salk Institute. We're having a big public event next Saturday (Walk for Salk) where we're also doing lab tours. Bring your daughter there and I'll give her an extra tour of the com
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by avani 13y ago
At many universities grants for the sciences subsidize other university functions. In computer science, at least, you may have to pay your own salary out of your grants after the university has taken their (substantial) cut for keeping the

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