benrapscallion

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by benrapscallion 2y ago
I was referring to the size of UK Biobank. Yes, only a fraction participated in actigraphy. The same is true of imaging, blood biomarkers, etc.
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by benrapscallion 2y ago
That’s because this is in UK Biobank, a cohort of >500K Brits and collecting actually in such a large cohort is a miracle, let alone for multiple days. All thanks to the people who volunteered into the study. Would it be nice to have eve
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by benrapscallion 2y ago
Yes
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by benrapscallion 2y ago
A clean page of results that the search engine deems best [i.e., no antagonistic commercial interest driving priorities] for the query and the ability to block domains - that was enough for me. ‘Summarize this page’ is useful as well.
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by benrapscallion 2y ago
Shouldn’t this be GLP1RAs (semaglutide etc.) for the last year?
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by benrapscallion 2y ago
This is the only plausible reason: “These artificial neural networks have been used to advance research across physics topics as diverse as particle physics, materials science, and astrophysics,” Ellen Moons, chair of the Nobel Committee fo
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by benrapscallion 2y ago
Referring to an ancient genomics prize which is mostly about high-quality sample prep that Svaante Paabo no doubt pioneered as DNA seq + evol bio is quite the stretch when a prize wasn’t awarded for the human genome project, GWAS, 454/
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by benrapscallion 2y ago
Paabo’s dad was a Nobel laureate. He was born through an extramarital affair of his father, Swedish biochemist Sune Bergström (1916–2004), who, like his son, became a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (in 1982). Pääbo i
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by benrapscallion 2y ago
Especially when one factors in how Nobels are nominated and voted - previous laureates have a strong say. This is why the same themes keep getting rewarded over and over again: GPCRs, sensory systems, Drosophila, microscopy, regulation of g
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by benrapscallion 2y ago
But she has a valid point.
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by benrapscallion 2y ago
They still need to read the science and agree with it.
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by benrapscallion 2y ago
800 papers is still a red flag, even if throughout those years he had 30 postdocs at any given time (which is only true for large labs).
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by benrapscallion 2y ago
Or just use the reader mode in Safari.
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by benrapscallion 2y ago
Acquired.fm has a great episode on RenTec medallion fund vs their institutional funds. ‘David: The way that some folks we talked to described the difference between the institutional funds and Medallion to us is that Medallion’s average hol
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by benrapscallion 2y ago
Is it invested in an index fund?
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by benrapscallion 2y ago
There are two ways to interpret it: one is in terms of its effect size, if it could have been an intervention; the other, as pointed out above, is that there are patients to whom exercise is prescribed e.g. T2D, dyslipidemias and cardiovas
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Exercise may be the single most potent medical intervention ever known(youtube.com)
20 points by benrapscallion 2y ago|11 comments
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by benrapscallion 2y ago
Interview of cardiologist Dr. Euan Ashley by cardiologist Dr. Eric Topol
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Wayback Machine Is Down(web.archive.org)
24 points by benrapscallion 2y ago|13 comments
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by benrapscallion 2y ago
“Temporarily Offline Internet Archive services are temporarily offline. Please check our Twitter feed for the latest information. We apologize for the inconvenience.”
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by benrapscallion 2y ago
Do it the way Nature journals now require it to be done: show the underlying data points overlaid on the box plot. Best of both worlds.
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by benrapscallion 2y ago
He preferred it.
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by benrapscallion 2y ago
The RSS link on the submitted webpage is broken.
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by benrapscallion 2y ago
Newsblur
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Ask HN: What are your recommended, must-watch movies?
2 points by benrapscallion 3y ago|6 comments
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by benrapscallion 3y ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39924309
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by benrapscallion 3y ago
The article devolves from fact to fiction/guesswork rather quickly.
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by benrapscallion 3y ago
Remarkable 2 tablet is very good for reading papers.
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by benrapscallion 3y ago
Can someone recommend lightweight alternatives to Paperpile or EndNote that have two essential features: 1. Rename a PDF file to a consistent (Author Year Journal) format. 2. Online sync (Mac, iOS and web access) - including via say iCloud
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by benrapscallion 3y ago
Bending spoons also acquired EverNote not so long ago.

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