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by bhickey 6y ago
Here's a picture of the diploma if you're interested: https://i.imgur.com/CYHm5sM.png
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The PCR alone takes a couple of hours to run. Labs have significant turn around time because they're taking samples from various testing locations and running them centrally. Plus hardly anyone is running group testing. You swab everyo
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We should be doing in flight testing. PCR the cabin air and the waste stream. Swab everyone and group test them. Then if there's a positive you hold everyone and retest them individually.
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> The reason this is being done is exactly the same reason why he was not given the Nobel Peace Prize and not acknowledged outside India for a very long time. While I think it's farcial to place him on British currency, largely for
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It's a version controlled dump of Gutenberg.
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> It's hard to hold them responsible for picking a name that violated a policy that didn't yet exist. fwiw, Gitenberg has been around at least since 2012.
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George has also survived cancer and at least one heart attack. His mortality risk is probably on the high end compared to the average 65 year old, though he isn't obese.
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Ambiguity Machines: An Examination, by Vandana Singh https://www.tor.com/2015/04/29/ambiguity-machines-an-examina... Salto Mortal, by Nick T. Chan http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction&#x2
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This isn't a compelling argument. No one says "free software" is bad branding because you're implored to "think free as in free speech, not free beer."
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I'm open to suggestions for FadiChehade.org.
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The solar wind hits molecules in the atmosphere and knocks them into space. This is how Venus lost most of its hydrogen. https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-mission-reveals-spee...
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Right. Their confidence intervals overlap: 17.3%-23.0% vs 22.2%-31.0% Factor in multiple hypothesis testing and it's worse than presented.
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Array testing is an improvement over Dorfman, but this has been widely known for decades. Blood banks regularly use high dimensional arrays for testing. Here they test the hypercube planes in serial instead of parallel, but this increases l
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That would be a very effective way to achieve herd immunity quickly. Typically the swab is stored in a liquid viral transport medium. You perform a RNA extraction on this liquid, pool the product and run RT-PCR on it.
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This has been used at the University of Nebraska Medical Center for a few months now. They do 5-way pooling.
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Wuhan tested in batches of 10.
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> False negative rate maybe? Yes, thanks, fixed. Check out Table 1 in this paper. It isn't very encouraging. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jmv.25971
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I think to authors are overly optimistic in our ability detecting highly dilute samples. Pooling studies in Dengue Fever using RT-PCR found sensitivity fell faster than could be explained by dilution effects alone. At 100:1 or 20:1 pooling
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The confidence intervals on their mortality rates overlap.
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An old friend of mine is one of the authors on this. Their instruments generate a lot of data. I don't know if this is the case for their array in Australia, but when he was working in South Africa they had to carry hard drives out o
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by bhickey 6y ago
Imagine you own a 400 acre ranch on top of shale oil. You want to realize income from the oil without selling your ranch.
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Here's a fork https://github.com/rida1148/Hack-Casio-Calculator
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[1] That paper brings back memories! Back in 2011, I was chatting with Nick about admixture and graph theory when it dawned on me that he was effectively trying to solve the Steiner tree problem. Knowing that his formulation of the problem
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by bhickey 6y ago
These images are not subject to copyright in the US.
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I'm accessing the images under the terms of the license offered. It isn't my problem that they don't enjoy copyright protection in my country of residence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Portrait_
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Except those that are reproductions of 2d public domain works... which means they aren't subject to copyright in the United States.
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I don't know. My lab work was primarily with site directed mutagenesis in DNA viruses (PhiX 174). Production seems like it would be the trickiest part -- How do you produce the capsid in sufficient quantity without the machinery it nee
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by bhickey 6y ago
Looking for a naturally occurring attenuated strain is a waste of time. The problem isn't a lack of vaccine candidates, it's a matter of testing latency. Any attenuated strain is just a live virus vaccine and this doesn't sk
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Attenuation of Human Respiratory Viruses by Synonymous Genome Recoding(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
2 points by bhickey 6y ago|0 comments
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Gamer Janken, or How to Pick a First Player(dampfkraft.com)
1 points by bhickey 7y ago|0 comments

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