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by brutos 5y ago
Assuming this is actually a genuine question: Here are the per country ratios of different VOC/VOI: https://covariants.org/per-country It took a while until it became dominant in India, and then a similar pattern repea
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by brutos 5y ago
According to this thread from another virus expert [1], you can integrate pretty much every class of viruses in the system the authors of this paper used. [1] https://twitter.com/ArisKatzourakis/status/139041961916
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by brutos 5y ago
I implore everyone to read the full article and not only the headline. The paper that is being reported on was widely criticized in its scientific community for its weak evidence and should probably be seen (if you are very charitable) only
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by brutos 5y ago
That's a valid, but still weird take to me. Academic publishing takes a very long time. Every paper I was involved in took many months from submission to eventual publishing (completely ignoring the time it takes to prepare a submissio
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by brutos 6y ago
I would advice to interpret the IFR reported by the Ioannidis paper with an extreme amount of caution. One of the authors criticized (which is quite an understatement) by Ioannidis went into a detailed rebuttal in [1]. A second thread [2] a
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by brutos 6y ago
If you can recompile but the code was written to only target AVX-512 you can use https://github.com/simd-everywhere/simde to near effortlessly map the intrinsics to AVX2 (or lower).
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by brutos 6y ago
This still means that tools published in the last few years until now might just be gone soon. The people who uploaded the images might have graduated or moved on and none will be there to save the work.
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by brutos 6y ago
This will be quite bad for reproducible science. Publishing bioinformatics tools as containers was becoming quite popular. Many of these tools have a tiny niche audience and when a scientist wants to try to reproduce some results from a pa
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by brutos 6y ago
My grandmother has nine children. Seven of those survived and two did not. This was very common in the area she lived then. To this day, however only in private moments, she talks about the two that did not make it. The loss of the two chil
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by brutos 7y ago
The message from the community was to ensure mask supply for medical staff first. They are both more at risk themselves and a risk for others due to the large numbers of contacts. Once supply is secured everyone should be educated about cor
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by brutos 7y ago
It might not be surprising, but it is an extremely important point to keep reiterating. People keep spreading the malthusian myth of overpopulation and shifting blame to the poorest. Blaming the poor while giving the rich a free pass is not
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by brutos 7y ago
I was looking for adding at least one Threadripper server to our local HPC system. I only found one ASRock motherboard for TR4, but none yet for sTRX4. I hope we will see 1U rackmounted sTRX4 systems soon. Our new HPC system will mostly con
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by brutos 7y ago
Microsoft posted this blog post titled "Ambition is good; action is better: Making progress on our climate commitments" two days ago: https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2019/09/22/ambiti
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by brutos 7y ago
I did the calculation myself due to multiple conflicting numbers in this thread: I get 2.6 dollar per gallon of gas (8.65kg CO2 produced by complete combustion of 1 gallon gas): 300$/ton * 8.65kg = 2.6$ per gallon (0.6$ per liter) 100$
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by brutos 7y ago
Publishing companies tend to create many journals for different (sub-)communities and also numerous other reasons. Nature Research (the company) has next to Nature (its most well known journal) many smaller ones, like Nature Biotechnology,
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by brutos 8y ago
That has already happened. The NCBI maintains a taxonomy tree: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?id=... In this case human the identifier of human is 9606, all kinds of stuff about the human
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by brutos 9y ago
Root-less installation of packages into user-directories. I use it a lot in our scientific cluster environment. My User home directory contains a linuxbrew installation and is shared over NFS. Every cluster node can access all linuxbrew sof
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by brutos 9y ago
Depends heavily on the projected utilization. If you know your compute node is going to be computing for the next 3 years with at least medium utilization, then the self hosted metal is probably going to be quite a bit cheaper. Its amazing
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by brutos 9y ago
AVX are vector instructions. They work on wide register (256bit) where you can stuff 8 32bit floats (or in later versions ints) or 4 (double, or longs not sure if AVX2 or later has support for that), or 16 chars (AVX2 iirc). APL, as an arra
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by brutos 9y ago
> Likewise, most European countries do not fluoridate their water and the correlation doesn't seem to show any significant difference in dental health. Just to expand on this point a book: In Germany you buy fluoridated salt (you ca
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by brutos 10y ago
I can recommend Clion from Jetbrains. I am very happy with it. Although you have to be ready to drink the cmake kool aid. (I am using it on OSX, not Linux. When I edit something on a server I use vim + cmake + ninja build.) https:/&#x
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by brutos 10y ago
These studies are usually done as cohort studies. Meaning the study group shares a defining trait (such as the same date of birth). Obviously this is not as great as a double-blind study. But you can't let one group do real exercise an
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by brutos 10y ago
That idea seems to be discredited: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ural%E2%80%93Altaic_languages The remaining connections of Korean still fascinated me when I first heard about it: https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by brutos 10y ago
That is just the interconnect. Grid jobs are usually very compute heavy: "[...] includes the majority of the 100,000 processing cores in the CE." That is the expensive part. We bought p2.16xlarge equivalent nodes for just about 1&
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by brutos 10y ago
Landauer's principle would come into effect if you had a theoretical "Computorium" material that could perfectly turn energy into computation. Then the computation you could produce per volume of space would be limited by it.
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by brutos 10y ago
Like the sibling post to this I also have a bioinformatics background and awk is one of the most important tools in my toolkit. It is just so extremely fast. A few years ago I was laughing about a friend that did a lot of simple data transf
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by brutos 10y ago
Bill Gates is a good example for OP's lot and luck point: "In 1980, [Mary Maxwell Gates] discussed her son's company with John Opel, a fellow committee member and the chairman of International Business Machines Corporation (I
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by brutos 10y ago
I was there! About 8 years ago during a school trip. The church lies next to a picturesque small lake, and once inside its simply stunning. I regularly took part in tours of the local super computing center (Munich), but the BSC is really s
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by brutos 10y ago
> If the speech Facebook is forced to delete is illegal, there must be criminal investigation, by law. I agree with that. Facebook should not be the instance deciding what is to be deleted or not. The german judicial system should be inv
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by brutos 10y ago
Please do not assume that US-American ideals are universal. Germany has a complicated history, which it has and will always struggle with. Restricting hate speech and symbols is completely legal and also seen as an important and good thing.

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