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by busyant 5y ago
Your mileage may vary. You had a miserable experience. I did not. I'm not saying the courses that I took (or TAed) were all superb. It was a mixed bag. The prevailing philosophy was summed up by one of my profs in my 2nd semester. He s
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by busyant 5y ago
Not sure why I'm sharing these stories, but...they are amusing. My father, 84 years old, remembers his elementary school teacher kicking him full-force on his flank (for fooling around with his buddies). Probably not the best approac
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Citing sources would be a nice plus, but I think it still suffers from the issue that primary research always has caveats and limitations. And you need a certain amount of domain knowledge to know how strong the conclusions are. I've c
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by busyant 5y ago
> biggest misconception is that an expert in some field(especially STEM) has “common sense” in other areas Agreed. My expertise is in molecular biology / genetics and when I see those topics discussed on HN, I can ferret out the BS
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> A recent example is Dr Jordan Peterson talking about climate change. He lacks even a basic understanding but was sitting there talking about it with the confidence of a climate expert and as he is a Doctor people take him seriously abo
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by busyant 5y ago
How does your experiment demonstrate that all protons are indistinguishable? Couldn't it be that your measurement for a proton being at A' is simply measuring the wrong feature of the protons? edit: I have no idea if protons are i
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by busyant 5y ago
Jimmy Carter hasn't received CAR-T therapy afaik, but he's gotten other recently developed immuno modulatory anticancer therapy --pd1 inhibitors-- and I suspect that's a big reason for him still being alive. I can say the sam
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by busyant 5y ago
The researchers focused on a particular type of liver cancer (HCC) because of "lack of effective treatments" They focused on a particular protein molecule called CDK20 which appears to be important for development of HCC. You can
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by busyant 5y ago
This is an excellent lesson in how shitty my sense of geographic scale is. I would have guessed that the size of the eruption was on par with the size of a small city.
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Had a prof in grad school who won a Nobel. He was giving a summary of his lab's research to us first year students and he said the same thing. "Ideas are cheap. Even the one that made me famous. Execution counts"
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Low effort, but high information density.
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> Crick and Watson certainly didn't discover DNA as the substrate for Mendelian inheritance, that was known long before. They (in collaboration with Rosalind "don't talk to me about this woman" Franklin) discovered it
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> Playing for draws is easier than playing for wins. This is nonsense. Neither Caruana nor Carlsen were playing for draws.
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Similar-ish story I'm in the US. * I paid $20 K out of pocket for a surgery that my insurance would not cover. * A few weeks after surgery, I developed a complication that left me in HORRIFIC pain several hours / day. * Almost imm
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by busyant 5y ago
Can you elaborate on where you disagree with universal healthcare? Your opinion sounds nuanced and, therefore, possibly interesting.
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What's your contact info? Grazie.
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It just hit me that I associate brutalist architecture with Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange, in particular the marina scene ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtRGeyznv7k&t=27s ). I'm not even sure if that's br
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by busyant 5y ago
1968 here. I'm not sure why, but The Electric Company resonated with me much more than Sesame Street. I was in awe of Morgan Freeman and his sonorous voice. Years later, I remember seeing him start to get traction in Hollywood and thou
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by busyant 5y ago
Thank you. I keep my photos out of the cloud, but it's helpful to know that this is an option.
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A long time ago, I heard Bill Murray say something to the effect of, "If you want to be rich and famous, try 'rich' first. You will probably be happier."
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> Perversely, digital data that's abandoned degrades far more than analog data On top of that, I've got 30,000+ digital photos, and I can never find the one that I'm looking for. I have document-dumped myself.
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by busyant 5y ago
Agreed. From what I understand, "0 calories" really means < 5 per "serving." And you're correct. Nobody sprays for 250 ms. For what it's worth... Part of my original comment is based on the fact that I have
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by busyant 5y ago
> I think the main problem is that many people simply say "I can't lose weight because of my metabolism." And this isn't true whatsoever. If instead they said "I lose weight at a slower rate than normal people be
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I frequently see the following thermodynamic argument made when the topic of obesity comes up: If you want to lose weight, calories out must be > calories in. This is obviously true. No one is going to break thermodynamic laws. But it fa
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> it is amazing how many people are regularly on/touching their phone for something while driving Yep. About 10 years ago, I took a bus from Boston to Hartford and I spent most of my time looking down into cars along the highway. As
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> Then, when Robert Cade commercialized it and demonstrated sales, they sued him for a cut. Someone once told me that no one gives a shit about your IP until you start making money. If you start making money, then people will remember on
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Strangely, this is one of my pet peeves, too. Especially with regard to COVID. I've read many articles declaring that NYC was an "epicenter" of the COVID outbreak in spring of 2020, when "center" seems simpler and m
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Manicule https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_(typography)
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There's reasonable evidence that this is how the Sicilian Mafia started: lack of effective state enforcement of laws and property rights... Creating a situation where private security forces arise, offering protection from gangs of thi
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> I'd be willing to bet this scam was covid related You might be correct. The obvious idea is that it's more difficult to identify the phantom students if everything is virtual. That being said, where I teach, we have a system

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