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by busyant 7y ago
> The detection time is very fast: 5 minutes for a positive result; 13 minutes for a negative. To quote from Abbott's press release: "delivering positive results in as little as five minutes and negative results in 13 minutes
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by busyant 7y ago
I wouldn't necessarily call the data "garbage" but the numbers are definitely _soft_. But soft numbers are a common issue with many areas of public health. In particular, analysis of the current pandemic suffers from both a &
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by busyant 7y ago
If that turns out to be true, it's remarkable how many pathologies are related to our immune systems going haywire.
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by busyant 7y ago
This would be an interesting motivational tool. Have someone write your obituary and then see if you're happy about it. Modify your life accordingly.
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by busyant 7y ago
> Donald Trump will (unfortunately) be elected again in 2020 And lose the popular vote again.
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by busyant 7y ago
> all the cool stuff in the world is made of lego pieces (carbon atoms) Amen. When I introduce organic chemistry, I use the Lego analogy. I tell the students, "there are zillions of different organic molecules. What's weird is
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by busyant 7y ago
Funny. I have recommended this website ( https://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/courses/toolkits/247/... ) to many of my students to help them practice naming alkyl substituted alkanes. The web-page h
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by busyant 7y ago
My non-tech savvy 82yo father has made a similar point to me: all these garbage phone calls that I get every day make me not trust ANY phone call that I receive. You'd think this would upset legitimate businesses that need to make cal
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by busyant 7y ago
It's custom. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03083-5
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by busyant 7y ago
> You can't safely deactivate metabolic pathways at runtime in a single cell While I generally agree with your sentiment that it would be remarkably difficult to genetically modify the brain tissue of an adult, you have no idea if y
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by busyant 7y ago
Just a small correction for anyone looking for this person via Google: it's Drew Berry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drew_Berry
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by busyant 7y ago
Many years ago, I was at a party in grad school and I wound up playing Scrabble with some classmates and some Chinese guy who could barely speak English. The Chinese guy destroyed us. He nickel-and-dimed us with esoteric 2 letter words that
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by busyant 7y ago
> This such a click-bait piss-poor paper I can’t believe it’s in Cell. There's a lot of politics in what gets published in prestigious journals like Cell (also, this paper was published in Aging Cell, so not quite as prestigious). A
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by busyant 7y ago
> can't for the love of god get used to anything else. Mechanical keyboards are often quite thick. Palm pads don't help, I'd still feel my hands are uncomfortably elevated. I've had a similar problem (although I&#x27
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by busyant 7y ago
> I'm torn because I've definitely heard plenty of rumblings about GE Capital over the past decade so the accusations certainly seem plausible. Back in the 1990s and maybe early 2000s, GE would 'beat' analyst profit e
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by busyant 7y ago
This illustrates the idea well: https://i.imgur.com/II5W6Pl.png
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by busyant 7y ago
You can see it done here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_atomic_weight#List_of...
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by busyant 7y ago
It's not exactly blindfold. With blindfold, the blind player still knows the opponent's moves...They just don't have the luxury of being able to _look_ at the state of the board (although top-tier chess players don't nee
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by busyant 7y ago
Why are you using the word "western" here? Are non-"western" healthcare practitioners exempt from biases and prejudicial opinions? I think it's fair to say that, like all humans, healthcare practitioners may have pr
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by busyant 7y ago
> If you pour cold tea on your only laptop at 7pm just before a gig, buying and setting up a new laptop could prove difficult. Your hypothetical is not consistent with the redditor's complaint. The redditor implies that he can survi
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by busyant 7y ago
> But they both liked Pasadena, apparently. There is a multi-part interview of Gell-Mann on YouTube ( https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVV0r6CmEsFxKFx-0lsQD... ). Somewhere in there he says that he eventually had off
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by busyant 7y ago
Maybe the authors didn't want to submit to Nature? Also, not a physicist, but my understanding is that PRL is prestigious in its own right.
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by busyant 7y ago
Agreed. One of my favorite papers for this very reason: "Self-electrophoresis is not the mechanism for motility in swimming cyanobacteria" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC177383/
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by busyant 7y ago
In the mid-1980s, I used my trusty Commodore 64 to build "test banks" for my math, chem, physics, and bio courses in high school and early college. My rationale was the same as in this paper: I wanted to handicap myself from knowi
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by busyant 7y ago
> There will always be people who abuse the support the union offered, like your dad, who gives unions a bad rep That's a bit harsh and I think it misjudges human nature. > Without a union, your dad would have been expected to ta
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by busyant 8y ago
> I feel like as they leave more and more up to the algorithms, we suffer. With all the hand-wringing about what happens when the "computers" take all of our jobs, I think you crystallized how it all ends for us. It won't
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by busyant 8y ago
Not the person to whom you were responding. I think Excel charts can be quite good. But my impression is that ggplot2 is much more flexible in what you can do with it. It's also more difficult to learn, but that's to be expected.
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by busyant 8y ago
Good point. Thank you.
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by busyant 8y ago
>These should mostly cancel out and keep the university’s acceptance rate (offers extended per application received) about the same. I agree w/ your argument, but there are probably other factors that have changed w/ college ap
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by busyant 8y ago
> That theme gets expanded quite a bit in the film culminating in a fantastic scene with Robert De Niro as a rogue heating engineer. so good! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRfoIyx8KfU&t=2m10s

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