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by busyant 1y ago
Someone told me something similar once: When giving a talk, your slides are not "the show." YOU are the show.
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> He just gets it, no matter what it is. He's just a cool dude. I don't know how he does it. I agree. His songs seem like unique and unusual gems.
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Always happy to see anything related to Tom Waits here. Also, it's simply a great song.
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OT: Just replying to myself to ramble a little bit more. The Crick, Brenner et al. paper that I cited above * studied mutations in a viral gene called "rIIB" * the authors used those rIIB mutations to determine that the genetic co
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by busyant 1y ago
Viruses can acquire resistance by mutation. This has been well established for decades. FWIW, I was trained as a bacterial geneticist and routinely used bacteriophage (viruses that infect bacteria) with various resistance mutations. Viral m
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Everthing is a copy of a copy of a copy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAQ3JuXkDkU
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I got my BS from a "so-so" state university. And my MS & PhD from a HYPS institution. The different between alumni mailing lists of my two universities was eye opening. A typical state school message is something like, "H
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by busyant 1y ago
> it's so powerful and you wanted to cut a tree, now you need to cut some butter for a toast? Chainsaw! Using a Ferrari to deliver the milk is how I've heard it said.
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> In the real world of work, everyone has full access to all of the available data and information. In general, I also attend your church. However, as I preached in that church, I had two students over the years. * One was from an Africa
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by busyant 1y ago
Years ago, I worked w/ a guy who talked religion & politics at work. He was brilliant. We were collaborating w/ another start-up on a project and he identified a subtle, but "embarrassing" error that the other compan
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> where bad_y - bad_z < ε". LOL. That is often the hard part. "We cured your toe fungus. Sorry about the heart attack."
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by busyant 1y ago
That's not really where most biotechs die. You don't move a drug into clinical trials unless you can replicate the initial studies, which is almost always "drug x cures y in animal z." They die when they try to determine
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> care/cared about the field and their impact to some extent, try to do their jobs competently, look out for their students, maybe still try to find interest in the work, and operate within whatever hostile politics they're at
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The amount of effusive hagiography devoted to Welch in the late 1990s and early 2000s was stupefying. I grew up in a "GE town" and watched it fall into severe neglect as GE's stock price rose. Watched my mother get laid off a
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by busyant 1y ago
> Much of what we are supposed to learn in a classroom is irrelevant and some of it is just down right wrong. I think there is a lot of truth here. I used to teach chem and I would repeatedly warn students not to cheat (especially the on
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by busyant 1y ago
> I tried to move my purchases to Walmart Walmart does (or at least did ) something similar. * About 7 years ago, I purchased a toy drone online from Walmart for one of my sons for Christmas. * I purchased it before Thanksgiving becau
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The two "insanities" are not mutually exclusive. In fact, I agree with you that illegal immigrants abuse the system and unfairly consume resources. I also agree with the parent comment that people acting as a police force (i.e., I
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by busyant 1y ago
I agree. But this is a common refrain from Trump ('other countries are taking advantage of us ...'). So, if it gets said frequently enough, it takes on an appearance of truth.
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by busyant 1y ago
I have a maga friend. he's the sweetest guy ever, but doesn't stand up for himself. I asked him why he's a supporter and he said it's because Trump will stop other countries from pushing us around. I imagine his support
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> Shouldn't those SpaceX contracts be based on how well the country is served by them and at what price. I'm always amazed when I read questions like this. I mean ... have you been paying attention? Law firms getting security c
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I had a history prof who said "Communism is for the angels. But the angels don't need it." That being said, I don't fully agree with grandparent's statement that ... > We have some other kind of "ocracy&quot
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Thank you.
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by busyant 1y ago
Can someone explain this reference? My best guess is that this is an allusion to Rasputin, but: a) I'm probably wrong and b) I don't understand the chef part.
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> The sound ID works very well, especially in the jungles/forests of Colombia with zero network availability. Interesting. I find that the sound ID works well if: - I have my phone out of my pocket and exposed to the air (obviousl
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I have "butt Merlined" a few times... Each time, I think to myself ... That bird is CLOSE! Let me take my phone out of my pocket and see if Merlin knows what it is ... DAMMNIT!
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Thank you for the link. If you haven't heard of this book, you may find it interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moral_Basis_of_a_Backward_... The Moral Basis of a Backward Society is a book by Edward C.
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> employers use it as a very efficient filter to weed out everyone who might have an issue with what big corporate demands - cogs in a wheel, not artisans with own opinions. I think the simpler explanation is that the CS degree is suppo
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My parents grew up in southern Italy and moved to the US in the '50s. Growing up, I got a strong taste of that culture--there were many positive aspects, but a common negative theme that permeated my childhood was that you should never
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by busyant 1y ago
A few months ago, I was in the waiting room of a car dealership, waiting for my car to get serviced. An elderly woman struck up a conversation with the woman next to her and said words to the effect of ... "There's a millionaire
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I'm not the person who wrote that, but I think "strip mined" means that "MAGA" views foreigners (legal and illegal) as taking advantage of the US and depleting its resources. FWIW, I think there's a legitimat

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