cactusfrog

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by cactusfrog 2y ago
We have robust cloning protocols for dogs. For some reason dogs are really amenable to cloning.
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by cactusfrog 2y ago
The joke is that his greed/ unwillingness to squeeze margins has made the entire database company ecosystem possible.
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by cactusfrog 2y ago
Every waste of money is not a Ponzi scheme.
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by cactusfrog 2y ago
It’s a closed source POS with unpredictable performance. Talk to people who have actually been forced to use it and many have terrible experiences. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16170955
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by cactusfrog 2y ago
I’m glad they are wasting Walmart’s time and money.
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by cactusfrog 2y ago
It isn’t a suitable language for data science and lacks the ecosystem of Python. For example, people will write Eden files to parse data, which involves creating a really complex DSL for every file for import. They will try to use Datomic a
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by cactusfrog 2y ago
Why isn’t the input a csv?
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by cactusfrog 2y ago
I just did this in a few lines of python with numpy. I don’t understand why the input isn’t a csv.
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by cactusfrog 2y ago
This is a gamblers ruin problem action.
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by cactusfrog 2y ago
I’m working in biotech. I think creating “curated” materialized views with dbt + datawarehouse or duck db + using webgl with d3 will be best long term solution https://blog.scottlogic.com/2020/05/01/rendering-
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by cactusfrog 2y ago
Interactivity is not desirable in all situations. For static figures, matplotlib is still king.
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by cactusfrog 2y ago
Twitter/X keeps spamming me with NSFW things so I deleted it
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by cactusfrog 2y ago
A significant amount of health issues result from medical noncompliance. A digital twin might be useful for finding ways of manipulating patients into taking care of their health.
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by cactusfrog 2y ago
I think it has correctness issues
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by cactusfrog 2y ago
Just write a preprint or a blog post
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by cactusfrog 2y ago
Probably promote cancer cell growth as well
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by cactusfrog 2y ago
Bone density loss in space is estimated at a loss of 1-2% of total bone density per month of microgravity exposure. The worst cases of terrestrial bone loss are around 5% of total bone mineral density per year.
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by cactusfrog 2y ago
Yes, this is one of the major problems with this. I don’t like pdfs
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by cactusfrog 2y ago
Biochemical engineering exists as a discipline and focused on “scale up” of production problems like these. Robots are involved, but most of the time the process is modified to a more stable one.
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by cactusfrog 2y ago
“There is an immense diversity, but also disparities in skill, expertise, and knowledge among Data Scientists. The difference in skills between a data scientist with - say - a Bachelor in Physics and a data scientist with a PhD in Computer
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by cactusfrog 2y ago
The Mayo Clinic sounds like a garbage healthcare provider.
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by cactusfrog 2y ago
You have to pay enough to convince everyone to sell. The trading price is the marginal price of buying one more unit of stock, not a representation of the stock price at which every owner will sell.
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by cactusfrog 2y ago
This is not true, but it is a major challenge. See https://www.pathai.com/
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by cactusfrog 2y ago
Yeah. One application that I’ve heard is retrofitting indoor animal farms to capture methane and reduce methane emissions.
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by cactusfrog 2y ago
Should carbon capture should be worked in secret because mentioning it delivers false hope?
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by cactusfrog 2y ago
Gas separation has many applications. If Google developed an AI model for cancer detection in MRI scans, you wouldn’t claim that “AI is not for what people think it is for” because Google also uses AI models for advertising.
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by cactusfrog 2y ago
I don’t believe I’m exaggerating. You can replace “Clojure” with “Jesus” in the linked article and it still makes sense.
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by cactusfrog 2y ago
The Clojure community is extremely cult like. I worked with a dev who tried to push Datomic, and despite the huge flaws with his system, and the fact that it was closed source, he would continuously tout how much better it was than a relat
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by cactusfrog 2y ago
People seeking to maximize profit are not in favor of expensive clinical trials and are not lying about how expensive they are.
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by cactusfrog 2y ago
Apple started out as a personal computer company—which was a radical concept because there was no good answer to “What are regular people going to do with one”. Mainframes and terminals were useful, but personal computers only had minor app

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