caillancm

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by caillancm 6y ago
It doesn't depend only on your family situation. I am a PhD student working for the last 6 weeks from home without kids. And and also without a good income. I never expected my makeshift desk with the cheapest IKEA chair to become my w
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by caillancm 7y ago
Twitter thread with more explanation: https://twitter.com/MartinWalshDLS/status/123635508358517964... An unrelated paper describing an inhibitor: https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-
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Searching for Coronavirus inhibitors: Rapid screening and open data(diamond.ac.uk)
9 points by caillancm 7y ago|1 comments
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by caillancm 7y ago
The main point, about not washing, isn't standard dental advice and widely known, unless I'm mistaken. Personally, toothpaste tastes so bad I find it hard not to rinse without gagging. Otherwise, the advice is direct and the writi
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by caillancm 7y ago
This is a great comment. A lot of what OP says is pertinent to other poorly-defined chronic diseases too. As a community, physicians and researchers are really not capable of dealing with such conditions right now. As a result, large number
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by caillancm 7y ago
"Often overlooked" might be a better term. This seems to be well-known to biophysicists studying nucleic acids but doesn't trickle down to the genetics/biology side of things.
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by caillancm 7y ago
>And I'm not just talking about Western notation, either - the number-based notation that's in widespread use in East Asia is also highly intuitive and perhaps more so. Do you have any more information about this? Fpr example,
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by caillancm 7y ago
>You can also represent musical pitches on hexagonal layouts, as graph structures, perturbations of strange attractors in n-d phase space... Interesting conecpts. Are there any examples you could post?
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by caillancm 8y ago
For very important presentations, recording yourself can be useful too. It can be excruciating to watch it again, but it forms part of a powerful iterative loop.
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by caillancm 8y ago
>... I have been to so many talks where 90% of the audience is grad students and looking around the room you can tell none of them are getting anything out of the talk .... Sometimes the students aren't the targets. They're jus