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by daemonk 13y ago
Would the site be geared more towards projects with translational or immediate impact value? Is there any room for basic research? I guess it depends on how you sell it to people.
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I am a bioinformatician working on regeneration. Two interesting observations here aside from the primary observation that stem cells can be made from stress: - This only worked with differentiated cells from newly born animals. It didn&#x2
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by daemonk 13y ago
When did the Nobel peace prize become the "most-influential" prize.
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by daemonk 13y ago
I am a bioinformatician and I regularly align sequences against large databases. I wonder how much faster/cheaper will this be compared to renting out an ec2 instance for a couple of hours and crunching through data.
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by daemonk 13y ago
My problem with these health monitoring systems is similar to the problem the FDA had with 23andMe. It's one thing to collect data and present them in an easy to accessible way. But it is another to attempt to give out medical advice b
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by daemonk 13y ago
It is kind of a dick thing to do to someone. The creators are just profiteering off a celebrity's infamy.
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by daemonk 13y ago
I understand that simulation/motion sickness is a biological response to discrepancy between what you see and your sense of balance. I've always wondered how much of the simulation sickness is psychological. What if someone made a
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by daemonk 13y ago
I find illustrator to be better for designing interfaces.
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by daemonk 13y ago
I have no problem with the difficulty of the game or the realism it tries to provide. However, it seems like these type of games almost always promotes trolling and ganking. The main reason is because there really are no consequence for the
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by daemonk 13y ago
"It’s really not okay to pour down personal hate and derision on people who happen to use and like a tech product that competes with the one you prefer." "Apple cultists are often quick to question not just the judgment, but
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by daemonk 13y ago
Executing an idea and following through to completion is hard enough. I think anyone who has made an app whether it is 1 quality app or 30 mediocre apps should pat themselves on the back for breaking through a barrier that not many people a
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by daemonk 13y ago
How about just being reasonably rigorous in your assessment instead of being overly cautious or overly idealistic? This division into can-do and can't-do seems to represent two opposite extremes that might not reflect the majority. Wha
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I wonder if it's possible for browsers to start implementing this natively. Have the browser make a shallow copy of the DOM and allow developers to manipulate the shallow copy. Then have a update() function that will take care finding
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Were the raw data consistent? I can understand that the 3 companies were interpreting the raw data differently, but were the underlying snp frequencies consistent? If they are not consistent, then the whole thing is pointless and they need
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by daemonk 13y ago
Don't think about the work and just do it. Often times you find an excuse to distract yourself because you think the work is tedious and annoying. So stop thinking about how annoying the work is and just do it. Don't try to manage
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by daemonk 13y ago
There is always going to be signal loss from the raw data of the actual experiment -> the scientists quantizing and interpreting the data -> formatting and presenting salient parts of the data to get published -> popular science wr
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by daemonk 13y ago
I am not a fan of aggressive, litigious companies. And the morality of physical vs intellectual property is a whole another issue that warrants more discussion. However, all that baggage aside, you kinda did create this website so people ca
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In some strange way, you can't really fault them for hacking the education system to gain an advantage. But what's the point of wasting all this time and resources just to jump through hoops.
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"Mr. Graham has since said the “these” referred to women who aren’t programmers. In our opinion, he didn’t say that to us. We’re happy for him to have clarified to the public." The word in question, "these", refers to th
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by daemonk 13y ago
Nice. Keep at it. Following a project through to the end is very difficult and you've done it many times. Learning a game engine and implementing it is not a trivial task so don't get discouraged by the people saying it's not
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by daemonk 13y ago
Rename it as something else. Call it Cobra or something. Also remove all backward compatibility features. Maybe by taking away it's association with python, it will have a better chance.
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by daemonk 13y ago
Are you looking for some kind of confirmation for dropping out? Higher education doesn't guarantee success, but it probably doesn't hurt. If you have the practical means to stay in school, just do it. And take advantage of it. For
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by daemonk 13y ago
These parasitic journal/conferences are becoming more prevalent in the biological sciences too. Here is an account of a guy who attended a conference hosted by the OMICS publishing group: http://cabbagesofdoom.blogspot.co.uk
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by daemonk 13y ago
I read every short story written by Ted Chiang. His science fiction stories are, for me, the best I've read. As a biologist, I especially enjoyed "72 letters" ( http://web.archive.org/web/20020202192832&#x
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A better way to look at the object's structure/values would help a lot. Seems like the first step would be to generate a list of vertices from the 2d array of tiles.
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Reproducibility is a big problem in biology right now. He probably thought he could delay people finding out until he can produce good legitimate research that might distract attention away from the faked data. I was thinking, "please
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I don't get what syntax control is. Is it just a count of different grammatical categories? Does it do some kind of sentiment analysis and tell you if your sentence structure is aggressive or something?
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A 4 year degree is only valuable if you actually had the mental maturity to take advantage of it at the time (I didn't). Unfortunately, that doesn't seem true with the majority of the kids graduating from high school. They see it
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Science fiction allows you to view a situation without the biases of your upbringing, culture, or anecdotal experience. It can take a controversial scenario and place it in a foreign environment but still allow you to draw enough analogs to
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Agreed. It's an interesting trend. I also just skimmed over it; however, I wonder how significant is their initial TF binding occupancy data. There are a bunch of papers recently that looked at binding sites and found that they don&#x2

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