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by daemonk 8y ago
Regardless of your political opinion on Andrew Yang and his proposed policies, I think it is worth hearing him out on his (and many other's) perspective on modern capitalism. The way our society define and value ourselves primarily on
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It really depends on the field in my experience. I probably wouldn't place too much emphasis on requiring a phd for tech. But I would probably prefer a phd in biotech jobs (bench or computational).
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Other people have it worse so it's okay to remain in a shitty situation? I don't think we should treat this like a victim competition.
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by daemonk 8y ago
I wonder how much of the gaming market consist of games that requires good latency. I would be perfectly fine playing Civilization or turn based games on this infrastructure as sub-100ms latency probably isn't that big of a deal here.
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So its kinda like putting small IR->visible light lenses into your cornea.
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I remember attending a bioinformatics conference years ago when Nanopore presented one of their first devices. For those who are not in the field, Nanopore offers a palm sized device that can sequence DNA in real-time as the strand moves th
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by daemonk 8y ago
Here is a very general description of the system. The DNA probe has: - conjugated voltage sensitive dye - a conjugated reference dye - a targeting motif The targeting motif allows it to go into a specific organelle. The ratio of voltage sen
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by daemonk 8y ago
Get a dedicated root server with hetzner. It's relatively cheap for what you get.
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Maybe a more relevant analogy are medical procedures. IE. Banning specialized brain or heart surgery because only rich people can afford it.
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This comment might not be relevant to the article. Isn't diversity ultimately relative to the group you are comparing to? And how you want to define the group might differ among people? Also how you weigh the trait in relation to its e
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I'd never thought they would actually assemble this genome. But put together the father of string-graph assembly (Eugene Myers) and a shitload of money (PacBio reads), and you get an assembly of a 32gb genome.
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I think the fact that we have to "imagine" why an intelligent designer would have designed something a certain way brings this idea out of the realm of natural science. If we assume there is a supernatural force behind everything,
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by daemonk 8y ago
There should be a better distinction made between EPIgenetics and epiGENETICS. The former is more about regulatory mechanisms (methylation, histone modifications, polycomb-like mechanisms, etc) on top of our DNA. The latter is more about no
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by daemonk 8y ago
If we put aside the financial concerns, which admittedly is a significant factor, what you get out of college is what you want to put into it. If you see it as just a hoop to jump through, then perhaps it's not worth it.
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I think this was proposed back in the 60s with flatworms. There are some recent experiments, again with flatworms, where they studied this. Flatworms can regenerate heads. So they trained a flatworm to avoid a certain type of light and cut
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by daemonk 8y ago
I think there is a function to "boring" website design. For the purpose of communication, it is great that we have a common dialogue, as boring as that may be. People recognize buttons, textboxes, tabs, etc and knows how to use th
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by daemonk 8y ago
I guess the better analogy would be video games that are exclusive to a console ie. playstation exclusive or xbox exclusive.
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I see where you are coming from. I would assume the pricing/exclusivity of items are optimized so that they can push their profits the highest they can go without alienating too many people. I guess this goes to show how important cons
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by daemonk 8y ago
I am not supporting a side here. But what exactly is the practical or moral issue with this? Is it that Amazon is squeezing money out of people who want the movie but probably won't use the Prime service otherwise? Is it false advertis
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by daemonk 8y ago
I like the micro just as much as anyone else. But I don't agree that there is just one way to play a game and that if someone wants to deviate from it, somehow that goes against the purity of the established way. Blizzard has benefitte
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by daemonk 8y ago
I appreciate the manual dexterity, but imagine the amount of strategy that AI assisted play would open up.
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People who are really good at what they do often thinks what they do isn't worth much because it's easy for them. It's part of why they are good at it.
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by daemonk 8y ago
I want an AI assisted mode with API hooks where people can code their own sophisticated "macros" that can be activated with a command/button. Limit the code to X number of characters. It would be awesome to see a tournament w
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by daemonk 8y ago
Cool. But I think the current state of the art is using minhashes (minimap2) to avoid doing expensive all vs all alignments. There is still a place for more sensitive alignments though.
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by daemonk 9y ago
If we are just talking about size of the genome, the salamander genome is extremely repetitive and is around 15x the human genome. I seem to remember there was one crustacean that was estimated to have a 100gb genome (30x human). Genome siz
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The point I was trying to make is that there is no "more" or "less" important. There are just multiple layers of complexity that are all required to form the end result. DNA being the first layer just means the informati
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There are some interesting studies by Michael Levine at Tufts that looks at bioelectric field's effect on flatworm regeneration. And there are some cool experiments done in salamanders that looks at nerve dependent regeneration (aneuro
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by daemonk 9y ago
I think any sane biologist will agree that there are layers upon layers of complexity on top of genotype. But the first layer is still DNA. There is a difference between gene-centric and gene-only. The former gives biologist an anchor point
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by daemonk 9y ago
I feel like the term "epigenetics" takes on different definitions depending on context. The term can have two meanings depending which part of the term you emphasize. I think it is important to be pedantic here. EPI-genetics with
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How do those two things relate?

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