dcdanko

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by dcdanko 5y ago
The academic paper for those interested: https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(21)00585-7
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by dcdanko 6y ago
You have the right idea. In some cases the Dead Sea Scrolls were literally shredded- ripped up into small pieces that were sold individually to tourists. The goal here was to identify parchment fragments that came from the same animal so th
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by dcdanko 6y ago
Most of the fragments (sorry don't have a %) could be mapped to a genome. In cases where a fragment could not be mapped it's more likely because of degradation than novel biology. That said we did identify some novel microbial gen
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by dcdanko 6y ago
Here's the paper for anyone interested https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(20)30552-3#.Xt... I'm one of the middle-authors on this. Happy to try and answer questions.
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by dcdanko 6y ago
You should be able to get all the supplies online
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Show HN: Make faceshields at home to fight Covid-19(goodhopedesign.com)
4 points by dcdanko 6y ago|3 comments
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A Global Atlas of Urban Microbiomes(biorxiv.org)
1 points by dcdanko 7y ago|0 comments
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by dcdanko 7y ago
The standards for authorship in this study were pretty strict. Something like ~2 supplementary figures just for a co-authorship. Source: I'm in one of the labs on this paper (but not one of the authors)
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by dcdanko 8y ago
Still not applicable to Trump because the U.S. Congress has power of the purse, not the President.
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by dcdanko 9y ago
> His compound rate of wealth increase, post paying taxes on the sale, is around ~7.5%. That beats the S&P 500 over that time, which very few professional money managers can do. Very few money managers that are accessible to people w
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by dcdanko 9y ago
NASA is only trying to keep Mars sterile for 100 years or so, probably doesn't matter much on the scale of terraforming
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by dcdanko 9y ago
Both would be illegal* since your keys are info that could deanonymize patient data. However, you would be allowed to store them on your own PC if you follow proper procedures. This is more important than it might seem from a purely tech pe
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by dcdanko 9y ago
mood, circadian rhythm, ancestry, region of the world, diet type, infection, sex, certain diseases, and probably more!
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by dcdanko 9y ago
Why? 32 is a big for a human study. They recruited 32 people that didn't exercise, they didn't choose them after they already had the data.
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by dcdanko 9y ago
Even the composition of your microbiome itself can alter your brain chemistry (actually, it's usually called the gut brain axis). The study here used fecal transplant from lean to obese mice as well as a less invasive test; so it reall
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by dcdanko 9y ago
Probably not much at all. SNPs and small indels tend to be have many neighbors with which they're highly correlated. If a variant caller missed a single SNP it's likely that it still called a bunch of others that nearly always co-
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by dcdanko 9y ago
The figures in this paper use pretty deceptive scales. To be clear, DeepVariant is 0.5% better than a tool built in ~2010 (GATK), on DeepVariant's best test. GATK is still the standard, not because better variant callers don't exi
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by dcdanko 9y ago
Very small transaction outputs can't be used in practice because they're less than the required transaction fee.
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by dcdanko 9y ago
This looks pretty cool!
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by dcdanko 9y ago
Strongly agree. POS is just a dream (until someone proves me wrong :P)
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by dcdanko 9y ago
He provides three examples where an idiom is sometimes bad and sometimes good... The point of the article is just the classic 'foolish consistency is the hobgoblin...'
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by dcdanko 9y ago
Personally I think that the value of (1) Money is extremely dependent on proven track record and the network size. Since the value of (2) and (3) are dependent on (1) I think this has outsize importance. Though as programmers I think we ten
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by dcdanko 9y ago
It's shopworn but good tech doesn't always win. Bitcoin has a big(ish) network of users and a proven codebase. The decentralized nature of blockchains means that they're hard for individual corporations to control and profit
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by dcdanko 9y ago
Definitely, blockchains aren't secure in the way that many Ethereum apps seem to think they are. But for certain types of lower stakes applications (say a log running on a mesh network of sensors) blockchains can provide a simple way t
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by dcdanko 9y ago
I think a benefit of blockchains is that a single(ish) protocol can support many different distributed applications. It's sort of like apps that run on Electron, performance might be bad but it's easy on the developer.
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by dcdanko 9y ago
A concise and useful list of suggestions.
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by dcdanko 9y ago
You mean like the States?
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by dcdanko 9y ago
Surely the MID would need to be slowly phased out or just capped?
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by dcdanko 9y ago
It can be useful for small scale real estate developers who can use their home to get cheap capital.
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by dcdanko 9y ago
Yep, bigger issues are the lack of low cost housing units to buy and older institutionalized discrimination. Not the MID.

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