dkural

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by dkural 2y ago
Looking for intelligence differences between people of different skin color makes as much sense as looking for intelligence differences between tall and short people. You seem to believe in distinct "races" as a genetic concept, w
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by dkural 2y ago
It is also used to indicate surprise. "Sular gitmis!". "Bu yemek cok aci olmus!" - heard right after taking a bite :)
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by dkural 2y ago
I thought it was ok actually, what part is bad?
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by dkural 2y ago
Please add bioRxiv if you can, so many life-sciences relalted ML papers there.
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by dkural 3y ago
“I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.” ― Woody Allen
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by dkural 3y ago
It's not approved yet.
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by dkural 3y ago
There is no capital gains tax - Germany has less progressive taxation than the United States! VAT in general is a regressive tax, that many EU countries inordinately rely on. A US-citizen has to pay taxes no matter where they reside, but t
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by dkural 3y ago
For achieving speed, often you'd like to keep your hash table in RAM. Space limits result in speed trade-offs. This is very much a real-world concern when writing genome aligners. Hash-based mappers were at a disadvantage early on due
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by dkural 3y ago
UK has done the largest sequencing project on Earth, the UK BioBank, and shares the data with both academia and private companies to do drug discovery. NHS is also chronically underfunded.
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by dkural 3y ago
GINA does not cover life insurance. That said, I agree with the overall point, research use does not cover insurance using this data charging someone different rates, and would be business-ending / corporate suicide for 23andMe.
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by dkural 3y ago
80% of people agreed to give consent, and only the data of those people are being used for research purposes. It is furthermore used at a population level, and in anonymous fashion. Your individual genetic data is not very useful as a singl
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by dkural 3y ago
A man has so much cognitive dissonance, has to donate kidney to align internal narrative to create resonance with castles again.
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by dkural 3y ago
You're right, I misunderstood initially.
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by dkural 3y ago
It's not that the other people have incomplete knowledge, it is that they disregard it.
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by dkural 3y ago
ChatGPT thinks it might be Paul Lockhart's essay, titled "A Mathematician's Lament".
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by dkural 3y ago
Could someone kind person ELI5?
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by dkural 3y ago
No one is demonizing hydro here. You don't know what you're talking about. The environmental benefits of dam removal far exceed the hydro generation capacity in all the cases where people actually decided to remove a dam. Most rem
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by dkural 3y ago
As the article states, the three dams produced less than 2% of the electricity of that utility. It won't have any meaningful impact. Unfortunately your salmon will likely remain farmed salmon..
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by dkural 3y ago
Dam removal is practiced across the world to bring rivers back to life. This happens in England as well. It prevents the accumulation of agricultural runoff, and increases fish habitat. This is an environmental project that benefits every
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by dkural 3y ago
The headline itself is bogus, saying "typically", where the real number is a couple dozen out of hundreds of thousands.
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by dkural 3y ago
The linked article dismisses Robert Allen's explanations, unfairly. I find Allen's work to be very clearly articulated and convincing. The question many economic historians ask is, why the British as opposed to the Dutch, or the p
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by dkural 3y ago
It could be free calls from prison landlines, which can also be listened to fully for any criminal content.
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Tataouine Governorate(en.wikipedia.org)
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by dkural 3y ago
There is no such thing as 4 people "equally" running a company, even if the equity is equally split, precisely to avoid these types of situations. If a majority of you (or whatever your charter says) are unhappy with the CEO, then
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by dkural 3y ago
Eating is important. Life, is all about eating, and life gave rise to intelligence. /que dramatic music.
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by dkural 3y ago
Genuinely asking: Why do you think Firefox is outperforming Chrome / Safari in your opinion?
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by dkural 3y ago
Studying, say, the food preferences of snails, is a very roundabout way to dominate society. A lot of the post-structuralist way of thinking comes down to a couple of obvious claims: - "Scientists were part of a society that did Bad Th
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by dkural 3y ago
Keyif in Turkish comes to mind.
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by dkural 3y ago
Yes, you're correct.
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by dkural 3y ago
I completely agree there are many flawed scientific papers in general. I am wondering about your specific category of flawed papers. Could you point to one concrete example where you believe a paper is flawed in its conclusion, where they&#

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