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by dm319 5y ago
I love R. Once you get it, there is something beautiful about its functional approach. I like using either tidyverse or data.table with pipes, split, map, reduce. The code looks like layers of a filter that data flows through.
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Frontier: Elite 2 – Graphics Study(watsonmw.com)
2 points by dm319 5y ago|0 comments
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by dm319 5y ago
A related point is that you can confidently invest in vim knowing that it will be around for a good deal longer. I often find it pointless getting too invested with a shiny bit of proprietary software because I don't know how long I&#
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by dm319 5y ago
Yes that's a good point.
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by dm319 5y ago
I'm afraid this is out of my scope of understanding. Once the immune system determines something is non-self, the immune system can often self-propagate the response. It eventually enters a tolerance phase where it aims to just &#x27
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by dm319 5y ago
Yes, it's really fascinating stuff. Just to add to that, cells must present a continuous sample of their proteasome on the cell surface in the form of a short peptide 9-12 amino acids long. T cells will recognise when the cell is pro
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by dm319 5y ago
For a physician that writes pretty awful code, I like this comment.
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by dm319 5y ago
Here's a link to the article [0]. Just a bit of background - 95% of humans will experience infection with EBV at some point in their lives. Once you're infected, it remains latent, only flaring up in particular circumstances. MS
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by dm319 5y ago
You are right despite what other HNers think. MS is first and foremost an auto-immune disease. It is not that surprising that infections that provoke a large immune response can trigger an autoimmune condition. When we understand the imm
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by dm319 5y ago
I wouldn't say MS is contagious. It is an autoimmune disease, but EBV is a putative risk factor. The paper notes that people are diagnosed with MS 5-10 years after the EBV initial infection, so would not be contagious from either an
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by dm319 5y ago
I'm not familiar with the literature, but I did read the paper. They looked at military personnel who have had samples taken and saved, and were able to 'go back in time' to look their EBV status at enrolment and later on.
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by dm319 5y ago
I'm glad my naive self learnt this more than 20 years ago when it was apparently normal to apply DRM to ripped CDs on windows. I vaguely remembered that it would allow you to copy it up to three times, but I don't remember the de
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by dm319 5y ago
Darn, I hope this isn't the solution to the problem I have where my switch won't join other worlds on minecraft.
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by dm319 5y ago
This science article is dodge.
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Why self-driving cars are a lie(youtube.com)
2 points by dm319 5y ago|0 comments
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by dm319 5y ago
It's interesting because I remember all the early discussions against generics in Go centred around "what Real World scenario do you need it for?" An argument against generics was that people found it hard to find examples th
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by dm319 5y ago
Yes. I have a similar mindset and reasoning for using Mate desktop. It's very simple, I'm spared the complexity of kde and the eye candy / novel paradigm of gnome.
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by dm319 5y ago
The irrationality displayed on my daily commute made me so excited for self-driving cars - it's a shame we're further away from that than I realised. Yes, I alternate between a motorcycle and largish SUV to get to work. I had a h
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by dm319 5y ago
Have a look through recent NCAPs, there have been several 1-3 star ratings even in the last few years.
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by dm319 5y ago
I've had a recent fascination with the NCAP tests, and a lot of people aren't aware that they change almost yearly. I saw this [1] recent video recently looking at some of the worst crash tests, and it really drills home that good
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by dm319 5y ago
Have to be careful of incidence data over time. A lot has changed in the way we define diseases, as well as how we investigate them, from the point at which you see a general practitioner to whether you would get an endoscopy, to how the d
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by dm319 5y ago
Apple do this quite nicely. I don't have mac equipment, but I see the integration is good where the grass is greener. In linux it is replicated using the websites for messages(android)/whatsapp/telegram and signal has an ap
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by dm319 5y ago
Media is a weapon of mass subversion in any society. Look at Murdoch.
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by dm319 5y ago
There's a weird link at the bottom which points to a paper by microsoft about how file systems with user permissions is a bit like having a centrally-planned economy. Doesn't help you, but it added to my confusion.
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by dm319 5y ago
My .bib files are a mess. This is partly because I tried to order the file by year then author (manually), which of course resulted in some errors. And also because I write some free text in between entries which talk about the papers and
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by dm319 5y ago
We have Amber Rudd - brexit won't change that I'm afraid.
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by dm319 5y ago
Weird, I pay taxes to fund the NHS, and I get a great deal here in the UK compared to the US. From my perspective your medical system squanders money on inefficiency and lining pockets, while you pay more and get refused treatment more.
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by dm319 5y ago
I usually export to pdf and present it like that (partly because I'm often presenting on Windows machines).
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by dm319 5y ago
My mother fled Cambodia and then Vietnam. She has said very little about that period, vague stories about escaping through the forest and people dying. Her family (the lucky ones) have been distributed far across the globe, the other half
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by dm319 5y ago
Seems so arbitrary and petty. But thankfully I like another OS that doesn't do this! :)

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