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by elsherbini 4y ago
(I'm not the author). Here is the repo that powers the article: https://github.com/the-pudding/censorship , which forks a svelte-kit starter template most new pudding.cool articles start with. The bit that actuall
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by elsherbini 4y ago
As a very much non-nuclear engineer, I found this video [1] explaining different fuels, size, magnetic field strength, and the orders of magnitude physics and engineering that goes into current fusion efforts. Curious where Helion would put
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A Summary of Potato Color Genetics(cultivariable.com)
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When Baking and Real Estate Collide(newyorker.com)
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by elsherbini 4y ago
I work in an academic lab and develop pipelines for processing raw data to get people tables to analyze. Would this be a good solution for me to allow labmates who aren't very good with the command line to run those pipelines? We run t
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by elsherbini 4y ago
Does anyone have a recommendation for a set up for spaced repition with the following features? - Sync across devices - Plain text representation of cards - Nice mobile interface (I anticipate usually using my phone, but don't want t
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by elsherbini 4y ago
I mean, for women in southern Africa, some communities have HIV prevalence of ~40% to this day. 4 in 10. Despite the lower risk associated with individual instances of vaginal sex, it absolutely is something to be worried about in those com
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by elsherbini 4y ago
Some numbers for people interested in HIV: Many countries in southern Africa have adult prevalence rates of >10% of HIV. In other parts of Africa most countries have a prevalence of ~1% or less. On other continents most countries have le
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by elsherbini 4y ago
You can compare specific cities and see a lot more information. If you scroll down the comparison page it has chance of precipitation and average monthly rainfall: https://weatherspark.com/compare/y/17721~45062~476
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by elsherbini 4y ago
Yeah, what I really meant was "pre-prediabetes." Because temporally what's called prediabetes usually occurs after being overweight too. If there is a physiological switch that, once triggered, leads to diabetes and also caus
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by elsherbini 4y ago
I enjoyed this article. This part felt weird though when you go on to explain the pitfalls of correlation chains: > Now, obesity causes diabetes. That much is indisputable. The odds-ratios you quote still just means obesity is correlated
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by elsherbini 4y ago
Some cyanobacteria can take up nitrogen from the air (well, dissolved inorganic nitrogen), but many can only use organic nitrogen, like N03 or NH4. Those can be limiting in the ocean because lots of life wants to grab it up. Taking up inorg
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How big is an E. coli cell and what is its mass?(book.bionumbers.org)
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by elsherbini 4y ago
Here are a bunch of different media people use to grow cyanobacteria: https://www-cyanosite.bio.purdue.edu/media/table/media.html Mostly they need nitrogen, phosphate, and sulfur to make protein and nucleic acids,
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by elsherbini 4y ago
The Korg Minilogue is a really good beginner synth. It has a what you see is what you get interface, and even has an an oscilliscope which relly helps starting out. Here's a video plugging this as a great beginner's synth: https:
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by elsherbini 4y ago
One generalizable takeaway from this - smaller studies can only show really huge effect sizes. This is what statistical power means - to see small differences between groups you need really large samples. This is fine if you have actually h
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by elsherbini 4y ago
Off topic, but you seem like someone who might like these less popular music theory channels I really enjoy (all to do with harmony mostly) Metaharmony - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNKBF8Phj3M The Labyrinth of Limitati
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by elsherbini 5y ago
My favorite way to find out what flags do is explainshell: e.g. https://explainshell.com/explain?cmd=wget+-c
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by elsherbini 5y ago
I also recommend this podcast, just finished it this week.
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by elsherbini 5y ago
Another quote from the press-release of the study: >“Epidemiological tracking shows a steep trajectory of new infections, indicating Omicron’s rapid spread, but so far with a flatter trajectory of hospital admissions, possibly indicating
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by elsherbini 5y ago
South Africa has <25% vaccintion rate. "South Africa has a better vaccination rate than most countries on the continent: Just under one-quarter of the population has been fully vaccinated" [1] [1] https://www.nytimes
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by elsherbini 5y ago
I cant find a source, but I remember a discussion here on a brand of smart tvs that still phone home by connecting to other nearby smart tvs that are connected to a network, even if you don't connect yours to the network.
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by elsherbini 5y ago
I'm relatively new to electric guitar and have a Tagima telecaster clone (T55pwh). I love it - it has no business being as good as it is for as cheap as it is. One thing about telecasters that you mentioned that is probably not the bes
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by elsherbini 6y ago
This looks cool, I especially like the "intuitive" longest line algorithm. ~6 years ago I was trying to build a dashboard that displayed real-time measurements from a beehive. The sensors would take temperature, weight, humidity,
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by elsherbini 6y ago
Very cool that you can register font names that have styles attached. And all of the ligature support seems great for adding math expressions to your plots.
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by elsherbini 6y ago
What are the pros and cons of using pymc3 vs writing a model in Stan and using pystan/rstan? It looks like the minibatch support of variational inference is one feature that pymc3 has up on Stan. Another question, what are the practica
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by elsherbini 6y ago
Those gradient names are annoying, but they are a de facto standard from ColorBrewer[1]. I always have to look at that website to figure out the abbreviation I need in ggplot2. [1] https://colorbrewer2.org/#type=sequential&a
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by elsherbini 6y ago
Seconded. He has a full course on youtube as well, and a free version of the textbook that is just missing the last chapter available on his website (password is in the first or second lecture on youtube) https://www.youtube.com&
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by elsherbini 6y ago
Stan uses MCMC (specifically NUTS, which is a Hamiltonian Monte Carlo sampler) to optimize parameter fitting, so it can be used for things like ODEs. Here is an example from a class taught last January that uses stan to fit a simple ODE (us
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by elsherbini 6y ago
Does anyone know what a practical upper limit is for Stan in terms of size of data set / number of parameters to fit? Can you use stan to fit a model with ~10^4 parameters and ~10^6 rows of data if you had access to ~10^3 cores? How lo

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