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by elsherbini 6y ago
This was useful. Do you know how painful it would be to use Stan with 100k rows, or even 1m? (For a sorta normal hierarchical model)
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Science as Amateur Software Development(youtube.com)
1 points by elsherbini 6y ago|0 comments
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Overview Meta-analysis of Vitamin D(vitamindwiki.com)
2 points by elsherbini 6y ago|0 comments
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by elsherbini 6y ago
Did you know it's illegal in the state of California to administer an IQ test to a black child? [1] This is a fantastic episode from radiolab about the history of IQ tests in the US and goes into how a test can be racist even without s
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Ask HN: Framework for Building Interactive Tutorials?
1 points by elsherbini 7y ago|0 comments
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by elsherbini 7y ago
Oh great, I need to update then! Is the beta available to test somewhere?
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by elsherbini 7y ago
I have an OP-1 and an OP-Z. More and more I use the OP-Z, the sequencing workflow is just incredible. I don't have an ios device and after climbing the learning curve it's totally functional without a screen. Also, the OP-Z can be
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by elsherbini 8y ago
I like it how it is. It reminds me of Snail Drawings by Daniel Renali [0], it makes me think about order/logic and the contrast to a lot of patterns seen in nature. [0] https://www.danielranalli.com/recent-work/sna
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Understanding LSTM Networks (2015)(colah.github.io)
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Mexico’s drug cartels are moving into the gasoline industry(rollingstone.com)
245 points by elsherbini 8y ago|142 comments
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Ask HN: Twitter thread from last year on blockchain hype by female influencer
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by elsherbini 8y ago
Glyphosate isn't sprayed on food? edit: Of course it is sprayed on food [0][1]. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW8SrXMW7Ug [1] http://web.mit.edu/demoscience/Monsanto/about.html
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by elsherbini 8y ago
Small change, you have to use wilcards.country inside the shell call: rule analyze_country: input: 'whatever.{country}.txt' output: 'analysis.{country}.txt' shell: 'run-anal
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by elsherbini 8y ago
Snakemake [0] is a tool worth checking out. You can use it to create declarative workflows, and similar to make, it creates a DAG of dependencies when you give it your desired output. Each rule can specify how many threads it needs and othe
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Telltale, Acclaimed Maker of Story-Based Video Games, Lays Off Most of Its Staff(nytimes.com)
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by elsherbini 8y ago
I worked for 2 years as an AmeriCorps volunteer in Atlanta Public Schools. I'll preface this by saying I don't know if I believe charter schools are bad or good, but here are some arguments against them: - Charter schools take mon
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by elsherbini 8y ago
GP was probably referring to Serial from NPR[1]. Season 1 followed the story of a murder trial from the 1990s. [1] https://serialpodcast.org/
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Scientific debt(varianceexplained.org)
1 points by elsherbini 8y ago|0 comments
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How Much Money Should Machines Earn?(fronkonstin.com)
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Modern Statistics for Modern Biology(web.stanford.edu)
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Bringing Together React, D3, and Their Ecosystem(smashingmagazine.com)
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by elsherbini 8y ago
Take this backing track[0] and try using the A pentatonic minor scale or A blues scale from this website and practice soloing using the marked notes. Try staying "in the box" which are the highlighted areas where you don't ha
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by elsherbini 8y ago
I agree - declarative in memory dataframe manipulation is extremely powerful. And the composability of plotting in the tidyverse is really nice as well. It looks like there are the beginnings of both of these in Julia: [0] http:/&#x2F
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Baking the Most Average Chocolate Chip Cookie(pudding.cool)
2 points by elsherbini 8y ago|0 comments
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by elsherbini 8y ago
The article was very interesting, and I know this isn't the main point of the article, but this is an interesting fact I like to share- > "Fish generally ... are in a certain part of the phylogenetic tree." Fish are actual
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by elsherbini 8y ago
I think this hasn't been update since 2017, and most of it is from 2016. I pretty much only use javascript for d3, and I put it down for a while. Recently I decided to do something with d3 v5.0[1], and got confused about the state of E
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How to interpret a p-value histogram(varianceexplained.org)
2 points by elsherbini 9y ago|0 comments
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by elsherbini 9y ago
Retromud is the only MUD I've ever played as well. Started in 2001 or 2002 and every once in a while will go through phases where I play again. If you aren't that into Role Playing, and you prefer team based PvE combat, I think Re
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“Joy of Cooking” versus the Food Scientist(newyorker.com)
118 points by elsherbini 9y ago|67 comments
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Rihanna Protests Ad on Snapchat That Mocks Domestic Violence(nytimes.com)
2 points by elsherbini 9y ago|0 comments

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