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by epgui 3y ago
In the US it was on the order of 10M$, not adjusted for inflation, a decade or two ago (source: publicly available DOT documents).
932.
by epgui 3y ago
This is absolutely not surprising. When I was doing my MSc, I'd often use up about 5000$ just in single-use plastic consumables in a day. There were zero profit incentives related to my project, it was pure fundamental research. Wet la
933.
by epgui 3y ago
This is not really controversial. The majority of cancers in humans are not caused by viruses.
934.
by epgui 3y ago
I'm a biochemist with a biomedical background. Everything that follows is a simplification, but it's truthy. We understand pretty well what causes cancer in "otherwise healthy individuals" (eg.: assuming there aren'
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by epgui 3y ago
Got mine done at 100x coverage (BGI genomics short read) for about 1000$ a couple years ago. (The 1000$ figure you're citing is probably benchmarking against 30x coverage, so 1k for 100x is a pretty good price.)
936.
by epgui 3y ago
I don’t know if it’s what is being referred to here, but “provably correct software” is a whole thing. It takes the idea of software tests to the next level, and is very important in some contexts.
937.
by epgui 3y ago
So no pensions, sovereign wealth funds, or scholarship funds? And by what mechanism is capital allocated?
938.
by epgui 3y ago
Modern science isn’t like that at all. It’s public perception of modern science that is that way (in large part because of politicians). Still bad, but a different kind of bad.
939.
by epgui 3y ago
Agreed, the first thing I did was look at the categories in which I can argue I have expertise... And the five recommended books in each of these is grade 10 level pop-science at best.
940.
by epgui 3y ago
Their incidence/prevalence has mostly been increasing (this is known), but yes we are also diagnosing them better.
941.
by epgui 3y ago
It’s not about whether it’s possible to guess, it’s about whether it’s a good idea to be guessing in the first place.
942.
by epgui 3y ago
Spoken language is also different in that, as you correctly point out, it is at times more limited in how much information it contains, but also, in other ways it can be much richer in information than the equivalent writing. Things like no
943.
by epgui 3y ago
It's not bullshit, it's what explains a large class of misunderstandings. What's bullshit is people who think they know what other people think.
944.
by epgui 3y ago
You can't possibly know whether or not I understood them. I think I understood them, but I can never be sure, because in order to understand something with improper grammar, you usually need to "fill in the gaps" with the m
945.
by epgui 3y ago
I think that's true only when both people have a certain degree of sophistication, but in the vast majority of cases involving laypeople, basic theory (including semantics / working definitions for basic concepts) and reading comp
946.
by epgui 3y ago
And yet, we're not speaking out loud.
947.
by epgui 3y ago
You do you, but I think it's insane not to want to have more norms around the particular uses of language. We already barely understand each other (see any political conversation or pseudoscientific debate on the internet where words g
948.
by epgui 3y ago
There's also a well-known thing about English in that it's culturally much less prescriptive about grammar than other languages. The American-English philosophy around grammar doesn't necessarily transpose to other grammars a
949.
by epgui 3y ago
Sorry, what things were good and when? Your young what?
950.
by epgui 3y ago
That’s full frame and not medium format, no?
951.
by epgui 3y ago
I don’t know about the unhinged comments, but grammar is important and people who don’t care are wrong not to care.
952.
by epgui 3y ago
Grammar and style guides are prescriptive in nature.
953.
by epgui 3y ago
It is, believe it or not. Hard no for me though.
954.
by epgui 3y ago
I would almost expect something like this, at this price point, to have a replaceable camera back, probably with a medium format sensor…
955.
by epgui 3y ago
The question was about expressions vs statements, not about the IO type.
956.
by epgui 3y ago
python, javascript, pretty much any language that is popular. I believe everything in Haskell is an expression, even the do notation, no? But I think the argument being advanced is that the distinction between statements and expressions is
957.
by epgui 3y ago
I wrote a recursive CTE to do a tree traversal on a parent-child “relationship” table a few weeks ago at work. They do come up!
958.
by epgui 4y ago
Touch screens arguably make development and feature iteration easier, but they are clearly and obviously a net negative for safety and ease of use. Cars are safety-intensive machines.
959.
by epgui 4y ago
It's obviously not a panacea, but it solves or can solve a specific set of problems. For anyone that has trouble imagining what I could possibly be talking about, there are some examples discussed here [1], from which I highlight a h
960.
by epgui 4y ago
Literally all the time, in functional administrative systems. You have to think a little harder than "where the funding comes from" (yes that's important, everyone knows it's important to follow the money... but it'

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