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A human isolate of bovine H5N1 is transmissible and lethal in animal models(nature.com)
3 points by etiam 2y ago|0 comments
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by etiam 2y ago
Enxitterfication of US federal government coming in shortly then?
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Spain's flood survivors strive to save their photos and memories(reuters.com)
3 points by etiam 2y ago|0 comments
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by etiam 2y ago
Hope what doesn't happen? The invasion? Or the embargo? The Beijing regime is already in intense sub-threshold warfare on Taiwan and reiterate their false claim to the country's territory at every opportunity. Denying them access
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by etiam 2y ago
I don't think there's a black-or-white answer to that.
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GLP-1 for Everything(science.org)
150 points by etiam 2y ago|233 comments
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by etiam 2y ago
See also local news from last week "Bird flu overwhelming Tulare County, photos show dead cattle" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41820347
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by etiam 2y ago
Boltzmann machines were there in the 1980s, and they were created on the basis of Hopfield nets (augmenting with statistical physics techniques, among other reasons to better navigate the energy landscape without getting stuck in local opti
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by etiam 2y ago
Apologies to NlightNFotis for implicitly accusing you of being the griefer. I replied quickly between other tasks and evidently didn't pay due attention to the username. No misplaced offense intended.
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by etiam 2y ago
It is also my prerogative not to care about your opinion. You claimed you come across this a lot and don't get it. I just told you. Take it or leave it.
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by etiam 2y ago
It seems like part of the motivation here is that it's possible to run many contemporary and planned very-big-science projects at all, since nobody's going to be sitting around analyzing centuries' worth of unvetted sensor da
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by etiam 2y ago
The significance is that it's not a Nobel prize. Saying that is simply formally wrong. It's a prize lobbied in (with a hefty donation) almost 70 years after the establishment, trying to raise the status of Economics as a scientifi
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by etiam 2y ago
Perhaps not a bad idea in that specific instance, but they're so embarrassed today about getting bought for the economics one that doing something similar again has become effectively out of the question (and on a balance I think that&
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by etiam 2y ago
Depends on the quality of the '"lay" public' I guess. Where I live, in my estimation the ' educated "lay" public' would probably have heard of all the names mentioned, but with even worse notions of
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by etiam 2y ago
You mean besides bringing it into existence at all?
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by etiam 2y ago
Probably too similar, but do follow up with "The Extended Phenotype" if you haven't already.
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by etiam 2y ago
Not many walking away short term I can believe, sadly. But there will be grumbling, and perhaps a greater inclination to try other options, even at the cost of a temporary productivity drop for training etc. If GIMP and Krita would just off
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Vaccines, past and present(science.org)
34 points by etiam 2y ago|41 comments
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Helpful Robot Assistants Will Fake It for You(science.org)
1 points by etiam 2y ago|1 comments
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by etiam 2y ago
That filtering cuts both ways.
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by etiam 2y ago
If that's equivocation as a wisecrack, it's particularly unhelpful in discussion about a pseudodiscipline whose proponents do no small part of their bullshitting by conflating the everyday psychological sense of "observation
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by etiam 2y ago
That's probably mostly fair, but then would you also agree that a hand-wavy piece of bloviation about purported quantum effects in a ubiquitous cytoskeleton component really doesn't have anything to contribute to the matter either
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by etiam 2y ago
Disagree. Even if it was striving to regulate exactly the right thing in the first place, most of these issues occur for systems where no single actor could be expected to exert complete control and could well be vulnerable anyway. Start wo
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by etiam 2y ago
Yes. Not all H5N1 is created equal, but several strains have shown a frighteningly high severity. Thinking of established seasonal flu as reference could easily be very misleading.
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by etiam 2y ago
I'm impressed by the timeline. Just over two hours from notification e-mail to amendment (and after office hours too).
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Mpox may trigger large outbreak in one of Africa's biggest cities(science.org)
3 points by etiam 2y ago|0 comments
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by etiam 2y ago
"A report yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine details detection of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian flu virus in wastewater from 10 Texas cities during the same time period the virus was detected in Texas cattle herds."
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by etiam 2y ago
Sorry to hear that, and please have it attended to sooner rather than later. The recovery times can be worlds apart depending on how far burnout is allowed to progress. I imagine it's still not that every development process stresses y
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by etiam 2y ago
I feel the sentiment can't be entirely wrong. But of course for the whole procedure to be sound, it's essential that the fact checking crew is better your average Joe.
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by etiam 2y ago
There is very rarely such a thing as "essential" cookies.

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