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by fifnir 8y ago
Yes it's "just releasing some chemicals", vast and complex regulatory networks of chemicals. They then did RNAseq experiments (measures which genes are transcribed [are active]) in the two legs separately and looked for stati
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by fifnir 8y ago
> In practice, lack of support means students who come from more affluent, educated backgrounds have a large advantage over first-generation college students. I'm pretty sure poor students would prefer no support and no debt over a
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by fifnir 8y ago
and that's how you learn new words ! :) (I spent a few seconds considering if Beleaguered is a first name...)
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by fifnir 8y ago
Imagine the entire planet fighting for the thermostat
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by fifnir 8y ago
Good for him that he won't have any regrets about treating the workers in his company like shit
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by fifnir 8y ago
Ah thanks, I wouldn't want to inconvenience you it was just to tell her something along the lines of : "Hey did you know roe-deer would be the main source of protein for early hom(inins?)" It's kinda sad how some not-so-
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by fifnir 8y ago
Any chance for a link? I have a friend doing research in roe deer and she might find it interesting :) (I did try to google it but didn't manage anything)
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by fifnir 8y ago
I had a quick look since this would be a great time for me to jump into this; I'm starting to write my phd thesis. Here's my problem, which from the quick look I had doesn't seem to be solved with OL2. I want to write
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by fifnir 8y ago
"With Biological Ingredients" "Organic Cotton"
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by fifnir 8y ago
I don't think nuclear waste is as big a problem as you might think it is: https://what-if.xkcd.com/29/ And on a side note, are solar and aeolic scalable enough to support (let's say) the entire US ? How
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by fifnir 8y ago
who said anything about white? Green is the bad color
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by fifnir 8y ago
Are you from the US? Let me remind you that your country (and to a lesser degree other rich countries) often intervene in these poor countries to control politics and maintain their (corrupted) interests. https://ipfs.io/ipf
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by fifnir 8y ago
Have you tried or considered a low-carb high-fat diet in the non fasting days? Maybe keeping your insulin levels relatively low, you can reduce the effect of the insulin cycle on your appetite
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by fifnir 8y ago
Relevant Bill Hicks? https://youtu.be/_8FMXMgjlbM?t=5
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by fifnir 8y ago
But if the point is to feel the effect of alcohol, V gon' give it to you with much less junk (carbs etc) than anything else
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by fifnir 8y ago
Regarding multiprocessing and serializing between processes in python, and linux specifically, have you tried SharredArray? It dumps numpy arrays in /dev/shm which can loaded by other processes by the filepath, muuuuuch nicer tha
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by fifnir 8y ago
I saw an emoji-decorated reddit thread about the new release of a library I really like. I commented how maybe emojis are not appropriate for serious code releases, I was ignored. The next release was also announced with an emoji-de
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by fifnir 8y ago
But at least english pays proper tribute to the languages it took from (at with greek that I'm personally familiar) by adopting specific spellings. Words spelled with "ph" for the f sound are spelled like that because they ar
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by fifnir 8y ago
Listening to your body leads some of us to eating an entire family size pizza..
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by fifnir 8y ago
> only do it if it made economic sense What if writing wikipedia articles was treated like publishing on prestigious journals? (somehow)
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by fifnir 8y ago
A layman's quest to understand wtf this is... >In mathematics, the octonions are a normed division algebra over the real numbers . wtf is a normed division algebra?? >In mathematics, Hurwitz's theorem is a theorem [...] solv
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by fifnir 8y ago
"authoritarians"
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by fifnir 8y ago
Because they can!
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by fifnir 8y ago
Not really, it's just decriminalized! right?
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by fifnir 8y ago
I can only find a re-hash/copy-pasta of the story on google and the slides are nowhere to be seen. Isn't it reasonable to expect from journalists to try and get the pertinent thing of this story rather than repeating a "t
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by fifnir 8y ago
I don't know how far research has been so far, but I can see a few Nobel prizes of medicine (and lots of money) in the gut microbiome field
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by fifnir 8y ago
Publishing shouldn't be about displaying nicely in screen though but rather about sharing the information. As a bioinformatician, big tables inside pdfs are essentially useless. What's the point of a few hundred rows worth of a ta
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by fifnir 8y ago
Good point!
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by fifnir 8y ago
That was a tongue-in-cheek comment about revolutions etc
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by fifnir 8y ago
Does this deal with Netflix in other countries? I'd just like a big table of everything available with meta-data in columns and the ability to hide rows

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