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I have never heard of chinaxiv! This is news to me that it even exists and I work in this space.
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You've misunderstood my point I think. How a disease presents is different issue than the complexity of faces. A photo of a face has more information encoded than an x-ray image. This lack of information is part of the problem that I t
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I'll take that bet against you. > I am guessing that there's nothing inherent in this problem that is much more difficult than other image recognition problems. This is factually wrong. You're assumption I guess is that it
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Phylogenetics is the study of evolutionary relationships between organisms. A good summary to human evolution is the wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_evolutionary_genetics > I don't really underst
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I am extremely happy that my institution has it's own cloud storage and uses ownCloud. I have never had to deal with Dropbox, OneDrive or gDrive bullshit.
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5y ago
Pdf is great. There's a reason why it hasn't been replaced as the go to format for digital forms and universal printing. It works well.
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5y ago
I really like knockaround for its affordability. https://knockaround.com/
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5y ago
100% agreed, notifications are another method to spam users.
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5y ago
For those wondering why Australia deploys the army in such events: it's because soldiers are public servants and have been deployed in the past for different reasons including natural disasters. They won't carry weapons, because t
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These lock downs are a proven tool to stop transmissionof covid. A multifaceted issue like the pandemic requires multiple approaches and this is how we have controlled the virus. And we have controlled it well.
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5y ago
We hate them but recognise their importance. I live in Melbourne and have been in 6 or so lockdowns. NSW is really fucking this up.
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I completely agree with your main point: excel is terrible because people use it for everything. I've noticed there different ways people use excel: as a dashboard, to store data, to modify data. IMO storing data is the worst use of ex
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5y ago
The statistic you are referring to when people quote % differences is on a protein level (in other words, genes -> proteins).Its not a very good metric and not used any more because it's very hard to quantify differences. See this a
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Very unlikely, the algos used to assembly genomes can make errors but not to such an extent.
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I'm not sure if you've used FF on mobile recently but the last update was good change to UX. Personally I prefer FF over Chrome on mobile. It's all I use now on mobile and rarely do I notice a difference. I think FF is relega
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5y ago
These laws exist to protect idiots from themselves and to protect others, like the pillion.
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5y ago
This is a very interesting test. I wonder if there is a simpler version of this test as it seem to be aimed at high level vividness? I'm on one spectrum (absolutely no imagination), this test might be aimed at the other end.
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5y ago
Not seeking medical attention sooner. I have anxiety disorder and a large amount of unproductive times were due to mental health issues. My excuse to.myself was "its not the right time" over and over again.
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Very thought provoking piece. > Basically all forms of collaboration become a slog when there’s no “us” in team. Unfortunately, the contradiction at the heart of this 19th century approach to division of labour is that, when applied to k
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... Yes it's not apples fault they allow huge half page adverts not related to the search term. Stop defending the system thats causing the issue.
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There's more to GoF research than developing vaccines. Sometimes its trying to understand host virus interaction, virus evolution, zoonotic events. The list goes on. The majority of primary research is not at all interested in vaccine
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I think you are focusing on the business aspect and ignoring the humanity or lack of it in this situation. I wonder what the health toll was on the all the hundred of people who worked on this? The reduction in life expectancy, health issue
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This is a great idea. Extending torrents.csv is a potentially solution but it requires meta data.
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Not all viruses have the capabilities to endogenise into the host dna. Yes we can see evidence of this in the human dna but thats not evidence that all viruses integrate.
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> He adds that when they first submitted the paper to a journal, they knew it needed stronger data, which they hoped to add during the review process. That's a terrible way to go about publishing your work. > And what of the orig
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Why is PG blocked in Germany? > As a result of a German lawsuit, Project Gutenberg has blocked Germany from viewing the Gutenberg web site. Oh... https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180306/03423339363/proje
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Thank you.
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Influenza cries . Influenza has been constantly assaulting humans for the last ~100 years: Spanish flu (1918–1920) Asian flu (1957–1958) Hong Kong flu (1968–1969) Russian flu (1977–1979) H1N1/09 flu pandemic (2009–2010) and imo there&
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> There are species of Plasmodium which survive on non-human hosts which means the disease will always be waiting A small correction, the species you're referring to don't 'survive' in non-human hosts, but actually th
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6y ago
Thank you for taking the time to reply and share your knowledge. I think I'm on the edge of becoming a manager of sorts in the next couple of years. I don't know if I'm ready or even willing but it's the only way to prog
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