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by haihaibye 5y ago
There are issues trying to quantify science (eg using citation counts) - and of course this paper uses metrics to try and show metrics based science is flawed. It couldn't be any other way, of course - nobody would accept what they&#x2
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It's a special report issue, with lots of articles on the topic of AI
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I was always confused about this, but learned copyright doesn't apply to recipes that are just lists of ingredients + instructions, and this is why people add stories etc to them, so they can't be easily ripped.
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Well done. This reminds me of how I personally experienced the pain of writing payment code a year or so before Stripe came out, then quickly moved onto more fun stuff - exactly as described in the "Schlep blindness" essay - http
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by haihaibye 5y ago
We shouldn't celebrate all computer optimisations, if the optimisation breaks laws and hurts people. People were annoyed with unsolicited mail, so invented "no junk mail" signs, and laws. A handwritten address requires human
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Many people may buy from spammers and be happy with the transaction. That's not why anti-spam laws exist. They exist because they inflict an attention cost on people who receive unsolicited advertisements. What you are doing is bypassi
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by haihaibye 5y ago
I'm in the target market but can't use this unless it supports all of my Python libraries like Django and Numpy. It seems to me there is a huge demand for making Python faster, whether it be via making a more optimisation friendl
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by haihaibye 5y ago
People that say Ada was the first programmer must think Babbage came up with the first general purpose computer then never wrote any instructions for it. Maybe the first programmer who wasn't also a hardware engineer.
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They support both print syntaxes, and will deprecate Python 2 style soon. https://github.com/seq-lang/seq/issues/223
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The USA has dozens of dry counties, most famously the home county of Jack Daniel's.
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Likewise a "Darwin award" only makes sense if you know intelligence is heritable.
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I think that's a fair assumption when the winning bird photo is ~0.25% bird (by pixels)
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Humans can beat these kind of problems via legislation. People need to remember they're inside at most 1 car, but outside of a billion.
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I think they're suggesting you adjust dollars for inflation.
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> Generally, health is just so heavily regulated. It’s just a painful business to be in. It’s just not necessarily how I want to spend my time. -Serge Brin, 2014
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I've never had technicians be sexist to me but they've definitely been condescending and think I don't know what I'm talking about. They didn't refuse you service, because you never explicitly asked. I think if you
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Sturgeon's law says "90% of everything is crap" So to be in the top 10% - just don't be crap.
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Computer generated articles from much older technology than GPT3 have made it through peer review https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01436-7
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Yes, a single base change can give you a disease, cause intellectual disability or make you never be born.. There are mutations we never see in adults, as they are embryonically lethal. Generally, you can tell what matters by seeing if it&#
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> Genetic cluster analysis of the microsatellite markers produced four major clusters, which showed near-perfect correspondence with the four self-reported race/ethnicity categories. Of 3,636 subjects of varying race/ethnicity,
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> even if their genomic sequence is completely dissimilar I think you mean amino acid homology? (due to synonymous mutations) I looked it up and you're right, protein structure/motifs are much more highly conserved than amino a
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I hope not, as knowing how a novel mutation in a patient alters a protein would be extremely useful when trying to find disease causing variants.
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Author of the Lancet paper did not disclose ties to WIV https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/under-fire-lancet-...
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If only they had accelarated a COVID-19 vaccine by a few months via human challenge trials.
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SMBC has a comic about this - "Wacky 90s fads" https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/fads I admit that I too was once a believer...
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Same result but unnecessary complexity
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He used median instead of mean, and forgot regression to the population average. IQ is only ~80% genetic
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A counter example from your field: Would a human add value adjusting the boosters to vertically land starship?
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For one, R has a built in citation() function. Secondly, it seems optimised for producing one off figures and results, not production systems generally desired by industry.
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> Only about 5% of arginines in SARS-CoV-2 or RaTG13 are coded by CGG.(3) This implies that the CGGCGG in the inset would have an estimated 0.25% probability to “naturally” occur as an encoder of the RR motif Duplications are a common so

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