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IUPAC top emerging technologies in chemistry (2019)(degruyter.com)
2 points by jarenmf 4y ago|1 comments
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by jarenmf 4y ago
It's really awesome how good it is in modeling certain world knowledge. It seems to be struggling with putting everything in one framework. For example, it still makes a lot of mathematics and logic errors.
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by jarenmf 4y ago
Maybe detecting a seasonal cycle for certain compounds will be a very strong evidence. Like the amount of atmospheric CO2 in air changes with seasons on earth.
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Zebras of all stripes repel biting flies at close range(nature.com)
118 points by jarenmf 4y ago|65 comments
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by jarenmf 4y ago
Although I've played it before, I was sucked into the black hole.
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by jarenmf 4y ago
I really liked it, it was fun and left me feeling very optimistic about the future.
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by jarenmf 4y ago
It's really a nice book and it left me feeling very optimistic about the future. The audio book has superb quality as well if you prefer that. Regarding rereading, maybe the chapter about the multiverse is dense and require rereading,
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by jarenmf 4y ago
The ones that stand out: Fiction: Project Hail Mary. Non-fiction: The Beginning of Infinity, David Deutsch
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by jarenmf 4y ago
He mentioned in Lex podcast that he still drinks 8-9 diet cokes everyday.
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by jarenmf 4y ago
I was able to reach 10^-7 mbar with a good vacuum system and I though I would have few thousand molecules, turns out there is a billion (10^9) molecules per cubic centimeter at that vacuum level.
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by jarenmf 4y ago
I have an opposite experience. I'm a scientist and my research topic is accurately depicted in Wikipedia I would say better than any textbook. Of course Wikipedia has to be reductionist, it is not required to provide a full literature
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by jarenmf 4y ago
I always keep a fresh copy of Endless OS image around. https://endlessos.com/
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by jarenmf 4y ago
The internet was cut off for three months in my country. I had offline Wikipedia, tons of books and other media. It was more than enough for reading/media consumption but I really missed communicating with people.
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by jarenmf 4y ago
Specialization allows you to engage on a deeper level with the subject which in itself can be a very rewarding experience.
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by jarenmf 4y ago
Older Thinkpads, in particular Thinkpad x230 is an overall a good powerful machine selling for around 150$ second hand. It also has good screen and really awesome keyboard.
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by jarenmf 4y ago
That's totally incorrect. The current warming is unequivocally due to release of CO2 into the atmosphere. It's really simple physics.
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by jarenmf 4y ago
Every writing course I attended in grad school told us that the first sentence of the abstract should be understandable by any scientist, the second sentence should be comprehensible to a scientist in a related field. After that, you addres
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by jarenmf 4y ago
Related to weather, climate science would benefit greatly from increased computational power. Current models are forced to make assumptions to predict certain processes below the grid resolution. Things like cloud processes and transport pr
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by jarenmf 4y ago
I'm struggling to see the advantage over the arithmetic mean if I don't have a model of the true value. How is the confidence estimated for each value? given the example from the article where the variance of the temperature senso
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by jarenmf 4y ago
This is probably one of the best applications of AI in science in terms of impact so far. I can't think of any other problem with the same potential impact. EDIT: grammar
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by jarenmf 4y ago
One of the things I regret most is not keeping backups of the programs I wrote as a child almost 25 years ago. They all just gone, tens of thousands of lines of code. I remember spending whole summers coding and it's all gone.
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by jarenmf 4y ago
I use vimwiki this way. I changed the landing page name to `README.md` and used markdown files so I can always see it rendered beautifully on Github. I have another vim extension that automatically commits and pushes the changes.
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by jarenmf 4y ago
I'm buying them regularly from the Asian shop in my town. They have fresh Habaneros, Jalapenos, and Thai peppers
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by jarenmf 4y ago
Same here, cultivating motivation is definitely the hardest part of the job. Academic work needs months if not years get out and have impact and, personally, I don't get to discuss my work too often with people because it's too sp
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by jarenmf 4y ago
Indeed, I keep hearing this countless times. People genuinely think that people died in their 30s two centuries ago.
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by jarenmf 4y ago
Brave just released brave news but it seems very passive, there aren't many options to tune it to your liking.
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by jarenmf 4y ago
That's really a cool study! Do you think this will be adopted at some point? are there currently any efforts to solve this problem?
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by jarenmf 4y ago
I guess the question is where you draw the line between a derivative work and "learnt by an AI algorithm"
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by jarenmf 4y ago
Finding the right problem to work on is probably the most difficult part. Renaming problems in most fields are either too difficult or too boring.
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by jarenmf 4y ago
Every post-doc I know is plotting an escape plan, some are learning web development, some are learning data science or system administration, heck, there is even special bootcamps now for postdocs evading academia

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