jdale27

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by jdale27 4y ago
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/engineer noun, 3c: "a person who carries through an enterprise by skillful or artful contrivance"
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by jdale27 4y ago
That's interesting. While that seems to be consistent with other definitions online, in my experience most software developers use the word as a synonym for "fast" or "efficient".
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It's up for me.
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by jdale27 4y ago
Is it worth reading?
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by jdale27 4y ago
I wouldn't call this everyday Lisp code for beginners. Try Practical Common Lisp: https://gigamonkeys.com/book/ .
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by jdale27 4y ago
You can go to https://archive.ph/ to make one yourself.
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by jdale27 4y ago
Fake, flagged
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by jdale27 4y ago
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0012365X79...
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by jdale27 4y ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33255469
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by jdale27 4y ago
Not sure what your job is like, but I also work around biotech and there are usually lots of opportunities to do programming and data science. I'm on the software side but even my wet lab colleagues often do non-trivial data analyses u
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by jdale27 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinity_(film)
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by jdale27 4y ago
No, in the US people who enroll in Fall 2021 as it says in the article are the Class of 2025 because that’s when they will graduate (assuming the typical 4-year schedule).
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by jdale27 4y ago
This is all true, plus as the sibling post mentioned its small genome size. The complete genome sequence is about 125 million base pairs, coincidentally around the same size as the other model organisms Drosophila and C. elegans, and only a
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by jdale27 5y ago
Law 9: ~all programs are E-programs.
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by jdale27 5y ago
Not exactly in the same industry, but I worked in a genomics startup that was subject to various aspects of HIPAA and CLIA compliance. In our case this led us to implement ISO 27001/27002 and eventually FedRAMP. The answer is: consulta
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Global potential for harvesting drinking water from air using solar energy(nature.com)
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https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abh4049
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Alphabet launches Intrinsic: new company to build software for industrial robots(theverge.com)
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She doesn't say it can't be automated; in fact she basically says the opposite, only that it hasn't been automated yet: Q: Someone should develop software to find these things. Software is going to be much better than the hu
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Her work is pure positive externality: nobody has incentive to pay for it. Journals barely care about fraud (as long as it's not caught by someone else), reviewers don't have much incentive to check carefully for it (and might ev
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Yes and no. There are always new things coming along, and there are always old things still being used and built on. Just as an example, here are the top 10 languages on GitHub in 2020, according to https://octoverse.github.com&#
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by jdale27 5y ago
https://www.mojeek.com/
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by jdale27 5y ago
Look into Thomas Seyfried's work, e.g. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnut.2020.00021... and his book "Cancer as a Metabolic Disease".
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From the article: > 2. No more paternalistic benefits. For years we've offered a fitness benefit, a wellness allowance, a farmer's market share, and continuing education allowances. They felt good at the time, but we've ha
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by jdale27 6y ago
> does that mean there are lots of people sitting around doing nothing, or working on nothing urgent, so that they can immediately turn around a code review? No, it means there is a cultural expectation / etiquette that you priori
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Software Foundations(softwarefoundations.cis.upenn.edu)
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As other comments have pointed out, many colleges do not require you to stay for four years if you can finish faster. But most students do not want to, or are not capable of, taking twice the normal course load. Not everything is a conspira
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by jdale27 6y ago
> In theory, yes, exponential growth of the economy can’t continue forever. But the hard limits are so far away that for almost all practical purposes today they can be treated as infinite. The limits only seem close when restricting on
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Survival Gardening: Our Real Life Dry Run(practicalselfreliance.com)
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by jdale27 6y ago
It means the ML algorithm can propose designs that do well on the objective function (e.g. improved runtime), but can't actually be constructed. They give the example of designs that have more memory than can actually fit on the chip.

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