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by jkh1 6y ago
Readers of scientific papers never had to pay. Before papers were available in digital form, you could request a paper copy from the authors. Of course the authors usually paid for some extra copies for this but when those ran out, you&#x27
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Ask HN: Who uses commit statistics and for which purpose?
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by jkh1 6y ago
In the linked study[1] the effect is still there after controlling for age and sex. [1] https://doi.org/10.32388/WPP19W.3
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by jkh1 6y ago
This is prompted by the observation that in hospitals in Paris, the proportion of smokers among COVID-19 patients is ~5 times lower than the proportion of smokers in the population. The effect is big enough to merit some attention. The chal
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by jkh1 7y ago
Related pieces by John PA Ioannidis: - Coronavirus disease 2019: the harms of exaggerated information and non‐evidence‐based measures[1] - A fiasco in the making? As the coronavirus pandemic takes hold, we are making decisions without relia
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by jkh1 7y ago
Post criticizing the paper and discussion: http://virological.org/t/response-to-on-the-origin-and-conti...
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Gisaid restricting access to SARS-COV-2 sequence data(biostars.org)
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by jkh1 7y ago
Credit should always be given where credit is due. I believe this is good etiquette. This might also be required by the original license.
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by jkh1 7y ago
This may also induce a kind of dormant state in bacteria as many chemical stresses do. So whether a new chemical treatment is more effective needs to be tested in light of this knowledge. While peracetic acid has known disinfectant properti
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by jkh1 7y ago
Chlorine treatment can make bacteria undetectable by inducing a dormant state [1] so some earlier studies on effectiveness of chemical treatments may not be valid. Also the US and EU have different approaches to meat production. In the EU,
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by jkh1 7y ago
This is not exactly true in this case as before CWL there was no standard, only languages tied to particular implementations.
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by jkh1 7y ago
Which field? In the absence of any constraint, the choice of workflow management system is down to individual preferences. Note that the goal of CWL is to be a standard workflow language not a workflow management system. That is, it is conc
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by jkh1 7y ago
It's used in bioinformatics. for example by the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health[0]. You can find some CWL workflows on dockstore [1]. [0] https://www.ga4gh.org/ [1] https://dockstore.org/search?
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by jkh1 7y ago
One additional point is needed to complete the picture. Life sciences research is now almost completely dependent on technologies and reagents provided by a small number of commercial entities. Building custom equipment or synthesizing reag
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by jkh1 7y ago
For a somewhat sensationalistic take on this, see: How Academia Resembles a Drug Gang[1] [1]: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2407748
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by jkh1 7y ago
There are already a few visual workflow composers, e.g. Rabix,KNIME
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by jkh1 7y ago
Workflow languages are meant to formally describe computational data processing pipelines involving many steps and tools. They are often associated with an engine that allows setting up, running and monitoring of a workflow.
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by jkh1 7y ago
but many, if not most, are not domain-specific.
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by jkh1 7y ago
Q:How many workflow languages/engines does the world need? A: As many as possible: https://github.com/common-workflow-language/common-workflow-...
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by jkh1 7y ago
From years ago when I lived in CA, taxes for mid-range income were comparable with France (and Western Europe in general), just itemized differently. The main difference in my opinion was in the quality/quantity of public services one
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by jkh1 8y ago
Different article: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-47745191
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by jkh1 8y ago
There is no opposition between microscopy and sequencing. To the contrary, technologies are converging on the microscope as "omics" data (sequences are one type) are now moving to the microscope because of the need for additional
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by jkh1 8y ago
Reminds me of the French Minitel which started in 1978 and was retired only in 2012: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel
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by jkh1 8y ago
Yes but it isn't clear to me whether it's enabled by default.
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by jkh1 8y ago
I don't want a third party cloud-based solution and Zotero is not clear on where your data is by default. So I went with JabRef ( http://www.jabref.org/ )
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by jkh1 8y ago
You just need your head :) Check http://www.siteswap.org/validate.html Otherwise, check the software section here: http://www.siteswap.org/
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by jkh1 8y ago
Probably. When I lived in the bay area, I juggled at the San Francisco circus center: http://circuscenter.org/juggling and there's also a juggling club in Berkeley: https://berkeleyjuggling.org/ Many j
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by jkh1 8y ago
For more on site swap, read also B. Polster: The Mathematics of Juggling. Springer, 2002. ( https://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Juggling-Polster-Burkard-... ) and here is a review by @allenknutson (writer of the FAQ): https:&
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by jkh1 8y ago
I'd like to point out that recommender algorithms are also used in biology/biomedical research.
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by jkh1 9y ago
As if there was not enough junk in space already.

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