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by jonchang 11y ago
arxiv only accepts computational biology papers. Compare the subject areas of biorxiv http://biorxiv.org/ and arxiv http://arxiv.org/archive/q-bio
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Apple loses case on its e-book selling tactics(scotusblog.com)
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See, this is another interesting example of the kind of behavior described here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11113042 People who don't take the time to learn the language are having to go through these contort
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by jonchang 11y ago
Here's a recent article from The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/02/whats-re...
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A Long, Bizarre Scientific Feud(wired.com)
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by jonchang 11y ago
The news article is a simplification. A more accurate characterization would be "considering only sequences differentiated among the sample set, indigenous English share 40% of their DNA with the French..." This isn't strictl
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by jonchang 11y ago
Well, hybridization is certainly not a new theory -- as the article mentions, many plants hybridize quite readily, and the existence of "ring species" just goes to show how fuzzy the biological species concept is. The proper way t
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by jonchang 11y ago
A lot of states have anti-SLAPP laws that make it much harder for big companies to throw their weight around to legally intimidate legitimate critics, so it might not be as bad as you think: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by jonchang 11y ago
BEAST (which I assumed they used) is not very fast. 250 million generations on BEAST with the number of parameters they estimated and the size of their dataset would likely take about 2-4 weeks to run. Assuming they ran all 3 chains in para
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by jonchang 11y ago
These seem to be fairly standard phylogeographic methods that are applied to a mostly uncontroversial dataset. It's basically ancestral state reconstruction where geography are the traits being reconstructed: https://en.wiki
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One of my favorite Waze "shortcuts" in Los Angeles has me crossing all 8 lanes of Wilshire Boulevard at an uncontrolled intersection. I always avoid this route in the hope that Google will figure out this is a dangerous intersec
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The article talks about how the founders told their investors they weren't looking at a huge exit, and that they were planning on paying dividends soon.
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Empathy(sethgodin.typepad.com)
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"Experiment 1 results indicated that observer rhesus monkeys acquired a fear of snakes through watching videotapes of model monkeys behaving fearfully with snakes. In Experiment 2, observers watched edited videotapes that showed models
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Pilots Who Fly Drones into Wildfires Are Idiots. Punish Them(wired.com)
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Pro tip: Whenever you read "drone" in a news article you can almost always safely replace it with "unmanned aerial vehicle" with no loss of information. Journalists currently do not make the distinction between (semi-)au
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by jonchang 11y ago
Firefox's safebrowsing feature uses a separate cookie jar, so if you are logged into Google those cookies will never be sent via the safebrowsing API. Also, Firefox hashes the URL and compares the prefix of that hash to a master table
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Filter all ICMP and watch the world burn(rachelbythebay.com)
292 points by jonchang 11y ago|57 comments
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USC MFA class of 2016 withdraws in protest(latimes.com)
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Forbidden Data: Wyoming just criminalized citizen science(slate.com)
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I can say with confidence that this sort of thing would never occur in a modern research laboratory. Note that standards for ethical experimentation on animals (including humans) hadn't really appeared until the 70s and 80s. A couple o
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by jonchang 11y ago
Advantages of new signs - consolidates parking restrictions in one easy to read graphic Advantages of old signs - can easily swap out restrictions by adding or removing signs IMO it's not very difficult once you get used to it. Remembe
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Google trying to win Firefox users back(benjaminkerensa.com)
6 points by jonchang 12y ago|3 comments
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There's an interesting recent manuscript that subdivides the obsolete "junk DNA" classification into things like "garbage DNA", "rubbish DNA", "Lazarus DNA", "zombie DNA", etc. http:&#
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Well, this is an open question in evolutionary biology :) One important thing to keep in mind is that species are hypotheses that can be tested, and the interpretations can vary from person to person and field to field. For example, many mo
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Social networks and accessibility: A not so sad picture(marcozehe.de)
1 points by jonchang 12y ago|0 comments
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"giant balls", per the press release. http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/eat24-successfully-s...
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What led you to believe that the linked page was targeted towards technical users?
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From the article: "This piece was designed for a ritual purpose, which is why it was found folded. Bending a metal object as a symbolic act of destruction before burial was a common practice in the Bronze Age and later."
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Clocks Are Too Precise(theatlantic.com)
6 points by jonchang 12y ago|3 comments

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