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by jpeloquin 2y ago
Pretty much yes. Critical analysis is a necessary skill that needs practice. It's also necessary to be aware of the intricacies of work in one's own topic area, defined narrowly, to clearly communicate how one's own methods
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by jpeloquin 2y ago
Even in group 1, when I go back to a project that I haven't worked on in years, it would be helpful to be able to query the build system to list the dependencies of a particular artifact, including data dependencies. I.e., reverse de
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by jpeloquin 2y ago
Patents sort of work that way, except that even people who didn't look at your work owe you their future profits. I think I'm hoping for a result that anyone can train any model on any content, regardless of that content's co
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by jpeloquin 2y ago
The problem with gold OA is the proliferation of low-quality spam, and the recommended remedy is to both restore exclusivity (raise the barrier to entry) without supporting excessive (monopolistic, exploitative) journal subscription fees.
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by jpeloquin 2y ago
> So IMO, the first reform to conduct is to turn clinical researchers into real scientists. That won't be easy. Mostly, there are not enough hours in a life to be both a good doctor and a good scientist. The few MD-PhDs who give eq
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by jpeloquin 2y ago
It often is arbitrary. Also, the rules as enforced by the awardee institution often differ from the funding agency's written rules. The people who are responsible for reviewing purchasing are only responsible for making sure no rules
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by jpeloquin 2y ago
Yes, the general spirit is good but the clinical trial stage is the very end of a long process. The clinical trial the most visible part of getting a new cancer treatment to patients, but the bulk of delay in developing a new treatment is
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by jpeloquin 2y ago
I also have XM4's and they worked fine on Arch after addressing two problems: Do you dual boot? Different OS's on the same computer will generate different pairing keys even though they share the same MAC, and this will cause con
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by jpeloquin 2y ago
> If we already know what a baseline untreated group looks like There isn't really a single baseline untreated group. For a comparison between groups to be valid, all groups must be obtained by unbiased random sampling of the same
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by jpeloquin 2y ago
> A basic problem I have, looking at an Excel spreadsheet, is I don't know which cells are calculated by a formula, which are constants. Use Ctrl-` (show formulas).
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by jpeloquin 2y ago
> How does version control work with Labview? Labview does have diff and merge tools. It feels kind of clunky in practice, kind of like diffing/merging MS Office files. In my experience people think of versions of LabView code as
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by jpeloquin 2y ago
Grant applications are primarily judged on the perceived strength of the research plan. The reviewers work in the same field as the applicant and are expected to judge the proposal on its merits. Citation count is therefore already not a
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by jpeloquin 3y ago
I just tested saving https://browse.arxiv.org/html/2312.12451v1 to disk using Chrome, transferring it to my Android phone, and opening it on the phone. Results: 1. Saving as "Webpage, Single File" (.mhtml):
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by jpeloquin 3y ago
Across species, tendon strength is strongly correlated with modulus (normalized stiffness). Greater stiffness has the risk of reducing range of motion. When a graft is used it is intended/hoped that the graft will remodel over time t
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by jpeloquin 4y ago
I realized why this being based on simulation bothered me: this is a machine learning classifier that classifies viral genomes as synthetic or natural. The training set n = 72 (all negative, which is justifiable if you're ok with null
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by jpeloquin 4y ago
> The GP comment is sort of misleading...you wouldn't just pick enzymes at random to do this analysis. I said pick blind, not at random. I recommend reading https://info.umkc.edu/drbanderson/p-hacking-and-the-p
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by jpeloquin 4y ago
"To avoid losing power with multiple comparisons, we focus our analysis on the BsaI/BsmBI sites in SARS-CoV-2 and compare the BsaI/BsmBI map in SARS-CoV-2 to all other restriction maps of all other CoVs used in our analysis.&
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by jpeloquin 4y ago
Getting everyone to agree what "gain of function" means is a lost cause. "The term GOF didn’t have much to do with virology until the past decade. Then, the ferret influenza studies came along. In trying to advise the federal
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by jpeloquin 4y ago
Your article actually argues in favor of the type of research BU was doing because it's being done post-outbreak: "Once an emerging outbreak virus has been identified, it needs to be analysed quickly to establish what type it is;
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by jpeloquin 4y ago
> Nope, it only happens when something outside changed Firefox's files … This never happens* in Windows and macOS (it might nag, but you can definitely dismiss it). Happens with multiple Firefox instances too, `firefox -P -no-remote
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by jpeloquin 4y ago
Regarding the waiver—"The maximum discount is 15 percent of total monthly spending on AWS services". Was very excited at first. As for leaving data in AWS, data is often (not always) revisited repeatedly for years after the fact.
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by jpeloquin 4y ago
> the ability to reserve the server on specific days In an environment where there are not too many users and everyone is cooperative, using Google Calendar to reserve time slots works very well and is very low maintenance. Technical re
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by jpeloquin 4y ago
It seems like people in the US still agree that free speech is a good thing. 91% of Americans say that free speech is very or extremely important to them, and the rest say it's moderately important or just skipped the question (like b
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by jpeloquin 4y ago
Yeah, changing the details is fine. Tolkien wrote in his letters, "I would draw some of the great tales in fullness, and leave many only placed in the scheme, and sketched. The cycles should be linked to a majestic whole, and yet leav
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by jpeloquin 4y ago
> Science bodies (like the NIH) explicitly forbid reuse or reinterpretation of data. I think your main point is that collecting new data is necessary to test existing ideas. But reuse and reinterpretation of data is routine, e.g., in me
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by jpeloquin 4y ago
I agree that increasing public research funding is a good idea, but it can only fix the payline & hype problem (increase efficiency) temporarily, until universities once again expand their departments. For example, the NIH budget incre
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by jpeloquin 4y ago
Reduce the number of PIs until grant paylines go back to ~ 30%. Institutions that don't play ball—that hire grant-seeking PIs at a greater than sustainable rate—should be penalized. First, by reduction of indirect costs, then by maki
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by jpeloquin 4y ago
Sounds like journal clubs but organized through a specialized tech platform rather than normal communication channels. (Journal clubs are groups of people, usually working in the same field, who pick & present a paper to the rest of the
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by jpeloquin 4y ago
Ah, so the social science reproducibility problems are hypothesized to be caused by bias (or, less provocatively, filtering), moreso than e.g. bad experimental design. Yes, that would nicely reconcile both perspectives.
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by jpeloquin 4y ago
Are they really? If social science is unreliable, then it is reasonable to conclude that (a) limiting its scope of investigation doesn't matter or even (b) limiting its scope of investigation is actually good, so that it at least does

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