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> Give universities a blank cheque to employ scientists to work on whatever for sciences sake, not for business. Personally, I favor the opposite—stop awarding universities the "indirect costs" part of grant awards unless they
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The use of 7–9 year training periods (5 years PhD + 2–4 years postdoc) means a journal article's author and their scientific readership have a lot of shared knowledge and culture, which probably increases the reliability of communicati
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It's worth noting that the two provided references disagree on their definitions of reproducibility. Plesser quotes ACM as reproducibility being tested by a "Different team, different experimental setup", consistent with use
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So 90% does remove Covid as an ongoing concern? That's encouraging. If you live in Malta, my condolences on dealing with restrictions that, on face value, are overly fearful and internally inconsistent.
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I also thought widespread vaccination would end the pandemic in the US by mid-2021. I guess vaccination rates have to be very high, maybe > 90%, for that to work? Personally I've redefined my goal for dealing with the pandemic as
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A Peer-Reviewed Portrait of Suffering: The Engineers' Daughter(theatlantic.com)
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Lack of personal connections and interactions? Developers don't see users struggle in person, users don't see developers hard at work. Perhaps there's no real hostility, merely a lack of understanding of each other's p
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One thing I don't understand from the article: "Hopefully this explains why we explicitly need to tell each variable whether it is in a load or store context in the AST." Why does the Name() need to know its own context? It
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The presentation is cynical, as xab31 themself attests, but I don't think it's defeatist. 1. Bad work only being displaced by good work: everything works like this. To replace some useless commercial product (take your pick) som
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> In figure 2, the authors argue that there is a trend. But the graph seems to show the direct measurements of dependent variables with confidence intervals, and they are all non-significant. From the Figure 2 caption, I'm pretty su
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Because we need some Windows-only software and some Linux-only software. And the occasional Mac-only (or whatever else) software too. Life is less difficult when it all works in the same window manager and accesses the same filesystem,
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Yeah. I think a key sentence is, "It is impossible to consider this field of science without grappling with the flaws of the institution—and of the deification—of science itself." The process of science, that is, actually checkin
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> If you are independent and including others in your research, you are only bound by general medical ethics. The National Research Act and the Belmont report were created in opposition to this attitude. Henry Beecher led the fight (in
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Yes, the fact that current regulations apply only to institutions is the point! When (unregulated) individuals function like scientific institutions, conflict results, because the current system was not designed with this in mind. The ethi
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Biohacking in the sense of making E. coli grow on a different substrate, like in the ODIN kit, is pretty tame and unobjectionable. Promoting the manufacture and administration of homemade vaccines, though, is human subjects research, or _v
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If your IDE didn't use color to indicate syntax, would you want different information conveyed through color-coding? Using color to indicate syntax, which is already directly visible in the code you're reading, does seem like sor
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It wouldn't take much to significantly improve things. We don't even have full-text search for paywalled articles. The paid search engines like Web of Science just do title, keywords, and abstract. Even considering the subset o
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Inverse kinematics is about reconstructing body motion from position marker data, not really about modeling. For example, glue some tennis balls to a person's arms and legs, track their position from video of the person walking around
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TLDR: What is the state of the art for one-shot or few-shot longitudinal (time-series) machine vision tracking of object boundaries with ~ pixel (~ 10 μm) precision? Specifics: I'm tracking the edges of the knee meniscus from time laps
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My research specialty is in orthopedic biomechanics. For the arm motion thing, it sounds like you might want inverse kinematics or inverse dynamics. Take a look at OpenSim: https://simtk.org/projects/opensim For the
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Here's where I saw it. And yes, I admit sloppiness with my word choice. "Differently from the usual Direct Response technique, in RR, respondents toss coins to determine whether they will respond to the question or just mark “yes
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> Honesty of participants for sensitive topics like sexual behavior and drug use that could have serious consequences for them. One way to help get around that is to ask the respondents to flip a coin—heads they answer truthfully, tails
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> some of them weird Unicode characters, so not just ASCII This makes me suspicious that it's the font cache causing the slowdown (assuming Windows), not long lines. I saw similar symptoms a couple years ago and fixed it with (setq
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One of the frustrating things about discussing gain of function research is the vague and inconsistent definitions in play. Does a discussion participant consider it to be any application of recombinant DNA/RNA to viable viruses, bact
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They need to pivot every so often to keep engagement up. If the facts haven't changed, the spin has to change.
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"anthropized environments can provide an acceptable habitat for a large range of bat species, generating thus a higher diversity of bats and in turn of bat-borne viruses next to human dwellings … This increases the risk of transmission
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According to the docs [0] it's in part due to an unequal comparison: "[WinFsp] outperforms NTFS in most scenarios (an unfair comparison as NTFS is a disk file system and WinFsp is tested with an in-memory file system)." I gu
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Trust comes in degrees, so I think the question is how much to trust. Of the scientists I've worked with for long enough to estimate their character, I outright distrust only ~ 10%. That's consistent with [0], which reports that
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"Others are probing SARS-CoV-2 itself. In a preprint published this month, researchers tinkered with the virus to learn how much it has to change to evade the antibodies generated in vaccine recipients and recovered patients. They foun
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> Am I insane here, or does Excel generally do a very good job of handling almost all CSV files. If the user does Data > From Text/CSV > Transform > use PowerQuery to set the first row as the header, I think it's true

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