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by jryb 6y ago
Most everyone here is missing the point. The real problem is that NIH funding is limited and competitive, and the NIH needs to prioritize funding labs that don't already have enough money. I'm not discounting that some people invo
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i’m super foggy on the details, but in a talk a few months before the shutdown the CSO from moderna said they add some sort of functional group to inhibit degradation. i believe it was more complicated than just “ligate something that endon
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by jryb 6y ago
Should libraries like these need constant updates though? What change are they adapting to?
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by jryb 6y ago
Simulating trillions of moving parts is not the same as explaining or even understanding something. If you want to feel the truth of evolution in your bones, you really do need to be familiar with biology on both the molecular and cellular
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by jryb 6y ago
Although your question was about mold, you may be thrilled to learn that the process of bread going stale is not fully understood . I found this to be a somewhat jarring claim in a review I read recently: https://onlinelibrary.w
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by jryb 6y ago
I really like this video as it shows diffusing proteins at a realistic concentration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdmbpAo9JR4
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by jryb 7y ago
I exclusively used DDG for the past couple of years but gave up on it recently. I never kept track of how often I used the "!g" google fallback but in the past year or so it started to be the overwhelming majority of searches, eve
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Philosophical Zombie(en.wikipedia.org)
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by jryb 7y ago
> I'd guess some serious usability research went into this. I find that unlikely. If they just swapped the blue color of Alaska with the Mountain time zone there would be no ambiguity between adjacent colors at all for any type of c
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by jryb 7y ago
They did not use gene drives. Also, no one uses gene drives in applications, except to study gene drives explicitly.
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by jryb 7y ago
I was always very confused as a child when characters on TV couldn't tell whether they were dreaming. I thought it was obvious! Things were 3-dimensional and they could taste and feel and hear and see, which no one does in dreams. Whil
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by jryb 7y ago
I really don't understand why this distinction matters. If the ecosystem collapses because development is hindered, that's just as bad as the scenario where the animals were outright killed after developing just fine. It's a
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by jryb 7y ago
This may be true for some fields, but it's certainly not true for all fields. I'd be surprised if there are still orders-of-magnitude improvements to be discovered for BLAST, for example, and that's a foundational component
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by jryb 7y ago
It’s critical for a lot of scientific and industrial applications. Too many things just can’t be done without a supercomputer.
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by jryb 7y ago
Would you also say that normal-sighted people "see more color detail" than those with deuteranopia? Sure, there's an experience of perceiving color when deuteranopes look at something green, but they still don't know wha
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by jryb 7y ago
Because what they were examining is already very well understood.
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Biologist's perspective: this paper is not about the biology. The simulation performed here has zero biological interest - the point of the paper was to show how efficient and scalable their software is. This article about the pape
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by jryb 7y ago
Audible, yes. I haven't tried any others though.
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by jryb 7y ago
More of a meta suggestion: I hadn't read for fun in a decade, but once I got a subscription to an audio book service, I've been reading (listening?) constantly. It's not worth it to me to just read, but it's great to hav
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by jryb 7y ago
Curious. And yet a video I flagged recently that shows mice being electrocuted to death still hasn't been taken down. It has 7.8 million views so I can't imagine I'm the only one who's reported it.
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by jryb 7y ago
I think someone would have noticed, for example, the entire population of Cuba.
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by jryb 7y ago
It's regrettable that they have FreeBSD but not TrueOS, which addresses the one con on the list out of the box.
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by jryb 7y ago
Are you assuming that cell phone batteries and car batteries are the same? Empirical data shows that the engineering tradeoffs made for car batteries leave them with incredibly long lifespans (at least for Tesla or Nissan Leafs).
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by jryb 7y ago
I don't know if it's possible, but the first thing that comes to mind would be testing a Python extension written in Rust without having to leave the Rust testing ecosystem.
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by jryb 8y ago
I interpreted OP's concern as the idea that microbes flourished after they were seeded, perhaps by the landers in the 70s.
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by jryb 8y ago
I don't understand the downvotes for this. I feel that by making something public and open source, there is an implicit assumption (unless otherwise stated) that the software is worth sharing. The problem is that this puts what I con
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by jryb 8y ago
Yes, but because those latitudes receive less light, plant growth is hindered somewhat.
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There's a way to generate these super efficiently (presumably, since these were made in the 90s): https://selfreferentialsentences.blogspot.com/ The author claims they used binary decision diagrams, but I haven't
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by jryb 8y ago
We couldn't find a programmable temperature controller for a microscope that met our requirements so I ended up building it from scratch. It took me a month and I didn't know electronics when I started, but now we can do our exper