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Resveratrol research misconduct (UConn)(retractionwatch.wordpress.com)
3 points by kghose 15y ago|0 comments
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by kghose 15y ago
This was a fun exposition, but the "min" part is unclear as shown because the author does not explicitly show a look-a-head plan. When the computer is playing reactively i.e. only planning the next move it needs to only do a max, execute th
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by kghose 15y ago
What open access does do is help researchers in smaller institutions and institutions in poorer countries to have easier access to papers. This is HUGE. If you work/study at a place with less resources it becomes annoying to try and get pap
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by kghose 15y ago
He forgot to add the cost of the sun. It took billions of year to make. And the clean environment. I hear that's priceless.
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by kghose 15y ago
I've only seen the introduction video. The video's claim is that we get bored because we have very specialized work. And it contrasts with the wonderful life we had 300 years ago when we lived in tiny communities doing non-specialized work.
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by kghose 15y ago
Thanks for pointing me to that! ( https://www.google.com/search?tbm=vid&hl=en&source=h... )
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by kghose 15y ago
I really liked the series "Sherlock" with Benedict Cumberbatch( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_%28TV_series%29 ). For the older ones I thought the Jeremy Brett ones ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes_%281984_TV_seri... )
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by kghose 15y ago
If you like math fun and movies I would recommend the series "Numbers" and the movie "A beautiful mind" as a dramatic portrayal of paranoia that some famous mathematicians have developed. (The linked article is a bit light and in the end no
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by kghose 15y ago
Clinical depression is not so rare (unfortunately) and I don't know if it is a speacial issue among people who do startups. The treatment described here is for people who don't respond to cognitive and drug therapy. My interest in this topi
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by kghose 15y ago
Deep Brain Stimulation has the benefit of being more directed. An electrode is lowered into a part of the basal ganglia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basal_ganglia ) and current pulses are used to activate neuron groups. Its not clear how
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Electrical stimulation in sub-cortical nuclei to treat depression(psychcentral.com)
16 points by kghose 15y ago|6 comments
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by kghose 15y ago
The idea is good, but if you are explicitly interviewing I would add an honorarium to the whole thing. This way it's not officially a probation - the candidate can even say they were freelancing during this time - so the CV problem doesn't
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by kghose 15y ago
Perhaps I don't understand the app, but I would have thought that the radius depends on population density. In a city or town 75mi would be be waay to much, and too little in rural areas. I assume most users would come from cities and I wou
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by kghose 15y ago
I have always thought of lectures not as a way to convey information but rather enthusiasm. A dull (or bad in other ways) lecturer almost always turns me off to a topic. A lecturer who is excited about the topic always makes me want to kn
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by kghose 15y ago
50 weeks/year * 40 hours/week * 60 min/hour = 120000 work min/year -> 37.5 years. So, most possibly, Watterson was refering to the total time, not just the time spent at work 365.25 days/year * 24 hrs/day * 60 min/hr = 525960 min/yr -&#
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by kghose 15y ago
There is much wit in this brevity.
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by kghose 15y ago
Kindle -> fiction/non-fiction text Real books -> books needing many illustrations (e.g. art books) But, I really appreciate the issue of "What do we put on the bookshelves?" my wife and I have bookshelves filling a wall where we hav
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by kghose 15y ago
http://grammar.about.com/od/advicefromthepros/a/Writers-On-R... The one I knew of initially was from Faulkner (One of my moderately favorite writers) "Read everything--trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a car
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by kghose 15y ago
A gene is a molecular unit of heredity of a living organism. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene )
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by kghose 15y ago
I'm trying to decide if you really enjoyed it, or are deceiving me (us) to get upvoted. I am ashamed of myself for thinking another human being is being deceitful, when in fact he may actually be being completely honest. I am now worrying t
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by kghose 15y ago
I think we succeeded, and you are just jealous.
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by kghose 15y ago
You make a good point, but a distinction should be made between fleeting (intrusive) thoughts (like you meet someone and want to punch him for no reason, or yell fire in a theater for no reason) and things you really think, but don't say. L
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by kghose 15y ago
I started out thinking you were funny and hip for writing the comment, and then I realized you were only honest to be upvoted, and you are probably not as honest in real life and I got angry that I did not think about this first. Also, I wo
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by kghose 15y ago
I'm very, very surprised at the company side of the exchange. I guess this is what happens if you don't have a professional sales staff who are trained to be tactful and polite (or can be fired for not being)
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by kghose 15y ago
Ok, merits of the article aside: I was reading, nodding to myself and then I read about this fantastic new service called "PayMyBills.com which receive your bills for you, scan them in, and show them to you on the Internet" I was very, very
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by kghose 15y ago
russel - those articles are informative and entertaining. Thanks for the link.
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by kghose 15y ago
I read about 50% of the letter ( http://www.sebastianmarshall.com/an-open-letter-to-simon-and... ) What I felt was unprofessional behavior on the part of the publisher was not sticking to deadlines for payment. However, I did feel that the
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by kghose 15y ago
With noscript, request policy and cookie blocking turned on, those have gotta be the biggest fonts I have seen on a webpage...
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by kghose 15y ago
Yes! College is also about learning to work together, learning to form opinions and learning that there are many different opinions out there.
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by kghose 15y ago
It IS a bit long. To me the "Lexical blends" are an example of competing motor programs. Yes it does given a window into cognition, but it is a window into the parallel nature of processing in the brain and not into generalization.

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