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by klipt 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_pluripotent_stem_cell
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by klipt 17y ago
It might also allow lesbian couples to conceive using only their own DNA, if this technology isn't limited to male genes.
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by klipt 17y ago
Another way to look at it is that colour is effectively an infinite dimensional vector, but we can only sense a 3 dimensional function of that. (Fewer dimensions if you're colourblind, more if you're a bird.)
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by klipt 17y ago
Google has a multi-camera method which corrects for page curvature, making it unnecessary to despine/flatten the books. Unfortunately, it's patented... http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/15/1834246
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by klipt 17y ago
I've heard anecdotally that people who have studied music find it much easier to accurately mimic other accents.
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by klipt 17y ago
Which leads to "putting out fires" syndrome ... preventative care is often more cost effective than emergency care, but people don't like the idea of giving free preventative care in a capitalist society. So they spend more on emergency car
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by klipt 17y ago
You think that's bad ... try search for help for R ;)
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by klipt 17y ago
And that might even work on some people. The problem is that as far as I know, there is actually support in the New Testament for blind faith - something about a doubting Thomas. When fundamentalists say there's no morality outside of the b
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by klipt 17y ago
Ok, so presumably you have enough of a religious background to argue from the viewpoint of your opponent. There are advantages to that approach but also disadvantages. The advantage is that, if there is any claim to rationality in your oppo
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by klipt 17y ago
Haskell isn't exactly blub; between the first class functions and the custom monads it's quite possible to create custom languages. E.g. the parsing library Parsec: http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/using-parsec.html
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by klipt 17y ago
Not exactly free ... laziness and the resulting thunks do use up extra processing time and memory. But in many cases it is a price worth paying. http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~rjmh/Papers/whyfp.html
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by klipt 17y ago
Yep, a lot of the features mentioned in the presentation are possible with just first class functions, although the syntax will be messier (but arguably more consistent). The strength and danger of macros is in allowing you to create new sy
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by klipt 17y ago
For biology you need a particular branch of math: statistics. Of course the same is true of physics when you look at it on a small enough scale. With the small datasets some biologists work with, you might not get a useful result, but at le
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by klipt 17y ago
To put it in computer science lingo: an ordered datatype is easier to search and sort.
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by klipt 17y ago
It uses lots of symmetries, which reduces the number of arbitrary features, but also makes it a dyslexic's nightmare.
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by klipt 17y ago
Matlab is a horrible language, although at least it has lambdas now. Have you looked at SciPy? It can't replace some of the more specialized toolboxes of course. http://www.scipy.org/