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by m-watson 5y ago
It is an open access paper which is nice: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-25738-6 Some interesting findings that would be useful to see explored in other platforms and with different methodologies.
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by m-watson 5y ago
Yea it is pretty common in US universities, coaches are also often the highest paid in the state. https://moneywise.com/managing-money/employment/the-10-highe...
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by m-watson 5y ago
Your link is not to the article, it is about a cookie warning. The article is: https://www.science.org/content/article/costs-balloon-u-s-pa... Admins may be able to change it.
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by m-watson 5y ago
Wow that twitter thread summary is not what the Urban article is about. Urban's piece is around the concept that research needs to be contextualized appropriately and if it is social research should probably include the communities bei
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by m-watson 5y ago
Ah you got this in as I was also typing it, well done! Deleting mine now. Just to make my comment less useless here is the github: https://github.com/seq-lang/seq
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by m-watson 5y ago
Yea this data purchasing is a pretty extensive problem, used at all levels. I like EFF and think they do good work. Hopefully they, and other organizations, can help figure this out. [0] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy&#
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by m-watson 5y ago
A thread on the same topic, different source https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28237274
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CDC Stands Up New Disease Forecasting Center(cdc.gov)
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Setting new expectations for open source maintainers(opensource.com)
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by m-watson 5y ago
It's interesting to see the process too, they are trying to finalize things for September. https://www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/decadal-survey-on...
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Report Could Make or Break the Next 30 Years of U.S. Astronomy(scientificamerican.com)
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The Milky Way has a 'broken' arm that could reveal its galactic history(space.com)
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by m-watson 5y ago
Baby steps, there are any number of issues to address if the goal was to create something that is energy producing for consumption. However, taking out even any aspect of commercialization or scaling this is an important milestone in terms
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by m-watson 5y ago
That is a real interesting point, contracting out limits your ability to "work your way up," a big company. I am a huge proponent of mobility, especially inter-organizational mobility rather than intra-organizational mobility, but
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Current US Policy on China: The Risk to Open Science(aps.org)
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Russia’s space program just threw a NASA astronaut under the bus(arstechnica.com)
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by m-watson 5y ago
Title shortened from: Observation-based early-warning signals for a collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation due to length Article on paper: https://phys.org/news/2021-08-ocean-current-approaching.htm
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Observation-based early-warning signals for a collapse of the AMOC(nature.com)
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by m-watson 5y ago
I agree, in the end the CDC knows that there are a lot of hurdles to get the information across and will have to adjust. That is really all they can do. A small sticking point is now VP Harris didn't say she won't take the vaccine
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by m-watson 5y ago
One source is: https://www.rand.org/randeurope/research/projects/internet-a... Here is a shorter blog post that references the above research: https://www.rand.org/blog/2014/03/
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Internet of Bodies: Our Connected Future(rand.org)
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by m-watson 5y ago
There are plenty of reasons to do this that don't distill just down to do they act as expected. One reason researchers do quantum experiments in macro-objects is it is significantly easier to measure. If they can show the glass bead ca
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by m-watson 5y ago
There is absolutely evidence supporting the idea that YouTube and social media sites are contributing to the radicalization of people. This is not saying there is not evidence, it is reporting one one specific study that used a very specifi
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by m-watson 5y ago
A pre-print version: https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.12843 and their open science page: https://osf.io/vs4d9/
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If YouTube’s algorithms radicalize people, it’s hard to tell from the data(arstechnica.com)
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by m-watson 5y ago
I get the snark but this is also Science and their easy to digest news release. It is literally a science journal, not a product release or even engineering journal. I wouldn't say it really fits into the "advancement in the art,&
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Bringing more reliable context to conversations on Twitter(blog.twitter.com)
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Zoom to pay $85M, lying about encryption and sending data to Facebook and Google(arstechnica.com)
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Scarlett Johansson files suit over Disney+ ‘Black Widow’ release(techcrunch.com)
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VPN servers seized by Ukrainian authorities weren’t encrypted(arstechnica.com)
8 points by m-watson 5y ago|3 comments

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