medimikka

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by medimikka 5y ago
In its core, that Pi is just a small Linux server. You're not touching the parts of it, that are different from, say, a VPS. You install a web server, you edit a file, you are done. Maybe you init a git repo and do some post-update mag
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by medimikka 5y ago
I am not technically qualified. I am a medic. I do medic things. In a pinch can open you up and fix an aortic aneurysm, and I can always make sure you're still alive when the person comes who can do those well. I am not a coder, not a
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by medimikka 5y ago
Here's a habit I have gotten into: not paying $9/month for someone's code, in perpetuity, if the data are locked behind that payment. And, for all that is holy, please stop trying to convince me to pay by using lines like &qu
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by medimikka 5y ago
The corollary here is, and it is one I strongly support, that it doesn't matter how good you're in your job if you're a douche. I don't know the author, and it may totally be the case that, in a faculty that is anything
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by medimikka 5y ago
danah (whom I truly respect and like as a person) practices something Watzlawick (1921-2007) called "Drowning 'duh' in data." It's an old sociologist trick to seem as if you're talking about much more than you
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by medimikka 5y ago
100% agreed. Again, this is a possibility, not a certainty. But I'd be loath to dismiss it, just as I am not willing to dismiss a reservoir origin. In the end, the author does make a good point: we need mandatory disclosures of GoF res
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by medimikka 5y ago
If it can happen in a lab studying an existing type, it can happen in labs studying GoF. The 1977 pandemic was a "leak" of sorts that seems to have originated from a prisoner camp known to give reduced sentence times to inmate
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by medimikka 5y ago
Yes, this is true. But it's also somewhat narrow. Consider this: days after the successful sequencing of Omicron, similar cases were reported in dozens of countries, having arrived there just before or just after the announcement. We k
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by medimikka 5y ago
It extracts the metadata, but not the body, yes. Retrieved websites are generally frowned upon in my field (medicine, virology), and that's why I never really needed this. We're pandoc-ing our internal MD files to PDF and attach t
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by medimikka 5y ago
This is totally leaving the original topic, but how do you work figure and table management? In my "smaller" papers, I have 50+ figures (dose-response curves, antibody prevalence curves, etc.) and 10+ tables. Just referencing them
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by medimikka 5y ago
Mendeley changes certain fields on import to always download its abstract PDF as the reference paper with a link to its paywall. In essence, those things are PDF archivers and citation managers rolled into one. If I were to send you my late
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by medimikka 5y ago
I find myself being surprised by people more often than disappointed.
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by medimikka 5y ago
> Also, sci-hub exists. Try adding one of those papers to Mendeley. Or, for that matter, get it by request from the author. Legal and often fast. Add that. See what Mendeley does with the CiteRef.DOI and CiteRef.URI fields...
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by medimikka 5y ago
Did you use EN9 or EN20? I found EndNote to be usable, just not something I'd pay $130 (student/academic version) for.
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by medimikka 5y ago
Mendeley joined the Elsevier "Family." Elsevier is one of the big three making massive amounts of money by selling content they receive for free, paid for by the tax payer or non-profits. I strongly believe, that this has greatly
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by medimikka 5y ago
Yes, Pages is, but the only citation manager integrating with it is EndNote, because Apple keeps the API locked down and expects quite the payment and revenue share to open it up. On the upside, no one with a little bit of academic cred wou
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by medimikka 5y ago
Zotero is, if you're not in the market for a closed source silo like EndNote, the only game left in town. Mendeley went full on Evil, and Papers for Mac is Mac only, closed source, and missing dozens of functionalities that are absolut
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by medimikka 5y ago
> The ability to speak to anyone doesn’t necessarily mean that you never feel lonely at parties The ability to extract valuable entertainment or information from all conversations is, though. I am no expert in this, and I have actively f
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by medimikka 5y ago
> On the flip side, I have found a startling amount of people genuinely don't really have many passions / interests. That'd describe Perell well. He doesn't have many passions/interest. He's bowing out of on