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by mjfl 7y ago
> The von Neumann architecture became possible because Church and Turing wrote their highly theoretical, mathematical works. I don't know about others but Von Neumann architecture is much more described by Church and Turings work th
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by mjfl 7y ago
From personal experience, pressure and flexibility. The investigator should be put under pressure to produce results quickly justifying further time investment, in addition there needs to be flexibility in the form of alternative projects t
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by mjfl 7y ago
People say you need to let scientists do useless exploration in order to promote innovation. I think that is true to a degree, but definitely should not be the spirit of any policy where innovation is the goal. Many of the scientific innova
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by mjfl 7y ago
Wow, it's really great that there is demand from both sides.
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by mjfl 7y ago
Or you could just run the PCR product on a gel for much cheaper... Edit: A gel gives you the ability to select for size as well, which a qpcr machine does not. Not sure why I have to reply in the form of edits.
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by mjfl 7y ago
You would also need a microcentrifuge and pipettes and stuff, but yes.
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by mjfl 7y ago
The test is trivial. It's just RT-PCR. - Spit in a 2 mL tube - Purify the RNA from the saliva in that tube using qiagen's Viral RNA mini kit ( https://www.qiagen.com/us/products/diagnostics-and-clinical-..
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by mjfl 7y ago
how long is it going to take someone to download 100,000 of these, hang them up on a bar wall somewhere and sell them for $20 apiece?
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by mjfl 7y ago
you could run a female cohort that is subject to nonstop social encouragement "you are powerful. you belong." and then observe whether they reach the same levels of achievement. If they do not, then this is evidence that the achie
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by mjfl 7y ago
In my opinion it's way better to have things all in one program. The clumsiness of needing to open up a heavyweight program like Powerpoint to then copy and paste the figure somehow into your document every time you revise is very anno
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by mjfl 7y ago
This is the most shit-tier advice I've ever seen posted on Hacker News, and I've seen a lot. Basically you are implying "fuck you for being bullied, don't come to me for advice or sympathy." And you are their parent
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by mjfl 7y ago
This was the basic premise behind the book "Expert political judgement" by Phil Tetlock.
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by mjfl 7y ago
They understood cause and effect. They didn't know the causal chain in depth, but they did know that rubbing sticks together caused fire. They also knew that dumping water on the ground did not cause it to rain. Thus they could disting
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by mjfl 7y ago
To identify what the author feels is missing in neuroscience: in order to understand something, you need to figure out how to describe two things about it (1) what its state is at any point in time, and (2) how that state evolves in time. C
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by mjfl 7y ago
I don't understand why this is. As the high end stuff gets down to 10nm-ish, shouldn't it have gotten way cheaper to fabricate micron-precision chips?
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by mjfl 7y ago
I once worked so hard I had to saw off me own leg and now I walk around on a peg! Arrrr!
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by mjfl 7y ago
You would get lynched by taxi drivers within the first month of implementing such a ridiculous policy.
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by mjfl 7y ago
It's because the physics is more important.
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by mjfl 7y ago
If you're enough of a go-getter to turn 1 year of first year gen-eds into a high paying job you probably don't need school.
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by mjfl 7y ago
The payoff of 1 year at a reasonably good California State university is $0. You have to attend for 4 years and spend $32k in order to get a degree / payoff. Lambda school is saving you $2k and 3 years of time. (and btw I have no affil
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by mjfl 7y ago
They have the same output as maybe a mid-size lab with maybe 15 postdocs and 15 grad students or something like that.
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by mjfl 7y ago
It's totally obvious to me that you would but that wasn't a choice.
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by mjfl 7y ago
Would you rather billionaires place their money in a big trust fund so their giant tree of descendents don’t have to work for a living or would you rather them spend their entire fortune on longevity research in a desperate plea to stay ali
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by mjfl 7y ago
Are they engineering the macrophages to produce the enzyme? How does it work?
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by mjfl 7y ago
> if you are a really, really skinny person (like myself), you would be looking at a statistically shorter lifespan, unless somehow your normal body temp is lower than average or you spot some other sign of decreased basal metabolic rate
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by mjfl 7y ago
Not true. Evidence is building that tau protein import to neurons activates the inflammasome, which causes cell death and local inflammation, if I skimmed this paper right: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-176
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by mjfl 7y ago
I think the main issue is that you are not entitled to compensation for being really into something. If you want to receive value that you create, you have to consciously extract it. A small portion of the population is extremely uncomfor
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by mjfl 7y ago
Photovoltaic voltage threshold reached. Coming out of hibernation... Awakened in intercept of star S001932422345. 4 rocky planets identified. 200 moons identified. Carbon-based life detected on planet 3: 5.6e14 kg of biomass, 1e17 Watts of
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by mjfl 7y ago
I can't wait for this brave new world where you will need to implement a $130 million supreme court to start a new social network.
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by mjfl 7y ago
> The secret unit Clarke helped create had an ominous acronym: DREAD, short for Development Research Exploitation and Analysis Department. “Are we the baddies?”

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