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by msamwald 10y ago
That was also my first question. I looked at the original paper [1], the medication names they used to identify individuals on androgen deprivation therapy are listed in the 'eAppendix': Leuprolide, goserelin, triptorelin, histrel
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by msamwald 10y ago
It might be consoling to some, but it is hardly accurate.
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by msamwald 11y ago
Hypothesis: The psychology behind the turmoil caused by the red guards might be very related to contemporary phenomena in academic settings and on social media, where the rhetoric of social justice is perverted and turned into a weapon to a
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by msamwald 11y ago
The odd thing is that articles on the topic and seemingly all medical doctors assume that there is only a single way in which Q-tips can be used for ear cleaning purposes. I think that there are several possible ways besides simply insertin
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by msamwald 11y ago
As several people pointed out, the arguments made in this article are severely weakened by the fact that we do not know what fraction of this complexity is essential for brain function and what fraction is unnecessary complexity caused by e
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by msamwald 11y ago
As a Viennese who took that tour together with some international guests, I highly recommend _not_ doing it, because you're not allowed to see very much. I found it quite disappointing.
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by msamwald 11y ago
It would be interesting to know how novel those sequences are (obviously, the outcome would be far less impressive if what we hear is basically a looped, noisy sample of a song that already exists).
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by msamwald 11y ago
For me, the hardest thing about learning Git is the lurking feeling that I have to learn it because it has become an unavoidable fad, not because it is the best approach to version management for most common use-cases.
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by msamwald 12y ago
I think that the article describes a sentiment that far more people dealing with computer science / programming share than usually perceived. I think it is mostly because for the (seemingly warranted) fear of being called out as unprof