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by murphyslab 2y ago
The Dungeon Crawler Carl series' first 4 or 5 books (it's been a little while) were excellent. Carl's tone reminds me of a detective novel, while the setting is more reminiscent of Ready Player One and The Matrix. The genre i
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by murphyslab 2y ago
Fun game, although it would be helpful to have the "How to Play" instructions ( https://huewords.snellman.net/help.html ) explicitly state that shorter letter sequences (2,3,4 letters) do not need to form words.
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by murphyslab 2y ago
I remembering visiting WBB at 20 Edward St when I lived in the GTA during a co-op term. But the real treasures I found were usually in BMV Books next door at 10 Edward St. BMV offered incredible collection of vintage books and magazines. I
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by murphyslab 3y ago
> a non trivial expense that's hard to entice enough users to cough up money for to make viable Yet the site's operators got rid of one of the most popular mechs for monetization: Awards.
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by murphyslab 3y ago
> Throw in the Oxford comma and George has become a policeman: “Through the window she saw George, a policeman, and several onlookers”. The problem here might also be that of artificially limiting the solution to commas. We have alternat
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by murphyslab 3y ago
Everything noted by awjlogan is correct in my experience. To add to the question of incentive, Organic Syntheses is a non-profit corporation since its inception. It's worth reading the organization's history page: https:/&#x
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by murphyslab 3y ago
The Walmart website is also a "marketplace". As it stands, the company's website is unreliable for finding goods and their prices and it is full of junk, which requires additional user-based filtering to find items of value.
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by murphyslab 3y ago
Parts of this definitely appear to have been traced, although I'm not sure if it was done manually or by a vectorizer. Around the `OF` in the `FIELD LIST` flow, the green edge has the same perspective change as in the original, cf: ht
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by murphyslab 3y ago
Yes. And for bilingual patients, there seems to be a greater effect on the more recently acquired language: > Southwood et al[49] make the same recommendation based on oral interviews conducted with a single male patient who displayed mo
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by murphyslab 3y ago
Here's the DOI for their Science Advances paper: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adi4386 "miRNA cargo in circulating vesicles from neurons is altered in individuals with schizophrenia and associated with sever
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by murphyslab 3y ago
I feel surprised by how succinct, easy-to-understand, and sensible the policy (M-23-22) is: > Default to HTML: HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is the standard for publishing documents designed to be displayed in a web browser. HTML prov
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by murphyslab 3y ago
It's not just a tracking tag on Reddit; the shared links largely obfuscate the thread or comment, requiring one to go through the tracking link to find out what is behind it. An example for anyone curious: Tracking /s/ link:
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by murphyslab 3y ago
Municipal government are starting to realize the costs of suburbs filled with "mcmansions" because the "they generate more property tax" is not true when taking into account the amount of resources they consume and the i
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by murphyslab 3y ago
And there is already at least one other set of observations reported on arXiv from a September 2023 occultation. It's quite interesting, since the observations are a citizen science effort, with different observers from across Spain an
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by murphyslab 3y ago
The recording of the meeting discussing the presentation [0] notes three issues with occlusions by Leona: 1. There is uncertainty with regard to the path, i.e. exactly where will it be projected on the surface of the Earth. 2. Size of Leona
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by murphyslab 3y ago
It appears that astronomers are already preparing for the upcoming occultation of 319 Leona with Betelgeuse. Researchers in this July 2023 presentation note: > Leona’s Long Rotation Period (430h) complicates determination of its size and
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by murphyslab 3y ago
One aspect of the problem in talking about "cancer" is that we're talking about a large collection of diseases, not a singular disease or phenomenon: > cancer is actually an umbrella term for scores of different diseases—e
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by murphyslab 3y ago
The visualization of "Weekly most torrented films in 2023" was useful and fascinating. It was a little fast: I had to keep pausing as it reminded me of a few films I've been meaning to watch but missed.
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High replicability of newly discovered social-behavioural findings is achievable(nature.com)
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by murphyslab 3y ago
Appreciate the tip. I already have SingleFile installed on my desktop Firefox, however it is currently only compatible with Firefox for Android Nightly, not vanilla Firefox mobile: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2020&#
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by murphyslab 3y ago
One of the missing features which keeps me using Chrome on Android is Firefox's inability to simply download a copy of a page's HTML. Mozilla engineers removed that feature because they didn't want the interface to be "t
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by murphyslab 3y ago
> The case remains under investigation, but it appears that someone became infected with the dengue virus, returned home and was bitten by a mosquito that passed it on to the local resident, according to Pasadena health officials. https
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by murphyslab 3y ago
One element of the plan is to excise that responsibility from the journals, splitting the roles of peer review editor and curation editor . A peer review editor would work as part of an arXiv / bioRxiv / medRxiv / eLife ty
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by murphyslab 3y ago
> I've seen a lot of sentiment from people that they see more bots, hate speech, and irrelevant content on their timelines. Maybe what I'm hearing is just anecdotal evidence or stories in a bubble? 1. Note that they do not una
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by murphyslab 3y ago
98% and 6 perfect cuts. I blame sibling rivalry.
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by murphyslab 3y ago
It would be interesting to see how the ability correlates with social behaviour. Having one or more siblings and the need to share pie, cake, or vlaai probably creates a modest selective pressure.
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by murphyslab 3y ago
There's an incentive for scholarly publishers and authors to have their works cited on Wikipedia, since there is a belief (supported by some research [0]) that citation on Wikipedia increases subsequent scholarly citations to those art
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by murphyslab 3y ago
The above commenter's wording was inaccurate. The order applies for all Canadians. The confusion comes from the finding that Clearview AI violated provincial privacy legislation (BC,AB,ON,QC) as well as federal privacy legislation (PIP
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by murphyslab 3y ago
23andMe shows up to 1500 DNA Relatives for each user (outside of subscription features). What we know thus far is that the malicious persons who compiled these datasets are scraping user profiles of DNA Relative matches who are related
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by murphyslab 3y ago
Lots of scientists I've known tend to avoid radioisotopes, given either the inherent risks or the perceived risks. University bureaucracies can also create disincentives and barriers, even when the related procedures well known. Th

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