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by murphyslab 3y ago
This seems to be more a consequence of being FDA regulated. Promethease is just providing a lookup service, cross-referencing a genotype file with SNPedia, which offers no direct prediction claims IIRC. https://www.snpedia.com&#x
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by murphyslab 3y ago
> 23andMe blamed the incident on its customers for reusing passwords, and an opt-in feature called DNA Relatives, which allows users to see the data of other opted-in users whose genetic data matches theirs. If a user had this feature tu
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by murphyslab 3y ago
Not surprising to see F₂⁺ & HF⁺ being observed; as a chemist it's what I would expect from a LiF system being bombarded with positrons. Really I'm surprised that it hasn't been tried before! Although that probably is on a
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by murphyslab 3y ago
I take it that this is undergirded by the recent Google "privacy policy" announcement which indicated it claims a right to "scrape everything you post online for AI": https://gizmodo.com/google-says-itll-
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by murphyslab 3y ago
Better to post a link to the paper on arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1204.0162 Note also that the Fermat's Library copy is version 1 of the paper; it was subsequently updated and version 2 is available on arXiv.
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by murphyslab 3y ago
It depends a lot on what kind of chemistry lab one works in. Having worked at in fluorescence microscopy in my MSc, then at Canada's Nanotechnology Research Centre & at Xerox's Research Centre in Mississauga, and later working
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by murphyslab 3y ago
Nice seeing them have what appear to be actual solutions of quantum dots in volumetric flasks, right on the panel's table. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpph2cHx6gk&ab_channel=Nobel...
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by murphyslab 3y ago
I can see encouraging authors to remove "zombie citations", but that should be rare nowadays, as many bibliographic databases will automatically flag retracted articles now, thanks to integration with the Retraction Watch database
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by murphyslab 3y ago
It's interesting the instance cited about authors of a scientific paper being compelled to remove a reference because a peer reviewer alleged that the researcher behind it is "a lousy and dishonest researcher". What's mo
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by murphyslab 3y ago
I'm pretty excited about this. Until yesterday, iNaturalist, a platform for recording and identifying observations of organisms & citizen science, used a "Seen Nearby" rubric when selecting which predictions from its comp
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by murphyslab 3y ago
> Soon, however, teachers and government officials sought ways to evaluate rapidly increasing numbers of students. In 1900, roughly 10 percent of teens attended high school; by 1940, some 70 percent did. It reminds me of looking at a 193
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by murphyslab 3y ago
There's a lot of literature in medicine of how often one small subset of patients consumes a disproportionate level of healthcare resources, i.e. the Pareto principle. It's fantastic seeing just how much providing effective trea
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by murphyslab 3y ago
That's possible, however I'm not changing the address, I'm changing the position of the marker on the map by 70 metres. Google regularly tweaks marker coordinates, in order to provide better driving directions, without changi
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by murphyslab 3y ago
Google Maps should change the way that edits work. My experience suggests the current approach is to require independent verification, via volunteers, of too many user edits. If I were to update the hours of a local business with a photo, t
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by murphyslab 3y ago
I don't use Seek, but the iNaturalist website filters computer vision matches using a "Seen Nearby" feature: > The “Seen Nearby” label on the computer vision suggestions indicates that there is a Research Grade observation
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by murphyslab 3y ago
I suspect it is a paraphrase of the Nature (journal portfolio) "research ethics guidance" published in 2022. That guidance claims an ethical imperative to avoid "indirect" causation of "harm". Here is a quote f
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by murphyslab 3y ago
I am curious to know the degree to which US political parties' self-interest, in data collection and aggregation, is responsible for the lack of creating data privacy laws. That kind of incentive leeches away my hope that the US will i
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by murphyslab 3y ago
Suggestion: Zoom/Magnify feature doesn't feel intuitive with the zoom being centred on the middle of the layout and expanding both to the left and the right. It acts like a vecgtor image editor, rather than like a timeline which t
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by murphyslab 3y ago
> All this is to say that Steve Huffman might not be deliberately lying in this instance. Huffman has had 26+ days to correct the record. He has done nothing to that end. He made a "potentially career-ending" allegation, which
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by murphyslab 3y ago
https://murphyslab.ca/notes/ Not a lot there right now. When I rehosted from WordPress to Hugo (after HostPapa started jacking up prices), I pulled a number of posts. Since I've been on hiatus from adding material
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by murphyslab 3y ago
Location: Vancouver region, Canada Remote: Open to the possibility Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: PhD in materials chemistry, block copolymers, liquid crystals, lithography, self-assembly. Knowledge of multiple nanotechnology tools
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by murphyslab 3y ago
By virtue of appearing to be a photograph. The medium itself is a message (cf. Marshall McLuhan). An image which appears to be a photograph conveys a meaning to the viewer that "this depicts a real event", whereas if I draw a pict
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by murphyslab 3y ago
> If they don't want private subs, then convert them to public and turn that feature off. I can understand the sentiment, however users of Reddit employ private subreddits for a variety of reasons. Top of the list is in order to fa
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by murphyslab 3y ago
> Over 26,000 astronomers have reviewed this telescope The text on that little ad banner confused me for a moment. Then I just laughed. But as you probably guessed, the site doesn't do more than catalogue and republish NASA press re
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by murphyslab 3y ago
The author is using this as a unit of thermal energy being absorbed, not as a measure of deaths: > As of March, 2023, on an annualized basis, the EEI was 1.61 Watts per square meter. That might not sound like a lot, but on a global basi
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by murphyslab 3y ago
One piece of analysis missing from Macrosticks is how hand size and shape is influencing individuals' preferred hold. The author seems to have an underlying thesis that it's all about how the holder learned, but I don't belie
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by murphyslab 3y ago
I've been using RIF for probably 10 years. I'd sooner browse Old Reddit on mobile than use the official app. Reddit Inc has been trying to emulate various trends, constantly running after leaders like TikTok. It feels chaotic and
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by murphyslab 3y ago
It's been frustrating to read how Reddit's API changes are affecting the unofficial mobile apps for Reddit. Seriously has me questioning whether I want to continue using the platform at all. The developer for Apollo posted a lengt
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by murphyslab 4y ago
Preservation is not a _public_ library's primary mission. However public libraries are a relatively new development. National libraries and many private libraries do exist to with the primary purpose of preserving information. cf http
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Reddit is sunsetting Talk and Predictions features(old.reddit.com)
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