murphyslab

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by murphyslab 4y ago
Location: Vancouver region, Canada Remote: Open to the possibility Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: PhD in Materials chemistry. Knowledge of multiple nanotechnology tools and skills. Scientific image analysis & Python. Résumé&#x2F
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"Free domain privacy, forever", in GoDaddy's wording, seems fairly standard now. But really it's a spin: Since 2018, domain privacy is required by EU's GDPR in many instances. But pre-GDPR it was frequently an add-o
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CIRA's privacy policy is one of the reasons why I've stayed with .ca for my digital presence: > The registrant name and administrative and technical contact information of non-individual registrants, such as corporations, is di
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No, you seem to be confusing "vendor lock-in" with "monopoly". The above isn't what is meant by "vendor lock-in". Here's a good explanation by Cloudflare: > Vendor lock-in refers to a situation whe
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The issue has existed since well before widespread availability of smartphones and cheap laptops. Here's a clinical review from 2003 (largely citing studies from the late 1990s) where the same issues were already clear: http:/&#x
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Appreciate the explanation! Thank you for taking the time.
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> You correctly classified 26 of 30 (86%) images! > You identified 11 of 14 (78%) AI-generated images. > You identified 15 of 16 (93%) human-made images. Focal planes were another tell.
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Can someone explain how this link works? The endpoint seems to change based on which browser and which type of window I use to open it.
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Depends on what country you're moving to. But in my experience, moving from Canada to Europe and back, it's not seen as "weird" travelling with computer stuff. My suitcase even had a PC monitor and motherboard tucked in
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My undergrad university went with too much minimalism. It replaced an stylized crest (anachronistic for a university founded in 1965) with a "red brick". Note that The Concrete University has no bricks to which this might be a ref
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> “over the next few days, the absolute top priority is finding and suspending any verified bots/trolls/spam.” Is this goodbye to @ElonJet? Also, "troll" seems rather nebulous. Is it the end for anyone seen as a troub
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You'd think that Amazon would do that (and apparently they do not) just so their employees would be more familiar with the products and able to offer better suggestions on improvements. Guess I now know why the Prime Video interface is
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> Track location over time and display it on the map. Turn that into a downloadable GPX Right now I use "Easy GPS logger" for this although it lacks a map aspect. It hasn't been too bad on my battery, either. But it's
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> Each carat of mined diamond has a footprint of over 100kg of carbon dioxide and over 500kg of greenhouse gases in total. The report by Imperial College London Consultants, cited by Sky Diamond, highlights the environmental and climate
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The index is just the first step according to news articles: > Once the index has been created, the next step is to develop search applications. > The team at TU Graz will be particularly active here in the CoDiS Lab and will work on
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> we asked 576 children, ages four to nine, to predict the behavior of two kids in a story. One of the characters genuinely wanted to be smart, and the other merely wanted to seem smart to others. [...] > When children themselves are
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It's definitely affected me a bit today. She has a visual and historical presence in so many Canadian institutions, from her portraits hanging in my elementary school growing up, to our currency, the courts, and government itself. It&#
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It sounds like there's a solution in not discharging directly from the beach showers. I wonder if it might be feasible to collect that water somehow and use it as greywater elsewhere: watering plants, for instance.
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This reminds me of my alma mater. The provincial government previously had funded $X/student. Then they changed it to a fixed grant. Meanwhile, enrollment continued to expand; the institution saw the expansion as serving the public. So
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It worked for me. Here's the output with a "stupefied" expression: https://i.vgy.me/OvbtNs.png
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I haven't seen this covered in mainstream TV news, save for a segment earlier this week on PBS News Hour. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/how-an-obscure-cellpho... Rather sad that it isn't more wid
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One would think the guideline applies here: > Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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The link should be changed to the DOI or a direct link to the journal article: - https://doi.org/10.1038/s41366-022-01211-2 - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41366-022-01211-2 Not sure why OP lin
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> the tremendous trade-offs entailed in the indiscriminate scanning of users’ cloud data. It might be helpful to frame any cloud-based scanning of user activity or files as akin to mass-testing in health. While it sounds good in principl
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Works surprisingly well! One note for walking directions: It doesn't seem to take elevation gain into account in choosing between alternate routes. Probably a not an easy thing to implement.
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Curious that this article, from August 11, is posted today. Since no one in the thread has mentioned it, the issue has been in the Canadian media recently due to a situation first reported on August 16 which was updated today. The first par
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The same thrust started happening in Canada recently as well. The Vancouver School Board recently eliminated its honours programs in math, science, and English in the name of inclusiveness: "By phasing out these courses, all students w
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One thing that surprised me while attending a music festival this summer was the dozen or so 20-something women were wearing crochet tops. Nothing nearly as dazzling nor intricate as Bjerke's work. But the few who opted for that look d
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> The platform splits pre-publish peer review from post-publish refereeing. Pre-publish review then becomes completely about helping authors polish their work and decide if their articles are ready to publish. Refereeing happens post-pub
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Growing good, X-ray quality crystals is more art and luck than science. It's particularly difficult with most proteins and other biomolecules. [0] But even for small molecular compounds, it isn't always easy. I'm not sure abo

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