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by neutralid 8y ago
Indians, Lebanese and Iranians are Asians.
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by neutralid 8y ago
Extending the computer analogy, what would be ideal characteristics for the software architecture of a successful scientist?
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by neutralid 8y ago
The associated paper to the article is: https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article/file?id=10.137... p.15 has a summary of what they propose, e.g., density of p21+ chondrocytes, as an inhibitor: "Because w
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by neutralid 8y ago
According to a recent Lancet article [1]: "Atherosclerosis was common in four preindustrial populations including preagricultural hunter-gatherers. Although commonly assumed to be a modern disease, the presence of ath
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by neutralid 8y ago
While I am skeptical of attributing personality changes due to cell memory from organ transplanting, is it possible for a cell or a cell collective to have information (memory) embedded as a dynamical system? Theoretically, it may be possib
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by neutralid 9y ago
> If the latter features are of interest to our Government, we shall be pleased to take up the matter either on a basis of providing machines of agreed specification, at a contract price, or, of furnishing all the scientific and practica
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by neutralid 9y ago
http://wifcon.com/anal/analwright.htm
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by neutralid 9y ago
Early on, Langley (and the Smithsonian Institute), who opposed the Wright brothers, was funded by the military early on failed flights whereas the Wright brothers were unable to secure funding even though they had a working prototype. Consi
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by neutralid 9y ago
If you know how to formulate the problem well (which is typically half the problem anyway), Mathematica is great for providing closed-form solutions, if there is one. In CS graduate school, it would provide general closed-form solutions tha
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by neutralid 9y ago
As a note, for Mac OS X Sierra, if you press Option while copying, the pathname is copied.
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by neutralid 9y ago
https://www.quora.com/What-college-majors-have-on-average-st... You could use GRE test scores to compare across subject majors. There may be saturation at the top where further differentiation between majors could be possib
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by neutralid 9y ago
> In short, we over-reward those at the top and dismiss the rest. It’s an unhelpful and unnecessary bias that facilitates hero worship, undermines the goal of nurturing creativity and discourages valuable contributions to communities, wo
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by neutralid 9y ago
With the advent of word processors and spreadsheets, work shifted from secretaries to other already employed office workers. https://newrepublic.com/article/121712/slow-death-secretary A similar shift is occurring
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by neutralid 9y ago
Based on % total majors, interesting how biomed has been inversely related to engineering (and most of CS) except in the last decade where they're all growing at a higher rate than math + physics. Would be interesting to relate this to
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by neutralid 9y ago
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2017/04/11/united... > United spokesman Jonathan Guerin said Tuesday that all 70 seats on United Express Flight 3411 were filled, but the plane was
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by neutralid 10y ago
> It is very important for a designer to recognize all the parts of a design that are not easy wins, that is, there is no proportionality between the effort and the advantages. In optimization, if you make an analogy between speedup &#x2
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by neutralid 10y ago
I haven't heard about the programming conference effect. That makes sense. Proving it out involves exposing the theory to a wide range of adversarial inputs to demonstrate robustness. There seems to be a similar trend in mortality with
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by neutralid 10y ago
What's interesting is that Google's Translate, via neural network training, seems to have found an efficient structure underlying many languages: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2114748-google-translat...
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by neutralid 10y ago
> Team members who believe in their leadership tend to be more effective. Patients who believe in their care have better recovery rates. There may be other factors regarding recovery rates perhaps counter-intuitive with respect to the p
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by neutralid 10y ago
The focus is on the subtle impact of using some framework for analysis rather than the gross impact of individual bias (obviously that's an issue every scientist should be and probably is aware of). For example, statistical causal mode
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by neutralid 10y ago
Sometimes, symmetry reductions become easier using a coordinate-free approach. This means that you could better determine invariances in the system without having a bias towards a particular coordinate system. Philosophically, finding commo
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by neutralid 10y ago
> When you say "coordinate-free" do you mean "independent of any fixed frame of reference"? Yes. Einstein's field equation can be derived using differential geometry, e.g. a coordinate-free approach. Prof. Smith
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by neutralid 10y ago
Prof. Smith describes how social sciences could benefit from the modern, coordinate-free approach in physics. He also wishes for a tighter coupling in social sciences as we've seen historically with physics (theory) and engineering (pr
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by neutralid 10y ago
The irony of your post getting downvoted instead of getting discussed further on a thread discussing how dissenting non-mainstream liberal views are disapproved of in SV. Appears like ideologues regardless of their affiliation enjoy suppres
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by neutralid 10y ago
> QM just doesn't add _any_ new explanations or make any predictions for consciousness. Until it does, or we meet something we really cannot explain, it does not make sense to obsess over it. As an aside, how would scientists develo
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by neutralid 10y ago
https://www.cnet.com/news/ancient-indian-aircraftspaceship-o...
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by neutralid 10y ago
Wikipedia's entry and discussion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Indian_mathematics/Archiv... While there is some level of whitewashing going on, there's a lot of hyperbole of what was discovered dur
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by neutralid 10y ago
Macbook: - Bibdesk ( http://bibdesk.sourceforge.net ): archiving papers (automatic rename / custom citekey generation), Google Scholar bibtex extraction, and bibtex interface w/ TeXShop - Google Drive: storing archive ..
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by neutralid 10y ago
There are horizontal lines on Safari in the upper left corner that closes the sidebar. If I don't close the sidebar, for whatever reason, Safari blanks the page on mouseover.
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by neutralid 10y ago
Carmack probably experienced a lot of government waste in aerospace. It's an industry that's long been dominated by subsidized government programs. On the other hand, Carmack should have experienced the dramatic development of the

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