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Some technical universities in EU solve this problem by having full-time practical courses e.g. in January and June. For example, as a CS freshman you can build a really solid background in functional programming by going through a sequence
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I always found this to be a shortsighted complaint. Getting exposed to languages where computation models are clear gives you an excellent background to switch to the language du jour and become a master. Going through e.g. HtDP or CTM ma
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> I've never had Firefox issues on Linux. My experience on Linux running on very old hardware (4th Gen Intel) is also good. Firefox feels quick and snappy. It uses a reasonable amount of resources, and has a relatively modest memory
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These are typically measured using liquid chromatography coupled to tandem mass spectrometry. That also gives the opportunity to measure thousands of other metabolites, and thus get a broader picture of health. Unfortunately, commercial B2C
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The same metabolite, imidazole propionate (ImP), was already found to be associated with diabetes and heart failure. See for example this study in Nature Communications (2020): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020
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Unihertz sells some decent Android phones that have 3 and 5 inch displays, respectively: https://www.unihertz.com AFAIK, these are similar to the iPhone SE? The SE form factor was great in terms of size and thickness. Easy to us
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Wow, have you considered leaking these stories somewhere?
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I have followed this scandal quite closely over the years, and these two quotations sum it up. Pretty sad: "The report alleges that even before the program was rolled out in 1999, some Fujitsu employees knew that Horizon could produce
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Little nitpick. C# was created by Anders Hejlsberg who studied at DTU (Copenhagen). He also implemented Turbo Pascal. Borland was also a company founded by Danes. In general, programming language theory is pretty strong in Denmark, with lot
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Second-generation LSTMs (xLSTM) do have leading performance on zero-shot time series forecasting: https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23719 . I think other architectures, aside from the transformer, might lead to SOTA performanc
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A PhD in the US requires a lot of coursework, aside from research. Perhaps, she is interested in that. Otherwise, some universities, especially in EU, offer PhDs by publication. She could simply wrap up her counter-example publication ( htt
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I think it's even worse. They have a completely chaotic returns policy meaning they re-sell used things pretending they are new all the time. I stopped buying from Amazon UK after I received 6 opened and used items in just 20 orders. S
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One of the benefits of EU regulations is that they have brought some order to the dumping of raw sewage into rivers and seas. But there is still a lot of work to do. Local authorities from lots of EU regions generally avoid measuring water
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Reading good books and good code is important. In my case, I found the code in AIMA and CTM very inspiring.
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I love Nix flakes, but for some languages it is still very painful to use. For example, Julia has an unusual package management system and lots of packages still fail under flakes.
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In biology, Arc Institute is doing great novel things. Some pharmas like Genentech or GSK also have excellent AI groups.
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> This has existed for at least a decade, maybe two. Methods have evolved a lot in a decade. Note how AlphaGenome prediction at 1 bp resolution for CAGE is poor. Just Pearson r = 0.49. CAGE is very often used to pinpoint causal regulat
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Yes, but it's not dramatically different from what is out there already. There is a concerning gap between prediction and causality. In problems, like this one, where lots of variables are highly correlated, prediction methods that onl
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I found it disappointing that they ignored one of the biggest problems in the field, i.e. distinguishing between causal and non-causal variants among highly correlated DNA loci. In genetics jargon, this is called fine mapping. Perhaps, this
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> Integrating some actual programming features could be a game changer. LuaTeX already lets you embed Lua code and it is really good. However, I do agree some usability improvements are needed.
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It will tweak spacing, kerning, margin protrusion, and font size to improve readability avoid big word gaps and excessive end-of-line hyphenation. It is what sets professional typography apart. Only Adobe InDesign provides a comparable impl
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LaTeX needs several passes to compile because it was designed with minicomputers of the 80s in mind, i.e. tiny memory constraints. Latexmk is one way to address this problem. A good IDE like AUCTeX can also figure out how many times the com
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LaTeX typesetting is a solved problem. Memoir or Classic Thesis, paired with microtype, provide outstanding results and you need to spend zero time on tweaking stuff. Typst is interesting, but it doesn't yet support all microtypography
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There's not a lot of competition yet. Sway is good, but lots of fantastic WMs with great UIs are still stuck in X. Needing a massive re-write doesn't help. My personal favorites (XMonad, StumpWM, and EXWM) have all tried but faile
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By looking at the article [1], it seems that the problem is very different depending on the beverage class. In case of water, both glass and plastic are quite clean in terms of microplastic particles. Beer (glass) seems to be heavily contam
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I think he did understand both the significance of his work and the importance of hardware. His group pioneered porting models to GPUs. But personal circumstances matter a lot. He was stuck at IDSIA in Lugano, i.e. relatively small and not-
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> no present-day "FAANG" in the EU is in no small part due to their relatively anti-business/startup policies Draghi's report claimed a big factor was the lack of a true financial union, which made it hard to mobilize
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UConn coordinated a ton of work during the past two decades on mechanistic cell models. Mostly ODEs, PDEs, and stochastic ODEs. See The Virtual Cell at https://vcell.org . It's interesting how high-throughput perturbation as
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I love ThinkPads, but some models have horribly intrusive fans, whereas others are great. It's necessary to do a bit of research ahead of buying. The new x13 looks really promising.
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They are nice, but a bit more noisy than MacBooks in terms of cooling. However, you can tweak some kernel params to keep them mostly silent. Plus, some of their AMD offerings are really good for running local LLMs. A Framework that runs Nix

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