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by nickledave 4y ago
Since nobody's said it yet: if you want to talk with people working in nat'l labs, a good place would be the US Research Software Engineer association. Go to https://us-rse.org/join/ and fill out the form to
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by nickledave 6y ago
Thank you, logged in to upvote this. These docs are committing basic errors. 6.6% infected has to be wrong. That just shows we're not testing enough to see the true, much lower, number. It's also biased because we're not rand
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by nickledave 7y ago
In case anyone is interested, I'm developing a Python/Tensorflow-based open source project, vak, that annotates birdsong, similar to what Deepsqueak does: https://github.com/NickleDave/vak (DeepSqueak runs in
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Building a Twitter art bot with Python, AWS, and socialist realism art(veekaybee.github.io)
2 points by nickledave 9y ago|0 comments
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by nickledave 9y ago
You've found watermarks in sci-hub PDFs? I hadn't noticed that but maybe I was too excited about being able to get the damn paper. You could tweet at them with a link to a Github repo of your scripts, they are active on Twitter
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by nickledave 9y ago
To follow up on noelwelsh's comment, you might find this review interesting: http://comparative-cognition-and-behavior-reviews.org/2009/v... It talks about how our understanding of avian brains has changed and why
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by nickledave 9y ago
Probably has to do with control of the trunk and "infrasonic vocalizations" http://www.karger.com/Article/PDF/345565 if you believe the cerebellum mainly contributes to movement. Some argue that it also
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by nickledave 9y ago
Herculano-Houzel has published a number of surprising findings using the novel technique she invented for counting cells in the brain. In case you're interested: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC43
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by nickledave 9y ago
Animal studies of alcoholism is not my main field of study but I'm guessing many such studies have been done, here is one example: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1530-0277.1998....
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by nickledave 9y ago
Haven't seen anyone else comment on this specific statement from the abstract: "No association was found with cross sectional cognitive performance or longitudinal changes in semantic fluency or word recall." Based on other p
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The Rise of Addictive Technology (podcast)(npr.org)
2 points by nickledave 10y ago|0 comments
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by nickledave 10y ago
You may have also found a way to inhibit the sarcasm detection centers in the retrosplenial amygdala
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by nickledave 10y ago
There's no good evidence that many of these supplements make it past the blood brain barrier (besides caffeine obviously). Even if you could just eat GABA, there's no reason to think it would make you calmer, since there are cells
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by nickledave 10y ago
You are right that testing whether the gene changes how cells react can be tested in vivo, and that's how it was done originally. But the point of these studies is to figure out how certain parts of the brain work. Since the brain prod
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by nickledave 10y ago
Hey mirimir, it's awesome to see posts from someone else that thinks birds are cool. I hadn't seen those papers before--that Weiss study looks like it's worth reading in depth. Just wanted to say that most people who study bi
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by nickledave 10y ago
So you don't know any people that are mathphobes? You are right that it would be nice to have some hard science to back up the author's claims. Maybe we should read her book. I'm sure it's basically "Fear and Loathi
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by nickledave 10y ago
+1 for storytelling. This article is pretty much my life story, and I constantly tell that story to other people, because my own painful personal experience suggests our educational system does not do a good job of delivering the same messa
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by nickledave 10y ago
Ah, it's chromatin marks you need. Well I guess you could get a lot of retinal tissue from the rat model they use and try to find some. Interesting that this finding is in an animal that doesn't depend as much on vision as we do.
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by nickledave 10y ago
Hmm. In your studies can you identify retinal tissue? Guessing not since it's such a relatively small amount and might not have a clear marker like adipose/liver tissue. Accumulating mutations could cause Parkinson's--some
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by nickledave 10y ago
The results in the research article were obtained with a rat model of Parkinson's, where Parkinsonian symptoms are induced with rotenone. Most models of Parkinson's are based on neurotoxic drugs (e.g. MPTP, first discovered to ind
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by nickledave 10y ago
By "recent issues" I mean https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12032269 Thought this might be interesting for people that know the No Free Lunch Theorems from classification/optimization too
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by nickledave 10y ago
Just tweeted by Neuroskeptic; if this has implications for the recent issues with fMRI studies, I hope someone smarter than me will let me know.
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No Free Inference Lunch – Cog. Sci(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
2 points by nickledave 10y ago|2 comments
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by nickledave 10y ago
Knowing that someone uses Moleskine notebooks adds nothing to the story? To me, it says a lot. Writers are taught to be specific, in part because it keeps a story interesting and makes it more vivid. I'd attribute the details to that o
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by nickledave 10y ago
For people unable to read all the way through the title, it does say "...and a DIY Manufacturing Habit". </sarcasm> Seriously, her comments about how "hobbies" like DIY manufacturing and Makerspaces are seen
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by nickledave 10y ago
I'm aware that there are assumptions implicit in what the null hypothesis is. You are the one who keeps saying the authors don't even realize what those assumptions are, but you haven't pointed out anything besides what the a
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by nickledave 10y ago
@mattkrause: you beat me to it
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by nickledave 10y ago
See mattkrause's comment below. I think you might not be understanding what they're testing. They're taking only resting state data, randomly sorting some of it into "pretend active state data" and then asking whe
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by nickledave 10y ago
Heh, we must have been posting at the same time. Good point that the RNA monster doesn't do much; even some bacteria can "smell" chemicals and move along a gradient, a "behavior" that makes us think of them as alive
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by nickledave 10y ago
I haven't read anything about this besides the Wiki but I would say the RNA monster's not alive because it only reproduces when a scientist adds the right enzyme to the test tube. It can't actually reproduce itself. Viruses o

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