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by nicwilson 7y ago
Yes. Evolutionarily, the adaptive immune system itself is the result of viral integration. Though not a commensal relationship, priming the immune system for healthy function, principally for stopping cancer, see high incidence of leukaemia
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by nicwilson 7y ago
Wow, how did I miss that? Thanks!
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by nicwilson 7y ago
Sounds really interesting, no links to any papers though.
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by nicwilson 7y ago
and they can be viral in nature, see oncogenic viruses e.g. HPV (cervical cancer)
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by nicwilson 7y ago
Well I did most of my signals analysis with an oscilloscope circuitry and a function (read: waveform) generator. You could very easily get computer versions of those and substitute the function generator for some music. But I'd consult
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by nicwilson 7y ago
There are many different types of Fourier transforms (i.e. generalisations and specifications(?)) useful for signal analysis, not just the (classical full spectrum) FT. E.g. the fractional FT (useful for signal separation), laplace transfor
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by nicwilson 7y ago
Fourier transforms and more generally convolutions.
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by nicwilson 7y ago
> Zero-click No user interaction required. > kernel code l execution with persistence Persistent malware with root privilege. > kernel PAC bypass I think PAC is some protection measures.
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by nicwilson 7y ago
Marke_t_ Maker?
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by nicwilson 7y ago
Given this is HN and OP mentions attending, they are likely referring to the Chaos Computer Congress, a German tech/hacker conference.
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by nicwilson 7y ago
The Laplacian and the Laplace Transform are two completely different things. The laplacian is the dot product of the gradient operator with itself, the Laplace transform is an integral transform with the kernel e^(-s*t). The relation of the
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by nicwilson 7y ago
Thats a looot of reef!
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by nicwilson 7y ago
Iodine is required for thyroid function, so _no_ Iodine is very bad. Trace amounts form diet may be enough (disclaimer IANADietician), but pretty much all the table salt we buy and use is Iodised.
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by nicwilson 7y ago
In this case the review is, mostly (chances are the area chair knows who is who), double blind meaning: the reviewers don't know who the paper is written by _and_ the authors of the paper don't know the identity of the reviewers.
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by nicwilson 7y ago
He is due to retire October 31st, or at the calling of a general election and dissolution of parliament, whichever comes sooner.
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by nicwilson 7y ago
Hmm, there are several things I find strange about this article. There are 22 proteinogenic amino acids (admittedly two are rare, selenocysteine and pyrrolysine, but with rarity comes importance when they do occur). The search for the corre
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by nicwilson 7y ago
For others who are having trouble understating the title, it basically translates as: "Set of proteins in bit of tooth from very old rhino from Georgia (the Caucuses) enables genetic classification of some related species."
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by nicwilson 7y ago
and the classic negatory chain of Yeah! (yes)-> Yeah, nah! (no)-> Yeah, nah, for sure! (yes)
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by nicwilson 7y ago
> It just allows you to logically separate build time I/O from runtime I/O, which I find is nice for reproducibility of builds and maintainability of code. You can get the same effect if you really need it with a pre-build com
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by nicwilson 7y ago
> This sounds like they are trying to train a bot to actually not be perfect? (At least part of) The training has MMR as a label from unsupervised learning from human games so as part of the configuration they can set the agent to play l
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by nicwilson 7y ago
You can write interfaces and for many projects that works fine. There are tools like https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/dstep to convert headers and tools like https://github.com/atilaneves/dpp to
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by nicwilson 7y ago
> Dmd's backend was ported by hand. Not quite, the c++ source was massaged to be free of weird corner cases of the grammar and preprocessor (e.g. enforcing no spaces between '#' and the preprocessor keyword) and then a too
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by nicwilson 7y ago
Mere presence shouldn't. If you never allocate from it (which is able to be verified very easily with the @nogc attribute), it will never trigger. You can disable it and trigger when you feel it is needed. You can choose to just leak.
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by nicwilson 7y ago
Its getting there https://github.com/atilaneves/dpp
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by nicwilson 7y ago
The difference not just a technicality it results in a large difference in readability as it linearises nested calls i.e. it transforms it to a functional pipeline (a la unix pipes). D has this (called Uniform Function Call Syntax (UFCS) )
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by nicwilson 7y ago
It is, case in point Chernobyl.
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by nicwilson 7y ago
Type safety: excellent, if you use @safe you have to tell the compiler you're doing nasty things with it. `cast` is a keyword so you can easily see where it is being done. Memory: very good with @safe (I've not use rust so I can&#
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by nicwilson 7y ago
Re GC, it is most definitely not being removed. Dependance on it is being reduced (with @nogc) and if you don't allocate from it, it will never trigger. It was recently made multithreaded for the mark phase (sweep is still single threa
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by nicwilson 7y ago
> C, D, C++, rust, and nim should all have comparable performance; For the same design; what sets fast code apart from slow code is the availability of designs enabled by the language. Compile time computation is a huge win for D (IIRC n
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by nicwilson 7y ago
The arsenic or the genes? Arsenic would probably be via mass spectroscopy, the genes would be via transcrptomics.

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