niekmaas

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by niekmaas 3mo ago
Well, that is a statement..! As an MD PhD with over 60 (co-)publications including multiple in top 1% journals I can say for sure that this is untrue. Of course this may be different per topic and country, but there is perfect research bein
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by niekmaas 9mo ago
Well, you're absolutely the target audience. As you can see my focus so far is mostly on (neuro) oncology as this is my domain of interest/work. Let me know if you have any topic requests or have any ideas for additional features
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by niekmaas 9mo ago
No problem, and thanks for the request! #insulin-resistance is now added: https://www.summarized.science/topics/insulin-resistance/ . I ran it for each month of 2025, if you want to go back further just let me kno
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by niekmaas 9mo ago
As a pathologist and neuro-oncology researcher, to save myself time trying to keep up with scientific literature, I'm working on https://www.summarized.science/ . Based topics of interest (suggestions are more than wel
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by niekmaas 4y ago
Depends on the industry/company but for me it works like this: when the holiday is on a Friday (my day off) it's bad luck and I don't get an extra day. Simultaneously though, when I have to go to a specific conference on a Fr
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by niekmaas 5y ago
There is no way for us to know if the drug is a "revulotionary cancer drug" if we don't test it in a double blinded randomized controlled trial (RCT). Indeed it would be disappointing the later find out you were treated with
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by niekmaas 5y ago
Excellent point. One thing I notice in the discussion about AZ is the fact that the risk for thrombosis is not really put into context. One very strong comparison is this: when taking a 6-hour flight the risk for thrombosis is about 5 times
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by niekmaas 6y ago
I think the appeal to the tidyverse "universe" is the readability of the code. Especially to novel users of R (and there are a lot of people in science that have to generate a plot once a month or so). ggplot2 works fine if you on
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by niekmaas 6y ago
Perhaps aimed at a lower age group, but I think https://www.e-learningforkids.org/ should also be mentioned. They provide free primary school education for all kids. Currently mostly focused on math though.
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by niekmaas 6y ago
Is there any validation that the user is actually from the selected college? It seems I can write a review about a random dorm just by selecting it. What about using the student’s .edu email address to validate the submission? Just a valida
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by niekmaas 11y ago
"My hunch is that Google has a oncology/immunology platform" As an MD, soon to have a PhD in oncology immunology, I always wonder what project Google could be working on in this area. After all they are a company and most pro
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by niekmaas 11y ago
Finally a topic on hackernews that I am getting my PhD in..! Anyway, do you have any data indicating what percentage of circRNA is "free" in the plasma versus inside of other entities like platelets or extracellular vesicles (exos
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by niekmaas 13y ago
I assume they have to pay taxes over this.
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by niekmaas 13y ago
A private pilot license (PPL) does not allow for commercial flying (charging passengers). To charge passengers to pilot requires a commercial pilot license.
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by niekmaas 13y ago
Very far for Dutch standards of course. Maastricht is only 2-2.5 hours away from cities like Utrecht, Amsterdam and Rotterdam. For other countries this would be considered close neighbors.
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by niekmaas 13y ago
In The Netherlands a case is usually dropped if evidence is provided that the conversation between a lawyer and his/her client was recorded and analysed.
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by niekmaas 13y ago
This book covers a lot of the material: http://www.amazon.com/The-Web-Application-Hackers-Handbook/d...
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by niekmaas 13y ago
Is it really needed to have a 1226 x 515 px header image for a blog? I understand that some of the readers are using the latest "retina" Macbooks or 52-inch displays, but on my couple year old Macbook I can just see the top of the title whe
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On Dec 31st WhatsApp processed 7B msgs inbound and 11B msgs outbound(twitter.com)
3 points by niekmaas 14y ago|0 comments
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by niekmaas 14y ago
Out of hospital CPR has very slim survival chances. Being on a plane will result in at least 30 minutes of CPR even before an ambulance can take over. Chances on surviving that are extremely low. Therefore I can see why the doctor on the pl
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by niekmaas 14y ago
Now we only have to wait for the respons of the "attacking gunmen"... will they increase their firepower? Body armor? Hand grenades? Tanks? Fighting violence with violence will only result into more victims!
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by niekmaas 14y ago
I've heard that argument about Korea ever since I started following and working in eSports (around 2004ish). Yet, I'm still waiting on that big breakthrough in the USA/Europe. I'm afraid it will still take quite some time.
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by niekmaas 14y ago
Why is there need for a plugin to do this? Why not use CSS: position: fixed?
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by niekmaas 14y ago
Perhaps a rather naive questions, but: were the username and pw transfered in plaintext?
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by niekmaas 14y ago
Why would you use the email? Mostly when passwords/usernames are stolen the email is there too. For my site I have an unique 128-bit token for every user. I also have a 128-bit site_key (which is in the application, not db) and mix those wi
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by niekmaas 15y ago
And worse, the whole layout is a Facebook ripoff. My girlfriend uses Yammer for work and when I took a closer look at it today it seems that most of the IU elements are 1 to 1 copies of Facebook. Pretty sad to be honest.
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This must be the worst password policy ever(i.imgur.com)
3 points by niekmaas 15y ago|0 comments
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Best Tools for Professional JavaScript Development(misfitgeek.com)
1 points by niekmaas 15y ago|0 comments
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Suspected LulzSec and Anonymous members arrested in UK(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by niekmaas 15y ago|0 comments
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3 carriers to invest $100m in Isis, a joint mobile-pay venture(boston.com)
1 points by niekmaas 15y ago|0 comments

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