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Commentary: The problematic media portrayals of women in science(physicstoday.scitation.org)
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by pfd1986 7y ago
Specially in light of recent correlations found between inflammation and all sorts of diseases including neurodegenerative ones, previously discussed on HN: https://harvardmagazine.com/2019/05/inflammation-disease-
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by pfd1986 7y ago
This is great! Looking fwd to your book on graph database ML. In case you've been using Graph Convolutions, this might be interesting / useful for you: [ https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.00067 ] arxiv.org/abs&#x
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by pfd1986 7y ago
In a traditional CNN you use the same convolution kernel across an entire image. Here you do the same but you convolve the features of a person (pixel) with the feature of its neighbors, but those change depending on the network. Drawbacks
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Are Brain Networks Controllable? (2015) [pdf](labs.psych.ucsb.edu)
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Choosing the Adventurous Route: The Career Path for Non-Managers(emptysqua.re)
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by pfd1986 8y ago
Needs 2013 tag. Still fun tho.
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by pfd1986 8y ago
Microfluidics computation is an active area of research. See for instance Prakash et al https://youtu.be/m5WodTppevo
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by pfd1986 8y ago
Is that the same idea behind Campbell's "The Power of the Myth"? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Myth
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Rubber Bands Tie Our Brains Together(axiezai.github.io)
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USA Facts: 2018 Annual Report [pdf](static.usafacts.org)
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by pfd1986 8y ago
Is there a HN thread discussing these reports? I'd love to hear folks' opinions about them... Interesting facts to me in the latest report [1]: - Page 44: "Our economy has grown at a steady rate despite changes in economic po
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by pfd1986 8y ago
Crimes are/ might be more likely to be committed by blacks, in some countries. Being black doesn't make you more likely to commit a crime.
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by pfd1986 8y ago
Disagree. I think this is like saying Einstein shouldn't have been vocal about the Bomb. I think scientists (and scientific institutions) should use their visibility to make a social point, and that shouldn't at all undermine th
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by pfd1986 8y ago
"And does anything get cooler than this to avoid parking tickets?" Seriously? No wonder so many people in Palo Alto / Bay Area hate Tesla drivers...
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by pfd1986 8y ago
We did. Our customer had a bucket shared to a role they created, we spent a week back and forth trying to mount such bucket in our instance using fuse. Mounting with gcsfuse took 5 minutes (although no role used, so perhaps an unfair compar
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by pfd1986 8y ago
Same here.
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by pfd1986 8y ago
Same here. We have spent 2 days trying to create instances and migrate images just to figure out later they can't start. Right when I convinced our project to get migrated from AWS...
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by pfd1986 8y ago
Location: Palo Alto / San Francisco Remote: NO Willing to relocate: YES Technologies: Keras, Python, AWS, Docker, Mathematica, C++, Cuda. Résumé/CV: https://goo.gl/214YZM Email: pablodamasceno@gmail.com I am a phy
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by pfd1986 8y ago
Incidentally, the list is similar to what Google (re)-discovered when researching what makes teams succeed [1] [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/magazine/what-google-lear...
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by pfd1986 8y ago
Also moral tribes, by Joshua Greene. These 2 were the best books I read this year.
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Idea Machine: a prize competition to help set the U.S. agenda for STEM research(nsf.gov)
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by pfd1986 8y ago
People in silicon valley tell me everyone is going to move to the mountains / beach once self-driving cars can bring them to town any time, while they can do whatever in the comfortable commute. My belief though is that most people wan
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by pfd1986 8y ago
Is there a recommendation system within Blind? It seems it would be the obvious solution to remove 'undesired content' to the user..
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by pfd1986 8y ago
I know you said read but I found the Internet History Podcast very enlightening and fun to listen to: https://pca.st/miqr
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by pfd1986 8y ago
Another theory (possibly complementary) is networking. Golfing / frequenting private clubs can greatly improve CEOs visibility among other CEOs.. I believe Mark Newman's network theory book mention exactly this example.
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by pfd1986 9y ago
Care to suggest some? I've tried truereddit and even truetruereddit but they've become mostly politics
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Edge.org: Premortem(edge.org)
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by pfd1986 9y ago
Agreed. With the enourmous cuts in science funds nowadays one can make a big difference by, for instance, fueling cash into research in virtually any area. The achievements can still be watched within a lifetime.
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by pfd1986 9y ago
Yes but with a caveat. Many of the artists I discovered via Spotify / Google Music make pennies from these sites. The truth is that unless you're buying an album (1) or other merchandise, you're not contributing significantly

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