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by plaidfuji 9y ago
Yes, you're right - but only the extremely technically literate will understand that. Look how long it's taken the masses to figure out that central banks are an oligarchical control system. You don't have to convince me that
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by plaidfuji 9y ago
Outside of Silicon Valley, people view cryptocurrencies as a 21st-century safe haven investment. Insulated from overvalued equities? Check. Insulated from sovereign debt crises and central banks? Check. Whether or not that's a fair or
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by plaidfuji 9y ago
Equally unfounded, absolutist opinion: if government gets involved, it will be the legitimizing endorsement that takes crypto mainstream.
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by plaidfuji 9y ago
Another way of putting it: an essential part of any successful negotiation is achieving your desired outcome in a way that doesn't make the other side feel like they've lost.
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This is some fucking medicinal grade wisdom right here.
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Image processing tends to be quite application-specific. What's the application?
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Entocycle stood out to me as having significant long-term prospects. Bug protein is a fundamentally disruptive product at a time when demand for sustainable protein is growing all over the world.
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by plaidfuji 9y ago
I'm as guilty of this as anyone, but I'll tell you how to fix it: Make code review part of peer review. I think the next generation of scientists at least understand that things like unit tests are useful, but passing peer review
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by plaidfuji 9y ago
This would be more appropriately titled "downloading, cleaning, and plotting cryptocurrency price data using pandas and plotly in a Jupyter notebook." TL DR the analysis is just a couple of time series correlation coefficient heat
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I think the moral of this story is fundamental to all of academia: the sexier projects tend to rake in the grant money, even though they're less likely to succeed. The advisor didn't tell your buddy to do that project because he e
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by plaidfuji 9y ago
Governments are actually in a bit of a gray area. On the one hand, a politician can score cheap points with the public by saying "we should all be able to read what our tax dollars pay for!", and on the other hand, the government
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by plaidfuji 9y ago
This is probably the most insightful comment here. When your grandma is buying some asset class, it's time to sell. I think the biggest complicating factor here is the US government debt and the massive amount of it that the federal re
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by plaidfuji 9y ago
This post seems like it was meant more as a demonstration of the data viz, but to me this is just adding an overly complicated interface to a dataset that doesn't need interactivity. It's easy to show debt vs time for all countrie
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by plaidfuji 9y ago
This is definitely true, but all of these genes have been vetted by millions of years of evolution, so we know they're rock solid. The edits we're talking about will be happening on a time scale that won't be constrained by n
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This is the real shit right here. There's going to be gene-ism against older generations with inferior genetics, talk of "cutting them off" of government health programs because their fragile bodies are too expensive to maint
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by plaidfuji 9y ago
I've seen most of these arguments for and against gene editing before, but the fact of the matter is that it will come down to the economic competitiveness of nations, as always. What concerns me in the long term is that gene editing w
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by plaidfuji 9y ago
I'm a researcher in this field. Printable, flexible solar cells have been researched for over a decade and improvements on their efficiency plateaued at about 10% almost five years ago. That's at lab scale being tested in a nitrog
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Incidentally, humans aren't very good at extrapolation, either, but our ability to generate good hypotheses differentiates us strongly from these models.
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As a chemical engineer who started learning deep learning after learning regular old regression-based empirical modeling, my interpretation of deep learning is that it's just high-dimensional non-linear interpolation. If what you'