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LaTeX package for using CSL styles? Is it on the horizon?
3 points by plg 10y ago|1 comments
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by plg 10y ago
Counter-experience - I bought a Wildebeest desktop from them ...5? Yrs ago ... and it's still going strong. Faster than my MBP (2016) in many cases
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by plg 10y ago
In Canada annual checkups by your GP are free. If needed, blood tests, x-rays, CT, MRI, whatever, free.
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by plg 10y ago
bacteria is plural should be "a bacterium" or "bacteria that can live for decades ..." not "a bacteria"
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by plg 10y ago
Trickle-down scientific progress via babysitting apps and ways to trick web browsing consumers to click on ads? Maybe. I get your argument. But it's not all or nothing. I think my argument is that IF there was more government funding f
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by plg 10y ago
The lede is this argument that our best minds should be solving real problems ... but the substance of the argument --- at least one part of it --- is that governments should be funding Science at a higher level, so that all of these smart
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Never mind pointless apps – our best minds should be solving real problems(theguardian.com)
31 points by plg 10y ago|6 comments
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by plg 10y ago
I recall an actual study where researchers had participants listen to people who were (a) very confident but turned out to be incorrect or (b) neutral but correct. Then they rated these people on their competence. The confident people were
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by plg 10y ago
Got it done with Python/Mechanize! Thanks for the suggestion!
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by plg 10y ago
thanks for this! I think though I'll try Python/Mechanize first. Also I'll try not being so neurotic about it and just wait like a human being for the email to be sent to me :)
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Daniel Dennett: Information Silos Could Throw Us Back into the Middle Ages(theguardian.com)
2 points by plg 10y ago|0 comments
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by plg 10y ago
I have always wanted a program/script to check for changes in the NIH era commons site, specifically a page that indicates for a particular grant application, what its score is. Problem is, to get to this magic page (which is, I think,
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by plg 10y ago
HP laserjet + red fineliner pen Sometimes iPad Pro More rarely, on a desktop or laptop
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by plg 10y ago
Edit: Apparently Canadians with dual citizenship with one of the 7 countries, are OK to enter the US: https://twitter.com/justintrudeau/status/825566950675845120
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by plg 10y ago
UK ??!
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by plg 10y ago
It's not even citizenship from one of these 7 countries.... it's having been born there even if you're no longer a citizen[1]. [1] https://twitter.com/nadhimzahawi/status/825445925275500545
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by plg 10y ago
Where does one buy one of these Intel NUCs???
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by plg 10y ago
I don't find any of it funny actually.
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What will Google do to guarantee privacy against Trump?
10 points by plg 10y ago|7 comments
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by plg 10y ago
no it's not
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by plg 10y ago
Former Prime Minister Stephen Harper tried to do this in Canada. It was bad. Thankfully he and his ideas were soundly rejected in the most recent election.
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by plg 10y ago
Awesome thanks!
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On Reproducibility and Clocks (2016)(ascb.org)
31 points by plg 10y ago|4 comments
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by plg 10y ago
thanks!
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by plg 10y ago
Is there a way beyond combing through and parsing endless CSS files?
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How to tell what font is on a webpage?
1 points by plg 10y ago|6 comments
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by plg 10y ago
Every time I decide I'm going to get into Python frameworks again, and I start looking at code, and I see people making everything object-oriented, I bail Just a personal (anti-)preference I guess
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by plg 10y ago
""Your fingers dance when you get into the zone, which I think touch screens just don't have," he said, giddy with excitement."
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Typing in 'the zone': Why the physical QWERTY keyboard still matters to some(cbc.ca)
2 points by plg 10y ago|1 comments
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Rising morbidity and mortality in midlife among white non-Hisp Americans(pnas.org)
2 points by plg 10y ago|1 comments

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