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by rflrob 12y ago
The idea that quantity strictly beats quality is not uncontroversial, however. There is plenty of evidence of people doing great work (usually also coming from a small-ish set of "superstar" labs), and still doing just fine. See,
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by rflrob 12y ago
I just asked my Manhattan born and raised girlfriend if she ever reported a rat, and her response was, "No. Why would I do that?"
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by rflrob 12y ago
The rockets used were sounding rockets—not orbital. I'm not sure just how much slower they are than orbital rockets, but if my hours of playing KSP are any guide, the answer is "quite a bit slower".
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I suspect that the DIYBio will be a rising tide that lifts all boats. There are so many pieces of equipment that we use in lab frequently that are stupidly expensive; I'm fairly sure that a significant component there is both the lack
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How did you get to work today? Even if you walked, are there really no vehicles along the road?
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If you're officially "overweight", and not any category of obese (at least by BMI), you might be better off not trying to lose any more. There seems to be a growing consensus that the best all-causes mortality rate is actual
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by rflrob 12y ago
It seems odd to me, assuming I'm reading the blue plots right, that the single most common number of contacts to have is one. I also wonder if it's just phone calls, or if texts are included, since it now seem to call far fewer pe
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by rflrob 12y ago
By the way, this is more or less what Dr. Ellie Arroway (Jodie Foster's character) was doing in Contact. People often assume that it was an error, because "radio telescopes don't produce sound", but anything produces sou
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by rflrob 12y ago
What I, if I were a reviewer on this paper, would have liked to have seen is a ROC curve—basically, if you tweak the cut offs, can you get fewer false positives at the expense of more false negatives. Assuming fraud in science is rare (I th
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by rflrob 12y ago
It seems to me that every researcher will have a different level of 'amplifiers' in their writing, so this will be a really hard classifier to train generally.
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M6.1 Earthquake – 6.1km NW of American Canyon, CA(earthquake.usgs.gov)
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Of course it does. But presumably most people who bike will never have a potentially fatal brain injuring accident, while having a healthier, more environmentally friendly, cheaper life (gas is expensive!), and on balance, it's a net p
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While it's true that women and men aren't the same, I think that there are good reasons to believe the level of inequality we have now is not due solely to natural inclination. This video of Neil deGrasse Tyson on minorities and s
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It's also frightening if it becomes so mainstream that you become a pariah by not doing it. Dave Eggers novel _The Circle_ looks at this, and while I felt it was hyperbolic and more than a little preachy, it's certainly worth thin
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by rflrob 12y ago
I'm a fan of the knuckles mnemonic: Starting on the outside knuckle of either hand, a high knuckle is 31 days, and the valley between knuckles is less than that (generally 30; FU February), then when you get to the other end of the han
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by rflrob 12y ago
Probably because the editors are so siloed in their physics mindset that they aren't aware that there are journals in these fields, or if they are aware, they almost certainly don't know which journals are reputable.
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In theory you could, at least according to the hype. You would probably be better off taking a drop of blood, mixing with various reagents to lyse the cells and lightly fragment the DNA, but that's the dream. Of course, thanks to the a
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by rflrob 12y ago
Kind of rare, but not enough to justify the sort of price premium they demand, at least according to [citation needed]. Heck, it's probably the same source(a) the Grandparent post is thinking of.
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by rflrob 12y ago
I would argue that the graphical breakdown on the original link is more helpful to grok the breakdown of languages than the original reddit post.
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by rflrob 13y ago
"Just processing the insurance forms costs $58 for every patient encounter, according to Dr. Stephen Schimpff, an internist and former CEO of University of Maryland Medical Center who is writing a book about the crisis in primary care.
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by rflrob 13y ago
I think it's a headline editor feeling just a little too clever. Spine stimulation... 'shocker'... Get it?
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As a potential counterxample for when you might want to remove numbers, a couple weeks ago I was presenting a proposed analysis pipeline for some data, and what I'd expect the results to look like. The x-axis points were all fixed, an
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by rflrob 13y ago
I think "edit" is appropriate, since you aren't just randomly modifying the DNA, but modifying the DNA at a specific location in order to introduce a specific modification. Furthermore, in biology we usually use "modify
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by rflrob 13y ago
True, but that's not necessarily the case in biology, where the people are no cheaper, but the experiments are a lot more expensive. Assuming $N of grant is as easy to get in CS as biology (ha!), you'll be able to fund way more
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by rflrob 13y ago
This is not at all what I study, but it seems possible to me that sponges have evolved a tolerance for low oxygen conditions in the billion or so years since they first arose. It's a common mistake to think that because something is m
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Explainer for "double meaning in genetic code"(bacteriatobonobos.com)
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> if someone has spent time to get a PhD in a part of computer science that just doesn't have real-world profitability, it's pretty clear that it's going to be hard to find a job in the market. If they are only looking for
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by rflrob 13y ago
Better late than never, I say. Nor do I think he waited to win his Nobel to promote open access, as his editorship of an OA journal would attest to. It's also worth pointing out hat eLife is actually free to publish in, at least for th
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I think it's worth noting that Europe in General, and France in particular, is very anti-GMO, so this will mostly apply to conventionally bred (but still patentable) plants. If IP is your problem, I'll admit that GMOs aren't
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A rare counter example to Betteridge's Law. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines

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