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by rflrob 13y ago
> Let me explain the difference: all of our research had strict ethical guidelines backed by IRB approvals, the procedures were performed by trained biologists... Maybe your university was different, but at the University of California,
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by rflrob 13y ago
I wonder how hard it would be to introduce a cut detector, so that the (to me) annoying cinematic cuts that are sometimes at the beginning or end of a quote can be trimmed off. I think a simple heuristic of something like "If the frame
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by rflrob 13y ago
In the middle section, what prevents the monster from running clockwise, and thus making paths 2 and 3 suboptimal?
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by rflrob 13y ago
> Economists who want to study the effect of a basic income can travel to Alaska and see the impact for themselves. The problem with the states as laboratories of democracy is that, from a scientific perspective, they're pretty crap
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by rflrob 13y ago
Speaking as a practicing fruit fly geneticist, the metaphor of a "fruit fly experiment" is lost on me... anyone care to enlighten me?
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by rflrob 13y ago
In case you missed it: The animals are all arranged in poses by the photographer.
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by rflrob 13y ago
While Toyota's apparently monitors the driver herself, it seems most of the others on that list monitor driver input. Especially on a long haul flight where autopilot is on, they aren't likely to have any direct input, but should
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by rflrob 13y ago
When you compare that small extra fee to the "color figure fee" (for Science, I think it's ~$700 for the first +$200 per figure thereafter), the difference starts to become negligible compared to just publishing in an OA jour
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by rflrob 13y ago
NASA doesn't see a penny of that $20, which is the problem; it goes to the publishers of Science (the AAAS, which is, to be fair, a non-profit organization). While musicians don't get much from the average record sale, scientists
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NASA paywalls first papers arising from Curiosity rover – I am setting them free(michaeleisen.org)
569 points by rflrob 13y ago|121 comments
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by rflrob 13y ago
It is kind of correct... from a certain point of view. While there's probably a lower rate of funding for PhDs in the humanities than in STEM fields, there's also fewer people getting PhDs in the humanities than in STEM, by at lea
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by rflrob 13y ago
Yes they can: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/chrome/id535886823?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/opera-mini-web-browser/id363...
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by rflrob 13y ago
Presumably, if the primary effect is having a slightly lower kid around, then younger siblings would also tend to outperform only children, or those with a sufficiently large gap to the next older sibling. Anyone know if there's any re
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by rflrob 13y ago
> The other thing I would love to include is a halfway fold… I bet you have had this happen — You stick your boarding pass in your pocket, take it out at the gate and the stub is hanging off. You reached peak perforation too soon! Why do
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by rflrob 13y ago
I'd need to read the paper, but the write up seems to ignore the possibility that methylation is required to express the genes necessary to form memories, and not that the methylation itself is, in any meaningful sense, the memory itse
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by rflrob 13y ago
That doesn't seem rit to me. There's lots of adaptations that could probably increase fitness of offspring as a function of the parent's environment. In the same way, you can look at some programs and predict whether they hal
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by rflrob 13y ago
In this case, I ran up against the 80 character limit. I do confess that when trimming it down, I went for more the more sensationalist way of editing. I think the mods changing it from "Guns don’t kill people, video games kill people&
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Video games kill people? CNN, sensationalism, and how to fix it(penny-arcade.com)
27 points by rflrob 13y ago|11 comments
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by rflrob 13y ago
If that's the case, why is it in the Supporting Information section? In my most recent paper, I used the SI for results that would be of interest to some people, but do not fundamentally affect the interpretation of the data. In the ba
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by rflrob 13y ago
The policy is imperfect, though, due to an opt out clause. http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=1413
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Linux vs. Linux Users(shamusyoung.com)
46 points by rflrob 13y ago|30 comments
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by rflrob 13y ago
> list += seq uses the __iadd__ method, which almost certainly uses the exact same mechanism as the list.extend() method. When this method isn't defined (c.f. the Counter class from the collections module), a += b works li
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by rflrob 13y ago
>Additionally their flow rate is 0.4 microlitres per minute, this would equate to needing 625 000 channels for one pass only to get 250mL / min. Scaling for microfluidics isn't simply using a larger pipe size, microfluidic devi
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by rflrob 13y ago
I think it's unreasonable to expect the namers of a language to know every conceivable double entendre in every language. Coq was named by French researchers, and means "rooster", and pqR is obviously from the sequence of let
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by rflrob 13y ago
>> The things I don't say may be used against me >This was always true (emphasis mine) On the other hand, the fact that there was a SCOTUS case about it means that while it may always have been true, it wasn't clear to
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by rflrob 13y ago
Ah, but Mickey Mouse also has trademark protection. So if Steamboat Willie entered the public domain, then I could put it up on YouTube, but I couldn't sell an unlicensed Mickey Mouse Tshirt, which I think is totally fair to Disney.
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Genetics Errors in Supreme Court Decision(blogs.plos.org)
1 points by rflrob 13y ago|0 comments
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by rflrob 13y ago
Mostly true. If you note the exceptions, life insurance is exempt.
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by rflrob 13y ago
I am a biologist (who regularly sequences cDNA), and it is properly understood to mean complementary DNA. In fact, the syllabus' description of the process is far enough from what the process of actually making cDNA is like that it see
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by rflrob 13y ago
I don't know JavaScript, but I found it easy to interpret the commas as ditto marks, essentially reminding you that there's an implicit var before each declaration. Even without understanding the original reasons behind the convention, I'm

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