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by rflrob 15y ago
In this case, they seem to be testing the blood for markers that should indicate an ability to repulse an HIV infection. Not the most scientifically informative experiment one can imagine, but also pretty straightforward ethically.
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The one new journal we might actually need(genomebiology.com)
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by rflrob 15y ago
Proof of that is the fact that we can't even get water to all of these people. Not sure how good an analogy this is. I suspect it would be moderately expensive (i.e. on the order of a few billion dollars), but possible to deliver a liter
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by rflrob 15y ago
On the other hand, if you have the traffic analysis done well enough, the information decoding is unimportant. Given the brain's pretty strong region specific activity, what parts of the brain are acting up are a pretty good correlate of
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by rflrob 15y ago
> It seems valid to me. There's no reason to ask them to somehow extract this visual data "unbiased", without bootstrapping off of video clips like that. I agree that their approach seems valid. There is a reason to ask them to extract
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by rflrob 15y ago
This seems to be creating a false dichotomy in the original argument. It's not that there are some people who can't understand concepts like pointers and recursion, but having taught programming to several crops of complete neophytes, I'
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by rflrob 15y ago
I don't see on the "Making of Origo" page anything about what material they're using, but ABS plastic isn't that expensive, especially for small models. They also ask (but don't answer) "What if it could recycle its own material?", so litt
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by rflrob 15y ago
I think of quiz-shows (like Wait Wait Don't Tell Me), where there's often a bell to indicate a correct answer. Also (and probably related), Bingo.
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by rflrob 15y ago
> Perhaps we need something like an exchange for labor, like a stock exchange meets a temp agency. I think the problem here is that workers are even less fungible than corporate stocks. The process of separating out the chronically unem
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How Well Does Your iTunes Listening Correspond to Zipf's Law(zipf.it)
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by rflrob 15y ago
Feynman would be pleased. It would seem there's no longer " plenty of room at he bottom", and only 50 years after his challenge. http://www.zyvex.com/nanotech/feynman.html
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by rflrob 15y ago
Very true, but for the first 15 or so years of schooling, knowing the answer to a question is a sign that you aren't stupid, and so the inverse must be true: not knowing is a sign you are stupid. It takes a while to get out of this habi
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by rflrob 15y ago
Given that PLoS is only 8 years old, I think it's too soon to draw any meaningful conclusions from the fact that the open access movement "has failed to displace the monopolists". I think more important is that the trends are moving in the
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by rflrob 15y ago
This is completely ignoring the potentially positive effects of social media during the riots. @metpoliceuk was helpful in spreading news and tamping down false rumors.
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by rflrob 15y ago
Good points all around, but any government that wants to maintain it's rule will portray freedom fighters as unruly rioters. Sometimes they are, and sometimes they aren't, but giving the government the ability to restrict communication if
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by rflrob 15y ago
I wonder if there's a subset of people (presumably people who often do puzzles and the like) who run counter to this finding. I often run gimmick car rallyes[1], which is an extended exercise in parsing the rules, and when I've fallen for a
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by rflrob 15y ago
I can only imagine how much more I would've enjoyed it without the spoilers. Ah, but you're arguing a counterfactual. The study suggests that you wouldn't have enjoyed it more without the spoiler. Similarly, with The Sixth Sense, you mig
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by rflrob 15y ago
I'm skeptical that the topics listed in the sample are actually relevant to a first-time programmer. While eventually I would want people to know that numbers are stored in binary in the computer, for most purposes, a first timer doesn't ne
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by rflrob 15y ago
I don't drink there often enough to be sure, but I suspect they have an app that displays the card's barcode. At that point, the difference between a live app and a screenshot of the app (which is what was on "Jonathans card") is pretty sli
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by rflrob 15y ago
I don't think it's fair to think of Jordan as a particularly Islamist (which is distinct from Islamic; the former being a political philosophy, the latter meaning "primarily Muslim") country. Especially compared to the Gulf states which ha
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by rflrob 15y ago
> Wasn't there something in the news not too long ago about an investment firm that ran this way? :) Only if there's also a continuous stream of people who are drinking without paying. If, out of a sense of community responsibility, pe
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by rflrob 15y ago
By definition, the odds of getting into the top .5% have to be very slim because only .5% of the population can get in there. No, by definition, the odds of being in the top .5% at any given moment are very slim. In a system with a hig
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by rflrob 15y ago
Sometimes, the Illumina website descriptions aren't too bad[1-2]. Unfortunately, I don't know of any great resources targeted to a lay audience (which is not to say they do or don't exist). I work in a lab that does a lot of high throughpu
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by rflrob 15y ago
Depends on what you mean by "sequence a genome". There's nothing out there that can take a single chromosome and sit and spit out its sequence from one end to the other (even from organisms like yeast that have much smaller chromosomes).
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by rflrob 15y ago
I'd be surprised if the appellate court could give you a set of criteria for what exactly makes "a distinctive chemical identity and nature". Inside the body, your DNA is packed up into chromatin by wrapping around other proteins called his
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by rflrob 15y ago
The potential problem here is that the mere existence of details sometimes trips up the 95%. A friend's spouse apparently likes to keep their home directory clean, and once deleted the Library folder because they hadn't put it there, and d
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by rflrob 15y ago
My cell reception at home and work is flaky at best (thanks, AT&T!), so when I call my parents (both of whom also have iPhones), I'll usually do it over Facetime, which uses the much stabler WiFi.
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by rflrob 15y ago
Many: "Gordon set seven Pirahã a variety of tasks."
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by rflrob 15y ago
Regardless of whether 40-70% of grant money going to overhead is reasonable, there is still the point that most science is funded by medium-large scale grants, and no doubt some of that overhead goes towards maintaining facilities used for
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by rflrob 15y ago
I think I would only care if they tag me AND share the photos with others. If they intended not to share it with anybody, then I don't care whether they think I'm in the photo or not. A more reasonable approach would be something like "if

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