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by rflrob 10y ago
Our vet has said that the thinking these days is that with proper care, 8-10 is reasonable for our minilop. Ours is 8 this year, and going strong! Also, the chewing does depend... quite a few scarves that my wife has from when our bunny was
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>Are you saying these people are innocent, and by some strange stroke of chance and luck, they all boarded a plane, flew across the world, and randomly won thousands of dollars ? I think he's saying that they are not necessarily gui
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Am I missing something here, or is it only possible to easily generate Gray codes (or a similar Hamming distance 1 code if Gray refers specifically to a reflection generated code) for 2^n positions? Is there a way to do it for 12 positions
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He's actually spent a fair amount of time on the Hill advocating for the NIH public access policy[0], which lets taxpayers access the research they've paid for. More broadly, though, science as practiced today consists of signific
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> The thing is, nature has a way of not caring what the Establishment thinks. It does care on a surface level, but it also conspires to cause the collapse of the socio-information paradigms that the Establishment creates. You're rig
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On the first point, there's an interesting discussion to be had about what we mean by successful---for any given student, they're just as well off on average at Vaughn Aeronautic College as U Chicago (and better off at Stanford, P
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I would agree that "close match" isn't a lot better, but the style in science papers is to say something like "A is a close match for B (r=.85)", where of course the precise value of metric and whether that is a clo
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Wikipedia only reports 16 [0], but you're looking at each of the armed forces separately having their own, as well as the DIA, plus departments like State and Energy, the FBI, and the CIA. Each has their own particular remit, but among
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Citation? Also, it's worth pointing out that the question was not "do they predict success", but "do they predict success controlling for pedigree ". Ive been thinking for a while on how you might actually measure
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It looks to me (based on outdated statistics [1]) that the Roman Catholic Church would come in at the bottom of the list, with "just under a million". If you can find better statistics, Wikipedia has a handy "edit" butt
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IP protection covers three things—patent, copyright, and trademark. Patent and copyright exist to encourage people to innovate; there's less incentive for the studio to produce next summer's big action flick if it were legal to co
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If the bookies are doing their jobs right, they'll make money either way. They set up the market, and the people who think Trump's odds are better than 20 percent will pay 20c for the shot at winning a bit less than a dollar, the
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Maybe the professor pulls that stuff on people without conscious regard to gender, socioeconomic status, or ethnicity, but in the context of longstanding explicit and implicit discrimination, I'm not inclined to give him the benefit
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To be fair, American English occasionally uses "lite" to mean "diet", so that likely is a direct borrowing.
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Likely autocorrect "fixed" wasei eigo for you. Wasabi eigo would likely be pretty spicy language... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasei-eigo
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Not really. Due to diffraction, the wavelength you need to resolve an axon (let alone the much more challenging dendritic projections) is on the order of a micron, which is near infrared. Unfortunately, our skulls are opaque in this wavelen
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>In the second half of the 20th century, it was becoming ever clearer that our unique evolutionary history was responsible for many aspects of our unique human psychology In my experience, most "evolutionary psychology" stories
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>First of all it makes it very hard for others to estimate your speed In my experience, the more harrowing near misses with cars have been where they don't seem to be aware that I'm there, rather than that I'm not moving a
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For a long time, I knew I was dropping this gene [1] from my analyses because pandas automatically converted its name to a floating point. With the right combination of flags I was able to get it to work right, but even real programming lan
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Should We Be Having Kids in the Age of Climate Change?(npr.org)
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> The harm in taking these allegations too seriously (false positive) is doing research and finding out the statistics are invalid That's one possible harm, but I think it's also possible that people will take the allegations t
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A microbiome treatment for C. diff (which is what the article mainly focuses on) seems eminently plausible, and an effective treatment can't come soon enough. However, for a lot of the other diseases that the title hints at (and are m
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If I were funding a science expedition, I think I would prefer that people use an off-the-shelf item, even if it's a little bit more, than spending time hacking something together. In grad school, a labmate of mine pointed out that sup
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Yes, the CRISPR dispute is about patents. But, as the article says in the third paragraph, "But in the midst of this debate, perhaps a more fundamental one is taking place", which clearly indicates it's talking about a differ
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In addition to the healthy, normal repair of telomeres in germ cells, they're also replenished in cancer cells. While probably not a sufficient condition for cancer, it's almost a necessary one. So just over expressing telomerase
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> And again especially works of nonfiction or scientific papers. As much as I feel that science---especially publicly funded science (which almost all of it is)---ought to be freely available fairly quickly, I think making a distinction
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"Genes" as protein coding regions is a common shorthand, but there's another, broader definition of "gene" as "a locus in the genome that bears some responsibility for a trait". For instance, the ability
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Fwiw, after our rabbit ate through the insulation on a power cord, we looked for stories of rabbits being actually hurt by electrocution. There's a lot more stories of them getting zapped and freaked out than suffering any permanent in
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That is largely true for the east bay—the Coliseum Bart station is the transfer point to the Oakland airport. And the neighborhoods around SFO are not nearly as gentrified as many others nearby on the peninsula.
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It's a tiny point and not, I'll be the first to admit, closely related to the article, but how is Ivan Lermolieff an anagram of Giovanni Morelli? Where does the G go, and where do the Fs come from?

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