rook166

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   by rook166 5y ago

   > If you ask a gain-of-function proponent, they will say that by creating viruses that might emerge in nature, you get to understand zoonotic jumps from animals to humans better and possibly prevent them. Specifically, you get a head-sta
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   by rook166 5y ago

   I think that's probably at least somewhat true, although from the article it seems like the argument against that selection bias is that a) COVID-19 seems to be substantially more "tuned" than its cousins SARS and MERS, and b
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   by rook166 6y ago

   As someone who's both gone through a DS bootcamp (not Insight but similar) and also been on the hiring/interviewing side, I've thought a fair bit about this. First off, have you tried applying for DS jobs yet? What were the r
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   by rook166 6y ago

   Oh cool, I'd never heard of those, funny enough. I'll have to look into those myself!
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   by rook166 6y ago

   For any Python users, there's a library that automates mutation testing by parsing the AST: https://github.com/EvanKepner/mutatest
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   Show HN: I wrote a polling simulator to help understand political polls(github.com)

   2 points by rook166 6y ago|0 comments
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   by rook166 7y ago

   Almost - stars orbit with approximately the same velocity, not period.