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Maybe it is the confidence interval on the estimate of the mean, not the 99% interval of the whole distribution Update: yeah, the next paragraph describes the uncertainty of the estimate of the mean, which is not the same as the spread of t
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The authors second point is that the length of each sentence also stands out. This helps you assess the flow of the writing. I thought it was a useful point because I write with one line per sentence, but had only considered the first adva
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Cool topic! This project is really interesting. (From the title I thought it was a sort of generic cheminformatics article, but the fingerprints in question are x-ray absorption spectra, which are the targets of the model) The really tough
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There’s a few drugs currently in clinical trials that used AlphaFold in the design pipeline, IIRC. So that is something.
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Didn’t see this response while the thread was active, but the degree in question is the Ph.D. — in my department you needed a B average to stay in the program, and we were explicitly encouraged not to optimize for straight As in grad classe
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It’s used fairly often in the US national lab community (Not just among physicists). I think the point is that the physicists were among the very early adopters of computing systems. I’m not sure about the history of the term “code” used th
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> One of the most important papers in fracture mechanics was published in a campus newsletter. The publication venue doesn't matter that much. I’d be very interested in a link, that sounds cool! One of the more important contributio
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Largely agree, but I wouldn’t say grad classes are rubber stamped. In the program I was in, the courses were rigorous, but the encouraged attitude was “B’s get degrees.” If you had a 4.0, you weren’t focused enough on research
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Grad admissions committees vary quite a lot from program to program, in terms of how they value different admissions criteria. if your kid is interested in research don’t let grades faze them. Demonstrated ability to think independently and
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I think a contributing factor for organic chemistry is not everyone teaches the mindset needed to do well. Good teachers will help students explicitly build a heuristic mental model for what the electrons might do in a particular bonding en
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I work in (non-CS) STEM, and not fighting Word is a big reason that I use LaTeX. I find it really distracting how word automatically reflows text while writing, references are always a pain, and it’s a hassle to update figures after re-runn
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Current CDC estimate has 220k deaths among working age people (under 65). Maybe you’re not meaning to minimize that impact, but that’s sort of how your comment reads
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The paper you linked puts the solubility of Sc around 0.25% in Al. They have some cool TEM work in there looking at how Zn modifies the ordered ScAl3 precipitates that form during aging, which I think is the context for the bit you quoted.
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by rsfern 4y ago
Panel is awesome. It’s pretty easy to use along with streamz to make streaming dashboards — streamz has a nice streaming dataframe
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I think you’re probably referring to how redefining a struct breaks Revise.jl and you have to restart the REPL? There are some other rough edges but IME this is the most noticeable You can use Pluto.jl for this kind of rapid prototyping whe
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The amount of spike protein that manages to circulate the blood stream is super low, like orders of magnitude lower than in a typical live infection.
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Robot Operating System 2(science.org)
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Yeah, that’s a fair point. I am kind of coming from this place where we’ve been treating structure solution as an optimization/search problem for a long time. To me the competing methods to AlphaFold seem a lot more like computer chess
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> - "AI/ML can't solve scientifically useful problems" - then AlphaFold changed the protein folding field AlphaFold is a big deal, but AI in science has been a really hot topic in the past almost decade. Also, I still
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I think it’s partly just the format. In his interview after the Grammys he was pretty thoughtful
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Thanks, I see what you mean now. I think I was keying off the word “entirely” and trying to make it work for all three dimensions of the building at once. It seems like the building will fit along each coordinate inside the diagonals, but t
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> the Empire State Building can fit entirely inside of an n-cube with sides of 1 cm, for sufficiently large n. The length of the diagonal of such a cube grows without bound, and so does any constant-dimensional cross-section. I still fin
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I wonder if this will change if novavax gets emergency authorization? I guess we’re supposed to learn more about that in a few weeks https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/coronavi...
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Cool, thanks for the references! LabVIEW is the only one I’d heard of I didn’t mean to imply that there’s no prior art (observable also comes to mind), but I’ve just gotten so frustrated lately with how easy it is to make an unsustainable m
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This library is super cool because it implements a ton of important classical computer vision methods in a way that is compatible with automatic differentiation. So you can combine modern deep learning methods with classical methods
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> By default, cells rerun whenever its code changes or an input reruns, like a spreadsheet! This is transformational — I’ve been using Pluto.jl a lot lately for prototyping library code and doing data analysis. Now when I work in python
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digging down to the cited source on US GDP point, honestly seems pretty reasonable > We discover that closing racial gaps is a pareto improvement to both the U.S. economy and society. If racial gaps for Blacks had been closed 20 years ag
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US GDP is about a quarter of that, about 24T. So an estimated reduction in efficiency of 40% (40T -> 24T). Seems high, but maybe not laughably so, to me https://www.bea.gov/news/2022/gross-domestic-product-first
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That’s cool that this is in Julia Base! Do you know how it compares to Unpack.jl? I love this feature because you can do partial unpacking by name https://github.com/mauro3/Unpack.jl
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OCR at 1MHz doesn’t seem easy to me… is that even feasible on commodity hardware? Looking into achievable frame rates though, I guess we can image things way faster than I would have guessed https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki&#

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