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by rsfern 5y ago
Isn’t the quantum nature of reality already like looking through a microscope and finding voxels? I don’t see why finding underlying structure in what we expect to be pure noise has to mean our reality is a simulation. I guess it could be c
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by rsfern 5y ago
I think it’s a combination of atomic radius and Z contrast (heavier atoms show differently from lighter ones in the TEM). It also helps that the crystal structure is known They also describe some comparison to forward modeling in the method
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by rsfern 5y ago
Shouldn’t it be feasible to build an interoperable version control system so you can still collaborate on GitHub?
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by rsfern 5y ago
Super interesting and detailed post, I learned a lot. The most interesting bit of evidence discussed is this preprint [0], where they analyzed 1.8M coronavirus sequences and find much less genetic diversity among breakthrough infections rel
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by rsfern 5y ago
Scotch tape exfoliation is wonderfully low tech and whimsical as a material synthesis method, if that’s what you mean, but the Nobel was for graphene itself. I guess I agree that the levitating frog business could one day lead to very impac
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by rsfern 5y ago
Covid was the third leading cause of death in the US in 2020. Just because it’s not a uniform risk profile across the population does not make it an unserious disease.
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by rsfern 5y ago
> There is no profit in it I don’t know that I’m 100% convinced by this. Elsevier makes like 40% profit margins, and their primary contribution to researchers is prestige lock-in, basically. Scientific publishing is in many ways stuck in
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by rsfern 5y ago
I think open and transparent science is really important if we want to adopt evidence based policies in a democratic society. However, when it comes to law I don’t think there really is a “what science says it should be”. We can use the sci
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by rsfern 5y ago
I don’t know specifically about for Plan S, but most open access fees are in the 3-5k range per article
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Do they though? As I understand it the PCR tests aren’t designed to distinguish between variants. We run more intensive sequencing assays on some subset of patients to assess in a statistical way the spread and emergence of variants. This w
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by rsfern 5y ago
A gene therapy, sure. After all, that is the basis of CRISPR gene editing [0]. One of the key differences is the mRNA vaccines are not delivered with the necessary enzymes to actually cleave and splice DNA, e.g. [1]. 0: https://e
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by rsfern 5y ago
[1] is an interesting lit review on what drug strategies have been tried where in the world. None of these papers seem to present strong clinical evidence that these drugs have actually been effective, vs some hidden covariate or somethin
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by rsfern 5y ago
Fair enough, I don’t mean to excuse this, just making it clear that I’m not singling anyone out
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by rsfern 5y ago
I agree about the press release. Though they do run it out to ~100 cycles without too much apparent further degradation, so it’s probably not dead on arrival as a contender against Li-ion?
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by rsfern 5y ago
The primary reaction at the cathode is reported as Na + 0.5 Cl2 <-> NaCl (Reported in the paper, which is unfortunately not open access. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03757-z )
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by rsfern 5y ago
Par for the course for a uni press release, unfortunately. Not picking on Stanford at all, it just seems to be a common theme Unfortunately the paper is not open access and I don’t think there’s a preprint, but from my quick read it seems p
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by rsfern 5y ago
The uni press release sort of buried the lede, but if you read the methods section of the paper they are doing these measurements in a coin cell with a sodium anode. This is early stage cathode optimization research, everyone reports curren
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by rsfern 5y ago
It’s literally the first sentence of the linked article… Edit — I see you’ve specified unsupervised where the article specifies “unauthorized”. However, given they turned off the security cameras I think it’s kind of splitting hairs
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by rsfern 5y ago
That’s correct, because a certain conspiracy theorist published “smoking gun” screen caps of information on the voting systems in question, and there was unredacted information that led back to Mesa county. https://arstechnica.co
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by rsfern 5y ago
Well I hope we don’t soon find out. The current arms race is in hypersonic missile tech. https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/slowing-hypersonic-arms-rac...
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by rsfern 5y ago
I think this is intended as sarcasm (?) but there’s actually a current line of inquiry around whether the vaccines can help alleviate long COVID symptoms [0]. Anecdotally I have a friend Who had a pretty rough bout of Covid last year and th
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by rsfern 5y ago
Here is Derek Lowe on the matter back in June, with an update after the big Egyptian study was retracted: [0]. Not specifically on this website you linked, but on the body of evidence for ivermectin as a COVID therapeutic. I was curious so
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by rsfern 5y ago
This HN comment [0] links to a Twitter comment by an epidemiologist criticizing a related site for cherry-picking data, among other concerns. It seems like there are several sites that all have similar layout/content and very distincti
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by rsfern 5y ago
These calculations aren’t stratified by age / prior risk, so you can’t really infer the efficacy this simply.
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by rsfern 5y ago
Interesting point. I read the original point as contesting the idea that insurers are going to have to eat a loss. In the end I think both perspectives are insightful: insurers aren’t in the red for 2020, but they’re also profiting from COV
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by rsfern 5y ago
Since you’re an emacs user, I highly recommend org mode and org-ref for technical writing. For collaborative writing I’ll export to overleaf, but I’ve never found anything quite as good as org mode for organizing, building, and revising res
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by rsfern 5y ago
I get that Fauci in particular is a controversial figure for some reason, but he’s for a long time been realistic that this virus has a high probability of becoming endemic [0]. I’m not sure why anyone would single him out as opposed to pol
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by rsfern 5y ago
Yeah, I agree with your assessment. I thought you had written that sentence as an example of some Markova chain non-sequitur, and i was just musing that it doesn’t seem like a super unlikely sentence. “The movie was like ticket” maybe make
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by rsfern 5y ago
I agree with your general point, but I think “the movie was like candy“ could be a perfectly reasonable simile to make. Maybe the movie was flashy but had no substance? I’m not sure if I expect modern language models to work at that level o
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by rsfern 5y ago
It seems unlikely at this point that there are unforeseen long term side effects. Historically vaccine side effects have emerged within a few weeks to months of vaccination [0]. I’m not personally ruling it out 100%, but is there even a pro

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