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by rsfern 5y ago
I agree with the general point that diversifying our vaccine targets is important for robust immunity, but you are sort of coming close to advocating that we not use the particular somewhat limited vaccine tech we have at our disposal now.
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by rsfern 5y ago
I’ve analyzed the flu stats myself and the lower prevalence this year is not on its own compelling evidence that the Covid stats are fraudulent. I’m honestly curious if there is anything substantial to support the claim that there is widesp
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by rsfern 5y ago
From the article you linked: > The [florida department of health] issued a statement explaining how COVID-19 deaths are determined, which noted: "COVID-19 is listed as the immediate or underlying cause of death, or listed as one of
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by rsfern 5y ago
This site appears to be related to another site linked in a different thread that has been criticized for cherry-picking results and including studies with dubious methodology or statistical power. Plus it still includes the large Egyptian
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by rsfern 5y ago
Dismissing it just because it’s the active ingredient in heartguard is IMO a bit misguided; after all it is a known antiviral compound and there’s a plausible mechanism of action. It’s more to the point and less inflammatory to focus on the
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by rsfern 5y ago
Vaccinated people have a strong immune response to the virus, and presumably it would take a much higher viral load to make them clinically ill. To me this seems like a much more plausible explanation for dual thresholds than some kind of c
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More protein folding progress – what’s it mean?(blogs.sciencemag.org)
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by rsfern 5y ago
150 billion is the size of a pretty restricted subset. The estimate for general druglike compounds is 10^60
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by rsfern 5y ago
There are a ton of interesting graph neural network architectures that have been developed over the last 5-6 years, they are getting pretty good at modeling the properties of molecules and crystals Edit: saw your other comment on GNNs. I do
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by rsfern 5y ago
Volatility is more about vapor pressure, so how much a compound likes to evaporate, rather than structural components per se. I couldn’t find any vapor pressure data online , but the boiling temp of oxybenzone is about 70C higher than for b
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by rsfern 5y ago
Benzene is a bit denser than gasoline, so volumetric vs mass vs molar basis aren’t directly comparable. This EPA slide deck [0] has ~1.25% by volume equated with ~1.5% by mass towards the conclusion slide. Interestingly it used to be around
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by rsfern 5y ago
I think this is a really interesting idea. It does seem more effective for validating that reviewers are not torching the work of others — is there a nice way to validate that reviewers are not giving their friends a pass, short of reviewin
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by rsfern 5y ago
I skimmed a couple of the top hits on GScholar, seems like it’s mostly used as an epitaxial substrate for growing thin film functional materials like BaSnO3. Crystals that would be interesting to research as potential ferroelectric or multi
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by rsfern 5y ago
The current sort of arms race around hypersonics is precisely because there are no good currently existing countermeasures for a missile traveling at like Mach 10. I’m sure it’s being worked on, but there’s a lot of effort going into the mu
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by rsfern 5y ago
Yes, I agree. The point is, how much does this new public health guidance depend on the assumption that people will accept the responsibility to either mask up or get vaccinated?
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by rsfern 5y ago
That’s fair, my point is just that it’s a valid source of anxiety. And it’s not just my own parents. Like 30% of the US seems like they are not going to get a vaccine any time soon, and I worry that the guidance critically depends on the as
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by rsfern 5y ago
Thanks, but I don’t think that’s actually accurate. AIUI, J&J grow their adenovirus vector using the cell line PERC.C6. This is a super emotional topic for a lot of people, so it doesn’t really make a difference for them that there are
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by rsfern 5y ago
FYI it’s probably low risk for pregnant women to take the mRNA vaccines. If your friend wants to be vaccinated but is uncomfortable maybe they can specifically ask their GP about it? https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019
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by rsfern 5y ago
I think most probably have a more nuanced position than that. My personal hesitation is that people are just going to ignore the explicit condition of full vaccination. Worst case outcome could result in dragging the pandemic out and provid
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by rsfern 5y ago
I don’t remember much backstory in 1984 for how the surveillance state came to be, but I think it’s totally plausible that a government could co-opt this self-imposed setup and use it for 1984-style control.
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by rsfern 5y ago
Do you mean this OSTP report on cloud computing? Personally I think it’s pretty straight to the point for a government report like this. There’s like half a page introduction and it’s straight to specific recommendations and goals. They eve
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by rsfern 6y ago
Check out Revise.jl, it enables this workflow, and it’s awesome. https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/workflow-tips/#Revis...
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by rsfern 6y ago
What kind of range do you have? Resistive heating can be a bit tricky with cast iron, but I’ve found that preheating the pan in the oven can help. Cast iron has really high thermal mass compared to clad cookware, and lower thermal conductiv
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by rsfern 6y ago
It’s 44 threads (22 cores). They also compare with tensorflow cpu compiled with SIMD instruction sets on the same hardware. What other optimizations would you like to see? I would expect the tensorflow team to already pay pretty close atten
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by rsfern 6y ago
What size features would you be looking to image? STM typically is used for atomic resolution imaging, so the maximum practical field of view is probably in the 10s of nanometers if you have atomistic resolution. You might be better off wit
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by rsfern 6y ago
One way to extrapolate is to use a mechanistic or semi-mechanistic model. The recent advances in neural differential equations are a really cool example of this
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by rsfern 6y ago
I don’t think the paper is claiming to be breaking new ground in microwave plasma. Seems like the point is more to nail things down to enable people to do cool plasma research without expensive kit From the abstract: > These simple techn
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by rsfern 6y ago
I’d encourage you to just apply to some good programs, don’t get psyched out by your perceptions of the competition. Grades, papers, recommendations are all important, but they’re not everything. There’s a certain randomness to the graduat
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by rsfern 6y ago
NIST is not a regulatory agency, so any kind of enforcement or liability is kind of on Congress to do something about
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by rsfern 6y ago
I agree with you that a reasonable answer is an average, but a half on a volume basis is not necessarily equivalent to a half on a mass basis

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