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by rtl49 11y ago
Take a look at arXiv.org and tell me out of all of them which papers seem to stand out. There's too little time in a day and in a life for anyone to become independently aware of all happenings of personal interest. We rely on other to
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by rtl49 11y ago
Is there a question? You've certainly found your choir.
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by rtl49 11y ago
Like I said before, "I have little hope that we will be able to maintain this form of privacy." My dispute is that it isn't worth trying to save, or that it's a thing of little value.
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by rtl49 11y ago
Unfortunately, I can't access the publication at the moment. You can read the abstract here: http://www.nber.org/papers/w21610 Whatever measurement they made that they're calling "hyperactivity," it
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by rtl49 11y ago
>“Bode’s law,” formulated in the 18th century, which holds that planets and moons orbit their hosts at predictable mathematical ratios. I think this is a very unclear description of the "Bode's law" hypothesis. How does an
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by rtl49 11y ago
I actually was not arguing against bias in the article, rather the appeal to emotion and failure to seek a reasonable explanation before directing the reader to a conclusion. I wouldn't mind if it had taken a stance. Perhaps out of per
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by rtl49 11y ago
I wasn't referring to identification (I even specifically mentioned that with respect to forensics). I'm talking about knowing the specific content of a subject's genome, the issue of primary concern. Even if you know the gen
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by rtl49 11y ago
I disagree that it's better to come to terms with it. If we were to normalize a sense of disgust at the practice we could institute legal protections against bulk collection. What you're describing is simply a world that few peopl
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by rtl49 11y ago
I think these are separate issues. There is definitely an important difference between being able to use DNA in criminal investigations and maintaining a database of every genome in the population. The first solves a problem of legitimate s
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by rtl49 11y ago
I encourage you to improve you English skills, but you should know that native English speakers working in diverse settings are accustomed to being around non-native speakers with varying levels of skill. You probably aren't being judg
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by rtl49 11y ago
What you're claiming about the privacy of DNA isn't strictly true. You're correct that, aside from mutations, we share all of our alleles with one or the other parent, and about half of them with full siblings, etc. But this
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by rtl49 11y ago
By industry-oriented programs, I'm referring to institutions of higher learning which have tailored their cirricula primarily to prepare their students for employment in industry. I contrast this with those which are intended to prepar
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by rtl49 11y ago
If I'm not mistaken in detecting hostility from the scare quotes, I'd like to say that I don't believe it is unreasonable to expect that the journalist who wrote this article to provide that information before making appeals
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by rtl49 11y ago
I know. I was surprised to find that my manager hadn't taken FP, while I had during coursework in computational biology at such a school. I think this just illustrates my point: in industry-oriented programs, FP isn't considered a
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by rtl49 11y ago
Well, I certainly wouldn't expect a business executive to invest in a drug he suspects will be unprofitable. That aside, if the drug is unprofitable, and society has established as a general principle that the private sector is the app
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by rtl49 11y ago
I don't know enough about Gladwell personally to make a qualified remark, but I don't see the relevance of his supposedly "statist" political views or opinions on the value of higher education. The "structure"
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by rtl49 11y ago
Without more information, I think the indignant tone and format of this article are unwarranted. Before we learn anything, we hear about the human toll: innocent babies will die, parents are distraught, and doctors are furious. But we'
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by rtl49 11y ago
It's refreshing to read an article about a scientific study from a university press office that doesn't exaggerate or misinterpret its implications. Perhaps it's a luxury of prestigious schools. I suppose a reasonable hypothe
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by rtl49 11y ago
I really don't disagree with the substance of your comment, though the Algol-family languages tend to be hard because of disorganized core libraries and occasionally cumbersome syntax rather than because they depend on unfamiliar mathe
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by rtl49 11y ago
This isn't true. Prokaryotes do not have membrane-bound organelles resulting from an ancestral symbiotic relationship. (You might be able to found some weird exception to the rule out here. This is a generalization -- nothing in biolog
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by rtl49 11y ago
Actually, I wasn't. The first claim is that there are fewer programmers using OCaml because it's uncommon in industry. The second is that their business has no obvious need for a paradigm which, in my view, requires more education
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by rtl49 11y ago
Perhaps, as you suggest, attracting more talent is one benefit of using an FP-oriented language for their codebase. It would have been nice to see this claim evaluated in the context of a cost-benefit analysis including the costs. This arti
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by rtl49 11y ago
Since a few people are kind of getting on my case, I'd like to point out that I learned OCaml for coursework in functional programming and computational linguistics. I'm not suggesting it's useless or comparable to quantum ph
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by rtl49 11y ago
I agree the situation isn't directly analogous, though presumably one only reads updates from people whom one wishes to follow. I was trying to suggest that, with respect to this particular issue, social media has simply amplified a hu
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by rtl49 11y ago
My prejudice is that anyone competent in functional programming is also comfortable with other programing paradigms, in particular OOP. Not so much the reverse. Thus the limited talent pool and higher wages.
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In other words, they like the fact that it has features typical among languages oriented toward functional programming. There's no cost-benefit analysis here discussing the obvious pitfalls from a business perspective, such as a much r
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by rtl49 11y ago
True, but he specifically mentioned the RbPi and Arduino in his comment. This makes me believe he's interested in more functionality than what is offered by the standard API.
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by rtl49 11y ago
At the risk of "microcomplaining," I'd like to deride this as yet another thoughtless, substance-free article from the NYT. With an amusing lack of self-awareness, a non-issue is identified (as a "seismic shift," no
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by rtl49 11y ago
It depends a great deal on whether it's possible to unlock the bootloader. Unfortunately, many of these cheap phones are loaded with the carrier's software. They don't want you to uninstall it, so they don't let you unlo
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by rtl49 11y ago
I'm not sure why the writer mentions this. (It's probably an excuse to link to another Vice article.) The Android version number in itself isn't a good indication of the phone's vulnerability. Stagefright, for instance,

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