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by searine 9y ago
Re-reading Anathem by Neal Stephenson, because it's so god damn good. The Mandibles recently. It was okay. The economic ideas were interesting, but the story dragged. The Accusation by Bandi was good if you like North Korea stuff. The
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by searine 9y ago
Genomics / Bioinformatics. I was very lucky. Because of my field I got a premium post-doc position and salary and I easily transitioned to a non-academic position due to my comp sci background. Many biologists aren't so lucky...
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My experience : Intellectually my post-doc was amazing because I finally felt I was a world-leader in my field. I was attending the right conferences, mentored by the right people, and showing that I could hold my own with heavy weights. Ps
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98% of all charging on my car is done at home, at night. Charging stations are for long trips or connivence at points of interest.
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Queens Plaza/Queensboro Plaza would also be interesting imho.
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Living in NYC opened my eyes to how awesome laundromats can be. All your laundry done at the corner store, coming back neat and folded for a dollar a pound. Calgon, take me away.
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Fun fact, there is a very healthy after-market for the iPod shuffle among swimmers. The device can be easily and robustly waterproofed and is small enough to clip to your goggles. I expect many of these 3rd party companies will be buying up
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> It seems to me you just have to find a flexible existing pathogen We can do that now. It's fairly easy for anyone to edit viruses or bacteria using non-crispr methods to make something more virulent. The problem is there is an evo
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You are assuming growth will continue. A flash in the pan is also exponential, for a time.
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Nature paper say 2.5 kilobytes of data, and I guessimate a few Kilobases of sequence.
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>I gloriously await from teenage hackers 10 years from now release CRISPR viruses/worms You're going to be waiting awhile. The hard part about biology is that it often doesn't work. To get things working even semi-reliably
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A Spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down
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Here's the amazing thing. It hasn't. In fact, it's gotten better. So much better that now obesity is the problem, not malnutrition.
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>I'd also be concerned that the produce would lack micro nutrients because the system is artificial. Plant nutrition isn't that complex. Plant nutrition deficiencies are easy to diagnose and easy to treat. It only takes a few d
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>Is there some reason that this is not taking off on an industrial scale? Fish get sick and die when kept in big groups. It's a huge problem in fish farming, and they have a billion gallons of water at their disposal. There simply i
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by searine 9y ago
>Weed control is perfectly possible using either mulching or superficial hoeing. We are talking about farming, not gardening.
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Scythians probably put a lot more value on an slow ugly horse that would live 30 years rather than a pretty horse that could sprint but died when it saw its shadow.
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Domestication leads to heavy inbreeding and a depression in genetic diversity genome-wide. Furthermore, the Y chromosome recombines at a much slower rate compared to the autosome, resulting in less diversity. This should be balanced by a hi
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I never thought of that but it actually makes perfect sense for a Musk venture.
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> incorporating metrics other than publications. This is qualitative and easily gamed though. Science can get mean and highly political. Adding a qualitative metric to scientific achievement would just give ruthless people a tool to hurt
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This is mostly due to the audience. Scientific journals are written for a scientific audience. For the most part, scientists get very adept at identifying good articles from bad, even in well regarded journals. Thus the system polices itsel
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Considering how many grey hairs my post-doc put on my head, then I'd believe it.
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>Allele Frequency For the particular SNP I am heterozygous for in this particular gene, the population level allele frequency is 0.00001649. Missense mutation. Another variant in this gene, a stop loss, is at 0.0017 Yes, of course the li
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by searine 10y ago
http://www.cartoonbrew.com/artist-rights/vancouver-union-fil...
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As someone who recently finished a post-doc and jumped ship to a more lucrative contractor position. None of that is worth the lowered income.
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It can detect whatever variants they put on the SNP chip, be they common or rare. The only caveat is we have to know what variants to put on the chip in the first place. That's the hard part, linking rare variants to disease. After tha
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This test was extremely useful to me, as I found out I was a carrier for a previously unknown genetic disease. It was because I used 23andMe that I now know I am a carrier and can potentially prevent having a child who would suffer from thi
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>Those reports seem not-so-easy to understand based on the patients she sees. Sounds like they are keeping her in business.
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They have, and found nothing. People want to find these effects. It is in academic scientists best interests to make headlines. Look at the lead in flint for evidence. It turns professors into heros. The only problem is when there is nothin
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I could drink a glass of urine without any ill effect. That doesn't mean I am waiting beside the urinal with my coffee cup ready.

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