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by searine 10y ago
>There have been many studies in recent years examining the sub-lethal effects of agricultural dosages of glyphosate on honeybees Poorly done studies, whose effect pales in comparison to neonicotinoid (and other) pesticides. The authors
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by searine 10y ago
I agree. As a biologist, Glyphosate and it's concoctions aren't a concern in terms of environmental exposure. The concentrations simply aren't there.
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>There are big systemic risks and unaccounted external costs though I agree. However, the solution isn't to regress or idealize antiquated methods. I also agree that, modern agriculture stands on the shoulders of giants, but the way
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> If you go look at Mexican peasant farms from 50+ years ago The goal of modern agriculture shouldn't be to produce like peasants. Their output was low, product homogenous, and crop was prone to catastrophic failure. All very bad th
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Do you think it's the culture of science or the inherent uncertainty? From my own experience I think it's the latter. Jumping off the edge of human knowledge and hoping there was a result to catch my fall was very mentally taxing.
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>If GM crops are capable of being wind blown how does his activity differ at all from someone trying to naturally select for crops with herbicide resistance? The only "naturally selected" herbicide resistant crops were made in
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by searine 10y ago
The problem with food policy is that you simply can't get rid of cheap food. If you get rid of cheap food, even unhealthy cheap food, people starve. So the solution isn't to demonize cheap food. It is to make cheap food better. Ad
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Easy to say on a full stomach.
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>Any seeds that happen to get cross pollinated You can actually sue your neighbors and/or these companies for geneflow into your heirloom crops. There has never been a recorded lawsuit where a farmer has been sued for unintentional
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>someone reasonably talented with decent math fundamentals can catch up with the state of the art in 6-12 months. Being able to parrot what is known, is far far far different from being able to ask what comes next. I am talking about the
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by searine 10y ago
Growing up a lot of my friends went to a "gifted and talented" science magnet school, while I got left behind at a "normal" public school. Now that we're all adults, I've out achieved all of them in terms of sc
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>What's the most important is an intuition what method will help the most in your situation. A PhD doesn't teach you a method, it teaches you this. That intuition comes from years of specialized training that no crash-course or
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by searine 10y ago
>Tech industry completely ignores it because it's not sexy enough! Tech ignores it because the profits are razor thin. It's hard to improve on sun+dirt+human hands.
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I am going to miss Obama.
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>how many have actually gone through the work of deriving the functions they're calling to begin with? Why would you waste your time re-inventing a wheel. A good data scientist isn't good because he/she can ace shitty triv
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Apple of the 90's is back! How much more will they dilute their focus? I am hoping for insanely great beer cozies and apple branded sweatshirts.
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by searine 10y ago
/r/ArtefactPorn /r/ArtisanVideos /r/NYC /r/SpaceX /r/wikipedia /r/DestructiveReaders
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by searine 10y ago
> Hardly disrespect for private life. Your are mistaking respect for private life with being a "company man". Instead of setting professional boundaries the company in this case integrated themselves into your identity/fam
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by searine 10y ago
The next few months are going to be back to back launches. Let's hope Spacex can keep the pace.
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by searine 10y ago
This type of therapy (engineered cells) has been discussed for a long time but has yet to hit the mainstream. This trial is the first hit at that kind of mainstream success. The problems with this type of approach are 1. Safety 2. Cost and
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No fun allowed.
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>plenty of places in the world have power crises, and they do respond by limiting consumption of power. At the cost of luxury, economic development and social stability. It's an emergency option, not a sustainable one. New generatio
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by searine 10y ago
The solution in a first world economy is not to limit options. That is just regression. The solution is to make the industrial system sustainable. If there was a power crisis, you wouldn't make everyone use pocket calculators instead o
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by searine 10y ago
>Imagine warehouses filled with growing tomatoes. The fact is, even with a perfectly engineered tomato, it's hard to beat the low cost of dirt+sun.
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>I touch on this in another comment, but mostly because bio people do not understand math and therefore programming. This is extremely condescending. I know many brilliant biologists who are also great mathematicians, statisticians, and
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by searine 10y ago
>It seems like there's good opportunity for skilled data scientists and engineers to make a real difference here. The logistics of dealing with big data is a solved problem in biology. We don't need data fast, and a laptop can
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Waston can only categorize what is already known about genomes given existing research. What we need is to have people who can ask questions and think critically. Good, hypothesis driven science is how we discover entirely new concepts and
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by searine 10y ago
All US publicly funded sequencing data is required to be posted on the NIH's Sequence Read Archive within a few months of it's generation. There are petabytes of open data there for you pick from every kind of organism. Go nuts.
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Yeah, that happens when you prioritize buying sequencers and building genome centers while pretending that analysts grow on trees. The post-docs and graduate students who do the heavy lifting on all of these projects don't make a livin
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by searine 10y ago
1. Hello Streisand effect. 2. Does anyone else hope semi-anonymous apps like this will lead to a new age of unionization?

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