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by searine 7y ago
A lot of bioinformatics specialists aren't talented programmers, they are biologists who know how to program as a means to an end. As a computer scientist you can add a lot of value by contributing to optimization and ease of use.
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by searine 7y ago
What an infuriating format for an article.
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by searine 7y ago
Making skins for Winamp was how I taught myself photoshop.
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by searine 7y ago
>I'm going to try reading it again, but the first time didn't go well.. All history is viewed through the eyes of the author's politics. I accept that, and set my personal politics aside and considered his history. One of
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by searine 7y ago
I think I've been through that book twice now and it's still a fresh read. Highly recommended.
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by searine 7y ago
If there is one thing that will end american hegemony, it is failing to fund basic science.
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by searine 7y ago
ARPA-e is a grant funding institution. They were given 400 million to give grants, and have issued 92 million. Trumps budget is asking for them to return the remainder.
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by searine 7y ago
> I was told by my physio at the time it was very rare for someone to have two slipped discs at the same time??? Its not that rare, infact having one disc herniated can put you at risk for another herniated due to the uneven loading you
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by searine 7y ago
Seconded. As a tall human being I also had to get fairly big monitor stand to add to the standing desk to save my neck from strain. Cervical disks can herniate too, and it sucks!
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by searine 7y ago
>Is there really any real, reproducible and trustworthy source of info on the topic? There are a few longitudinal studies on surgical versus conservative treatments for back pain. However due to the long duration of the disease there ten
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by searine 7y ago
>I implore you not to do this, as a healthy 32 year old, until you have attempted to corset, or lock in place, your disc with your own muscle. This is not advice you should be giving. You are not his doctor. You don't know the exten
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by searine 7y ago
Back pain is a tough nut primarily because it varies so much from person to person. Depending on the anatomy of the injury and the post-injury healing the symptoms and severity can change drastically. Sometimes the best prescription is time
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by searine 7y ago
>They are hyping consumers by pushing stories of curing rare diseases with the help of statistics. Except they actually are. 23andMe data has been invaluable in the effort to figure out what is causing complex genetic disease. Here is on
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by searine 7y ago
reddit.com/r/instagramreality
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by searine 7y ago
I'm not an art historian, and when I watched either of the two shows I found them interesting and insightful so I really don't have a dog in this fight, but I'd like to understand the criticism of each. I don't understan
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by searine 7y ago
Why was it repulsive?
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by searine 7y ago
Isn't regenerative braking amazing?
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by searine 7y ago
Nikola has been a big talker for years now. I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt, but at a certain point you got to cash the check they've been writing.
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by searine 7y ago
That result is pretty weak statistically and the phenotype is vague. (Yes it passes GWAS threshold but a lot of associations do that are later found to be false positives). Symmetry would be an easy "attractive" metric, but these
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by searine 7y ago
Looks are subjective. There isn't and will never be a SNP for "attractive". Tall yes, but not hot. Also, the understanding isn't there yet to detect casual SNPs. We know roughly where these SNPs are, but not which ones t
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by searine 7y ago
> I was threatened with demotion for taking a 2-day weekend backpacking vacation out of cell phone range once (not an on call job). No amount of money would ever make me put up with this. I would rather work retail, because at least ther
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by searine 7y ago
Even if you designed a pathogen to do that, once released into the wild it would almost certainly spread to other populations. Viruses and bacteria already can jump zoonotically (between distant species), it would be trivial to adapt to wit
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by searine 7y ago
The thing is, there are so many sites being sampled that any one false positive is buried under a mountain of true positives. False positives only matter when you are trying to be definitive about disease diagnosis. That is why clinicians f
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by searine 7y ago
>. Plus it's in the non-coding or "junk" zone of the chromosomes. The site themselves aren't important but they are physically linked to important sites. DNA is a chain, if you which section you are in and roughly wha
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by searine 7y ago
The population is still increasing and there is a housing shortage. Old people sell homes and combine households with family. Young people (larger total population) buy up those homes. Thats how its supposed to work, but instead we have rea
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by searine 7y ago
Considering how prevalent state-provided aid is among ultra-conservative sects like this, it is good to see a viable career path for them.
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by searine 7y ago
Aside from the topic, which is interesting in its own right, I find it neat that the prize went to faculty at lesser known universities. Nobody is surprised to see Harvard or Oxford listed. SUNY at Binghamton however is an outlier. Congrats
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by searine 7y ago
>Has this ever happened before in Nobel history? In recent years the nobel committee has been grouping unrelated prizes in the same field. For example the parasitology prize a few years ago for treating two different parasite diseases (r
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by searine 7y ago
This hire was probably an over-correction after the Saudi's got busted with spies inside twitter. https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/20/18003644/saudi-arabia-tw...
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by searine 7y ago
Jesus died on the cross in six hours. Let's see jesus crush a few vertebrae and live disabled for 40 years without pain meds, and then talk about suffering. Like I get it. Religion does help many, and it can take you away from pain, bu

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