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by sndean 9y ago
> I'm quite far from a technological utopian, but when Hinton states that radiologists should halt their training, he is not joking. > https://youtu.be/2HMPRXstSvQ Thanks for pointing to that clip. Hadn't se
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R vs. Python: Different similarities and similar differences(gigadom.wordpress.com)
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Go Ahead, Interrupt My Day(newyorker.com)
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'Year Million' Is an Educational 'Black Mirror'(inverse.com)
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ShortScience.org – Post-publication discussions to make research more accessible(shortscience.org)
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by sndean 9y ago
> Your information processing based job is far more likely to become automated by programmers than that of a plumber or gardener. It definitely seems that there's too much focus paid to the automation of transportation and the like,
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by sndean 9y ago
The first reasonable statistic that I could find was 1%, for the percentage of individuals in a large organization that used password managers [0]. Or maybe it's 8%, in a survey [1]. That 1% figure is pretty old, and people lie in surv
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by sndean 9y ago
I guess I didn't mean staff-heavy, more "few grad students and postdocs." E.g., [1], instead of outwardly similar labs with a dozen or more postdocs. [1] https://www.janelia.org/lab/stern-lab/members
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Hey, Economist, Is Now a Good Time to Be Graduating from College?(libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org)
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British prison to use 'disruptor' to create drone-proof 'shield' around jail(telegraph.co.uk)
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How Western Michigan Quietly Became a Graphic Design Hotspot(fastcodesign.com)
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Physician age and outcomes in elderly patients in hospital in the US(bmj.com)
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Small Change(npr.org)
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A subcellular map of the human proteome(science.sciencemag.org)
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Fake caterpillar study reveals global pattern in predation(phys.org)
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by sndean 9y ago
I'm a life scientist (I guess?) at a national lab. And yeah, even the biology is very focused toward CS/Eng/Physics. There's lots of unusual (at least relative to academia) collaborations, like biologists working with pl
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by sndean 9y ago
One issue: > All institutions should be like Broad (paraphrasing) > The Broad Institute attracts world-class scientists, as both faculty members and staff. HHMI's Janelia, the Salk Institute, and others that function like Broad c
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by sndean 9y ago
Yeah, but it's only ~2800 lbs. And my FRS can easily average 40+ mpg on road trips. Sticking with 200hp seems like a good choice.
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by sndean 9y ago
> I'm considering suggesting my kids go to local community college for 2 years and then university to finish their degrees. I really wish I had done this. It would've saved me $20,000+. It's a great option, especially if y
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Educational backgrounds of the CEOs of the top corporations in the US(lemire.me)
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R⁶ – Tracking WannaCry Bitcoin Wallet Payments with R(rud.is)
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HODLR: Fast direct solver and determinant computation for dense linear systems(github.com)
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What made Bell Labs special? (2012) [pdf](stat.columbia.edu)
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Writing Performance Sensitive OCaml Code(janestreet.github.io)
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by sndean 9y ago
There was this, recently: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/04/no-bones-no-problem-d... That's only 50,000 years, though. Also, no idea what the quality of the DNA is at that point.
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District: A Game about Representation and Redistricting(polytrope.com)
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Null and Void(radiolab.org)
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by sndean 9y ago
> It doesn't mean we can't compute with them, nor that the variation is useful or relevant. This is pretty much my understanding of it as well. We can expect that, even though we're now at the point of being able to apprec
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Stretchy holograms made from a metamaterial(cen.acs.org)
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FMA: A Dataset for Music Analysis(github.com)
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