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901.
by sndean 10y ago
> industry/government internships I work at a government lab [0] that regularly has interns that are a bit older than an average undergrad, and vets are preferred. This extends to people the lab employs (a percentage, myself include
902.
Terry Tao and 'Cheating Strategically'(youtube.com)
3 points by sndean 10y ago|0 comments
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Python and R vs. SPSS and SAS(theanalyticslab.nl)
2 points by sndean 10y ago|0 comments
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The World's Best Mathematician(youtube.com)
7 points by sndean 10y ago|0 comments
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Samsung S8 will use facial recognition for payments(businessinsider.com)
1 points by sndean 10y ago|0 comments
906.
by sndean 10y ago
Well yeah, he's in med school. Maybe one day it won't be a massive sum, but, for now, he's broke.
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by sndean 10y ago
Somewhat related short story: Earlier this week my friend said that he dd'd away just over 50 bitcoins, back when they were worth ~$3 each. "One of the biggest regrets of my life."
908.
by sndean 10y ago
It does seem like the best solution, in a way. But the higher up people still seem to think it's incorrect and ugly. It's definitely ugly, but my handwriting is completely illegible anyway, so no fixing that.
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Negative Space: Logo Design with Michael Bierut(99percentinvisible.org)
3 points by sndean 10y ago|0 comments
910.
by sndean 10y ago
> Once I got a "real job" I realized (well it was sternly told to me) that even random calculations and stupid incomplete ideas could be very important to my employer at some point in the future if something related later came
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by sndean 10y ago
> What's the equivalent in chemistry/biology/pharma? That is, how do you get into the field/expertise/mindset in which you're creating and testing out drug compositions in a methodical way that Dr. Conover d
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The Disaster That Changed Engineering: The Hyatt Regency Collapse(youtube.com)
1 points by sndean 10y ago|0 comments
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GNU Emacs bug report statistics, by OS and architecture(lists.gnu.org)
2 points by sndean 10y ago|0 comments
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Tutorial for researchers to learn deep learning with PyTorch(github.com)
3 points by sndean 10y ago|0 comments
915.
Edubuntu – Free education oriented OS for kids(edubuntu.org)
1 points by sndean 10y ago|0 comments
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Suggestion by Salesforce chief data scientist(twitter.com)
2 points by sndean 10y ago|0 comments
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by sndean 10y ago
I sometimes wish researchers were organized enough to "strike" and stop reviewing papers for a period of time. Since the papers not being reviewed would include our own papers, that'll never work. Plus Prisoner's dilemma
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This animatronic device turns speech into sign language(blog.arduino.cc)
3 points by sndean 10y ago|0 comments
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DNA could store all of the world's data in one room(sciencemag.org)
5 points by sndean 10y ago|0 comments
920.
by sndean 10y ago
Just yesterday my fiancee told me about her day: A relatively healthy looking (and his chart agreed) 41 year old guy walked into the clinic with a severe headache around 10am. By around 4pm she had to tell his family he was likely brain dea
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Networking site gathers momentum in quest for open science(cen.acs.org)
1 points by sndean 10y ago|0 comments
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by sndean 10y ago
> Look at the history and origins of family names. Yeah, largely derived from occupation or location [0], at least in the West. They've lost their meaning though. Example: I'm a German-American kid named Scott; as in "from
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Researchers store computer operating system and short movie on DNA(phys.org)
3 points by sndean 10y ago|0 comments
924.
by sndean 10y ago
> This engineer is 94 years old. Few, if any, SCV startups would have hired him. Possibly more relevant than what he's doing now, at 94: As far as I can tell, his main breakthrough that led to the Li-Ion battery was in 1979, when he
925.
by sndean 10y ago
> If anyone could answer, I've always wondered how a hypothetical bacteria on an asteroid could survive impact with earth or any celestial body. Thinking about it, my initial thought "part of the asteroid didn't get that h
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by sndean 10y ago
Cool. This is why I love HN :) I'll make sure my soon-to-be MD girlfriend reads it too
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Cannibalism–the Ultimate Taboo–Is Surprisingly Common(news.nationalgeographic.com)
3 points by sndean 10y ago|1 comments
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by sndean 10y ago
I've never been in that sort of situation, but I really do wonder how I'd react. Hopefully in healthy way. How do surgeons react when they accidentally cut the wrong thing?
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R Passes SAS, but Python Leaves Them Both Behind(r4stats.com)
6 points by sndean 10y ago|0 comments
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by sndean 10y ago
I grew up in Dulles (aka Sterling/Ashburn). Another way to go on a tour of data centers is to ride on your bike all along the W&OD trail [0] between Arlington and Leesburg. Lots memories skateboarding around those places, then gett

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