sndean

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   Silkworms that eat carbon nanotubes and graphene spin tougher silk(cen.acs.org)

   237 points by sndean 10y ago|70 comments
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   by sndean 10y ago

   And PYPL pretty much agrees: http://pypl.github.io/PYPL.html?country=US Scala looks pretty steady since 2013. If anything, it's gone up.
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   Ford CEO: “Does the car choose to hit the grandmother or the baby?”(news.fastcompany.com)

   3 points by sndean 10y ago|0 comments
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   I Let a Company Scan My Naked Body to Get the Perfect Suit(fivethirtyeight.com)

   4 points by sndean 10y ago|0 comments
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   R Notebooks(blog.rstudio.org)

   5 points by sndean 10y ago|1 comments
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   Project Cybersyn(en.wikipedia.org)

   1 points by sndean 10y ago|0 comments
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   by sndean 10y ago

   > after driving 20 minutes After driving 20 miles, not 20 minutes... Maybe ~20 minutes if it's 3:00AM on a Monday going west on I-66.
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   by sndean 10y ago

   http://sblp2004.ic.uff.br/papers/turner.pdf or http://www.mpi-sws.org/~skilpat/plerg/papers/turner-total-fp...
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   by sndean 10y ago

   It's the same for Washington DC as well. You can easily drive 20 miles southwest and get stuck behind a tractor while driving past corn fields. It's pretty similar for every city I've been to (including Atlanta). Drive an hou
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    R Notebooks(blog.rstudio.org)

    11 points by sndean 10y ago|2 comments
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    Automating the Data Scientists(technologyreview.com)

    3 points by sndean 10y ago|0 comments
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    What is code?(bloomberg.com)

    2 points by sndean 10y ago|0 comments
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    The Town Where Wi-Fi Is Banned: The Green Bank Telescope and the Quiet Zone(youtube.com)

    3 points by sndean 10y ago|0 comments
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    A list of Linux container software(jvns.ca)

    5 points by sndean 10y ago|0 comments
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    More than 400 malicious apps infiltrate Google Play(arstechnica.com)

    3 points by sndean 10y ago|2 comments
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    by sndean 10y ago

    > You can have a social life, you just have to pick social activities that are compatible with the grueling schedule. This was something I was never able to find. Maybe it was just me trying to justify my social anxiety, but the alternat
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    by sndean 10y ago

    > You hold postdocs strictly to labor laws, and they are going to be at a disadvantage to the postdocs that are crazy enough to do what needs to be done. You hold all postdocs strictly to labor laws, and hard science simply doesn't
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    by sndean 10y ago

    "Even though it seems that words have diminished meaning in our modern society." Or something like that.
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    by sndean 10y ago

    I've only ever been to Trexlertown ( https://thevelodrome.com ) and the DC velodrome. Didn't realize there were so many velodromes in all over ( http://www.usacycling.org/velodromes-in-the-us.htm ). If you
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    by sndean 10y ago

    Part of the issue has got to be the oversupply of specific, yet mostly useless advice. Should we really expect people to decide to consume any (almond, peanut, olive, coconut, sesame, palm, soybean, corn, safflower, etc.) oil based on the r
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    Using R to detect fraud at 1M transactions per second [video](blog.revolutionanalytics.com)

    142 points by sndean 10y ago|69 comments
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    Why are we still using cash?(freakonomics.com)

    5 points by sndean 10y ago|3 comments
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    by sndean 10y ago

    I haven't researched this enough to know how stupid it is, but, just throwing it out there: Why don't we make giant phytoplankton farms? [1] [1] http://nationalgeographic.org/activity/save-the-plankton-bre...
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    Chemists prepare an inorganic double-helix structure for the first time(cen.acs.org)

    1 points by sndean 10y ago|0 comments
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    Using R to detect fraud at 1M transactions per second(blog.revolutionanalytics.com)

    2 points by sndean 10y ago|0 comments
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    Sparklyr – R interface for Apache Spark(blog.rstudio.org)

    5 points by sndean 10y ago|0 comments
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    Molybdenum disulfide transistors break through a performance limit(cen.acs.org)

    1 points by sndean 10y ago|0 comments
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    ᑖᒻ ᔅᑳᑦ and ᖃᓂᐅᔮᖅᐸᐃᑦ(youtube.com)

    4 points by sndean 10y ago|0 comments
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    by sndean 10y ago

    > I think we are talking about the same thing... Yeah, I think we are. Rereading my comment, it was poorly worded... My point was that the irrational fanboy-ism that's sometimes associated with Apple and Tesla is, in my experience,
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    by sndean 10y ago

    > A sibling comment compared it to Apple, that's a good analogy. It doesn't matter how fast or cool Dell or Microsoft is, those people want an Apple and will not buy anything else. I think Tesla is the same way. Just as a worth