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> JavaScript is an easy-to-use object scripting language designed for creating live online applications that link together objects and resources on both clients and servers. This one document certainly captures the state of the software
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My takeaway is that the widespread measure of serum 25(OH)D represents the total Vitamin D reserve store while the rarely measured 1,25(OH)2D [2 in 2D should be subscript] represents the actual active level. It is low 1,25(OH)2D or a reduce
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Amazon Kinesis is based on Apache Flink. One complaint might be the branding but keep in mind that the Apache Foundation has a strict policy of enforcing trademarks. The Apache Foundation itself doesn't choose winners and many equivale
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Marc Levinson's book The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger [1] is a good source. Many people, including a very vocal minority of HN commenters, subscribe to a romanticized view of nat
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Two Global Efforts Try to Trace the Origin of the Covid Virus(wired.com)
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> As the great sage Charlie Brown once said: “There are 3 things in life that people like to stare at: a flowing stream, a crackling fire, and a Zamboni clearing the ice.” https://youtu.be/vn2h6SKLXOY
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Ceiba is a traditional three-mast schooner [1] that carries an equivalent of 9 shipping containers but not actual containers: > The design of the Ceiba Line vessels boasts two cargo hatches to access the holds, which can be used simult
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The problem is my recall and laziness. I didn't look into the details of what parts of HyPer were borrowed and I missed the adoption of the DataBlocks [1] storage format. DuckDB is designed to be an embedded HTAP (Hybrid Transactional&
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> Ceiba is small for a cargo ship – tiny in fact. She will carry around nine standard shipping containers. The largest conventional container ships today carry more than 20,000 containers.
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I think AWS Inferentia [1], Amazon’s AI silicon, is much further along than the article suggests. The Alexa backend is mostly run on these chips now [2]. Other than this nitpick, the article is a great summary of how Google, Amazon, and Ap
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It is my understanding that DuckDB is an embedded in-memory OLAP ColumnStore designed to be primarily used with R/Python data frames. I noticed that they added JDBC support. Does this mean they've added persistence and other OLTP
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SQLite is incredible but it is sometimes quirky and the new GENERATED ALWAYS syntax unexpectedly disappointed me when I read about it with the 3.31.0 release. GENERATED ALWAYS AS IDENTITY and GENERATED BY DEFAULT AS is IBM DB2 syntax that b
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Interesting paper but I'm not convinced that these are asymptomatic cases. I think these are primarily recovered cases that still have trace amounts of non-infectious viral RNA. The originally linked Lancet paper makes a distinction be
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It is not ALL about platform control. ARM’s big.LITTLE architecture gives us full day battery browsing/video-playback using the efficient IceStorm cores as well as very competitive performance benchmark results using the FireStorm core
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> data on the shedding of infectious virus in asymptomatic individuals are too scarce to quantify their transmission potential in order to inform policy on quarantine duration in the absence of testing. This has long been a key question:
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Both table-centric ORMs like JPA and query-centric Query Builders like JOOQ are popular approaches to DBMS agnostic data access. ObjectiveSQL’s main differentiator compared to JPA is a JOOQ-like fluent query builder API instead of JPQL, as
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Correlation Between 3790 Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction–Positives Samples and Positive Cell Cultures, Including 1941 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Isolates [1] paper from Clinical Infectious Diseases: > It can
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The Lucira COVID-19 All-In-One Test Kit [1] is a disposable electronic test kit powered by two AA batteries. This is not a Michael Mina $dollar-a-day lick-a-stick that is sensitive to infectious viral loads (PCR CT of 24 or less). This de
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From the Wikipedia article on cookies [1]: > Apple uses a tracking technique called "identifier for advertisers" (IDFA). This technique assigns a unique identifier to every user who buys an Apple iOS device (such as an iPhone o
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> All residents in the nursing-home receive chronic vitamin D supplementation with regular maintenance boluses (single oral dose of 80,000 IU vitamin D3 every 2–3 months), without systematically performing serum control test as recommend
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> Shah was one of the pioneers of the perk in the UK. He started giving staff Wednesdays off This applies to salaried employees and I think agreeing on which specific day to take off is non-trivial. The standardized weekend is about coor
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Similar to SQL, GraphQL allows dynamic manipulation of a result set. Projection (filtering columns), selection (filtering rows), and sort order can all be specified on the client. Traditionally, REST interfaces have a fixed response represe
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This appears to provide an additional 5 minutes of boost to traditional wingsuits [1], a specialized form of skydiving. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wingsuit_flying
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Dogsheep Beta is a pun on Wolfram Alpha [1] (dog/sheep/beta are humble alternatives to wolf/ram/alpha). Both are queryable knowledge bases. Dogsheep Beta leverages SQLite FTS (Full Text Search) adding a search interface
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I enjoyed the 2015 EconTalk podcast Greg Page on Food, Agriculture, and Cargill [1]: > Greg Page, former CEO of Cargill, the largest privately-held company in America, talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the global food supply an
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Greater Glider on Wikipedia [1] which links to the Nature paper Genetic evidence supports three previously described species of greater glider, Petauroides volans, P. minor, and P. armillatus [2]: > The greater glider is the common n
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I was not trying to diminish the study; correlation with N=84K participants is useful.
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The paper Multiple lifestyle factors and depressed mood: a cross-sectional and longitudinal analysis of the UK Biobank (N = 84,860) [1]. The study compares questionnaire results of healthy controls (HC) to people with a history of major d
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Perhaps you should pose your questions to the paper authors via the correspondence information provided in the paper.
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According to the Lancet paper that Infinitesimus linked to, the researchers divided the patients into cohorts for statistical analysis based on a number of variables: > We identified a set of established and suspected risk factors for CO

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