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> Approximately half of patients reported one or more GI symptoms; among these, diarrhea was reported most frequently (38%) and vomiting least frequently (13%). [1] The original 2003 SARS-1 outbreak in Hong Kong infamously spread via sew
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From The Guardian: > “Equally, it’s not at all implausible that Covid-19 might have some direct effect on your brain and your mental health. But I think that, again, remains to be positively demonstrated,” said Harrison. > A particula
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This can be both true and irrelevant at the same time. The focus should be on the key nutrients for each food, that is, those food/nutrient pairs that significantly contribute to the required daily values, especially nutrients that the
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I think we are on the same page. From my perspective, arbitrary queries are a vector for a Denial of Service event (both intentional and accidental). This has long been one of the use cases for Stored Procedures in SQL; restrict the public
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> The title “engineer” is cheapened by the tech industry... Recent years have seen prominent failures in software. Massive data breaches at Target, Home Depot, BlueCross BlueShield, Anthem, Harvard University, LastPass, and Ashley Madiso
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Aside: why is there not an RSS feed for the WunderGraph blog? I think Jens Neuse is making two important observations about GraphQL: 1. GraphQL's single URL/endpoint [1] is possibly an anti-pattern 2. ETags are important for Cache
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I too tried to follow the progress of Apeiron's APN01 which started to get news coverage at the end of February due to a University of British Columbia press release [1]. This pre-existing therapeutic was created out of SARS-CoV-1 rese
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This technology is based on the research from McGill’s Alternative Fuels Laboratory [1]. There are three stages involved: 1. excess electricity is used to make the initial powdered metal, 2. powdered metal burners replace coal or gas burner
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> A lot of people are freaking out because the head is up This is very very cool. Not only is the internal shell of the spirula [0] a wonderful link between the nautilus shell [1] and the cuttlefish's cuttlebone [2] but the orientat
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The abstract from the paper Denisovan DNA in Late Pleistocene sediments from Baishiya Karst Cave on the Tibetan Plateau [1]: > A late Middle Pleistocene mandible from Baishiya Karst Cave (BKC) on the Tibetan Plateau has been inferred t
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> what is the use case for WebAssembly? There is no access to the DOM and the POSIX-like WASI interface is limited so the main use case is reusing code with manual memory management (C, Rust, etc). WebAssembly also targets server-side Ja
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> ...why pine64 has decided the BL602 should be the target of deblobbing efforts. The 4-day old HN thread BL602/BL604 RISC-V WiFi and Bluetooth 5.0 SoC will sell at ESP8266 price point [1] links to a cnx-software article with the
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Blob-free [1]: > A proprietary device driver is a closed-source device driver published only in binary code. In the context of free and open-source software, a closed-source device driver is referred to as a blob or binary blob. [1] htt
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The concluding paragraph of the originally linked Science paper is revealing: > There is limited knowledge about the virus-host interactions that determine cellular entry of SARS-CoV-2. Viruses display considerable redundancy and flexibi
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The spike of the SARS-CoV-2 virus binds to the neuropilin-1 (NRP1) [1] cell receptor in addition to ACE2 [2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuropilin_1#Role_in_COVID-19 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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A related paper in the journal Pain is named SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein co-opts VEGF-A/Neuropilin-1 receptor signaling to induce analgesia [1] was discussed in the podcast TWiV 674: In the company of coronaviruses with Lisa Gralinski
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The paper Atomic-resolution protein structure determination by cryo-EM [1]: > Single-particle electron cryo-microscopy (cryo-EM) is a powerful method for solving the three-dimensional structures of biological macromolecules. > At re
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The paper The Origin of Modern Atolls: Challenging Darwin's Deeply Ingrained Theory [1]: > In 1842, Darwin identified three types of reefs: fringing reefs, which are directly attached to volcanic islands; barrier reefs, which are
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I'm not sure of the original inspiration but SQLite's core storage types with variable length encoding but it is the right way to implement a row store or a data serialization format, in my opinion. Fixed length data types in SQL
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> Why on earth would I want weird rows (that violate the _expressly declared_ type of a table) to be merrily allowed into persistent storage? Some problems are easy to solve given a column of type VARIANT: 1. simple sparse columns instea
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> ...the discovery gives us another target to avoid during radiation treatments for patients with cancer, as salivary glands are highly susceptible to damage from the therapy. The discovery, therefore, has practical uses.
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Another good writeup is included in the SQL Anywhere documentation [1] which has a good example of a parts explosion problem [2]. I don't know if the syntax works in SQLite but it might be a good exercise to get it to work. [1] http
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Recursive Common Table Expressions (CTE) are hard to understand until you've worked through at least one real-world example. The SQLite documentation on the WITH Clause has a couple of simple examples [1] for an Org Chart and a Famil
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An example "hacker news vs" Google Suggest Query [1] with XML output designed for toolbar integration. [1] https://suggestqueries.google.com/complete/search?output=too...
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This is a 190 MWe molten salt reactor built by Terrestrial Energy [1] that seems seems bigger than the three core use cases for Small Modular Reactors (SMR) as outlined in the article: 1. Helping utilities replace energy capacity los
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Google provides a REST API for its Suggest feature [1] which can be used for product vs style searches. I use it in a CLI script specifically for this use case. [1] https://developers.google.com/cloud-search/docs&#x2F
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This sounds like an in-depth discussion of what the a16z document calls Blueprint 1: Modern Business Intelligence . I don’t know if the other two blueprints for Multimodal and AI are explored.
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> it ignores sensor data sources, which are both the highest velocity and highest volume data models by multiple orders of magnitude. This has long been the main marketing message used to promote Complex Event Processing (CEP) [1] syst
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The paper Biomineralization and Successive Regeneration of Engineered Living Building Materials [1]: > Living building materials (LBMs) were engineered that are capable of both biological and structural functions. LBMs were created by
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The FSO Nabarima [1]: > is a floating storage and offloading vessel permanently moored offshore of Venezuela at the Corocoro oil field in the Gulf of Paria. After production at Corocoro ceased in 2019 following United States sanctions

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