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by sradman 6y ago
> I wonder if it is just due to many sleepers having quite predictable stages That is what I wondered. The Garmin reports my deep sleep in ways that don't match predictable patterns and do approximate times of random events like bei
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by sradman 6y ago
I forgot to comment on the following important point: > the pulse seems to reliably predict when I get to sleep but nothing else, not even when I am awake vs. sleeping My experience with the Zeo made me realize that predicting sleep vs w
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by sradman 6y ago
There are a zillion dogs and cats in the world too but I'd rather that they didn't die prematurely due to a panicked and prolonged suffocation. Supporting a charitable interpretation of your criticism, the BBC article is much clos
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by sradman 6y ago
Branding sometimes has value too. The CNCF reminds me of the place name associations built around winery regions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appellation
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> By far the biggest threat is becoming accidently captured in fishing equipment and nets, which kills an estimated 300,000 whales, dolphins and porpoises a year. I suspect that focusing on this one area will have the greatest positive o
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by sradman 6y ago
See Garmin Health Announces Sleep Study Results [1]. I used a Zeo [2] mobile for a few years and I thought I had a good feel for what my sleep cycles tended to look like. I bought a Garmin VivoSmart last Black Friday mostly to try the SpO
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by sradman 6y ago
I was thinking of platform support [1]: > The method is available as a computer program for Windows, Windows CE, Windows Mobile, (Pocket PC), Palm OS (PalmPilot), etc. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperMemo
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Regarding 1: Sleep loss lethality is caused by gut ROS in mice and flies [1] > ...researchers demonstrate in flies and mice that sleep loss leads to an increase of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in the gut, and that neutralization of RO
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by sradman 6y ago
The SuperMemo algorithms [1] have been re-implemented in more modern software such as Anki [2]. These systems are popular for goal oriented learning like studying for a test or learning a new language. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.
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by sradman 6y ago
This is a 2018 eBook on sleep by Piotr Woźniak [1], a researcher involved in the Spaced Repetition [2] learning system SuperMemo [3]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piotr_Woźniak_(researcher) [2] https://
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by sradman 6y ago
The source of the information is Telegram founder Pavel Durov [1] who posted on the Telegram platform [2] [3] (links via ffpip). This is part of the 2020 Belarusian Protests [4]. Three Telegram accounts, dedicated to doxing police officers
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by sradman 6y ago
The paper Neanderthal-Denisovan ancestors interbred with a distantly related hominin [1] suggests a simple model of hominid population movement > ...which involves only three expansions of humans from Africa into Eurasia: an expansion
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by sradman 6y ago
The architecture may be HTAP but the batch read use-case for the RowStore (vs. OLTP) seems to be unique to predictive machine learning (new to me at least). Full Text Search sync is a nice feature as well. Thanks for the thoughtful response
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by sradman 6y ago
Another technical fix might be separating Submission karma from Comment karma. I'm guessing that good Comment karma is associated with civility and adherence to community norms. That assumption could be validated by someone with access
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by sradman 6y ago
jamesblonde's article tried to answer the question: > isn't this just a data warehouse [DW]? My understanding is that the addition of a RowStore to the DW/ColumnStore addresses the training phase of Machine Learning. I com
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by sradman 6y ago
> ...to drive people to paywalls. You are making assumptions about motivations. Dang’s post Tell HN: Paywalls with workarounds are OK; paywall complaints are off topic [1] explains the rationale that many here adhere to. [1] https:&#x
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by sradman 6y ago
The Abbott Panbio COVID-19 Ag [1] antigen rapid test is similar to the U.S. procured BinaxNOW [2] but has a separate mixing tube and no smartphone app. Both need a technician to perform the test. The price per test was not specified. [1]
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Canada Procures $25M Antigen Rapid Tests(canada.ca)
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by sradman 6y ago
To Emmanuelle Charpentier [1] and Jennifer A. Doudna [2] for CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing [3]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuelle_Charpentier [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_D
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by sradman 6y ago
Plausible Analytics [1] is an MIT Licensed alternative to Google Analytics. It is hosted at plausible.io but can also be self-hosted. The app server is written in Phoenix/Elixir. The self-hosted version is distributed as a Docker image
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by sradman 6y ago
> It seems to me that this test from India is going in the same direction [as the antigen rapid tests] I think the FELUDA CRISPR/Cas9 test is more of an alternative to PCR with the potential for significantly reduced price per test.
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The preprint Rapid, field-deployable nucleobase detection and identification using FnCas9 [1]: > Here, we present FnCas9 Editor Linked Uniform Detection Assay (FELUDA)... At the heart of such a detection procedure lies the property of
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From the paper Epidemiology and transmission dynamics of COVID-19 in two Indian states [1]: > Although they are not the wealthiest states in India, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu are among the states with the largest healthcare workforc
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The paper Prey specialization and chemical mimicry between Formica archboldi and Odontomachus ants [1] > Beyond providing natural history insights into the relationship between these species, this study expands our knowledge of an impo
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by sradman 6y ago
From the GitHub Page [1]: > Comparison table for open-source self-hosted commenting servers. data.yaml [2] holds the list of OSS alternatives to Disqus. A daily Cron job launches a Python script that extracts GitHub data for each project
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by sradman 6y ago
It seems odd that most of the animals pictured live on the sea floor. There are mostly urchins and the starfish that feed on them with a disheartening number of giant pacific octopus mixed in.
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The abstract of the paper Fluctuation-induced current from freestanding graphene [1]: > At room temperature, micron-sized sheets of freestanding graphene are in constant motion, even in the presence of an applied bias voltage. We quant
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by sradman 6y ago
If Knative is more self-hosted FaaS than PaaS, that explains the core use case for Apollo; a traditional 12-Factor App PaaS for Kubernetes/Docker-Swarm. Knative supports a Serving Spec for routing (like AWS API Gateway) but doesn'
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During the Age of Discovery, live sea turtles were captured and stored in the hulls of ships as a source of fresh protein. Because of their slow metabolism, turtles can live a long time while tightly packed in the hull. Sailors would gather
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by sradman 6y ago
I assumed that Knative [1] is the canonical self-hosted PaaS for Kubernetes. It is branded as Cloud Run [2] by Google. I'm not sure how it compares feature-by-feature with Dokku nor a 12-Factor App PaaS like Heroku. [1] https:&#x2

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