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Abbott $5 Antigen Test EAU Approved
(abbott.mediaroom.com)
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Git friendly native Julia files and clean cell reordering/refactoring are very nice features. Julia seems like a compelling data science platform, especially for greenfield projects.
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Pluto.jl appears to be a Julia centric notebook alternative to Jupyter and its multi-language Kernels, including IJulia [1]. I imagine there are many trade-offs between the two but the primary one I see is the runtime size/Python-depen
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I suspect that the message is associated with a class of unsupported historical SSL/TLS features. The truth is that Server Name Indication (SNI), the ability to operate multiple hostnames with SSL/TLS on a single host, is one of t
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According to the Architecture section of the GitHub page [1]: > Ultralight is a new port of WebKit combined with a new [proprietary] lightweight renderer intended specifically for embedding in apps and games. And the Licensing section: &
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> I would prefer if journalist learned to provide something more factual and informative in their stories It is deeper than that (no pun intended); many journalists seem to be lacking the critical thinking skills required to judge wheth
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The coastal redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) [1]: > In response to forest fires, the trees have developed various adaptations. The thick, fibrous bark of coast redwoods is extremely fire-resistant; it grows to at least a foot thick and pro
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I was thinking socio-economic and transportation connectedness rather than genetic resistance. Anglo-centric Cook Islands vs. French Polynesia, for instance, and the evolved political, economic, transportation, and health systems. It could
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> The most common species found were willow ptarmigan (Lagopus lagopus), white-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla), common snipe (Gallinago gallinago), hooded crow (Corvus cornix), and meadow pipit (Anthus pratensis) (Table S1). Eagles a
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The paper Microbiome-derived inosine modulates response to checkpoint inhibitor immunotherapy [1]: > We found that intestinal B. pseudolongum modulated enhanced immunotherapy response through production of the metabolite inosine. Decre
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2016 piece by Alain de Botton.
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This is a 2005 article by Barry Schwartz, author of The Paradox of Choice [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paradox_of_Choice
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This story is about Canadian-Iranian software engineer Behdad Esfahbod and his detention during a visit to Iran [1]: > Esfahbod claims that he was arrested by Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps intelligence echelon during a 2020 visit to
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Some of these are top scuba diving destinations. They depend on regional air hubs, all presumably closed to non-essential connecting flights. I wonder if these ten nations, all Melanesian/Polynesian with historical ties to the Anglo sp
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Perhaps “elevation” instead of height: U.S. Geodesic Elevation Recalibration https://geodesy.noaa.gov/heightmod/
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I think the J-Value approach is important for guiding policy but bawolff's criticism is valid. The article states: > Sadly, of the 160,000 people evacuated due to radiation fears, there were 1,121 deaths in the first 3 years from ph
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The paper Early adaptation to eolian sand dunes by basal amniotes is documented in two Pennsylvanian Grand Canyon trackways [1]: > The narrow width of both trackways indicates that both trackmakers had relatively small femoral abductio
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Michael Mina is promoting self-administered daily lateral flow [1] paper strip tests while Paul’s startup PreDxion Bio [2] is working on a SPR [3] device which I think is an alternative to Isothermal PCR devices like the Abbott ID.Now and t
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The paper Spitzer Follow-up of Extremely Cold Brown Dwarfs Discovered by the Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 Citizen Science Project [1]: > We present Spitzer follow-up imaging of 95 candidate extremely cold brown dwarfs discovered by the Ba
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Who knew. Cable bacteria [1]: > ...are filamentous bacteria that conduct electricity across distances over 1 cm in sediment and groundwater aquifers. Cable bacteria allow for long distance electron transport, which connects electron dono
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Does the Splitgraph Data Delivery Network allow queries that ORDER BY an unsorted column? This seems like a vector for a Denial of Service attack.
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This 2018 article rests on the assumption that Lewy bodies [1] are associated with a pathogen that begins in the gut and works its way into the brain via the vagus nerve. The way I read the cell biology section, Lewy bodies are the artefact
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I don’t think your ideas are random nor out of place. Durable data accessible by different clients is an important property that bleeds into the data science realm. Apache Arrow seems to partially tackle this problem by moving the data to s
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GraalVM 20.2.0
(medium.com)
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> The corporate shifts at WarnerMedia and NBCUniversal in recent days signal that the technological shift you’ve been reading about for years is finally taking concrete form, accelerated by the pandemic. Echoes of the collapse of Blockbu
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From a quickscan of the GitHub repo [1], this is a JavaScript client, like Google Analytics, that sends data to a self-hosted Node.js backend that stores the data in MySQL or PostgreSQL using the Prisma database toolkit: [1] https:/&#
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I don't think your skepticism is warranted. EamonnMR provides a link to an article describing the paper Acute vision in the giant Cambrian predator Anomalocaris and the origin of compound eyes [1]. This animal was a pre-cursor to mod
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From the linked Ian Urbina Wikipedia page: > As a journalist, his investigations typically focus on worker safety and the environment... As you point out, Urbina has an undeniable preference for international law, regulation, and treatie
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This is a great 17 minute high-level overview of the science. The breakthrough is the tool/technique used to access the embryo without physically damaging the egg. The glass-like embryo is a unique characteristic of this species, not t
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Related HN thread Unmasking China's Invisible Fleet [1]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23926128
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