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by sradman 6y ago
The Smithsonian article is based on the paper The Four Black Deaths [1] by Monica H. Green: > The Mongols, whose empire emerged in 1206, unwittingly moved plague through Central Eurasia in the thirteenth, not the fourteenth, century. G
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by sradman 6y ago
It was my understanding that Node never implemented JGSI [1]. I've never compared the two APIs so you may be correct. Regardless of the path taken, the middleware should apply to a separate web server module that is functional by defau
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by sradman 6y ago
The article focuses on server-side Node, rather than its role as a CLI tool. Compared to V8, Ruby, Python, and PHP are not performant. Node’s libuv network library was highly concurrent and Node built single-core concurrency into the runtim
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by sradman 6y ago
This can generally fall under the category of “Generate Test Data in SQL” with both generic techniques like Recursive CTEs, as in the OP, and SQL dialect or tool specific options. Search is your friend. The OP also provides a table lookup t
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by sradman 6y ago
Indeed, the age group for cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) is very specific [1], mostly women < 55 (menopause?): > The Committee’s experts looked in extreme detail at records of DIC and CVST reported from Member States, 9 of wh
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by sradman 6y ago
> They focused on the people because they were either scammers The scamming came after the failure of the core premise of the startup: microfluidic lab-on-a-chip. My point was not to excuse the scamming, it was to switch focus back to th
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by sradman 6y ago
At the heart of progressive thought is concern over the twin evils of oppression and exploitation. O'Reilly’s piece focuses on the latter but relies on the assumption that profit==exploitation. I’m not convinced it is that simple. I wi
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by sradman 6y ago
> for many of the tests Theranos was aiming to do there's no real way to achieve it with the tiny volumes of blood they were trying to use This is exactly the right question to ask. Right from the start we should have had a scorecar
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by sradman 6y ago
> as Theranos demonstrated so vividly, it is harder to sustain a hype balloon in a scientific enterprise than in many of the markets where Silicon Valley has prospered. This narrative continues to frustrate me. Eleanor Roosevelt famously
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by sradman 6y ago
Great data, mind boggling interpretation. This is exactly what I’d expect to see in Greenland’s subglacial sediment. It reinforces, not rewrites, the paleoclimate history during the 41 kyr to 100 kyr glacial cycle transition.
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by sradman 6y ago
> Was Nikola Tesla a failure? He was a brilliant innovator that added value to the world. He was a failed entrepreneur that did not recapture part of the value he created. That makes him a huge success in my books but I wish he was more
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by sradman 6y ago
SQLAlchemy 1.4.0 Released – featuring major rethink of the APIs in Core and ORM [1] HN thread from yesterday and Migrating to SQLAlchemy 2.0 [2] from 26 days ago. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26473654 [2] h
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by sradman 6y ago
The climate switched from 41 kyr glacial cycles to 100 kyr cycles about a million years ago. Greenland experienced regular interglacials during the 41 kyr cycles. None of this is surprising except that climate change obsessed scientists, jo
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by sradman 6y ago
Written by Thomas Chatterton Williams [1], author of Self-Portrait in Black and White [2]: > “It’s not about color for me,” my aunt said while railing against Obama. “For example, I love Thomas Sowell.” > To that side of my extended
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by sradman 6y ago
European AstraZeneca supply is not being shipped to the USA. The FDA will not approve AZ until the ongoing local phase III trial is complete. In the meantime, the U.S. export restrictions still apply to American manufactured AZ doses: http
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by sradman 6y ago
British Columbia's Dr. Bonnie Henry discusses [1] (5min YouTube clip up until 28m37s) the decision process surrounding Adverse Events Following Immunization (AEFIs) [2] within the context of the EMA decision involving the AstraZeneca
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by sradman 6y ago
> The EMA has said that as of March 10, a total of 30 cases of blood clotting had been reported among close to 5 million people vaccinated with the AstraZeneca shot in the European Economic Area, which links 30 European countries. "
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by sradman 6y ago
Cornelius Vanderbilt [1] mastered steam powered shipping before tackling rail. An operator of technical machinery more than a trained engineer but relatively very technical for the 2nd Industrial Age IMO. [1] https://en.wikipedia
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by sradman 6y ago
Software is eating the world but you are discounting the possibility that this force is simply drawing in the best and brightest; part sorting hat and part black hole pulling in the biggest stars.
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by sradman 6y ago
Pandas supports JOIN and GROUP BY operators so you are saying that there is a gap between Apache Arrow and other mature dataframe libraries? If there is a gap, is there no plan to fix it in the standard Arrow API? I understand the case for
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by sradman 6y ago
My naive interpretation - The canonical Apache Arrow implementation is written in C++ with multiple language bindings like PyArrow. The Rust bindings for Apache Arrow re-implemented the Arrow specification so it can be used as a pure Rust i
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by sradman 6y ago
Divers call them thumb splitters for a reason.
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by sradman 6y ago
Why this hybrid dataframe? [1]: > [Arrow] adoption will take time, and most people are probably more comfortable seeing NumPy arrays. Therefore a Vaex version 4 a DataFrame can hold both NumPy arrays and Apache Arrow arrays to make the t
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by sradman 6y ago
How? Subsea power cables, optical fiber, and pipelines (?). Midsize autonomous ships providing a cost effective alternative to truck and rail transport. Promotion of English as the lingua franca. Policies that attract new talent and promote
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by sradman 6y ago
The geography of southern Italy, Croatia, and Greece place all three at a disadvantage compared to continental nations connected via road, rail, and canal. The Mediterranean is a comparative advantage that can be leveraged. The natural beau
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by sradman 6y ago
Wow, I'd like to hear more about the subsea cable [1] technology used. In terms of economics and geopolitics, this sounds like a win-win scenario. Perhaps necessity will force the eastern Mediterranean to re-emerge as an economic pow
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by sradman 6y ago
Good stuff, hugged to death [1]: > In the end, code doesn’t make software – people and communities do... It’s hard to beat an incumbent, and even harder to do so without having a large target user community you can capture with a compell
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by sradman 6y ago
This article by the author/podcaster Seth Godin [1] highlights the issues with Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT) [2], built on the Ethereum cryptocurrency. It extends the ideas introduced in an Everest Pipkin post [3]: > Cryptocurrencies an
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by sradman 6y ago
0data appears to be a curated collection of five best-in-class libraries/frameworks that enable building SPA apps with user controlled data, rather than Big Tech controlled platforms and services. 1. Autonomous Data 2. remoteStorage 3.
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by sradman 6y ago
NVDLA [1] targets IoT devices: > NVDLA is available for product development as part of NVIDIA's Jetson Xavier NX, a small circuit board in a form factor about the size of a credit card which includes a 6-core ARMv8.2 64-bit CPU, an

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