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by sradman 6y ago
https://sci-hub.st/https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-02...
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From the paper [1]: > Here we analyse genome-wide variation in individuals from islands across Polynesia for signs of Native American admixture, analysing 807 individuals from 17 island populations and 15 Pacific coast Native American gr
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by sradman 6y ago
It looks like Oracle had CREATE DATABASE LINK since at least 7.3 [1] in 1996 (probably earlier too but I couldn't find when it was introduced). It wasn't Oracle-only either: > However, to access non-Oracle systems you must use
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> are FDW's a reasonable way to migrate data between databases? As I was trying to find a reference to when SQL Anywhere introduced proxy tables, I came across a post [1] that discussed the speed improvement in proxy table bulk load
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> As for whether they're a secret weapon? Well, they're not so secret, but it does seem like they're underutilized considering the power they grant. We certainly like them. They are indeed powerful and underutilized. They
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> The last glacial period goes from 120,000 and 11,500 years ago, so the weather in Sri Lanka at the time was probably like Germany today.. When it comes to the paleoclimate of current subtropical/tropical regions during glacial max
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https://zero.sci-hub.st/6400/5174e8f2acfdd03584eb6a754f9a394...
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by sradman 6y ago
1. Low Contrast Text: use Google Lighthouse [1] 2. Missing Alternative Text for Images: use attributes alt=, aria-label=, aria-labelledby= 3. Empty Links: use attributes aria-label=, aria-labelledby= 4. Empty Buttons: use attributes aria-la
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> I can see no downside to changing it. Neither can Master Wayne, according to Alfred, who is as polite as a school master. Of course, the Dark Knight did not have a masters degree, nor the spirituality of a Zen master, nor the concentra
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And the new server-side ARM competitor to the Graviton is the Ampere Altra [1] which has nothing to do with the NVIDIA Ampere. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22475036
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> mainland mammoths were hunted to extinction Beth Shapiro's work on the Rise and Fall of the Beringian Steppe Bison [1] supports an alternative narrative. Though I'm not sure why the last glacial termination was worse for la
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kilo years ago
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It is not only about mammoth DNA but it was part of the mix which allowed them to determine exactly when mammoths disappeared (other proxies correlated to the timeline).
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Original 2016 paper [1]. After the last glacial maximum, wooly mammoths went extinct on mainland Asia and North America about 10 kya but mammoths survived longer on two isolated islands. This paper explains the extinction of the penultimate
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> But the bats in Yunnan are 1,000 miles from her laboratory, and one of the most extraordinary coincidences of the Covid-19 pandemic is that ground zero happened to be in Wuhan... Yunnan is also about 1,000 miles from southern Guangdong
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> they have somewhat different views on the root cause? It sounds like an issue with naming the failure pattern rather than understanding it. The root cause was equivalent to a memory leak in their custom auto scaling process; machine in
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After reading Steven Pinker's book The Stuff of Thought in which he describes verbs as the chassis of a sentence, I thought we would see various Natural Language Understanding algorithms that leveraged "verb classes". Beth
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It looks like it is more about declarative data structure validation in various language runtimes. Some of the implementations [1] (the interpreted languages like Perl, PHP, Python, and Ruby) seem to use the language's natural literal
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Ungated full-text via archive.is [1] > So Illumina spun out a new company named Grail in Menlo Park, Calif., to do what’s known as Circulating Cell-free Genome Atlas studies. [2] [1] http://archive.is/Jdbs7 [2] https:&#
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WSJ [Andy Kessler] – Cancer Screening by Grail(wsj.com)
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From Wikipedia [1]: > In psychology, the dark triad refers to the personality traits of narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy. I associate social psychology with a progressive world view. The next paragraph gives the context I wa
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From the GitHub Page [1]: > Brython (Browser Python) is an implementation of Python 3 running in the browser, with an interface to the DOM elements and events. [1] https://github.com/brython-dev/brython
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> “This is plain and simple: Economic espionage did in Nortel,” Shields says. “And all you have to do is look at what entity in the world took over No. 1 and how quickly they did it.” The definitive book on the collapse of Nortel is 100
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> Back in the days pre-Nehalem, the big eight socket 32-core servers were all the rage, but today not so much, and unless a company is willing to spend $250k+ (before support contracts or DRAM/NAND) on a single 8-socket system, it’s
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The technical details from the YouTube video [1]: - one cassette tape per route - distance to next milestone encoded in the bleep length on the tape - controller unit interprets the bleep length - controller unit reads RPMs from the spinnin
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A 5-year-old Labrador Retriever probably does behave like a 55-year old human. I think the important takeaway from this study is that every species/breed has a life-pattern that can be represented with a logarithmic graph and four key
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Fantastic. DNA is not just a blueprint, it is also a state machine. I like the use of the word "methylome" to represent the state machine. The four stages of aging are intuitive; I'm pleasantly surprised that they map so nice
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The URL has /2011/ but the page footer says "LAST UPDATED TUE 18 FEB 2020". This looks like a living document that cements the past decisions applied to all documents in the [sub-]site (e.g. URL/information structur
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Adjacency Theory is an explanation of the conflict surrounding Project Fugu; native APIs for the web. Antagonistic trade-offs seems like the explanation to me: Google/Microsoft/Samsung want enhanced PWA/ChromeOS apps while Ap
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Susan Orlean article about the odd history of domesticated rabbits in our culture told through the lens of "rabbit Ebola” RHDV2.

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