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by stanford_labrat 4y ago
> It's very easy to think that you're a failure if you don't know exactly who you are and what you want to be at age 17 I'm 26 (almost 27, so let's say 27) and I think this echoes my experience fairly well. I fel
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by stanford_labrat 4y ago
I don’t understand how I, a grad student in the UT system make 37k a year in salary (and was offered something similar by another UT school) when my peers in California make so much less. What happened to the UC system?
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by stanford_labrat 4y ago
For clarification, most base editors are a fusion protein with cas9 and the actual editing protein.
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by stanford_labrat 4y ago
Makes you wonder what the steady state features would be. DM/group chat, chronological/activity based feed, friends, personal profile, maybe group pages? Seems pretty simple and honestly a lot like early facebook. I would definite
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by stanford_labrat 4y ago
At my high school the "target" schools for the top performers in the class were usually some kind of high ranked school or ivy for this reason. I don't remember any of my classmates (myself included) really factoring in speci
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by stanford_labrat 4y ago
Not sure I count as mid career yet(graduated 2018, starting PhD 2022) but I can certainly echo the sentiment. I work in life sciences academia and if it were not for me leaving for school I 100% would be swapping to industry. I’m even quitt
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by stanford_labrat 4y ago
I’m starting my PhD this fall and the prospect of an advisor mismatch terrifies me (having seen this first hand). Thankfully my program has 2 or 3 faculty who align well based off of my interviews but you never know…
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by stanford_labrat 4y ago
here's a guess, our fancy new stem cell research building has 3 pieces of chihuly glass about each about the size of a mini cooper...
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by stanford_labrat 4y ago
My public high school in WA also had this. "AP Calculus" covered Calc I and II, and once you had completed that there was a special elective called "Advanced Calculus" that covered Calc III (and prepared you for the AP C
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by stanford_labrat 4y ago
Being unable to find a legit way to play GBA games was what got me into emulators in the first place. Eventually I "cracked" my Nintendo 3DS and turned it into a homebrew console, which was for me a really interesting and fulfilli
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by stanford_labrat 5y ago
Since you’re in grad school perhaps it’s because you are living in an American college town? Where I spent my pre-college school years we would run around pretty frequently.
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by stanford_labrat 5y ago
Whenever a rejuvenation/life extension biotech post gets made here I always want to plug Rejuvenation Tech. They’re a YC company working in this space :)
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by stanford_labrat 5y ago
I’m Irish as well…my family’s food joke is that nothing grows in Ireland except: milk, fish, and potatoes (and meat, if you’re lucky!)
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by stanford_labrat 5y ago
Did you mean little Si? Mt Si proper is a pretty tough hike with a scramble at the end that can be somewhat tough/dangerous depending on conditions.
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by stanford_labrat 5y ago
I work(ed) for a mRNA therapeutics company and bought stock in Moderna in Nov 2020. Sold not too shortly after for what I thought was a sweet 150% gain. If I had just held I would be up over 500% right now, kicking myself.
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by stanford_labrat 5y ago
Fwiw I also work in molecular biology and did a recent round of interviews (summer 2020). Started with applications over a web form on the university careers website, then chatted over email with the hiring manager. Eventually got set up wi
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by stanford_labrat 5y ago
Sounds like my school district. Freshman were technically banned from taking AP classes (but of course, some parents spoke to the school and thus they were allowed in). And naturally the valedictorian 3 years later was one of the 4 that was
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by stanford_labrat 5y ago
My favorite example of this is a CISCO/networking class offered at my old high school. It counted as 2 classes when it came to calculating your GPA...and accordingly was supposed to take up 2 "slots" on your schedule. However
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by stanford_labrat 5y ago
There is demand for this sort of work in the League of Legends space. Could be of interest for you!
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by stanford_labrat 5y ago
I feel this pain, especially since I'm hoping to get my PhD over the next 6 years.
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by stanford_labrat 5y ago
Happy to share. I’ve worked as an “analyst” which basically has boiled down to creating 15 minute slide decks detailing player behaviors/patterns, which ideally would be used to scout upcoming opponents and look for weaknesses. The eas
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by stanford_labrat 5y ago
If you don't mind my asking, what kinds of models/statistics/analytics did you find most useful? I'm curious because I've done some analytical work for professional League of Legends teams in the past, but have rece
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by stanford_labrat 6y ago
What’re your download and upload speeds like?
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by stanford_labrat 6y ago
I did my undergrad at UW and was heavily involved with the GS department. There’s only so many people this could be lol, really makes me wonder. Edit: found who it is. Why am I not surprised?
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by stanford_labrat 6y ago
Smaller companies here in the bay area as well, see: Rejuvenation Tech.
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by stanford_labrat 6y ago
KQED, which is the default (to my knowledge) news/radio station is exactly this. Nonprofit, but definitely left leaning. I'd love if there was an alternative in the Bay Area, something truly more neutral or at least right leaning
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by stanford_labrat 6y ago
I never thought smile was actually this effective, but I assume based off of these numbers you are doing the vast majority of all your shopping on amazon (groceries in addition to household purchases)?
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by stanford_labrat 6y ago
Really? What made you think that? For example, the first “lesson” is to find a scientific niche early that will be hot in 5-10 years. This seems like decent enough advice to a young scientist.
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by stanford_labrat 6y ago
The almost carbon copy of Star Wars to Eragon really changed my perception of the series.
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by stanford_labrat 6y ago
You won’t be able to acquire one if you live in CA, NFA items are de facto banned for ordinary citizens.

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