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by stenl 10y ago
Would some kind soul please divide by the growing size of the population? Meanwhile, this link has population-adjusted charts back to 2006: https://www.bra.se/bra/bra-in-english/home/crime-and-statist...
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by stenl 10y ago
Off-topic, but Americans literally are shooting each other in the streets. More americans have died in gun homicides than died in all wars since, and including WW2. Include suicides, and gun violence exceeds all US war deaths ever. http:
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by stenl 10y ago
Expensive or not, they didn't do it, so we don't know if those compounds actually work. Am I missing something or did they also not use a held-out validation dataset to assess performance? It seems to me they ran their autoencoder
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by stenl 10y ago
Those were great! I'm pretty good at doing math in my head and my brain still visualizes numbers and their relationships based on lengths and colors. In 1970s Sweden they were called "tiostavar", "ten-sticks". They
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by stenl 10y ago
Surely the required sample size depends on the effect size. You won't need n>100 to learn that elephants are larger than ants. The problem is in experiment design and interpretation generally, not sample size specifically. That said
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by stenl 10y ago
Why isn't this exactly like playing "Nearer My God to Thee" on the deck of the Titanic? The ship is sinking and we're going to talk not about the water rushing in through the hole in the hull, but about ...gardening? By
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by stenl 10y ago
About controlling people in a democracy, there's a great documentary, "Manufacturing consent" featuring Noam Chomsky. See [ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent:_Noam_... Seems to be avai
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by stenl 10y ago
Here's a press release from the company: http://asteriasbiotherapeutics.com/asterias-biotherapeutics-... They're doing a dosing study, with escalating number of cells injected. Results are promising, but the study
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by stenl 10y ago
I agree on the loss of privacy, a big drawback of (current) cards. As for your other points: Swedes use nearly exclusively debit cards directly linked to an account (so no bills to pay, no interest, no risk of spending more than you have).
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by stenl 10y ago
I live in Stockholm and haven't used cash for several years. I have no cash on me ever, no coins, nothing. It's liberating. I get very annoyed when travelling and I rediscover the cash-based society and the need to always predict
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by stenl 10y ago
I have slightly different parsers for each family of journals. I use the DOI to get the metadata where possible. Then I reformat to show title, authors and journal consistently. I also create a direct link to the PDF where possible because
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by stenl 10y ago
Exactly. The API is written in Go (because I wanted to learn it), and there's a Postgres database behind it, and a background Go process that scans the journals for updates. I recently rewrote the client in React as a learning exercise
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by stenl 10y ago
I made a simple service for myself ( http://paperfeed.io ) which is a feed of all the new papers in journals I care about. I can "star" papers for reading later. Works extremely well for my habits. You're welcome to
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by stenl 10y ago
War crimes: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/nov/24/donald-trump... Invasion: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/08/11/trump-wants...
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by stenl 10y ago
Exactly my thought. Stephenson's article is my all-time favourite Wired piece. Here it is, a great longform read: http://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/
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by stenl 10y ago
Yes, sorry that was a terrible reference; I should have been more careful. But take instead the murder rate from Wikipedia (which gets stats from the UN): Sweden is in place 205 out of 218 countries and no other nordic country is lower exce
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by stenl 10y ago
We're in 64th place for crime, just behind UK and Australia and way behind the US (obviously). But Japan is absolutely great if you're looking for low crime rates, and the food is fantastic too. http://www.numbeo.com&#x
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by stenl 10y ago
It's Denmark that's the outlier. By far the least welcoming to foreigners (i.e. "racist") of all Western countries. Source: Max Fischer, Washington Post ( https://twitter.com/Amazing_Maps/status/
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by stenl 10y ago
Oh come on. 16% of the population is foreign-born, of which half are Europeans. Of the top ten immigrant countries, only one is arab (Iraq), and they constitute 1.3% of the population. The many Syrians who came last fall are not in the stat
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by stenl 11y ago
In terms of attitudes, Denmark is the least welcoming to foreigners, of all Western countries: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/03/21...
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by stenl 11y ago
It's also discouraging that they support their finding by saying "The significant replicated association of Neandertal SNPs with mood disorders, in particular depression, is intriguing because Neandertal alleles are enriched near
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DIY heavy water reactor(groups.google.com)
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by stenl 11y ago
Linnarsson lab, Karolinska Institutet | Stockholm, Sweden [ ONSITE I'm a full professor of molecular neuroscience, leading a group of ten people (PhD students, postdocs). We use single-cell RNA sequencing to discover and understand all
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by stenl 11y ago
I did. I looked at the paper and my description of it is accurate, including the reported p=0.07. Because of the underpowered design, we learned nothing. Underpowered studies are worse than nothing: http://www.wiringthebrain.com&
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by stenl 11y ago
Measure five different things. Use underpowered design. Compare everything to everything using many fancy-sounding statisticsl tests. Fish for p<0.05 (and the occasional "marginally significant" p=0.07). Remember, most psycholo
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by stenl 11y ago
Published in a shitty journal (Impact Factor: 1.3) with n = 10 per group. Also relevant: most psychology research published in high-ranking journals cannot be reproduced ( http://m.sciencemag.org/content/349/6251&#x
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by stenl 11y ago
"whether coherent quantum processes play a nontrivial role in biology" (from the paper) is very controversial. The idea was that coherence would make photosynthesis more efficient. If they're right about this mutation switchi
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by stenl 11y ago
Intriguing findings, but antibodies (used here to detect fungi) are notoriously prone to false positive findings. Direct shotgun sequencing of brain DNA, in a blinded design with sufficient numbers of patients and controls, would have naile
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by stenl 11y ago
You should drop synthetic DNA in it and then sample all nearby lakes and do PCR. Even aftera trillion-fold dilution it should be detectable. Would be cheap, easy and very likely to work. A cool weekend project for your kids!
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by stenl 11y ago
Seems like there should be some less ridiculously low-bandwidth and high-latency tech for the modern Godfather, no? E.g. why don't they use an electronic dropbox, posting messages in code on a public forum? Is it just that Mr Godfather

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