tchalla

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by tchalla 5y ago
I know what you and tasogare refer to and I've seen it happen. I had to fight to change my thesis topic 3 times and also change advisors. Of course, it is not simple. I wouldn't change anything from my initial comment though. Flex
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by tchalla 5y ago
> So many PhDs waft around not doing a whole lot, and so land up being on the program forever. This only benefits the uni and is detrimental to the student. I noticed in the first month of my PhD that most people did a lot more work at t
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by tchalla 5y ago
> In my experience, this fact was the #1 reason why some peers dropped out of PhD programs. They joined expecting a continuation of undergraduate education, which consists largely of recapitulating what appears in the secondary literatur
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by tchalla 5y ago
> In almost all countries you can buy citizenship if you're rich. I don't think you can buy citizenship in most Central/Western European countries. You may be able to buy residence status but not citizenship.
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by tchalla 5y ago
> After the initial fear of a cancer prognosis, Arline was diagnosed with lymphatic tuberculosis in 1941, possibly contracted from unpasteurized milk. I want to take a step back and realise how far humans have come in 80 years.
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by tchalla 5y ago
> I’d gladly buy an Occulus but nope, need a Facebook account Facebook says that Oculus won't require a Facebook sign in anymore. https://www.facebook.com/boz/posts/10114026973983491
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by tchalla 5y ago
In short, it is difficult to infer and different growth CapEx and maintenance CapEx from financial data.
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by tchalla 5y ago
Basically, memory B-cells remember the code for anti-bodies and they are produced "on demand". Please see the graph in the figure below. https://askabiologist.asu.edu/memory-b-cell
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Low antibodies != low immune response
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I have seen a lot of introduction that explains the mechanics. However, I haven't seen one that explains the intuition of the hypothesis on why it works.
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Rapid antigen tests have a relatively high rate of false negatives.
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> If the vaccine doesn't significantly stop the spread of the disease Multiple studies show that vaccinated people have significantly lower transmission than unvaccinated. > In studies conducted before the emergence of the Delta
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Is there a way to get this on macOS Monterey / BigSur Safari?
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I don't know how long will it take to simply make a law where opt-in and opt-out effort should equivocate.
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Very interesting. The actual war crimes are brushed aside but the person who revealed those war crimes are punished. I wonder how this would have played out if China or Russia did it.
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> There is a danger in taking this too far. Already done- many, many times "Diamonds are forever", "Breakfast is the most important meal of the day", "Bacon for Breakfast" etc etc. The "humble" ori
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by tchalla 5y ago
They are also available on Coursera.
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> There is a reason. Controversy which began in 1973 and spurred Congressional investigations and this very article led to the CIA to sign a 1977 directive that prohibited them from recruiting or impersonating journalists, peace corps, a
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by tchalla 5y ago
> I have no doubt that academics have a ton of expertise, but their output in paper form is basically unusable, I'm not sure it achieves any purpose besides resume padding. If you think the entire field of academia doesn't achi
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Apple reaches quiet truce over iPhone privacy changes(ft.com)
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by tchalla 5y ago
You're basically saying - In a country of 100 people, concentration of wealth is great. Concentration like for every 100$, 5 people taking 95$ and the rest 95 taking the 5$ is fine. Your rationale seems to be the fact that the 95 peopl
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Gitlab Automates Engineering Management(about.gitlab.com)
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A man who invented lithium-ion battery at 57 has an idea for a new one at 92 (2015)(qz.com)
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by tchalla 5y ago
> Like the parent said, all of the currently-approved intramuscular Covid-19 vaccines have proven to have a negligible effect on transmission rate. Multiple studies show that vaccinated people have lower transmission than unvaccinated. &
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by tchalla 5y ago
> they are also forcing everyone who is fully vaccinated to get booster shots every 6 months for the indefinite future. There is no obligation (or force) to get a booster shot. It is available and recommended but not forced. Some groups
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by tchalla 5y ago
I specifically wrote in my comment "I am not going to stand up to Elon Musk or what he said." How did you come to the conclusion that I found it acceptable?
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by tchalla 5y ago
I have stopped exclusively using Google search for 95/100 queries. Duckduckgo does the job and sometimes I bang to Google.
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It is critical to distinguish risk from uncertainty. > "Uncertainty must be taken in a sense radically distinct from the familiar notion of Risk, from which it has never been properly separated.... The essential fact is that 'r
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by tchalla 5y ago
I am not going to stand up to Elon Musk or what he said. But, the response generated by Elon Musk was after the British rescue diver said this > “He can stick his submarine where it hurts,” he told CNN. “It had absolutely no chance of wo
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by tchalla 5y ago
> Your suggestion reads like you want to stop progress on Facebook because you'd prefer amazon to be looked at first. That wasn't my suggestion, really. The parent comment said that "We should start at Facebook". I fa

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