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by theophrastus 7y ago
That's impressive; and for me a bit reminiscent. I got my doctorate staring at macromolecular structures through various attempts at presenting them in 3d. One of the earliest I encountered was called a "Richard's Box"
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by theophrastus 7y ago
"Researchers in Japan and at the University of Michigan said Monday that they had found a way to take over Google Home, Amazon’s Alexa or Apple’s Siri devices from hundreds of feet away by shining laser pointers, and even flashlights,
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With a Laser, Researchers Say They Can Hack Alexa, Google Home or Siri(nytimes.com)
5 points by theophrastus 7y ago|2 comments
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by theophrastus 7y ago
In the area of chemoinformatice, in order to discover new types of chemical to address some disease one approach is to associate members of a large chemical database with some coordinate space and consider those chemicals which fall in some
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by theophrastus 7y ago
Those are excellent examples of the evil pie charts do. The one which i've hit most often in the world of tech company business reports is the nefarious two pie chart comparison. The very first question one should ask in that case is
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by theophrastus 8y ago
In my case BROWSER isn't set. And yet ddgr still found my firefox in another workspace and opened a tab on it. I was just wondering if there's a means to force a terminal/text output from something akin to: ddgr \!ety
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by theophrastus 8y ago
Are the bang searches supposed to always open a gui browser? Because they seem that way. Search Hacker News for "ddgr" and it opens up (in my case) a tab on firefox: ddgr \!hn ddgr
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Black Hat Asia 2019 security conference details new Intel attack vector: VISA(zdnet.com)
5 points by theophrastus 8y ago|0 comments
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by theophrastus 8y ago
Trusty old XEphem[0] is still with us, ("Free download"). It has that charming old Xlib dependency but packs a lot of surprising options to compute and display planetary motions etc. [0] http://www.clearskyinstitute.co
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by theophrastus 8y ago
There should be a healthy caveat attached to this one. This was produced and presented by Sinclair broadcast group[1]. Whose devotion to promulgating conservative interests is almost unparalleled. And while some valid points are mixed in
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by theophrastus 8y ago
This is exactly why I typically have all sorts of prior rejection criterion to trim down my (relatively humble) set of 17 million trial molecules. I don't have a proper cluster like you-all do. So,'beggars' need to do the ea
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by theophrastus 8y ago
I was curious as to how one might implement this with a familiar language, and fetched up on this interesting python github script, specifically "rot32768"[0] [0] https://gist.github.com/terrorbyte/7967039
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“It's Time for Online Voting” (blockchains)(nytimes.com)
1 points by theophrastus 8y ago|1 comments
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by theophrastus 8y ago
Interesting isn't it? As a biochemist I can see only a slight correspondence between a sequence of audio or visual data and of genetic data, (as a contrary notion, there is only a small statistical expectation of correlation between f
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by theophrastus 8y ago
For most of human history, we thought that germs were spread by certain odors. Yep, hence malaria (bad-air)
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by theophrastus 8y ago
"Python creator and Benevolent Leader for Life Guido van Rossum has decided, in the wake of the difficult PEP 572 discussion, to step down from his leadership of the project. "Now that PEP 572 is done, I don't ever want to ha
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Guido van Rossum resigns as Python leader(lwn.net)
7 points by theophrastus 8y ago|4 comments
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by theophrastus 8y ago
The legal term, which presupposes the fallacy, is: Falsus in uno, Falsus in omnibus[1] [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsus_in_uno,_falsus_in_omn...
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by theophrastus 8y ago
I believe this was raised via an inference during the Zuckerberg testimony[1]. That is, since he stated with significance that there would always be a free version of facebook it suggests that there is at least a non-free version on his &q
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by theophrastus 9y ago
These are certainly cool. Yet everytime I've stumbled over them, I find that "Integer Sequences"[1] 'already did it' . And that's true for this case too[2]. [1] https://oeis.org/ [2] https:
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by theophrastus 9y ago
Of course they can be 'spiritual' (i've known several), with one clear philosophical caveat: religion, by definition, is dogma which requires faith. Faith requires, by definition, that one accept as truth universal aspects wi
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by theophrastus 9y ago
This puzzle is among the very nice offline set of Simon Tatham's "portable puzzles", with the name of "Untangle" [1] [1] https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/
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by theophrastus 9y ago
One issue that I nearly always find missing in intro discussions about linear regression is the near universal assumption of no error in the abcissal/"x" values. And while this is true-ish for time series data, (we know for
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by theophrastus 9y ago
"Software developer Abraham Masri found the bug, called “chaiOS,” and posted it on GitHub Tuesday afternoon. Masri told BuzzFeed News that he found the vulnerability while “fuzzing with the operating system.” In other words, he was try
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There's an iMessage “Text Bomb” That Will Freeze Your iPhone(buzzfeed.com)
4 points by theophrastus 9y ago|1 comments
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by theophrastus 9y ago
I don't know how it can help train whatever 'CNN' stands for (i'm guessing not the news network, but something Neural Network?) Yet there are vast sources of various ("pictures") representations of small molecu
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by theophrastus 9y ago
I don't know about " any existing technology" but in any aspect of drug discovery with which i'm aware, i'd agree. My job amounts to using statistics and linear programming to winnow drug candidates out of database
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by theophrastus 9y ago
Then there is also the evolutionist's reply to this question: because the ocean has a lot more calcium than iron, (in ppm Ca: 400, Fe: 0.003[1]). So all the evolved mechanisms from shells to (cuddle) bone were in place due to available
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by theophrastus 9y ago
And: "Must be four characters different than your last password" (this from a particular state's health insurance system). What does this mean? That four characters from the previous password must not appear in the new one at
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by theophrastus 9y ago
It's often worthy to first check the OEIS[1] prior to committing a large number of cpu cycles to the effort. [1] https://oeis.org/search?q=left+truncatable+primes+base&sort=...

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