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Presidential Approval Tracker(usatoday.com)
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by thisisnotmyname 16y ago
Yeah, that would make more sense than what is currently there.
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Who Can Name the Bigger Number?(scottaaronson.com)
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How the Pursuit of Goals Operates Outside of Conscious Awareness(sciencemag.org)
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The Roots of Bioinformatics(ploscompbiol.org)
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by thisisnotmyname 16y ago
There probably ought to be fewer phd students around, and more research tech jobs. But, I was under the impression that the current glut of grad students was because they were so much cheaper than techs?
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by thisisnotmyname 16y ago
I have a 40 minute commute (each way) that is mostly a train ride. When I first started with this commute I was very worried about wasting that much time every day, so I brought lots of printed material with me and would try to study on th
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Parrondo's paradox: A losing strategy that wins(en.wikipedia.org)
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by thisisnotmyname 16y ago
I use gvim whenever possible and vim otherwise.
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by thisisnotmyname 16y ago
Google chart: http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=bvg&chs=500&c... I put 500k for the < 1 million people. I didn't know what to do with JFK, so I put him as 500k too. I duplicated Grover Cleveland so that the count would
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The Statistic Behind a Mortgage Meltdown(housingwire.com)
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Things SQL needs: MERGE JOIN that would seek(explainextended.com)
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Lessons on Leadership from Jeff Bagwell (former Houston Astro)(morganensberg.wordpress.com)
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by thisisnotmyname 16y ago
Couldn't getting sick be considered crashing? We obviously have a lot of redundancy (10^12 cells) so we don't "crash" unless a lot of those cells get sick. In E-coli, on the other hand, there are plenty of genes in which a single mutation
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by thisisnotmyname 16y ago
This has gotten a lot of upvotes in a very short time, so it must be ringing true with a lot of readers. I'd encourage some healthy skepticism. 1) It is really tempting to try to understand ourselves based on the assumed lives of our evolu
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by thisisnotmyname 16y ago
There's another common mistake I notice a lot, but I don't have a snappy name for it. Maybe "Basing a conclusion on too little information." As an example, I recently read an article (possibly on Hacker News?) in which a guy was working on
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Weekly Chess Problems taken from the 'Steps Method'(shredderchess.com)
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by thisisnotmyname 16y ago
Even easier, if you run the firefox plugin noscript, instant personalization is disabled for you automatically.
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Volcanic Lightning, Eyjafjallajökull, and how it works(scienceblogs.com)
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It is impossible to tell from their website what they did. My institution does not have a subscription to "Future Medicine" so the best I can get is the abstract. It sounds like they've altered the expression of 3 key developmental genes (
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by thisisnotmyname 17y ago
First of all, don't ever trust a popular science writeup from the school of the corresponding author. It is almost certainly meaningless hype. Secondly, PNAS is a good journal, but not a great one. He was almost certainly rejected from th
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by thisisnotmyname 17y ago
My first thought is that it isn't a fair trade - art is a one shot thing, code has to be maintained.
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The Chinese economic system [is] inherently unstable(stratfor.com)
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Yeah, that's a different one, but you're right, it is way more interesting. What they've found is that the interactions of groups of proteins is very highly conserved, so proteins that work together towards a function in plants are still w
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by thisisnotmyname 17y ago
The writeup seems a bit goofy and I can't find the paper with the doi. Anyone else having any luck finding the actual paper?
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Mastering [Ruby's] Dyanamic Toolkit. [pdf](sandal.github.com)
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by thisisnotmyname 17y ago
Sounds like a great idea - I'd be happy to help out too if you need it.
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by thisisnotmyname 17y ago
"A different way of (mathematical) thinking" is too vague a definition for me. In my mind CS is the study of how to precisely define a problem and how to precisely define a process to solve it.
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by thisisnotmyname 17y ago
Interestingly enough, just last week I saw a talk given by Jack Szostak ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_W._Szostak ) who researches, and has actually constructed, proto-life forms. Before a cell needs to worry about an energy source, i
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Beyond Passion: The Science of Loving What You Do(calnewport.com)
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