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by v8xi 4y ago
Considering that, despite knowing for decades that pulse oximetry gives inaccurate results for people with darker skin, Covid showed us that we still can't/don't properly account for skin pigmentation during treatment[1]... I
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by v8xi 4y ago
Article gives scant information but found this from 01/30/23: https://e.vnexpress.net/news/news/internet-slows-to-a-crawl-... From that article: Vietnam is currently connected with seven undersea cables:
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by v8xi 4y ago
The article states 60/30% of young people, so the correct interpretation is that older men are "taking" a large share of the young, single women / young women prefer dating older men.
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by v8xi 4y ago
yes - prepare for the era of the normalization of down rounds
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Depends on the firm, but there is usually a "lock-up" period of several years where you cannot divest. Sometimes the firms will return the money early if things are getting bad but once the money is deployed they can't risk a
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by v8xi 4y ago
Of course, but its an absolute pain when you switch jobs/insurers or move and have to jump through a bunch of hoops to get prescribed the drugs you need to get through those bunches of hoops.
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by v8xi 4y ago
Just a helpful acrostic I remember from organic chemistry: ROMP. R is your reference chain, then ortho, meta, para as you go around the ring.
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by v8xi 4y ago
I've been trying out this organizational method for about 2 months now. tl;dr - everything falls into a Project.Area.Resource.Archive (sub)folder and the ideal is to rotate things through as soon as they're finished to Archives wh
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by v8xi 4y ago
Siderophores are some of the craziest things in biology, in my opinion. Short peptides (often <10 amino acids) with affinities to metal irons that are just incomprehensibly low with binding so tight you can actually deplete metals from w
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by v8xi 4y ago
On this topic, I would highly recommend Nick Lane's Oxygen: The Molecule that Made the World. Interesting learning about how life worked different when oxygen was much lower, and much higher than today.
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by v8xi 4y ago
I love ideas around extracting minerals from seawater since there is just so much. e.g. estimated 4.5B tons of uranium in seawater, ~1000x higher than land sources. Pretty much everything is dissolved in there, but the energy requirements a
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by v8xi 4y ago
"place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best" is very funny
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I went minimum speed, max legibility of "A quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" and it gives me "A quick brown foxeeeeeeeeeeeeeeejumps..."
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Had to find the article, but I recently read this: https://commoncog.com/cash-flow-games/ talks about the guy who invented EBITDA and I found it super informative. Explains WHY profit is a bad measure and why cash flow
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Its just getting revved up :)
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Thats true, but we do tremendous amounts of human DNA sequencing for certain causes at scale(e.g. understanding/treating cancer) whereas environmental sequencing is usually done to monitor/search for things at a much lower sample
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by v8xi 4y ago
Very good news to hear. With recent energy problems being exposed via the war in Ukraine, nuclear power is increasingly our best option for cheap, abundant energy. Despite decades of misdirected "Green" propaganda, nuclear is the
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by v8xi 4y ago
Can confirm that the data is often, though not always, stored in a shared directory and that yes, many tools can/do read gzip files directly which probably hinders the adoption of better compression algorithms.
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Well I think the issue with wastewater and other screening tech is that there is no global average reference genome. In that case they're sequencing everything from phages, viruses (human and plant), bacteria, fungi, plants/animal
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That would be true for FASTA compression but FASTQ files contain other data. With a MiSeq, for example, 1/3 of the data is the DNA sequences, 1/3 is a quality score (0-37) and 1/3 is a header which includes things like flow c
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by v8xi 4y ago
I was only replying to "So less than 12 of the components were manufactured in Asia, while 40 have been manufactured by US companies." My point is that the nationality of a company has no bearing on where they manufacture their pa
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I think the assumption that manufactured by US companies = within US borders is wrong. The US is no longer a manufacturing powerhouse. For example, from TI's website ( https://careers.ti.com/locations/ ): "TI’
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by v8xi 4y ago
Maybe try structural optimization! ;) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41565-019-0517-8 - see the stability optimizations with Spinach
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by v8xi 4y ago
Protillion Biosciences | Multiple roles (hardware & software) | Onsite | SF Bay Area (Burlingame) We're an early stage (3 FTEs) biotech company revolutionizing drug discovery with our technology capable of quantitatively characteri
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by v8xi 4y ago
RIP. He was a great DJ. For reference, probably his most popular song: Insomnia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8JEm4d6Wu4
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just don't link to it from Twitter or SUSPENDED
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I always liked the second proof they show. You see it and you think something must be wrong with the method... but then try it with other numbers. 10x = 8.888 - x = 0.888 ------- 9x = 8; x = 8/9 = 0.888...
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Restating what you're saying: 1-0.999 = 1/infinity. Substituting and rearranging, 1/0 = infinity. Which is true.
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Seemingly, they do. Apparently its all loaded in via thumb drive. https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2022/10/24/the...
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I follow pretty closely and have not seen any evidence or heard any rumors that there are any reputable banks with significant direct exposure. Many of the banks that might fall would be ones whose primary customers are people in the crypto

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