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by veddox 6y ago
The bookshops I know (in Germany) have an excellent ordering service, especially the academic bookshops in my university town. I used to order everything via Amazon, but eventually I figured I wanted to support one of our lovely little loca
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Darwin "The Voyage of the Beagle" Homer "The Odyssey"
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The central dogma, though still taught in schools, is a strongly oversimplified model of how information moves in a cell. In fact, there is so much regulation going on on all levels that proteins, in some sense, aren‘t even the main „produc
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You mentioned an old laptop - is it too old to have wifi, or why doesn't it seem to be an option? There are SSH clients for iPads (I use termius), but the screen size / cost ratio is rather prohibitive if you only want a smart typ
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Be ready to learn. Many if not most HN discussions attract at least a few commenters who are really experts in that field - sometimes world experts. (Of course, they also attract a lot of people who obviously aren‘t, and most people will be
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> Having periods of blurry vision, like looking at something far away for some time without glasses or contacts, may be beneficial in that it may signal the eye to become less football shaped to help correct for the blurriness it now is
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This was not meant derogatorily, to whoever downvoted me... I‘m honestly interested. Obviously there has to be some advantage, otherwise it would have died out by now. I just don‘t know what that advantage is, never having used it myself.
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I did for a couple of years - actually wrote my own small CLI app to take care of my very basic student needs :D At some point I dropped the habit, more out of laziness than anything else. I still have a budget spreadsheet with a rough plan
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Probably opening Pandora‘s box here, but I‘ve been wondering for a long time: why do people still use BSD? If memory serves me right, the *BSDs descend from the original Berkeley Unix from the 70s - but why stick to that „line of descent“ r
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> I learned about closures, higher order functions, OOP, testing and interacting with API's from it, and it definitely gave me insight into how computers worked. Well done, I'm honestly impressed :D > remember that it's
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That's a valuable pointer, thanks for sharing :-)
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It's easier to dip your toes into, but it is a terrible language to learn software development with. It's such a hodge-podge of ill-thought-out and ill-fitting components with random names and no overall sense of structure that yo
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Oh we teach programming alright, but software development is another pair of shoes entirely. Unfortunately, that's where the problem lies...
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If you're interested, here is some further reading: * DeAngelis, D. L., & Grimm, V. (2014). Individual-based models in ecology after four decades. F1000prime Reports, 6(June), 39. https://doi.org/10.12703/P6-39
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Well, it looks like one of the biggest problems in computational biology has finally blown up in our face. I work in a very similar field to the one discussed here - ecosystem modelling. And much of the code I see is probably of a similar q
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> If you compare the free support academic software developers receive from the rest of their community to other engineering disciplines, it's beyond great. Could you elaborate on what you mean by that?
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> Epidemic experts shouldn't be writing the implementation of their model, they should defer to the experts. Believe me, a lot of scientists would love to. But as pointed out in the OP: it is next to impossible to get funding for a
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I'm at a center for computational biology - our genomics guys have been known to use 90% of our university's HPC capacity ;-) My own work (ecological modelling) is not as heavy, but when I run a full experiment, that takes a 32 co
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by veddox 7y ago
There‘s a really good one for Germany: https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/478220a4c454480e823...
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by veddox 7y ago
On the contrary, epidemics are reasonably easy to model (at least at a basic level), and modelling them has a long academic tradition. As with all modelling, it all depends on what kind of detail you want to get out of your analysis/pr
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Deformation zones are designed to protect the car's occupants in the event of a collision with a tree. They are not designed to protect a pedestrian. (Although some modern cars are beginning to have proximity sensors that can launch an
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„The vast majority of tuna stocks are healthy and abundant“? I am highly skeptical of that claim. Does anybody have any up-to-date, global numbers?
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Yes, it has a lot to do with leadership. That‘s why new leaders who try to change everything at once so rarely succeed. They first need to build up credibility (a.k.a. idiosyncracy credit) by fitting in and conforming to group expectations,
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Zotero on Linux for my scientific library, syncs to my iPad using Zotfile and a personal Nextcloud server.
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Unfortunately, my CS background isn‘t strong enough to see the „ordinary, obvious reasons“. But I do like Common Lisp, so I am rather interested in discovering what bothers you about it? And as an aside: what makes you call C and Java „bad
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That‘s a pretty opinionated statement... Could you elaborate on why you think the Lisps aren‘t „good dynamically typed languages?“ And I don‘t think „necessary“ is a good metric when comparing programming languages; „pleasant to use“ or „ef
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May I ask what areas you are referring to? I haven‘t noticed that yet - but then, I very rarely refer to Wikipedia on topics I already know...
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I find it useful to look at the talk section of a page when I‘m unsure about possible biases. If there‘s a heated discussion going on there, that says a lot.
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I would love to see Apple Music for papers. I refuse to use Sci-Hub for its blatant piracy, but the basic idea really is what academia needs! We just need to figure out how to make it legal - like the music and movie industries did.
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Einstein, 120 years ago...

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