willpearse

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by willpearse 3y ago
If you like Subtree of Life, you're going to love 'Onezoom' ( https://www.onezoom.org/ ) which is a very attractive 'Google Maps of life' sort of site, and TimeTree ( http://www.timetree.org
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by willpearse 9y ago
This is a risky thing to do when the patient's name is attached to it. Insurance companies, salesmen, etc., could do quite a lot with such information. I whole-heartedly support the general idea, and making a centralised database of th
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by willpearse 11y ago
Very picky, but beware constantly using "set.seed" throughout your R scripts. Always using the same random number is not necessarily helpful for stats, and makes the R code look a lot trickier than it need be
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by willpearse 11y ago
...not anymore. Thanks!
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by willpearse 11y ago
I get a message saying it's not ready for Hacker News yet, so I can't even see what's going on :-(
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by willpearse 12y ago
I'm an ecologist: if you're really interested in this, his book ( http://www.amazon.com/Maximum-Entropy-Ecology-Distribution-E... ) gives a good background to (macro)ecology and works through the maths involved in t
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by willpearse 12y ago
I can't comment on much of this article, but it doesn't apply to the UK (as is implied), where essentially every student has full funding for their 3-4 years. Sometimes people hang around for an extra six months, but it's not
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by willpearse 12y ago
I'm a post-doc at a university. I asked around at conferences, and emailed people whose work I liked. I'd be surprised if the process is very HPC-specific; you'd be trying to make scientific job-hunting more efficient. But pl
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by willpearse 14y ago
Points 2 and 3 make no reference to previous years' data, so aren't really talking about trends. Point 1 ignores the (trend that they state) that there are more post-doc positions. Post-docs are safer jobs, because you know what will happen
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Google Maps for life on Earth(onezoom.org)
3 points by willpearse 14y ago|0 comments
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by willpearse 14y ago
Some confidence intervals on these graphs would really make this a lot more useful...
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by willpearse 14y ago
I can't even load the page, so... "was bubble sort the wrong way to go?" ...I hate myself a little.
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Fixing peer review with an idea inspired by Reddit(blogs.plos.org)
2 points by willpearse 14y ago|0 comments
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by willpearse 14y ago
Good points. I also feel people tend to tweet that they are enjoying everything, simply to make themselves look like they are always going to interesting things and thus worth following. Similarly, no one can say anything negative, since th
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by willpearse 14y ago
I'm sorry, but there's no 'unsexy data crunching' here - just a series of ratios compared against one another. There is a whole body of statistical literature about how to do anything of this kind, and they haven't done any of it. I'd quite
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Baby name trends in the UK(names.darkgreener.com)
2 points by willpearse 14y ago|0 comments
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by willpearse 15y ago
Great idea and something that will definitely be highly used (I'm downloading it now!), but I really would be cautious attempting to provide what R provides, 'but better'. R's power comes from the fact that hundreds of scientists have writt
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by willpearse 15y ago
I too work in biology, and while this is interesting, that there are differences between people is not that surprising, and attempting to link socio-economic conditions to such widely different methylation patterns when you've got a sample