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by xerula 11y ago
The article explains X-inactivation, and it doesn't play the role you think here: both copies are broadly equally expressed among retinal cells. Also even if all cells in a retina used the same X-chromosome copy it doesn't predict
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by xerula 11y ago
Hopefully one thing this work will lead to is more physically accurate iridescence shaders for 3D render engines. The ones I've seen so far only attempt to fake iridescence at an approximate level, and the results are not very convinci
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by xerula 11y ago
There's a whole world of fine and unusual teas to discover and enjoy. When I fast, I want a tea that provides more meaty aromas and a more complex taste experience – a food substitute that also gives a 'cleansing' sensation.
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by xerula 11y ago
Perhaps it's to do with the fact that these particular bamboo species are monocarpic, i.e. in one life-cycle they set seed just once and then die. So the timing of this event is more crucial for their reproductive success than for typi
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by xerula 11y ago
Total forest cover is a crude statistic. Primary forests in Asia, where the majority of biodiversity resides, continue to be felled at alarming rates.
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by xerula 11y ago
Apart from the Romanesque cauliflower, these images mostly just show examples of phyllotactic spirals, which are not really fractals. Fractal models can generate patterns reminiscent of some organic structures, particularly branching struct
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by xerula 12y ago
Better information on the actual site: http://www.coelux.com/
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by xerula 12y ago
It still seems like a problem to me, if your subject (and potentially background) are moving around a lot. I shoot a lot of macro shots of bugs that are always about to jump off plants that are swaying in the wind... Not to say this tech is
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by xerula 13y ago
You lack imagination about all the different things that can be done with uniformly black, straight, fine hair. Length is not the only variable, and there is still a huge range of hairstyles that people could choose from if they were free t
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by xerula 13y ago
Simplistic. There's not enough land/resources on the planet to sustain everyone living a first world lifestyle at our current rates of energy consumption and waste production.
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by xerula 13y ago
I would say it depends on precisely what scientific work you need to do. E.g. for phylogenetic statistics there are some nice R packages that bundle simulation techniques and measures that are so far not implemented as conveniently, or at a
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by xerula 13y ago
Also "=" is compulsory for setting some named function arguments that have a default value. E.g. format(pi, digits <- 16) only prints with the default number of digits, format(pi, digits=16) works as expected. I think it's
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by xerula 13y ago
When our great deposits of fossil fuels were being laid down in the Carboniferous, efficient decomposers / recyclers of dead wood and plant material (chiefly higher basidiomycete fungi) had not yet evolved. Nowadays there is much less
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by xerula 13y ago
Also arts and crafts, personalized poetry and short stories, foodstuffs, homemade clothing...
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by xerula 13y ago
I've withdrawn from mtgox to a UK account via SEPA many times. It's never taken less than two weeks, and last time (about four months ago), it took nearly five weeks. Communication and transparency about waiting times has always b
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by xerula 13y ago
He had probably previously encountered Cantor's diagonalization technique for proving the uncountability of the reals. He just saw how to apply the same technique to the question of describability.
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by xerula 13y ago
No, arbitrarily large gaps between prime numbers exist. But there are no efficient methods for locating gaps of a particular length. The largest gap for which the end primes are known, so far, is of length 337,446. The recent work summarize
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by xerula 13y ago
This is about recent work on a longstanding and famous open question in number theory, called the 'twin prime conjecture'. The conjecture states: there are infinitely many pairs of prime numbers just two apart (e.g., 17 and 19 are twin prim
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by xerula 13y ago
Here is recent (and much more impressive, to me) footage of a direct hit. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LobCDYO78Us
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by xerula 13y ago
I would say that your worldview is extremely spiritually deficient, if you do not consider that musicians and composers can achieve greatness. Music at its best is extraordinarily enriching, as beautiful and intellectually thrilling as the
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by xerula 13y ago
In absolute life-or-death situations, yes. But as soon as we move even a tiny bit past that point, history shows we seek universally recognized, convenient mediums of exchange. And for every culture that has access to them, precious metals
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by xerula 13y ago
Yes. In related news, Transferwise just banned transfers to bitcoin exchanges.
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by xerula 14y ago
The universe presents overwhelmingly as a vast void. Of the total space in the universe, what fraction at most do you think is occupied by self-aware minds? What is the maximum percentage of all the matter in the universe that is organized
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by xerula 14y ago
Our yardstick is pretty good. We have characterized a vast range of the objects we share out universe with in immense structural detail, from lifeforms here on earth to astronomical objects billions of light years away. The human brain stic
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by xerula 14y ago
On the temporal / spatial scale of the universe we are virtually non-existent. On a scale that ranks everything in the universe according to physical / informational complexity & organization, we appear so far to be quite significant.
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by xerula 14y ago
There is nothing new about the observation that body mass is correlated with lifespan, at the level of species - why should we be at all surprised that the correlation is described by some power law? There are compelling metabolic explanati
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by xerula 14y ago
I really enjoyed this too. Would love to see quaternions presented with a similar treatment.
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by xerula 14y ago
These types of complex mutualistic interaction between multiple species are precisely what biologists predict are most prone to being disrupted by environmental degradation and climate change, leading to high extinction risk for the depende
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by xerula 14y ago
Editorial support and guidance is traditionally provided by the literary agent, so there is another professional layer between the writer and the market to consider. Big publishers maintain links with literary agencies based on the agencies
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by xerula 14y ago
But b"s" + "a" is an error in Py3.

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