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by xipho 5y ago
It is commonly thousands. And this is the norm in many fields.
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by xipho 5y ago
YRMV. I've damaged 3 laptops in ~ 15 years. All have been during international trips when fatigue and unfamiliarity grew and Loki struck.
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by xipho 5y ago
The author states they travelled 27 days a month, every month. I doubt many people put that much stress on their laptops.
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by xipho 5y ago
Exactly. > Have you thought about cataloging all the related stuff you stumble upon? Something in between loose notes and what Moby Dick is to cetology. Tongue in cheek- new app time, to facilitate this. It should have the name "Deg
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by xipho 5y ago
> I searched "plumber Austin TX" in Google and got a map and list of company websites near me. I think you could have done this historically in a Yellow Pages phone book. My OP used "boring". A list of plumbers is bo
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by xipho 5y ago
There are decades of academic research not digitized. The digitization window used to only hit around 1990, I haven't looked at it hard recently, but I suspect this still remains true for many important journals. This is grey only to
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by xipho 5y ago
In part, by boring results I mean I instantly recognize the top results, and I know exactly what will be in them, and I know which ones will actually contain potentially interesting new stuff, i.e. _I didn't have to search for these, I
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by xipho 5y ago
Exactly this. A couple results returned reference to obscure now-defunct newsletters and clubs, people that I know were historically important for past researchers, but only because this was my research forcus for so long would I have known
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by xipho 5y ago
You want evidence? Search for a plumber/tradesperson in your area THEN try to find rational discourse about your options. There are literally 100s of results of websites remixing a small set of data, presenting it to you, and asking yo
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by xipho 5y ago
Perhaps a counter example, something that is interesting. Anecdotally. This, of all things, is the top result in my search: https://tft.brainiac.com/archive/0303/msg00037.html . Which is strange to me because I
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by xipho 5y ago
Fascinating. I studied an "obscure" group of insects. My go-to search term to test an engine is their family name as it is a rarely used word and I know most (all?) of the major data sources that have accumulated data on it. Whe
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by xipho 5y ago
Vim with potwiki, dumb simple, super fast to call up, always in context of the code editing, etc. Take notes at the top, then easily add them to their own files. Git-commit once in a while. https://github.com/vim-scripts&#
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by xipho 5y ago
Just like the US should have cancelled all those air-craft carriers that cost as much or more? This is pennies compared to the defense budget.
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by xipho 5y ago
Hmm, they need the GBIF ( https://www.gbif.org/ ) of these.
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by xipho 5y ago
Any time I read "kills 99% of germs" or "cuts by 77%" I think, nice, that's some strong selective pressure to help us evolve more resistant <insert things that annoy Homo sapiens>. Particularly bad in agricul
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by xipho 5y ago
Do look at SonicPi [0][1]. [0] https://sonic-pi.net/ [1] https://github.com/sonic-pi-net/sonic-pi
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by xipho 5y ago
Why not? I've heard it before in conversations. Search "inferring species networks from gene trees". Look at the math in RaXML, MrBayes, etc. The intersection of two different fields is often the most interesting, if you c
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by xipho 5y ago
Second the Cloud 9, had been seaching for something like it for a (very) long time. I was a MS 4k user for decade +. There are some issue with it, but so far I'm still on board. The massive space I can spread left/right complete
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by xipho 5y ago
This is glorious: https://lichess.org/features . Love the side by side comparison :).
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by xipho 5y ago
Not public, our production and sandbox instances are behind passwords. Exactly flame-graph like use. We use a somewhat updated version of the first pic as a hub for tracking images that are being processed, i.e. fully colored is done. We u
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by xipho 6y ago
Very much looking forward to your experiments and completely agree with the sentiment. https://github.com/speciesFileGroup/waxy is my experiment in that foray. Increasingly it's only a short hop from experiment&#x
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by xipho 6y ago
Thanks for taking the time for (all) of this. Re Ruby + sound, assume you know of it, but if not I stumbled on this late in my Ruby using timeline, might be of interest, certainly is to my kiddos: https://sonic-pi.net/ .
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by xipho 6y ago
Vim + potwiki. command mode -> space-w-w to my index, and notes away. https://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1018
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by xipho 6y ago
As a point of reference I'm currently a Co-PI on a grant to recover the phylogeny of a hyper-diverse group of insects. As to your first point- we are nowhere close to a complete evolutionary tree of life (assuming we could come up with
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by xipho 6y ago
I'd agree. 20 years ago comments like "we'll have the evolutionary tree of life (or even small clades) resolved in 5-10 years" were routinely tossed around. Today the reality of the vastness of the biodiversity, the comp
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by xipho 6y ago
This is interesting because uBiome was at the time described (NYT, blogs, etc.) as a way for citizen-scientists to contribute to the scientific process, submit your poop, contribute to science. Pre-emptively, yes there are (very) many probl
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by xipho 6y ago
Right. I don't have an argument with the writer, its a wonderful article, spot on. Yes my families work was largely pre-big ag. Nothing is for everyone. The trigger that looped me in here was the "not sustainable because hard work
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by xipho 6y ago
My grandfather had a dairy barn, I'm aware of this. The community around it rebuilt it when it was burned, looked after it when he travelled across the country etc. Was it hard? Certainly. To suggest his (and his families) life was s
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by xipho 6y ago
You seem to equate hard work ethic with sustainability, this is false. You obviously have never experienced the joys of winters with nothing todo except read, learn, cook and play, because you worked insanely hard on the farm for 6-8 months
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by xipho 6y ago
In trying to imagine ways to unify knowledge of the worlds phenotypes (not DNA/RNA) we ran various exercises to think of just one "standard" measurement that could be measured across all life. All failed at one scale or anoth

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