Fomite

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by Fomite 10d ago
Once you know about it, there's also a lot of symbolic shorthand for recognition and the like.
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by Fomite 10d ago
Honoring a beloved medieval art historian professor of mine: "It's more properly the Bayeux Embroidery"
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by Fomite 21d ago
Yeah - I don't want AI writing "notes" in the academic sense, but minutes. Of course the problem with this for me (I'm a state employee) is that said transcript is a public record.
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by Fomite 21d ago
Sarah Taber has given some interesting talks about this - the short version is there is probably a fair amount of outbreaks caused by small farms, they just don't have the reach to be detected.
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by Fomite 21d ago
The FoodNet thing, while bad , has a bit of nuance in the system was not meant to do outbreak detection, so likely wouldn't have helped here. But it does cripple our ability to ask if this was a one-off, or if we're seeing long t
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by Fomite 21d ago
This. As an infectious disease epidemiologist, the number of people who will work their way into laboratory confirmed case reports is a small fraction of the total number of people impacted. You are almost certainly not reflected in those n
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by Fomite 23d ago
Honestly, I think we would do well to dispose of both "founder" and "startup". We had words for this. "Small business" and "Small business owner".
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by Fomite 23d ago
Why, in particular, above any other aspect of society?
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by Fomite 27d ago
In contrast, I loved biology and felt its applications call to me, and it took me like five years after struggling through calculus to go "Oh, that's what that's for."
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by Fomite 27d ago
One of the things that struck me the most, watching keynote presentations from the absolute best-of-the-best in my field (infectious diseases) was how often those presentations, which were often reflections on the path of ones career, invol
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by Fomite 27d ago
Who said anything about surgery? He expressed some problems with things like dogs having trouble with profiles, and reacting poorly to the mask/helmet things - that's the type of thing where veterinary schools have literal experts
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by Fomite 27d ago
You seem to be conflating something being legal with it being either ethical or desirable.
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by Fomite 27d ago
"And now everything is stale and the same." AI content is not exactly helping everything feeling like Extruded Product.
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by Fomite 1mo ago
Wherever the OP is, this feels very much like the kind of thing your local veterinary school extension office can connect you with someone to help with.
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by Fomite 2mo ago
I've been hearing some form of it since I was an undergrad. I just submitted by packet for full professor. There have been some spectacular strides, but we've been through multiple rounds of "Stand aside, the computers will t
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by Fomite 2mo ago
Doing hard things is hard.
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The Faculty Workload Myth(chronicle.com)
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by Fomite 2mo ago
Like many conspiracy theories, yours seems to require holding two contradictory pieces of information as true.
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by Fomite 2mo ago
There has been a shift - an understandable one, and one I by and large support (absent some edge cases) - to move away from causal language for observational studies.
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by Fomite 2mo ago
They are studies, and frankly, without something like this, doing things like the appropriate power calculations and risk assessments for larger studies would be hard to do.
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by Fomite 3mo ago
One of the things I have found so alarming about a lot of recent revelations is just how cheap congress goes for.
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by Fomite 3mo ago
In many places, you need to add lizards to that list.
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by Fomite 3mo ago
This is one of the things that is oft repeated by my vector disease colleagues -- your infection may not be caused by the tick you found, but by the tick you didn't.
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by Fomite 3mo ago
When we had to have a frank discussion about whether to fail someone who obviously used an LLM for parts their dissertation.
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by Fomite 4mo ago
While large social media sites have captured lots of traffic, etc. I've had small websites for a local wargaming club, a very modest blog, etc. for decades requiring little or no technical expertise. The idea that people who want modes
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by Fomite 5mo ago
All humanity will benefit, but some humanity will benefit more than others.
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by Fomite 5mo ago
One reason I don't read HN as much as I used to is because I can't help translating numbers like that into the amount of research that could be accomplished with the same amount, and then I get angry.
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by Fomite 5mo ago
WSU faculty here. The Cosmic Crisp is under license to Washington state growers for ten years, starting in about 2019, so it will be a few years yet.
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by Fomite 6mo ago
Yeah - this scenario presupposes that if I need my car fixed I'm going to wait for you to give me a call back, rather than continue working down my list.
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by Fomite 6mo ago
Have your estimate be off by enough to annoy me a time or two and you'll also blast through my continuing to be a customer.

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