bionerd

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by bionerd 13y ago
This is exactly why I find the field of epigenetics[1] absolutely fascinating -- we are so much more than just the sum of our genes. Everything in our lives matters: our childhood, the stuff we eat, how much we sleep (or don't), how
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by bionerd 13y ago
If you’re looking specifically for an alternative to Go or chess then be sure to have a look at a list of the so-called abstract board games (Go and chess belong to this category too) on the BoardGameGeek: http://boardgamegeek.co
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by bionerd 13y ago
I'll watch this, thanks. Well, I have to admit that, after spending the last three years as a basically full-time intern in our lab, I have a bit of an idea how science is quite broken. I've witnessed some of its problems first ha
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by bionerd 13y ago
My story is very similar. After high school I went to study computer science in college. Then, just before I got my bachelor's degree, I decided to apply to a programme in molecular biology instead of further pursuing master's deg
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by bionerd 13y ago
> The early pioneers in genetics were all consummate hackers in the truest sense. For much of the work they were doing, the had very little information about the underlying processes to go on. Exactly! They only had the most basic tools
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by bionerd 13y ago
> It should be for the really "broken" people who are a danger to everyone no matter where they are. Gacy, Dalmer, etc. Yeah, but it's not. There are plenty of terrifying cases of people who were considered "broken&qu
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by bionerd 13y ago
> China should abolish the death penalty. Every country should, not only China. A murder is still a murder, no matter where and why it's been committed.
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by bionerd 13y ago
For anyone who hadn't read it yet, there is a relevant very short story by Isaac Asimov called Hell-Fire: http://www.tep-online.info/short/hell.htm “That these bombs are man’s death sentence. We don’t seem to be
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by bionerd 13y ago
Here’s a link to the original research article: http://www.pnas.org/content/110/41/16384.full
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by bionerd 13y ago
For a very long time I've regarded Racket as a purely educational Scheme dialect not particularly useful for real work. It was only a few months ago that I actually bothered to look at it's ( amazing! ) documentation [1] and reali
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by bionerd 13y ago
I know it's probably totally unnecessary but still, here's a link to the free download page of the book [1]. Together with Modern Perl (also free for download [2]) this book completely changed my view of Perl. It helped me see thr
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by bionerd 13y ago
So many awesome things to try out and so little time... I'm really excited to see such great ideas of the past being resurrected like that. Things like Lisp machines and Smalltalk environment are still revolutionary and have much to co
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by bionerd 13y ago
Not as impressive? Come on. Like we were all doing things like this on our backyards in 1995. Given historical context this is as much as impressive as what SpaceX are doing right now.
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by bionerd 13y ago
This is incredible. Yes, it would be insanely cool to live in 2500s with all that privately affordable faster-than-light travel and everything but still... it's very exciting to see the progress being made by private/commercial sp
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A series of R video tutorials from Google Developers(youtube.com)
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by bionerd 13y ago
This is great news but will it really force certain agencies and powerful circles to stop what they've been doing all this time in secret? And if not, what could?
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by bionerd 13y ago
Well, the DNA itself probably wouldn't be enough because it doesn't really encode an algorithm or recipe describing how a (multicellular in this context) living organism is constructed from it's genetic information. Instead,
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by bionerd 13y ago
> Most life we eventually discover might be more exciting to entomologists. You say it like it wouldn't be fascinating just by itself. About 70% of Earth's surface is covered by water and more than 90% of the ocean still remain
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by bionerd 13y ago
I don't think it's going to explode. And I don't think it needs to. Even after decades there are still people who use Lisp-like languages and who find them fascinating and just right tools for their job. I, for example, am
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by bionerd 13y ago
> "But we all know essentially how this will end: Prism isn't going away and Edward Snowden's fate is grim." > "Stories on HN don't have to be about hacking [...] but they do have to be deeply interesting
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by bionerd 13y ago
I don't know if it's just because I'm a biologist but I find this absolutely disgusting. Every living thing is valuable no matter how it looks or how "lowly" it is, even goddamn cockroaches. I'm not saying thes
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by bionerd 13y ago
You can't take seriously any kind of propaganda no matter what political extreme it comes from.
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by bionerd 13y ago
This is, without any doubt, the most incredible thing I've seen for the past 15 years I'm the citizen of the internet. The scope of this plan and its possibilities are just amazing. Sadly, my enthusiasm is quite clouded in the lig