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by eggie 5y ago
A gui installer would be fun, but an installation process that fixed all the weird quirks (like with LANG settings) by default would also go a long way to making it more approachable. Guix is amazing, all the awkwardness aside.
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by eggie 5y ago
> There are plenty of viruses from animals known to infect humans Yes, absolutely. AFAIK that's where almost all viruses that infect humans come from. > it's exceptional because it can pass from human to human With extremely
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by eggie 6y ago
The antibody tests do have a degree of cross-reactivity with other coronaviruses, but if this is reliable it's a fascinating finding.
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by eggie 6y ago
Preface: This is rumor, although one that would require extreme cleverness and coordination to fake. A US intelligence contractor that collects location data from apps on phones made a presentation that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was s
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by eggie 6y ago
While from a US political perspective, it may appear that the lab leak hypothesis began with the conspiracy theory that China created a weapon, this is not the dominant perspective among scientists who have expressed doubt publicly (and pri
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by eggie 7y ago
The devices are conceptually great: just an android tablet with e-ink. The software is kind of low-quality. They're fun to use, and good for reducing eye strain while doing things that you'd typically do on a phone, laptop, or tab
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by eggie 7y ago
A more hopeful interpretation. This can be a tool for good. It's not necessary for the state to have access. We already have access. This capability is precisely what we need to generate data that can be used to resolve this crisis and
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by eggie 7y ago
The low mortality is likely due to the recent introduction of the virus into the community there. It takes weeks to go from infection to ICU.
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by eggie 7y ago
> If universities had to worry about students defaulting, they would get rid of bullshit degrees that don't result in an actual job and the prices would come done due to free market forces. This is a hypothetical but classic example
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by eggie 7y ago
> I conjecture if/when e-ink displays match conventional LCDs in response time and resolution there will be a movement towards “outdoor offices”. I think you're right. Working outdoors with a laptop is already better than indoo
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by eggie 7y ago
It seems unlikely to me that biological systems wouldn't exploit digital (e.g. genomic/DNA/RNA) kinds of memory storage, given that the materials are there and the energy costs of maintaining and accessing that kind of storag
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by eggie 7y ago
> neurons appear to serve as both CPU and memory storage I'm not sure this is really certain. But that uncertainty is more because it's hard to prove that there isn't another means of recording memory than something we kno
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by eggie 7y ago
I know you're probably annoyed that I'm telling you that you're using ddg wrong. That's not exactly what I'm saying. It's more like: we're trained to expect certain things from the search engine, and so it
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by eggie 7y ago
And the chain. The chain has more pieces in it than the rest of the bicycle by a significant margin. A safety bicycle could never have been created with out modern precision mechanical engineering and production.
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by eggie 7y ago
> As WGS comes online for association studies it will both validate and more deeply explore the genetic nature of every disease. It is going to be mindblowing. But there is another layer of confusion, because WGS implies resequencing, an
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by eggie 7y ago
> ... if you're really paranoid about this then just take an algae supplement, which contains plenty of DHA. That's where fish get it. They don't make it themselves. And it doesn't come with all the pollutants you get
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by eggie 8y ago
They are touting it specifically in the context of the visualization of very large datasets. The fact that their software exists is itself a breakthrough. It enabled me to do things that other equivalent tools (such as in statistical packag
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by eggie 8y ago
> So... like... what happened, exactly? A group added a new DNA base pair ("X" and "Y") to a strain of E. coli. In genes, codons are triplets of DNA letters that transcription and translation machinery converts into s
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by eggie 8y ago
Does this mean that Talon is based on private APIs provided in OSX?
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by eggie 8y ago
I agree. However, it can be hard to observe, even in the large, public sequencing data that is currently available. There is a large amount of mtDNA inserted into the nuclear genome, and this can make it appear that there is rampant heterop
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by eggie 8y ago
> undiscovered checksum scheme I don't think checksum is a fair metaphor for anything happening in biological systems. > Most mtDNA between humans is the same And most DNA is also the same. A percent difference is the kind of thi
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by eggie 8y ago
> CRISPR in individual humans sounds potentially great Nuclease based editing with CRISPR is only going to be able to disable things in somatic tissues. You need to include exogenous DNA template in order to evoke precise allele changes,
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by eggie 8y ago
> bioinformatic advances like automated cell detection for enhanced next-generation sequencing techniques Do you have a citation for this advance?
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by eggie 8y ago
That would be something to directly ask Prof. Bohr who's mentioned in the article.
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by eggie 8y ago
> but because it works without sacrificing realism, and thus demonstrates that the Cophenhagen interpretation (neither local nor real) claims strictly more about the nature of the universe than is required by the evidence we have Nicely
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by eggie 8y ago
I agree. Even in the big cities the level of english speaking is pretty low, and definitely lower than in Barcelona. But this shouldn't be a problem. Take the month or two of effort it takes to get started in the local language where y
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by eggie 8y ago
Actually, you can get by pretty well in Napoli on english. Initially it was a struggle for me (native english speaker) to avoid using it all the time and learn the local languages. It's true that it's not Berlin, but on the other
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by eggie 8y ago
It's true, this might be one of the optimal markets for this kind of farming. You're right about the other niches. There will be a few. Blueberries in Brooklyn. Us hipsters need our avocado toasts and rare fruit brunches in all se
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by eggie 8y ago
This is another in a long, long series of breathlessly promoted "urban"/"vertical" farming concepts. In virtually every case the description is projection. The economies rarely work out except for leafy greens in ex
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by eggie 8y ago
Are you affiliated with growcomputer.io? If not, how do you know what they are doing? The site is blank.

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