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by estevez 8y ago
Another book on the topic that I can recommend: The New Foundations of Evolution: On the Tree of Life, by Jan Sapp
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by estevez 12y ago
This one? http://youtu.be/0zHev9iM8kU?t=20m26s
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by estevez 12y ago
Yeah, I can see where one could get confused. I use a version of Source Code Pro that's been patched to work with vim-airline[0], which is why it's "for Powerline". On OS X I think you can get the font name from the &q
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by estevez 12y ago
To install multiple fonts on Arch and Ubuntu I just copy them into `~/.fonts` and run `fc-cache -v`. edit: On OS X the directory is `~/Library/Fonts`.
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by estevez 12y ago
For gVim I put this in my .vimrc: set guifont=Source\ Code\ Pro\ for\ Powerline\ Medium\ 11
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by estevez 13y ago
http://openhatch.org
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This is what happens when housing data isn't open and accessible(tonywebster.com)
2 points by estevez 13y ago|0 comments
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by estevez 13y ago
I've been an active editor since 2011, primarily on the topics of computational biology and African American history.[1] I started by inserting citations, then by incorporating a couple of term papers I had collecting dust, before fina
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by estevez 15y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3638455
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'Academically Adrift': The News Gets Worse and Worse (chronicle.com)
3 points by estevez 15y ago|1 comments
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by estevez 15y ago
Wikipedian here. Your source's analysis reflects the years 2000-2010, while the citation given for Wikipedia's article is based upon numbers provided to the New York Times for the years 1991-2006 (which included a nine-fold increase in the
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by estevez 15y ago
I remember coming across a group of other students who were getting into a argument about a tricky calculation required for a chemical analysis pre-lab. After this had gone back and forth for maybe 5 minutes, I pulled out my laptop and sett
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by estevez 15y ago
We've found microbes almost everywhere, and they make up the vast, vast majority of life on this planet. In Lake Vostok's case, the first reports were in 1999,[1] and yeast and fungi have been isolatef from ice cores collected at depths mor
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by estevez 15y ago
It's a scientific mission, which is expressly protected by the treaty.
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by estevez 15y ago
I think the article's main point succeeds on the merits: while we have a variety of statutory and regulatory mechanisms in place to make sure that things like credit reports are compiled in a fair manner we have no such mechanisms for the l
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by estevez 15y ago
To us, perhaps, but not to the average NYT reader.
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by estevez 15y ago
Sweave support? You could hand off to an EC2 instance and include n hours of computation time in tier x .
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by estevez 15y ago
Music for 18 Musicians is usually my first choice whenever I want an hour of uninterrupted productivity. The piano and mallot lines are like a rhythmic propulsion system.
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by estevez 15y ago
This is precisely where the Copyright Office (and its UK equivalent} can step in and make explicit that textmining in this fashion is unambiguously fair use.
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by estevez 15y ago
Not solely on family income (but I'd suggest that if 100K is nothing in Manhattan one might be better served by looking a bit farther afield, Brooklyn perhaps...), but as it currently stands low income students receive no advantage at many
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by estevez 15y ago
Yes, to an extent. I think the focus on what the ivies do or don't do distorts our view (the majority of US undergraduates attend community colleges, for example) of what truly is broken in higher ed. I've commented before on it here: http
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by estevez 15y ago
> Correlation does not imply causation. Precisely my point. By my reading it appears that the only empirical evidence for race-based discrimination (an extraordinarily grave accusation) is something that could just as easily be explain
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by estevez 15y ago
I don't get it. Family income is a very strong (if not the best) predictor of SAT score. In this case, if you order each race by median income you get the exact same order as mean SAT score, Asian-American families with the highest median i
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Five Things to Do Instead of Protesting the Research Works Act(depth-first.com)
1 points by estevez 15y ago|0 comments
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by estevez 15y ago
If that's the case then I disagree with your characterization; I don't see any passage that refers to decade long studies that show that Ritalin is "harmful" in the long-term.
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by estevez 15y ago
This is good news. As an undergrad at a liberal arts college (and a community college transfer) I'm painfully aware of how much information is locked away behind the Elsevier pay wall. In my case, I wanted to do an independent study project
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by estevez 15y ago
Let me play devil's advocate here and note that twitter has been used as a communication platform by what the US Gov't consider (again, I take no position on the merits) terrorist organizations,[1] and that monitoring such a public forum is
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by estevez 15y ago
> The various decade long studies on Ritalin also show it to be largely useless and harmful. Twenty seconds on Google Scholar would lead me to the opposite conclusion. Your source?
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by estevez 15y ago
I think the exact point is that the journals don't pay for peer review.
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by estevez 15y ago
> all life will be destroyed by natural catastrophe. I'm going to disagree with you there.[1] A bit tongue in cheek, but regarding your larger point, I think that thinking about preserving life in our corner of the universe solely in

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