evolarjun

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   by evolarjun 9d ago

   I thought it was fairly obvious the author was trying to point out the issue with quantitative rankings by setting up the stats to juice his score. It would be fun to play with the stats and figure out how to make yourself come out on top t
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   by evolarjun 2mo ago

   Loops are good for streaking. It's hard to get even coverage with a loop, so loops would make it hard to get accurate CFU/ml counts. Loops are more likely to get you single colonies even if you're inoculating from a high dens
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   by evolarjun 4mo ago

   I'm a geneticist, so it's nice to see, but it doesn't seem to belong on HN to me either. Maybe because someone thinks this information should influence their use of the hot-new pseudoscience cureall - "peptides"?
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   by evolarjun 1y ago

   The page says "open source", but I don't see links to the source anywhere so I can see what filters installing this would add. I'm sure it's fine, but I wouldn't add a set of email filters without knowing what
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   by evolarjun 5y ago

   In my field (bio) it's fairly common not to publish code, but it's becoming more common. Biologist's code is generally crappy and I think everyone understands that. The better developers are often valued for producing tools t