jergosh

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by jergosh 10y ago
Hopefully far enough to illustrate that "altering brain structure changes personality" isn't the same as "different personalities have to have a basis in brain structure."
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by jergosh 10y ago
You can change the way a program executes by interfering with the hardware. You can also run different programs on the same hardware.
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by jergosh 10y ago
I happen to be an evolutionary biologist and I said nothing about reproductive strategies. You would first need to establish a link between reproductive strategy and psychology (evolutionary psychology is a bit of a joke science, I'm a
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by jergosh 10y ago
Um, all the things that are not bodily fluids. And anyway you picked one particular bodily fluid, not even essential to the functioning of a body.
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by jergosh 10y ago
Why would this fact be particularly significant?
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by jergosh 10y ago
There are four copies of each part of the message so you can lose entire chunks and still be able to recover everything. As for subtitutions, unless you get the same error in 2 copies out of 4, there should be no problem. The 739kb isn&#x27
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by jergosh 10y ago
You don't actually need to that much, as long as you can keep it dry and reasonably cool -- one idea we had kicking around was to use a cave of the sort that's used for long term seed storage ( https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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by jergosh 10y ago
In principle a few hours but currently you have to outsource synthesis (i.e. writing) to a company and its an expensive process. Sequencing (reading) can be done more easily and has been dropping in price faster than Moore's law predic
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by jergosh 10y ago
I wasn't directly involved but the research group I'm part of did some earlier work mentioned in this paper (ref. 10) and I would be happy to answer any questions people may have.
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Lorentz–Lorenz equation(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by jergosh 12y ago|0 comments
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by jergosh 12y ago
"Not that it really matters once the referendum comes up as the UK will likely be out of the EU after that." That's actually highly unlikely. Much as the Brits value their independence, the economic cost would be too high.
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First look at Firefly Online(io9.com)
2 points by jergosh 13y ago|0 comments
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by jergosh 13y ago
terrible use of percentages.
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How to save civilisation in a single room(bbc.com)
6 points by jergosh 13y ago|0 comments
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by jergosh 13y ago
> Modern classification schemes are so arbitrary and error-prone as to be essentially just a painful way to satisfy scientists' compulsion to shove things into neat little cubbies and has the negative side-effect of scaring students
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Former Russian spy Anna Chapman proposes to Edward Snowden(huffingtonpost.co.uk)
3 points by jergosh 13y ago|0 comments
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by jergosh 13y ago
R core developers are notoriously resistant to change. A number of glaring inefficiencies have gone unfixed for years, despite people submitting patches etc.
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by jergosh 13y ago
Neurons in AI are not supposed to exactly mimic the behaviour of 'real' neurons...
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23andMe's genotyping patent(google.com)
2 points by jergosh 13y ago|1 comments
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by jergosh 13y ago
It's easy to talk about 'no-brainers' in the abstract. A different story if it's your own favourite bit.
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by jergosh 13y ago
It's a braver decision from someone who depends on their looks for livelihood. Also creates a mindset "if she could do it, then so could I"
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by jergosh 13y ago
Her going public about this has got a great potential to raise awareness and make other women more likely to consider this course of action. The sad reality is, however, most women won't be able to afford the reconstructive surgery (or to h
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Peripheral projected illusions (XBox 720)(youtube.com)
1 points by jergosh 13y ago|0 comments
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by jergosh 14y ago
Same story in the UK http://www.davidarno.org/2008/09/15/fly-to-new-york-and-buy-... (2008)
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by jergosh 14y ago
A Moolb filter?
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Best Places To Work 2013(glassdoor.com)
2 points by jergosh 14y ago|0 comments
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by jergosh 14y ago
It has enjoyed relative political stability but it's not as safe as you think. My exes father lived there for many years. One night his compound was raided, his guard killed and he and his family were trapped in the house. In the morning th
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by jergosh 14y ago
That is great advice on how to hire mindreaders. While the first idea (explaining something concisely) is defensible, the second (testing if people will 'stay on topic' when deliberately asked about something else) is just crazy.
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by jergosh 14y ago
This is changing the subject slightly, but to be fair, it's the same statistical bias that's used to say that men earn more than women.
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by jergosh 14y ago
"May or may not" is the same as "on average, may or may not".

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