johncearls

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by johncearls 15d ago
I'm not your buddy, pal.
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by johncearls 23d ago
If you look at the debt-to-GDP ratios and identify the spikes, you will see there were two recent(ish) events that overwhelmingly inflated the debt. 1) 2008 housing crash. Bailing out Wall Street was expensive. 2) Covid-related spending (20
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by johncearls 1mo ago
I love mine. Being able to snap a pic without getting too far out of the moment, like when I am at a museum or in a beautiful place is great. Even better is being able to snap a picture of my grandchildren without distracting them. As soon
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by johncearls 2mo ago
Free Luna!
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by johncearls 2mo ago
My understanding of the Shahed's is that they are relatively simple. They can be programmed with a certain destination and then have some basic image recognition that allows them to "choose" exactly their target based on comp
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by johncearls 3mo ago
On a tech site, pessimism like this make me sad. I'm a nerd. I have been dreaming of a future where humanity finally takes its place among the stars since I was young enough to have dreams. I am looking forward to buying a little piece
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by johncearls 4mo ago
Whitespace forcing proper indentation practices has always been one of my favorite aspects of python. I TA'd a data structures in C++ class and the lack of proper indentation making code unreadable was my biggest pet peeve. I always ma
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by johncearls 1y ago
Interestingly, I read or heard something that said that a fatal flaw in hypersonic in regards to naval combat was that hypersonic speeds create plasma and that the plasma made optical sensors and remote control useless. They need to slow do
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by johncearls 2y ago
But that was a great quarter. You should have seen the bonuses.
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by johncearls 2y ago
I can't read the article. Could someone please point to the research that they are referring to?
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by johncearls 2y ago
Madison is exceptional for a midwestern city. It has a large and excellent state university. Epic is based there and most of FAANG has outposts there to draw the CS talent. Additionally, it is the state capitol which means a lot of companie
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by johncearls 2y ago
This is very clearly an attempt to get government employees to quit. They are not shy about stating that. It is hard to fire civil servants, and this is an attempt to get around civil service protections. Whether you agree or disagree that
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by johncearls 2y ago
As a former smoker, who used patches and gum and such to quit, this doesn't seem surprising. The nicotine patch is far less satisfying than cigarettes. Cigarettes come on strong, immediately, and that feeling is amazing. Patches are a
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by johncearls 2y ago
There isn’t any symbolysm. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are all sharks no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is s*t. - Ernest Hemingway
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by johncearls 2y ago
One of Peter Lee's arguments in his AI in medicine book[1] is that the GenAIs (GPT4) actually excel at empathy. He gives a pretty compelling example where the GPT is able to empathize very well with a young girl who is having a medical
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by johncearls 2y ago
And my cholesterol goes back up when I stop taking statins. I don’t get this very common argument.
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by johncearls 3y ago
Is that you CommanderTaco?
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by johncearls 3y ago
Interesting. I created Biological Age profiles using multi-omics and we found that GDF15 was also one of the strongest proteomic aging factors. - https://doi.org/10.1093/gerona/glz220
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by johncearls 3y ago
And irony of ironies, Bayer, a German company, purchased Monsanto and is currently stuck with the bill from all the people harmed by glyphosate. Reality is stranger than fiction.
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by johncearls 3y ago
Do you think it might simply be that the subset of Europeans that interact with international clients tend to be well-educated and highly effective. As a scientist, I interact with a number of Europeans. That happened less frequently when I
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by johncearls 3y ago
No good deed goes unpunished.
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by johncearls 4y ago
A link to the study referenced if you are interested: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2101084119
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by johncearls 4y ago
Apparently there is now.
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by johncearls 4y ago
A fellow fan of Peter Attia I see. His latest podcast had a protein expert on that went into great depth about the virtues and drawbacks of different protein sources. Highly recommend to people who are interested in the topic. https:/
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by johncearls 4y ago
I'd go with weight loss peptides or nucleotides (so injectables), but yeah, this is coming hard.
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by johncearls 4y ago
Okay, I'm confused. If I'm reading the paper right, it wasn't an 11 percent reduction caused by eliminating transfats. The total reduction was 11 percent, of which 11 percent was attributable to trans fat with the rest attrib
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by johncearls 4y ago
I do longevity/healthy aging research and sleep, nutrition, and exercise are by far the most important factors in healthy aging. Everything else can be considered a rounding error to those three. It's a little disheartening in fac
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by johncearls 4y ago
But this way is carbon neutral. Every CO2 molecule you pump out, started out as a CO2 molecule you took from the air. There is no reason to dislike fossil fuels, if they no longer come from fossils. It's the releasing of carbon from mi
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by johncearls 4y ago
I think you mean bias, not conspiracy.
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by johncearls 4y ago
This is a pretty basic chemistry question, but I thought someone her might be able to give a simple explanation why it seems most of these amazing catalysts are always made from precious metals. Why is it that super expensive things like go

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