murphyslab

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Public Schools' Eye of Sauron(educationnext.org)
3 points by murphyslab 2d ago|2 comments
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by murphyslab 13d ago
I wasn't aware that the number of cases was so small that it might spoil for others. I see now, trying it on a desktop, that there are just 68 cases at present; there isn't an indication of that on the mobile version. Moreover, I
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by murphyslab 14d ago
That was incredibly fun, although challenging on a smartphone. If you can guess the character it's a lot easier (100%, 99%, 96%, 85%), but even with ones I couldn't guess, it gave a reasonable score (Hollow Knight: 74%, Steve Harv
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by murphyslab 1mo ago
NB: The post was updated twice. The first changed the link to the Nature Reviews Drug Discovery article; the second changed it back to Derek Lowe's blog post with the NRDD article in the body.
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by murphyslab 1mo ago
My apologies for the lack of clarity in my prior comment; it was composed in haste. To be clear, I am a bit of a Derek Lowe fanboy. I value the work that he does in offering insight on his areas of expertise to the public at large because h
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by murphyslab 1mo ago
Derek Lowe is someone whom I greatly admire and his work as a science communicator is a true service to the profession and to science at large. It is not intended as an insult in any way. I've known a great number of competent chemists
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by murphyslab 1mo ago
Derek Lowe as a science communicator, and others like him, is sorely needed to understand the real meaning and significance of the study and others. I say that as someone with a PhD in chemistry who's been to plenty of presentations on
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by murphyslab 2mo ago
Men in Black: https://floor796.com/#b2r4,541,605 Naruto: https://floor796.com/#t2l4,684,675 The author continues adding and refining the project, so if it isn't in there yet, perhaps in the future.
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by murphyslab 2mo ago
Incredible. It's easy to just go on browsing and exploring. The massive, scrollable pixel art aspect reminds me a little of Floor796: https://floor796.com/
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by murphyslab 2mo ago
Noticing all of the Costco hot dog listings on the map reminds me: There's also an incentive for businesses to pose as users and misreport prices of competitors. My local Costco gas station constantly has a set of users misreporting th
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by murphyslab 2mo ago
> I was aggressively recruited for education as a math undergrad. Was it because you were male or because you were studying math? Many schools struggle to find good math teachers; it's one of the qualifications in perpetual shortage
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by murphyslab 2mo ago
Suggestion: Require a user to hit ENTER or SPACE to clear the word, even if it's a wrong word. Being able to see the letters laid linearly is useful to solving. Automated clearing of wrong words is unhelpful.
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by murphyslab 6mo ago
> I have never, ever – not even once – seen a graphical abstract that usefully “summarized the contents of an article”. The author has never worked in chemistry. They are absolutely ubiquitous in scholarly journals for chemistry and I&#x
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by murphyslab 7mo ago
A Bonferroni correction would be suitable. I usually see it used in genome-wide association studies (GWAS) that check to see if a trait or phenotype is influenced by any single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in a genome. So it's doing
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by murphyslab 9mo ago
One persistent problem is that there isn't a Canadian English spelling option in most software with spellchecking functionality. Often we are forced to choose between US English and British English spelling defaults, when neither is qu
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All life copies DNA unambiguously into proteins. Archaea may be the exception(news.berkeley.edu)
7 points by murphyslab 10mo ago|1 comments
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by murphyslab 10mo ago
Paper: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2517473122 (Open Access)
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by murphyslab 10mo ago
Not to cast shade, but it looks like you've essentially built a front-end for Desmos. It definitely makes things faster than trying to do it directly in Desmos. Suggestion: Most of the fits that you've done assume that the errors
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by murphyslab 10mo ago
Copy-paste worked perfectly for me. I just copied 16 data points I had in an open G Sheets tab and used the "Batch Add" button.
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by murphyslab 1y ago
LaTeX was much easier with Overleaf for my PhD thesis. I still recommend that for friends starting a thesis or a book project. I even used it for recent book project with a friend. As you noted, one needs a lot of fine tuning to meet public
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by murphyslab 1y ago
Two articles that I found offered a well-rounded analysis: - https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/youtube-may-reinstate-chan... - https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/09/youtube-will-restore
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by murphyslab 1y ago
It's what their lawyers are advising them. The Globe and Mail had a piece on March 25th on the advice that lawyers were giving to their clients, often Canadians working on TN visas down south: > York-based immigration law firm Dyer
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Norwegian Consumer Council: Report on virtual currencies in gaming [pdf](storage02.forbrukerradet.no)
1 points by murphyslab 2y ago|0 comments
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by murphyslab 2y ago
UV damage to internal tissues seems unlikely given that the tartrazine dye they used absorbs strongly in the UV region of the spectrum. You can see this in Figure S1 A & B: https://www.science.org/doi/suppl/10.
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by murphyslab 2y ago
You cannot always obtain a generic version; sometimes not even the original version. Drug manufacturers regularly take approved medicines, which are off-patent and non-exclusive, due to safety reasons (side-effects, risks to patients) or du
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by murphyslab 2y ago
> With this, there are no changes to our support policy for existing Chromecast devices, with continued software and security updates to the latest devices. "no changes to our support policy" links to https://safety.
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by murphyslab 2y ago
Japan Institute of Heterocyclic Chemistry, the publisher of the journal Heterocycles (1973-2023) [0] is suing CLOCKSS, after its content was released on June 25, 2024 [1]. All of the content from Heterocycles had ceased being available onli
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Japanese chemistry institute sues CLOCKSS for hosting discontinued journal(chemistryworld.com)
4 points by murphyslab 2y ago|1 comments
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by murphyslab 2y ago
You claim, as a "fact", that someone who wrote this [0], identifies as Jewish? [0]: https://bisqwit.iki.fi/jesus/
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by murphyslab 2y ago
> in a malpractice situation, a physician could be liable if they made diagnosis or treatment decisions based on unverifiable LDTs. That seems to be a senseless concern, since offered the evidence of a lab test, a physician should be pro

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