pdar4123

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by pdar4123 3mo ago
Please remember that science is under attack in the United States - new proposals would gut the nih even beyond the horror that is ongoing. As a scientist I am horrified and I truly hope that we don’t abandon the usas historically strong in
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by pdar4123 4mo ago
The funding environment in Canada is quite simply abysmal. You don’t need a politician to kill your grant, the money doesn’t exist in the first place. Canada could do so incredibly well if it only would invest in science.
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by pdar4123 4mo ago
Heritability is the proportion of variance in a trait that can be ascribed to genetics. So if you increase or decrease the total variance in the population u change heritability by definition. Eg. Split the pop in half and give one half les
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by pdar4123 2y ago
Seems like a great idea. The police should do this… bring back red light cameras and automated speed traps.
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by pdar4123 2y ago
I have perhaps unpopular additional suggestion. If you break any traffic laws your tesla should automatically report u to the police. Shouldn’t a car w AI capabilities be committed to responsible, ethical, safe, law abiding behavior ? I’m t
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by pdar4123 2y ago
Folks agreeing with this take should take a hard look at their attention spans and ability to focus and comprehend - it’s honestly really shocking to see how many people can’t handle sitting still and reading for 10 minutes (or fewer!) stra
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by pdar4123 2y ago
This is a long winded “permission slip” to avoid any personal responsibility for our actions. The fact is whether it’s eating beef or writing code for Raytheon you actually do have free will. The HN and tech crowd is also far more educated
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by pdar4123 3y ago
Why don’t we preemptively put anyone who works in finance in the hall of shame. Unpopular w the hn crew I’m sure, but the field does disproportionately more harm than good.
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by pdar4123 3y ago
I have loved watching space x launches for years. And here I am, scrolling around on my phone and I can’t for the life of me find a stream that opens- this is just so sad
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by pdar4123 3y ago
“CRISPR-based genome editing tools developed by MIT professor and McGovern investigator Feng Zhang, Abudayyeh, Gootenberg, and others have changed the way scientists modify DNA, accelerating research and enabling the development of many exp
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by pdar4123 3y ago
Good lord the horror - devil horse is going to haunt me
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by pdar4123 3y ago
The article is a “tree…”
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by pdar4123 3y ago
You seem to be missing the forest though the trees. https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg/status/1679816678023000065...
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by pdar4123 3y ago
What is your point? He deserved to be murdered? This seems irrelevant, “he likely was maybe guilty of something…” and?
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by pdar4123 3y ago
Just think how much worse it’s all going to get with the ubiquity of AI
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by pdar4123 3y ago
Why do u need a blockchain? Why not just torrents for sharing.
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by pdar4123 4y ago
This is nonsense - none of this is possible - eg, there is no way to make gametes from stem cells
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by pdar4123 4y ago
Where’s the control? 100% of long Covid patients also had 2 arms and 10 toes
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by pdar4123 4y ago
I find your title and discussion of “mommy blogs” to be extremely misogynistic. This has no place on hacker news.
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by pdar4123 5y ago
There is a great deal to be suspicious of in all “fee for service” healthcare to be frank. I am particularly skeptical of dentists, they take on enormous debt to run their businesses and have every incentive to try to turn their patients in
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by pdar4123 5y ago
Good thing I grew up in zip code with super positive vibes
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by pdar4123 5y ago
Epic lol - it goes up. It goes down. “The hardest part of my life was pushing the single button when a random timer went off- fortunately I have a lot of free time” rofl
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by pdar4123 6y ago
The interface makes this impossible - it’s pretty but unplayable. Please post a simple 2d interface
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by pdar4123 6y ago
Read it, listen to it, share it, discuss it. This is one of the most important pieces of journalism in American history.
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by pdar4123 6y ago
But you would be surprised if they all had 11, 10 is your null hypothesis. It’s not context, it’s proper controls and the scientific method. This was very very careless
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by pdar4123 6y ago
Pro tip - When “every single one of the 96 participants show[s] the effect“ u have a technical artifact. This is scientific common sense.
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by pdar4123 6y ago
Honestly ppl: vim or emacs - the rest is fluff
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by pdar4123 10y ago
Glad to see so many great female authors represented ... Oh... Wait