redofrac

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by redofrac 5y ago
"And, does it reflect reality? Do new populations really preserve the prexisting culture in practice?" I'm not totally sure what you're presuming integrating with a community should involve, but there's a large gap
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by redofrac 6y ago
Were the MIT journals previously behind a paywall? Is there any info about the move?
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by redofrac 7y ago
Could you explain how the need for two mutations refutes the idea of an adaptive walk? The elife article just seems to suggest that walk may have been a more complex process.
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by redofrac 7y ago
While the worm in question, C.Elegens, is vastly simpler than the human brain, the numbers don't paint the complete picture. When you look at the product of evolution in such a system, every single neuron has a very precise role. Moreo
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by redofrac 7y ago
> To test these predictions, we conducted a double blind, sham-controlled, within-subjects experiment using EEG and high-definition tACS (HD-tACS; a form of tACS that provides more precise targeting of cortical structures) So they'r
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by redofrac 10y ago
From the article: "They looked for a link between a child’s behavioral problems at age 7 and his or her mother’s post-natal acetaminophen use, and found none. They looked for a link between a child’s behavioral problems at age 7 and ac
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by redofrac 11y ago
Also isn't clear at all if they're accounting for multiple comparisons. Given they're looking at (glancing through they paper) at least seven or eight cell phone related factors, it'd be pretty crucial here.
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by redofrac 12y ago
Just curious, what's wrong with this?
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by redofrac 12y ago
To get a structural MRI scan, you need the subject to both be willing to lie inside a a scanner and capable of holding still for a few minutes. This can be challenging in populations such as autism, and unfortunately often biases studies to
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by redofrac 13y ago
For human trials of this nature, typically at-risk populations can be used, and it's seen if there's a reduction in infection rates.
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by redofrac 13y ago
Yeah, this is what I was going at. As well, when a language like sanskrit is spoken as vernacular, then you end up with exactly what we have now: a bunch of related languages that have all developed their own changes and quirks over the las
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by redofrac 13y ago
Much like Latin, a good deal of the regularity is because Sanskrit is only a written language.
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by redofrac 13y ago
The sentiment has value, but it feels misleading to need to back it up by aligning the idea with the Nazi Germany. (The closest quote by Goebbels appears to be about England rather than Germany, not sure if that makes it more or less releva
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by redofrac 13y ago
I wouldn't put so much emphasis on the source: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joseph_Goebbels#Misattributed
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by redofrac 14y ago
I'd guess two is a limitation of the Thunderbolt controller they're using, and adding the HDMI is a cheap way to free up one of those ports.