rrock

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What's happening inside the NIH and NSF(science.org)
957 points by rrock 2y ago|1536 comments
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by rrock 2y ago
Surprising that anyone still thinks the Penrose model could work. Microtubules do not exhibit harmonic motion like violin strings. The reason is that all motion at the length scale of cells or smaller is heavily overdamped. The environment
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by rrock 3y ago
Lossy compression is a bad idea for scientific images. For instance, we often need to understand the statistics of photon detection events in background regions. That’s one of the first things to get tossed.
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by rrock 3y ago
It wasn’t entirely clear in the parts that I watched, but my understanding is that slime molds are actually “social” amoeba. They often crawl around as loners, eating whatever they can find. But if they run out of food, they start sending o
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by rrock 3y ago
3% CO2 from mask wearing? I doubt it. I recently needed to measure 5% CO2, and I had to hold my breath to near-passout levels to reach 5% on the monitor. There’s no way that I could tolerate 3% for any length of time. More likely these auth
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by rrock 3y ago
Bit flips from cosmic rays. Earth’s magnetic field helps to shield us, but is disrupted now. I work with a CCD camera in a sub basement lab. On a normal day we see a stray cosmic ray every couple of minutes (as a hot pixel). On a day like t
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by rrock 4y ago
He saved all seven shots against, if I recall. And one of them he stood on his head.
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by rrock 5y ago
Generally, the reverse complement of a translated sequence is uninteresting. The function is not encoded in the reverse complement.
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by rrock 5y ago
Exponential growth easily crushes any attempts to surge capacity.
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by rrock 5y ago
Note that MDPI is a predatory journal. @dang, this is not from nih.gov, you might want to fix that.
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by rrock 5y ago
You’re right. Some of us only realized our mistake when it was too late.
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by rrock 5y ago
Certainly. For me it started when they removed the entire scientific stack, which broke my install scripts / brewfile. Then, they removed the ability to customize builds, which broke my emacs build. Also hit the OP issues. In every ca
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by rrock 5y ago
One vote in favor of macports here. I first went from homebrew to nix. Nix was fine, the concept is great but I found the language to be difficult. Ports is closer to homebrew in its simplicity, and has a big catalog (including much of the
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by rrock 5y ago
The polyA tail is in the 3′ UTR (after the stop codon) and is not translated. It doesn’t appear in the final protein sequence. It’s also a fairly standard feature.
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by rrock 5y ago
Given the two dozen or so known causes of myocarditis, the vaccine does not stand out here. The risks of complications from the virus do stand out, in stark contrast.
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by rrock 5y ago
There is no spike protein in the vaccine. There is mRNA. That mRNA needs ribosomes to make the spike protein. So think about where there are ribosomes, and where the protein is made, and you’ll find the correct answer. I don’t know where yo
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by rrock 5y ago
The vaccine produces spike protein within your deltoid muscle cells, where it is rapidly degraded and presented to your immune system. It’s not running around in your bloodstream. Unlike the virus. Which means, incidentally, that if this i
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by rrock 5y ago
Tungsten beads are also popular as a weight for fly fishing nymphs due to their density.
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by rrock 5y ago
In addition, in April we didn’t have the delta variant in the US.
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by rrock 5y ago
Transcription causes mutations in the spike that causes clotting issues? Do you have any idea how much transcription happens in your cells, every moment of every day? You need to reconsider where you’re getting your information.
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by rrock 5y ago
As does the virus itself. Many, many ingredients.
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by rrock 5y ago
One of the major things that keeps me in Emacs is the keyboard macros. Being able to record a key sequence is something that I use regularly, and I don’t think the major competitors have it yet.
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by rrock 5y ago
I guess it’s a good thing that the vaccine makes spike protein within your deltoid muscle cells, so it can’t float over to your brain. And it all gets quickly degraded anyway.
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by rrock 5y ago
You might have some sort of dangling config issue somewhere? I use the emacs keybindings in the Julia REPL all the time. They work fine out of the box (at least here).
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by rrock 5y ago
The flag on this article is unwarranted. Derek’s analysis is excellent.
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by rrock 5y ago
Excellent advice. I'd add one more thought for the reviewers side of the equation (peer review specifically). Your objective as a reviewer is to help the authors present their case. Keeping that in mind helps to separate what additiona
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by rrock 6y ago
I’m sure that Vasilevskiy didn’t pop up immediately there because he was exhausted. If his team turns it over, he’s back on his feet in an instant. No way he stays on his knees the whole game
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by rrock 6y ago
I had the same reaction. Has he not noticed goalies playing at the top of the crease (still)? Goalies play from the standing position for as long as the can to leverage their quickness, only dropping to the butterfly when the shot is on it
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by rrock 6y ago
Yes, and is played on a frozen soccer field, 11 on 11. No boards, the ball can go out of bounds. Scoring is much higher. (Others may correct me, I’ve been to one bandy game my whole Life)
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by rrock 6y ago
Swedes tend to get a good amount of vitamin D from the herring and salmon in their diet.

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