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by sradman 1y ago
GraalJS?
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by sradman 2y ago
I've been lucky enough to photograph pygmy seahorses in N. Sulawesi. They are tiny, and superbly camouflaged. Observing their mating habits is an incredible achievement. Kudos to Dr. Richard Smith. I look forward to reading the upcomin
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by sradman 2y ago
There is also a technical blog post [1] on the architecture of Private Cloud Compute. I don't think that there are any details on the context being sent, just that any context is ephemeral, can't be traced back to you, and that th
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by sradman 3y ago
Gemini works in Canada as of today. Bard was not available in Canada anytime I tried it previously. Maybe the "regulatory uncertainty" was recently resolved [1]. [1] https://g.co/gemini/share/9bde4caabf2c
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by sradman 3y ago
Here is a CBC article [1] with an embedded 17min Quirks and Quarks radio segment on the finding. You can watch how the tool works in the video embedded near the end of the article. The original .mp4 is available as a zipped attachment on th
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by sradman 4y ago
> It's still solid fuel rod crap. There are a number of First-of-a-Kind SMR and Micro Reactors planned for the U.S., UK, and Canada. The advantage of the three leading lightwater SMRs (NuScale VOYGR, GE Hitachi BWRX-3000, and Rolls
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by sradman 5y ago
Do you have a link to the full age cohort effectiveness numbers? I didn't think these numbers were published yet, if they are or don't exhibit Simpson's Paradox then the question is what accounts for the discrepancy with the
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by sradman 5y ago
I think the misinterpretation is mainly by the media and the general public. When most of your population is vaccinated and most of the serious disease is in the unvaccinated, you need to report by rate and vaccination status as the Ontario
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by sradman 5y ago
There is not strong evidence supporting a 3rd booster dose in immunocompetent people. We have partly seen a misinterpretation of the Israeli data [1] and specifically the single low effectiveness value that appears to be the result of Simps
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by sradman 5y ago
OLAP Cubes have been disrupted by Column Stores. Unless you are interested in the history of Data Warehouses, the technology can safely be ignored.
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by sradman 5y ago
A corollary is that SQLite is as ubiquitous to structured storage as JavaScript is to programming and it too lacks the exact decimal representation available as DECIMAL(precision, scale) in other SQL engines. These are not fatal flaws, IMO,
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by sradman 5y ago
I'm interested in the API interface while the string literal example is more about the SQL language. JDBC has long provided prepared statement metadata that is used extensively by numerous tools.
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by sradman 5y ago
Great news, domain constraint enforcement is a welcome new feature. However, let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater; being able to specify an ANYTYPE/VARIANT column on a STRICT table would make this feature more useful. T
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by sradman 5y ago
The paper An early Miocene extinction in pelagic sharks [1]: > We present evidence for a previously unknown major extinction event in sharks that occurred in the early Miocene, ~19 million years ago. During this interval, sharks virtua
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by sradman 5y ago
Nicholas has Waded (pun intended) into the waters of irrational horror over gain-of-function research that seems to gain viral traction following every spill-over event. The only argument presented in the article that leans towards the
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by sradman 5y ago
From 2014, Host cell entry of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus after two-step, furin-mediated activation of the spike protein [1]: > Such furin-mediated activation is unusual in that it occurs in part during virus entry. Ou
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Health Canada authorizes Pfizer-BioNTech in children 12 to 15(canada.ca)
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by sradman 5y ago
> competition from plentiful natural gas, wind and solar power, which are rapidly becoming less pricey. No one questions whether the zero emissions target is rational. Natural gas in North America should complement the variability of win
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by sradman 5y ago
The March 23 press release Pfizer Initiates Phase 1 Study of Novel Oral Antiviral Therapeutic Agent Against SARS-CoV-2 https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-deta...
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by sradman 5y ago
Heart Rate Variability (HRV), a relatively new feature in wearables with optical heart rate monitors, is a good proxy for stress. Some years ago, IBM did a study that found that HRV in newborns served as an early warning system of illness.
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by sradman 5y ago
If I remember correctly, Eric Schmidt said that one of the first things he did as CEO of Google was to move the company off of Quickbooks and onto Oracle ERP. SAP HANA is certified for AWS, Azure, and GCP and all three are trying to win SAP
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by sradman 5y ago
The Arab News also covered the controversy: Anti-feminist trolls target first Egyptian woman captain with fake Arab News profile [1]. Hopefully the story is covered in non-English news sources as well. I suspect that the coverage will ult
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by sradman 5y ago
This is an alternative to Core Data. The DFlat tool generates Swift code from a FlatBuffer schema and persists objects in SQLite during runtime. Core Data objects are defined in Xcode using the Interface Builder.
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by sradman 5y ago
ScienceMag summarizes this research in an article named New generation of carbon dioxide traps could make carbon capture practical : https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/03/new-generation-carbo...
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Abbott BinaxNOW Gets Over-the-Counter EUA(abbott.mediaroom.com)
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by sradman 5y ago
From the ungated archive [1]: > Whenever you try to force the real world to do something that can be counted, unintended consequences abound. That’s the subject of two new books about data and statistics: “Counting: How We Use Numbers to
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by sradman 5y ago
> woodworkers take pride in the finished product, and seeing that finish product being used. They are not all hot on the tools they use, and nor do they value the art of planing for its own sake. Woodworkers are hot on the materials that
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ZEB2 gene controlled large human forebrain evolution(cell.com)
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CoV-2 fuse lit weeks before wet market bomb(cbc.ca)
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by sradman 5y ago
The paper is pure science. I’d argue that the Life Sciences are entering a Scientific Revolution 2.0. We are on the cusp of learning how many living systems work. The scope is broader than genetic engineering alone, IMO. This revolution is

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