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adenadel

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About adenadel

Computational biology PhD student at Brown University. Previously a bioinformatics scientist at Illumina.

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    Another thing is that it seems you are sampling with replacement. I placed a circle in a rural area (where I grew up) and in one round I got the same street for 3/5 of the selectio…

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    People have called Tacoma Tacompton for a long time. Tacoma has come a long way over the last couple decades and is now one of the fastest moving real estate markets in the country…

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    In case anyone is interested, you can get 3x or 4x on YouTube by opening the console and using this one-liner document.getElementsByTagName("video")[0].playbackRate = 3

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    Can someone explain to me why this should be an entirely new company (subsidiary) rather than folding DeepMind's capabilities into Verily and Calico? Are these different groups sil…

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    If you're not a customer of a bank and you come to cash a check (that isn't drawn on that bank) then you are going to pay a fee (if they will even cash it). I assume check cashing …

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    Someone who knows the Sunday traffic on Highway 2, I assume.

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    Comment #28868575

    I feel bad too. To me it seems like he was hurt by his firing and wanted to retain no connection to the company.

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    Presumably someone could take other positions to hedge away all of the other holdings in the fund so that (to a first order approximation) their only exposure is SpaceX, right? (I …

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    Hm, I'm not so sure that just because the definition of a bijection is technical that it is not intuitive. I'll start an enumeration of the rationals 1 1/3 2 1/4 3 1/5 ... If you c…

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    In fact, almost all numbers are transcendental (algebraic numbers have measure zero).

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    This is not true. The usual calculus that people learn (and usually learn with rigor in a real analysis course) does not touch infinitesimals. The approach via infinitesimals is ev…

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    I am certainly not an expert on this, but my guess is that there will be be challenges to doing calculus since you won't have the standard foundational properties of the reals (lik…

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    Incognito works for me

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    Comment #28145385

    It basically opens the repo in VS Code in the browser. I wasn't able to run a Julia file in the repo I opened though.

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    Comment #27960905

    This is just not true for the vast majority of the world. Not everyone is American and in tech.

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    Yes, but this is a huge part of the history of the Olympics. The Dream Team in 1992, athletes who worked for their governments (and just trained full-time) in the 70s, athletes liv…

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    Also try lichess, it's free and open source.

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    30X is considered standard for germline whole genome sequencing and higher coverage is typically used for detecting somatic variation. That being said, all detection is statistical…