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Assuming this is actually a genuine question: Here are the per country ratios of different VOC/VOI: https://covariants.org/per-country It took a while until it became dominant in I…

According to this thread from another virus expert [1], you can integrate pretty much every class of viruses in the system the authors of this paper used. [1] https://twitter.com/A…

I implore everyone to read the full article and not only the headline. The paper that is being reported on was widely criticized in its scientific community for its weak evidence a…

That's a valid, but still weird take to me. Academic publishing takes a very long time. Every paper I was involved in took many months from submission to eventual publishing (compl…

I would advice to interpret the IFR reported by the Ioannidis paper with an extreme amount of caution. One of the authors criticized (which is quite an understatement) by Ioannidis…

If you can recompile but the code was written to only target AVX-512 you can use https://github.com/simd-everywhere/simde to near effortlessly map the intrinsics to AVX2 (or lower)…

This still means that tools published in the last few years until now might just be gone soon. The people who uploaded the images might have graduated or moved on and none will be …

This will be quite bad for reproducible science. Publishing bioinformatics tools as containers was becoming quite popular. Many of these tools have a tiny niche audience and when a…

My grandmother has nine children. Seven of those survived and two did not. This was very common in the area she lived then. To this day, however only in private moments, she talks …

The message from the community was to ensure mask supply for medical staff first. They are both more at risk themselves and a risk for others due to the large numbers of contacts. …

It might not be surprising, but it is an extremely important point to keep reiterating. People keep spreading the malthusian myth of overpopulation and shifting blame to the poores…

I was looking for adding at least one Threadripper server to our local HPC system. I only found one ASRock motherboard for TR4, but none yet for sTRX4. I hope we will see 1U rackmo…

Microsoft posted this blog post titled "Ambition is good; action is better: Making progress on our climate commitments" two days ago: https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2019…

I did the calculation myself due to multiple conflicting numbers in this thread: I get 2.6 dollar per gallon of gas (8.65kg CO2 produced by complete combustion of 1 gallon gas): 30…

Publishing companies tend to create many journals for different (sub-)communities and also numerous other reasons. Nature Research (the company) has next to Nature (its most well k…

That has already happened. The NCBI maintains a taxonomy tree: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?id=... In this case human the identifier of human is 9606, a…

Root-less installation of packages into user-directories. I use it a lot in our scientific cluster environment. My User home directory contains a linuxbrew installation and is shar…

Depends heavily on the projected utilization. If you know your compute node is going to be computing for the next 3 years with at least medium utilization, then the self hosted met…

AVX are vector instructions. They work on wide register (256bit) where you can stuff 8 32bit floats (or in later versions ints) or 4 (double, or longs not sure if AVX2 or later has…

> Likewise, most European countries do not fluoridate their water and the correlation doesn't seem to show any significant difference in dental health. Just to expand on this point…

I can recommend Clion from Jetbrains. I am very happy with it. Although you have to be ready to drink the cmake kool aid. (I am using it on OSX, not Linux. When I edit something on…

These studies are usually done as cohort studies. Meaning the study group shares a defining trait (such as the same date of birth). Obviously this is not as great as a double-blind…

That idea seems to be discredited: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ural%E2%80%93Altaic_languages The remaining connections of Korean still fascinated me when I first heard about it: …

That is just the interconnect. Grid jobs are usually very compute heavy: "[...] includes the majority of the 100,000 processing cores in the CE." That is the expensive part. We bou…

Landauer's principle would come into effect if you had a theoretical "Computorium" material that could perfectly turn energy into computation. Then the computation you could produc…