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A gui installer would be fun, but an installation process that fixed all the weird quirks (like with LANG settings) by default would also go a long way to making it more approachab…

> There are plenty of viruses from animals known to infect humans Yes, absolutely. AFAIK that's where almost all viruses that infect humans come from. > it's exceptional because it…

The antibody tests do have a degree of cross-reactivity with other coronaviruses, but if this is reliable it's a fascinating finding.

Preface: This is rumor, although one that would require extreme cleverness and coordination to fake. A US intelligence contractor that collects location data from apps on phones ma…

While from a US political perspective, it may appear that the lab leak hypothesis began with the conspiracy theory that China created a weapon, this is not the dominant perspective…

The devices are conceptually great: just an android tablet with e-ink. The software is kind of low-quality. They're fun to use, and good for reducing eye strain while doing things …

A more hopeful interpretation. This can be a tool for good. It's not necessary for the state to have access. We already have access. This capability is precisely what we need to ge…

The low mortality is likely due to the recent introduction of the virus into the community there. It takes weeks to go from infection to ICU.

> If universities had to worry about students defaulting, they would get rid of bullshit degrees that don't result in an actual job and the prices would come done due to free marke…

> I conjecture if/when e-ink displays match conventional LCDs in response time and resolution there will be a movement towards “outdoor offices”. I think you're right. Working outd…

It seems unlikely to me that biological systems wouldn't exploit digital (e.g. genomic/DNA/RNA) kinds of memory storage, given that the materials are there and the energy costs of …

> neurons appear to serve as both CPU and memory storage I'm not sure this is really certain. But that uncertainty is more because it's hard to prove that there isn't another means…

I know you're probably annoyed that I'm telling you that you're using ddg wrong. That's not exactly what I'm saying. It's more like: we're trained to expect certain things from the…

And the chain. The chain has more pieces in it than the rest of the bicycle by a significant margin. A safety bicycle could never have been created with out modern precision mechan…

> As WGS comes online for association studies it will both validate and more deeply explore the genetic nature of every disease. It is going to be mindblowing. But there is another…

> ... if you're really paranoid about this then just take an algae supplement, which contains plenty of DHA. That's where fish get it. They don't make it themselves. And it doesn't…

They are touting it specifically in the context of the visualization of very large datasets. The fact that their software exists is itself a breakthrough. It enabled me to do thing…

> So... like... what happened, exactly? A group added a new DNA base pair ("X" and "Y") to a strain of E. coli. In genes, codons are triplets of DNA letters that transcription and …

Does this mean that Talon is based on private APIs provided in OSX?

I agree. However, it can be hard to observe, even in the large, public sequencing data that is currently available. There is a large amount of mtDNA inserted into the nuclear genom…

> undiscovered checksum scheme I don't think checksum is a fair metaphor for anything happening in biological systems. > Most mtDNA between humans is the same And most DNA is also …

> CRISPR in individual humans sounds potentially great Nuclease based editing with CRISPR is only going to be able to disable things in somatic tissues. You need to include exogeno…

> bioinformatic advances like automated cell detection for enhanced next-generation sequencing techniques Do you have a citation for this advance?

That would be something to directly ask Prof. Bohr who's mentioned in the article.

> but because it works without sacrificing realism, and thus demonstrates that the Cophenhagen interpretation (neither local nor real) claims strictly more about the nature of the …