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    Comment #42269417

    These tests always make me wonder: What qualifies as a valid pattern rule? For example, why wouldn't "0" be a correct answer here (rule being "every other number on the right shoul…

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    Comment #40895720

    The information you can get from light miscroscope images is quite limited though. On the other hand, maybe it would be enough to filter out every cell that is not identified as a …

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    Comment #35990412

    This is interesting since I remember having much lower latency for 3G, perhaps < 50 ms, about 10 years ago. :) At that time, some of my friends were even using the home 3G to play …

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    Comment #34225534

    Most of these historical disruptive technologies seem to affect only a relatively small group of professionals or then small part of human skills. Therefore there are not too many …

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    Comment #33888725

    And I thought this would be about keeping your work laptop safe. :-)

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    Comment #33491559

    I think the point of "But it is only electricity" means that _currently_ the situation is not as good as one might think based on electricity production.

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    Comment #32689616

    You can use the median of medians with quickselect to guarantee the O(N) time complexity.

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    Comment #32232968

    ...and seems that Nebula Genomics also outsources their sequencing: > At its discretion, Nebula may use third-party laboratories to perform DNA extraction, sequencing, and data ana…

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    Comment #32231487

    I assume this is yet another sequencing company outsourcing the actual sequencing? >> Do you sell or share my data with anyone? > No, we do not sell or share your data, including y…

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    Comment #32213216

    Yup, passed the hiring committee. Also the team is happy to have me. :'(

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    Comment #32212519

    In my case the only step left was supposed to be getting the offer and compensation approved, surprise!

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    Comment #31190006

    I guess the problem, and the point of the parent post, is that the full containment of the omicron variant might be very difficult in the long term. Also since the omicron is milde…

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    Comment #30520905

    Just tried using the portal both with the mobile phone authentication and non-Nordea bank authentication. Everything works smoothly. I'm also not sure how important these two initi…

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    Comment #29489137

    In some European countries there is a New Year tradition of melting lead and pouring it into water ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molybdomancy ). The sale of these kits was only b…

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    Comment #27887332

    I don't understand what the problem is: The data in the double-blind study clearly shows no statistically significant effects (just look at N and the standard deviation bars) and t…