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I've been on a GloBird plan with 3 free hours for a while. Works out very well as I have a 20 KWH battery and solar. Costs about $15 a month to run the house inc. cooking, heating/…

Tried this to see how it goes in my particular field - computational design of RNAi-based biopesticides. One-shotted a design for targeting the DvSnf7 transcript of western corn ro…

The 'Ask Reason for Calling' iPhone feature has completely eliminated scam calls for me. Real callers not in contacts leave a short message and I pick it up. Best iOS feature from …

BYD only entered the Australian car market in 2022. They are now the 2nd biggest seller after Toyota ( https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/insight/byd-overtakes-rivals-... ). They are a…

Banned in Australia (or at least in most states). https://www.drive.com.au/caradvice/are-mobile-billboards-leg...

Pesticides form the backbone of crop protection. Without them, we're looking at at least a 40% reduction in global yield, and much greater uncertainty in food supply chains (the oi…

Australia is 'winning' even more based on the graph: https://population.un.org/wpp/graphs?loc=36&type=Probabilist... Housing is very expensive, but inflation is largely tamed, unem…

I had a Merida Magnesium 909 road bike back in the day. They were common in Australia. Was (wrongly) convinced magnesium was going to overtake carbon. Never had any issues in 10 ye…

Surprised Australia isn't much higher given the incidence of melanoma.

Exactly what I was going to write. Why not at least demo the AVP before writing a whole article?

Some fungi require dead organic matter for survival - necrotrophs. Many dont (e.g. yeast)

Sceptical of this. Where did that number come from? What's the uncertainty? Yes, it's an extremely unlikely event, but unlikely events happen all the time. There's just as good an …

It's common enough in sheep grazing areas. I grew up in Australia with mutton making up 90% of my meat intake, as we slaughtered our own merino wethers (so not the breeds of lamb r…

As usual, the manuscript itself is a bit more discrete than the press release, but this sentence in the conclusion shows the potential benefits - scalable and practical resetting o…

Game of the Year for me if it holds up in the latter stages. Playing it with my son on split screen. Hopefully will give him some good memories. It's deep, but not too complicated …

I'd be surprised if anyone in any large scale sport ever dominated like Bradman or will be as dominant in the future. He missed part of the prime of his career due to WW2, so who k…

I love simple generative approaches to get ideas, and go from there. This seems like an extension of that (well, it's what I'm going to try - sample the output, make stems, pull MI…

Well that’s beer and bread off then menu. Fungi are like plants. Some are beneficial. Some are not.

You can't present it as computer science concepts because it's not computer science. For example, the central dogma of DNA transcribed to RNA translated to protein seems simple, bu…

This is indeed a far better resource.

Who knew complex large polyploid genome assembly (i.e. sugar cane) was just a matter of python scripting?

Don't want to be too disparaging, but this to me doesn't seem to be an 'Introduction to Genomics', but more an introduction to read mapping and variant detection in human (or more …

My absolute favourite wine in the world is less than AU$30 a bottle - every vintage is spectacular. The winemaker wants ordinary people to drink his wines, so this is the price he …

Circumstances change - super super glad I got my booster. When I got it, I was a healthy, fit person without any of the comorbidities that go along with COVID. Last week I had a mo…

Australia has no local car manufacturers and hasn't for some time. Toyota is by far the biggest car seller , followed by Mazda and Hyundai. https://www.carexpert.com.au/car-news/vf…