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murphyslab

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About murphyslab

Scientist. Chemistry and Nano/Materials

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    Comment #49150659

    Men in Black: https://floor796.com/#b2r4,541,605 Naruto: https://floor796.com/#t2l4,684,675 The author continues adding and refining the project, so if it isn't in there yet, perha…

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    Comment #49150331

    Incredible. It's easy to just go on browsing and exploring. The massive, scrollable pixel art aspect reminds me a little of Floor796: https://floor796.com/

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    Comment #49107779

    Noticing all of the Costco hot dog listings on the map reminds me: There's also an incentive for businesses to pose as users and misreport prices of competitors. My local Costco ga…

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    Comment #48995176

    > I was aggressively recruited for education as a math undergrad. Was it because you were male or because you were studying math? Many schools struggle to find good math teachers; …

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    Comment #48850498

    Suggestion: Require a user to hit ENTER or SPACE to clear the word, even if it's a wrong word. Being able to see the letters laid linearly is useful to solving. Automated clearing …

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    Comment #47568240

    > I have never, ever – not even once – seen a graphical abstract that usefully “summarized the contents of an article”. The author has never worked in chemistry. They are absolutel…

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    Comment #47168024

    A Bonferroni correction would be suitable. I usually see it used in genome-wide association studies (GWAS) that check to see if a trait or phenotype is influenced by any single nuc…

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    Comment #46285576

    One persistent problem is that there isn't a Canadian English spelling option in most software with spellchecking functionality. Often we are forced to choose between US English an…

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    Comment #46117344

    Paper: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2517473122 (Open Access)

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    Comment #45929649

    Not to cast shade, but it looks like you've essentially built a front-end for Desmos. It definitely makes things faster than trying to do it directly in Desmos. Suggestion: Most of…

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    Comment #45929501

    Copy-paste worked perfectly for me. I just copied 16 data points I had in an open G Sheets tab and used the "Batch Add" button.

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    Comment #45496315

    LaTeX was much easier with Overleaf for my PhD thesis. I still recommend that for friends starting a thesis or a book project. I even used it for recent book project with a friend.…

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    Comment #45352743

    Two articles that I found offered a well-rounded analysis: - https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/youtube-may-reinstate-chan... - https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/09/youtube-will-…

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    Comment #43564415

    It's what their lawyers are advising them. The Globe and Mail had a piece on March 25th on the advice that lawyers were giving to their clients, often Canadians working on TN visas…

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    Comment #41461070

    UV damage to internal tissues seems unlikely given that the tartrazine dye they used absorbs strongly in the UV region of the spectrum. You can see this in Figure S1 A & B: https:/…

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    Comment #41352393

    You cannot always obtain a generic version; sometimes not even the original version. Drug manufacturers regularly take approved medicines, which are off-patent and non-exclusive, d…

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    Comment #41174373

    > With this, there are no changes to our support policy for existing Chromecast devices, with continued software and security updates to the latest devices. "no changes to our supp…

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    Comment #40980730

    Japan Institute of Heterocyclic Chemistry, the publisher of the journal Heterocycles (1973-2023) [0] is suing CLOCKSS, after its content was released on June 25, 2024 [1]. All of t…

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    Comment #40833254

    You claim, as a "fact", that someone who wrote this [0], identifies as Jewish? [0]: https://bisqwit.iki.fi/jesus/

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    Comment #40628878

    > in a malpractice situation, a physician could be liable if they made diagnosis or treatment decisions based on unverifiable LDTs. That seems to be a senseless concern, since offe…

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    Comment #40613846

    The Dungeon Crawler Carl series' first 4 or 5 books (it's been a little while) were excellent. Carl's tone reminds me of a detective novel, while the setting is more reminiscent of…

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    Comment #40578476

    Fun game, although it would be helpful to have the "How to Play" instructions ( https://huewords.snellman.net/help.html ) explicitly state that shorter letter sequences (2,3,4 lett…