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Indians, Lebanese and Iranians are Asians.

Extending the computer analogy, what would be ideal characteristics for the software architecture of a successful scientist?

The associated paper to the article is: https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article/file?id=10.137... p.15 has a summary of what they propose, e.g., density of p21+ chondrocytes,…

According to a recent Lancet article [1]: "Atherosclerosis was common in four preindustrial populations including preagricultural hunter-gatherers. Although commonly assumed to be …

While I am skeptical of attributing personality changes due to cell memory from organ transplanting, is it possible for a cell or a cell collective to have information (memory) emb…

> If the latter features are of interest to our Government, we shall be pleased to take up the matter either on a basis of providing machines of agreed specification, at a contract…

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Early on, Langley (and the Smithsonian Institute), who opposed the Wright brothers, was funded by the military early on failed flights whereas the Wright brothers were unable to se…

If you know how to formulate the problem well (which is typically half the problem anyway), Mathematica is great for providing closed-form solutions, if there is one. In CS graduat…

As a note, for Mac OS X Sierra, if you press Option while copying, the pathname is copied.

https://www.quora.com/What-college-majors-have-on-average-st... You could use GRE test scores to compare across subject majors. There may be saturation at the top where further dif…

> In short, we over-reward those at the top and dismiss the rest. It’s an unhelpful and unnecessary bias that facilitates hero worship, undermines the goal of nurturing creativity …

With the advent of word processors and spreadsheets, work shifted from secretaries to other already employed office workers. https://newrepublic.com/article/121712/slow-death-secre…

Based on % total majors, interesting how biomed has been inversely related to engineering (and most of CS) except in the last decade where they're all growing at a higher rate than…

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2017/04/11/united... > United spokesman Jonathan Guerin said Tuesday that all 70 seats on United Express Flight 3411 were filled, but the…

> It is very important for a designer to recognize all the parts of a design that are not easy wins, that is, there is no proportionality between the effort and the advantages. In …

I haven't heard about the programming conference effect. That makes sense. Proving it out involves exposing the theory to a wide range of adversarial inputs to demonstrate robustne…

What's interesting is that Google's Translate, via neural network training, seems to have found an efficient structure underlying many languages: https://www.newscientist.com/artic…

> Team members who believe in their leadership tend to be more effective. Patients who believe in their care have better recovery rates. There may be other factors regarding recove…

The focus is on the subtle impact of using some framework for analysis rather than the gross impact of individual bias (obviously that's an issue every scientist should be and prob…

Sometimes, symmetry reductions become easier using a coordinate-free approach. This means that you could better determine invariances in the system without having a bias towards a …

> When you say "coordinate-free" do you mean "independent of any fixed frame of reference"? Yes. Einstein's field equation can be derived using differential geometry, e.g. a coordi…

Prof. Smith describes how social sciences could benefit from the modern, coordinate-free approach in physics. He also wishes for a tighter coupling in social sciences as we've seen…

The irony of your post getting downvoted instead of getting discussed further on a thread discussing how dissenting non-mainstream liberal views are disapproved of in SV. Appears l…

> QM just doesn't add _any_ new explanations or make any predictions for consciousness. Until it does, or we meet something we really cannot explain, it does not make sense to obse…