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webscalist was referencing a 12 year old joke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs

You know we’re doomed when half the comments here are taking this seriously, and not as the satire it clearly is (1KB of state? come on people) Props to the OP for showing once aga…

Big fan of tqdm in python, so I ported it to ruby 5 years ago: https://github.com/powerpak/tqdm-ruby (shameless plug and an invitation for pull requests)

People already do need it! In the US alone, about a half million people are on dialysis. There are many health and functional consequences to both intermittent and peritoneal dialy…

The major benefit to implanting it under the skin, as we do with pacemakers, is that doing without permanent holes or tubes through the skin reduces infection risk. Consider also t…

You'd probably enjoy this collage of GeoCities vibes: https://www.cameronsworld.net/

The video evidence of the L-form switching is no doubt very interesting, but a more accurate headline would be “One cause of resistance to certain antibiotics in UTIs identified.” …

Well, for starters, it's hard to get 200 people who might be eligible for life-preserving surgery to volunteer to possibly get a sham procedure for the exclusive benefit of othewar…

I found the Statistical Learning self paced course on Stanford's site to be a great formal intro to ML algorithms implemented in R, and it is taught by the inimitable Hastie and Ti…

So what good does increasing US medical school graduation rates do? OK, it would displace some IMGs/FMGs from residency positions, but it doesn't ultimately create more doctors. Yo…

Thanks for replying! I'll certainly be looking forward to the publication. >about 10% of people who come in to the cardiology clinic experiencing symptoms are diagnosed with an abn…

We need to see the full, published study and its methods (particularly around recruitment and exclusion criteria) before we can judge it properly. Until then, the presented statist…

As of right now, the USB-C hub situation is actually pretty dire, as in the only all-in-one solutions are $100+, or not yet released [1] [2]. My past experience with non-powered US…

The upgrade from floppy to optical only, or optical to bigger hard drives and SSDs and fast WiFi, are leaps in capability that don't even compare to the marginal gain of USB-C over…

Speaking of people picking up refurb last-gen models, I'm going to post two links here for your consideration. Before the MBP 2016 announcement: https://web.archive.org/web/2016102…

I love this brief history of the Ruby ecosystem and its community, maybe the Trump parody I've enjoyed most. Maybe, the best. Incidentally, I suppose the first 5 minutes of fightin…

Well, if you want to become a doctor, at least in the US, knowing some biology will certainly help you on the first step of licensing exams... :-) But the general point does hold t…

Hmm, well as a counterpoint to your point about the FDA, fidaxomicin was approved in 2011 for general use against C. difficile colitis, because it showed certain outcomes that comp…

Teixobactin is cool, but if it's only active against gram positives, it's never going to work against most of the bacteria listed in the article: E. coli, Salmonella, Klebsiella, N…