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Fine, change "100-meter olympic dash" to "professional athlete in the USA". Sample size is sufficient (NBA+NFL+NHL+MLB comprise of 3000+ players), athletes hold a much higher posit…

Number of Japanese trans-men in the 100-meter olympic dash: 0. I think I need a million-dollar grant to raise awareness of this issue.

> This suggestion ignores the purpose of a Ph.D.: to produce a piece of original research, which is necessarily extremely specialized. Tell that crap to the tourists, the purpose o…

I learned Perl initially for sysadmin'ing from Minimal Perl ( http://www.amazon.com/Minimal-Perl-Unix-Linux-People/dp/1932... ). It teach a subset of Perl necessary to use it as a …

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Hand written notebooks and scattered word and spreadsheet documents. We are a computationally-intensive genomics lab in a top-ranked university.

Am I the only one who read that as "Bang Bus App"?

I went back to school recently for a 2 year master's degree in information science (think: UI/UX, data science, databases, statistics), and the program strongly recommends doing an…

Uniball Jetstreams ( http://www.amazon.com/uni-ball-Jetstream-Retractable-Roller-... ) is the smoothest pen ever. Itoya Xenons ( http://www.amazon.com/Xenon-Retractable-Rollerball-…

Or maybe their work doesn't require billyjobob's personal approval and understanding, and therefore they don't feel like putting in the effort of reducing their life to 30 seconds?…

Is this even worth debating? No one at Google comes even close to the greatness of, say, Shannon or Deming.

Issuance for bitcoin is not "algorithm", it's all the resources expended in running miners and developing new miners. Storage of fiat currency is arguably very cheap as well, since…

Can anyone explain to me why being 64 bit matters on a phone?

But the quality and sophistication of software in, say, astronomy makes bioinformatics software look like it was written by 14 year old spammers in the former soviet bloc. The real…

SV and SF techies hate the homeless b/c they think they are all self-made. They walk out of Philz with their $4 coffee, look down at a bum, and think to themselves "Why doesn't he …

> Biology is completely different from Computer Science and metaphors between the fields build no understanding and can only be misleading, every time I hear someone comparing DNA …