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I've been lucky enough to photograph pygmy seahorses in N. Sulawesi. They are tiny, and superbly camouflaged. Observing their mating habits is an incredible achievement. Kudos to D…

There is also a technical blog post [1] on the architecture of Private Cloud Compute. I don't think that there are any details on the context being sent, just that any context is e…

Gemini works in Canada as of today. Bard was not available in Canada anytime I tried it previously. Maybe the "regulatory uncertainty" was recently resolved [1]. [1] https://g.co/g…

Here is a CBC article [1] with an embedded 17min Quirks and Quarks radio segment on the finding. You can watch how the tool works in the video embedded near the end of the article.…

> It's still solid fuel rod crap. There are a number of First-of-a-Kind SMR and Micro Reactors planned for the U.S., UK, and Canada. The advantage of the three leading lightwater S…

Do you have a link to the full age cohort effectiveness numbers? I didn't think these numbers were published yet, if they are or don't exhibit Simpson's Paradox then the question i…

I think the misinterpretation is mainly by the media and the general public. When most of your population is vaccinated and most of the serious disease is in the unvaccinated, you …

There is not strong evidence supporting a 3rd booster dose in immunocompetent people. We have partly seen a misinterpretation of the Israeli data [1] and specifically the single lo…

OLAP Cubes have been disrupted by Column Stores. Unless you are interested in the history of Data Warehouses, the technology can safely be ignored.

A corollary is that SQLite is as ubiquitous to structured storage as JavaScript is to programming and it too lacks the exact decimal representation available as DECIMAL(precision, …

I'm interested in the API interface while the string literal example is more about the SQL language. JDBC has long provided prepared statement metadata that is used extensively by …

Great news, domain constraint enforcement is a welcome new feature. However, let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater; being able to specify an ANYTYPE/VARIANT column on a S…

The paper An early Miocene extinction in pelagic sharks [1]: > We present evidence for a previously unknown major extinction event in sharks that occurred in the early Miocene, ~19…

Nicholas has Waded (pun intended) into the waters of irrational horror over gain-of-function research that seems to gain viral traction following every spill-over event. The only a…

From 2014, Host cell entry of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus after two-step, furin-mediated activation of the spike protein [1]: > Such furin-mediated activation is u…

> competition from plentiful natural gas, wind and solar power, which are rapidly becoming less pricey. No one questions whether the zero emissions target is rational. Natural gas …

The March 23 press release Pfizer Initiates Phase 1 Study of Novel Oral Antiviral Therapeutic Agent Against SARS-CoV-2 https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-deta.…

Heart Rate Variability (HRV), a relatively new feature in wearables with optical heart rate monitors, is a good proxy for stress. Some years ago, IBM did a study that found that HR…

If I remember correctly, Eric Schmidt said that one of the first things he did as CEO of Google was to move the company off of Quickbooks and onto Oracle ERP. SAP HANA is certified…

The Arab News also covered the controversy: Anti-feminist trolls target first Egyptian woman captain with fake Arab News profile [1]. Hopefully the story is covered in non-English …

This is an alternative to Core Data. The DFlat tool generates Swift code from a FlatBuffer schema and persists objects in SQLite during runtime. Core Data objects are defined in Xc…

ScienceMag summarizes this research in an article named New generation of carbon dioxide traps could make carbon capture practical : https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/03/new-gen…