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I'm not sure if this is it, but assuming the correctness of the test is independent of the sample quality, a sample could be split and tested multiple times to obtain a result with…

I think this might be a bit premature. For the bulk of these tools (pandas/numpy/tensorflow/torch), most of their users have probably been using them for 3-5 years max. A universal…

Without some form of compression, I don't think it is. In particular, consider your example (5 horcruxes with 3 needed to reconstruct). View the original file as the interval (0, N…

> possession of 12 grams of LSD Reader's note: that's between 50k and 100k doses. Not that I disagree with your point.

Surely you mean the number of publications, or some other superficial metric (e.g. being the third "supervising" author on a paper with a dozen authors). If I read a paper and have…

> * Public access to research results, methods, and data, with some exceptions (such as PII) You mentioned PII, so I'm assuming some familiarity with the health field. I'm curious …

Agree, I don't think salary caps have much to do with the poor alignment of incentives under discussion here.

That's an interesting idea that could stop very specific types of fraud, certainly in the life sciences. But it's not feasible for all kinds of research, and in fact could hinder l…

Very neat. It sounds like they're curating a dataset ripe for machine learning.

Sorry, I didn't mean to detract from that point. I completely agree.

I'm not saying the policy is worthwhile or even justifiable, but the comment I replied to later used the word "treason" (sorry, I didn't quote it) which implies that these actions …

> Don't you think that C-levels of all of them were previously dying to get into China, and were ready to do anything? > ... > treason In the case of China, doesn't the US governme…

Not to be over-speculative, but I think OP is probably referring to the rebound effects of corticosteroids which have been documented recently as related to skin conditions [1]. [1…

Influenza viruses are not coronaviruses.

So cool. In my opinion, so many of the open problems in biology can be approached from the direction of specificity - from specificity in measurement to specificity in targeting in…

Gain-of-function literally only means the protein has, in some sense, gotten better at its "job" (or has taken on an additional "job"). In this case, the "job" of the protein is to…

Good for execs, bad for Europe (is perhaps what the grandparent comment meant)?

That's exactly the point.

> higher crime rates Source? Everything I've read suggests that crime rates are pretty much the same across race and ethnicity when controlling for economic status. The primary var…

ah, yes, why squint at a PDF when you can squint at LaTeX compile errors instead

Okay, as a layman, can you clarify a scenario where (even huge-scale) money laundering would pose a similar threat to the stability of the Icelandic banking system as the misbehavi…

Speaking generally, money laundering is probably good for small, cash-poor countries. Probably not much motivation to stop it besides, well, things like the topic of this article.

If genes are the data, then methylation is more like an additional piece of metadata directing the cell (potentially different across cells) how to use the data. One possible use f…

A few questions that might help people answer better: 1. Where do you currently live? 2. What country/countries do you have citizenship for? 3. Do you have the equivalent of (what …