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It’s not that dumb- if a human gets exposed to space the water in their exposed tissues will boil off, leading to evaporative cooling. In a vacuum, evaporative cooling can get you ~arbitrarily cold, as long as you’re giving up enough fluids. I don’t know whether you freeze over or dry out first, but I’m sure someone at NASA has done the math.

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This is the basic concept of my favorite computer game back in the 90s (!): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creatures_(video_game_series...

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The interesting thing about this blog post isn’t the point it makes (which was endlessly made about cafes in all blue-state U.S. cities in the 00s) but that it’s an Iranian writing in English, and thus for an Western audience, about Iranian culture.

What is going on with that? I don’t even dare to speculate. But something more interesting than bougie coffeeshops, certainly.

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há 2 anosdiscuss

Sadly, I think the modern alternative for ncurses-based interfaces is javascript.

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há 2 anosdiscuss

Yeah I was unclear there - I meant the other use of the & operator, 'foo & bar' where bar starts after foo completes. AFAIK, if you ran foo by itself, there's no way to make bar automatically run after foo completes.

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há 2 anosdiscuss

My primary project the past couple weeks has been applying the AI interpretability technique from Anthropic's famous paper this past summer (you know, the Golden Gate Claude one) to single-cell RNA-seq data. What works on one huge, inscrutible vector space ought to work on another, right? In either case, a fun way to keep in practice, both for comp bio and deep learning.

My side-project, in essence, the bash '&' operator for cases where the first process is already running. It took me months of searching before I could believe that this doesn't already exist, but there you go. I gave in to feature creep, of course, so it's a bit more than that now (I made a ncurses-based dashboard? Why??) but someday soon I'll make it public.

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há 2 anosdiscuss

Location: Boston, MA

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Data scientist and engineer with over a decade of experience centering around biological data analysis and pipeline development. I am equally at home discussing pathway enrichment analysis results from an RNA-seq dataset, as debugging the loss function in a deep learning model, or as architecting a multi-stage processing pipeline on any of the major cloud service providers.

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há 2 anosdiscuss

SEEKING WORK | Boston, MA | Remote or on-site

I am Max Alexander, experienced data scientist and bioinformatics engineer, available for short- or long-term contracts. My background is primarily in data analysis and pipeline development for biological data (genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics) and I also hold a Master's in artificial intelligence.

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há 2 anosdiscuss

I don’t know whether this is a provocative or tedious thing to say, but the quintessential ‘enlightenmentware’ to have come out of the past several years is ChatGPT. Name anything that brings as much functionality with so simple an interface and so elegant a core!

(It’s simply a pity that we can’t install it locally or tinker with the internals. :) )

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há 2 anosdiscuss

The avenue towards making this a viable, routine cure for HIV is by performing a “transplant” of the patient’s own immune stem cells that have been genetically modified to carry the anti-HIV genes. That avoids (if done right) the horrific autoimmune challenges you describe, but like everything else it comes with its own technical challenges that are still being worked out. (I think https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4935568/ is a good review of the whole idea.) To me (though I’m not an HIV researcher by any means!) this sounds like the most promising shot we have at regularly curing the disease.

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há 3 anosdiscuss

I’d recommend mynoise.net ; most of the sounds are for-pay but white noise and a few others are free, and it includes an equalizer (and some presets for pink noise and etc.)

An app, though, not a website.

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há 6 anosdiscuss

People are probably downvoting you because it's generally frowned upon to make baseless "just-so" claims, especially in something as difficult to make credible claims in as geopolitics, and especially when it asserts the superiority of some groups over others (or appears to.)

That all being said, there have been studies of how "meritocratic" different societies are (albeit I don't know how that is operationalized) and there will be very quantitative measures of how well each country weathers the pandemic; someone could certainly (when the data is in) check to see how those features tend to relate.

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há 7 anosdiscuss

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  Location: Boston, MA
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Six years of experience working as a bioinformatics engineer and looking to explore new areas in the biotech space. My educational background includes enough biology that I can read a paper and understand an experimental setup, but my skillset is a strong mix of software engineering and data science; I can build the two-way interface between your lab and the data center.

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há 7 anosdiscuss

I’ve never been to Russia and don’t know the Russian attitude towards tech or voting. But I’m confident that if the US had a system like this and made a reasonably usable phone app to be the front end, almost no one under the age of 60 would bother to wait in line for a physical voting booth ever again.

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há 8 anosdiscuss

All true, but why mot data mine too, while they’re at it?

If you’re not the customer you’re a product... but it doesn’t follow that, if you are the customer, you’re not also a product.

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há 9 anosdiscuss

Will you be buying Intel-based machines? Or will you be running a hybrid-architecture cluster now?

I don’t know very much about computing on that scale, but I wonder if all the people selling off Intel stock are thinking this story through.

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há 9 anosdiscuss

Obama's version of the move wasn't great either, but it's not nearly a direct comparison; he temporarily shut down immigration from one country directly in response to a known and immediate threat, for a set and predetermined period of time. Trump is trying to shut down immigration from seven countries, indefinitely, for no particular reason aside from a general sense of feeling threatened by them. He also, unlike Obama, did so amidst a sea of his own angry rhetoric implying that the ban was entirely due to Islamophobic prejudice.

So, yes, the POTUS can deny rights to humans in all sorts of ways and no one will complain- we're far from perfect. But that he's denying human rights from outright bigotry is especially unacceptable.

Meanwhile, tech companies can decide they're for or against whatever they want- according to the (heinous) Citizens United decision, corporations are people now, and entitled to their political opinions just like you and me. It's not anarchy, its capitalism!

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