There's a whole lot of devil in those details, though.
Absolutely. With the size, sparsity, self-censoring and ordinal nature of their dataset, a 'straightforward statistical linear model' would not get very far.
Wiley are not responsible for copyright infringement in the stuff the publish. They can't possibly be expected to check all of the work submitted by every author against every other known source. They do ask authors to sign a warranty that the work that is submitted for publication is not somebody else's intellectual property. So if the authors did this, and signed it off as their own, then it's the authors fault.
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Food scientist are the people who make sure that all the food or product come to you are the same.
Food chemists also do a lot of work in food safety and nutrition. See the UK Institute of Food Research (where I did some of my PhD work in yeast genetics) if you want to know more.
What the article was talkin about in this regard is that a genome will tend to evolve in such a way that mutation rates will be at a good rate for the organism.
Indeed. Which is kind of related to this previous study Rate of Evolution Metrics Observed which showed that the optimum rate of evolution varied between small fast reproducing animals and larger slower reproducing ones.
What this adds is the news (or further evidence if it was already known) that the optimal rate might even vary across different parts of the genome in the same organism.
I haven't RTFA and frankly I don't plan to, but I think the significance here is that they've found regional variation at the genomic level, rather than the genetic level as you describe. That is, there are certain parts of the genome where genes themselves are more likely to be different. Having said that, I was always taught that areas near telomeres evolved more readily than other areas, but thinking about it that could have been speculation by my supervisor.
Where in the Guardian article does Smith claim that mining the moon is bad? He just points out that it is the likeliest cause for renewed interest in moon missions and goes over a couple of the good and bad consequences. There's no argument in there either for or against. At least from reading the article I've decided moon mining is a pretty good idea.
Even the last sentence, which is jumped on by the AC article only describes a possible environmentalist reaction.
If there is one side you should not listen to on if web comic X should be put there, it is the web comic writers. Because these are already biased.
I don't think this is a good argument. Most people who are knowledgable and motivated to write about anything also have a personal interest or a 'bias' in the subject. It's unreasonable to expect a balanced opinion about anything from a single informed individual. Instead we need to hope that balance is achieved by the mix of different people, each with their own opinions, contributing to an article.
This sort of thing is science when it works at its best. Someone throws something out there, and another scientist checks it, and bam, we learn something.
I can't help thinking that we should wait for the authors response to the reviewer before we start judging the original work. Maybe the reviewer has a point, but maybe he doesn't.
I am. Not because I don't think they're capable, but when I was an undergrad we just learned things and then repeated them. It took me a long time to believe I could contribute anything meaningful to my subject. I also think it's notable that he was a computer science undergrad, and not reading mathematics. We need to encourage undergrads in math to think more, then maybe we'll see more of this kind of thing.
I think that in Europe, space exploration is seen as science expenditure, and not military expenditure (since 'Europe' as an entity has no military). There's a lot more competition and public scrutiny regarding where the money goes.
Who calls USB keys "USB"s like one of my computer illiterate friends. Or is this some new kind of slang that I am not aware of.
Is there a common standard term for them yet? People I know call them variously "USB drive", "USB key", "Key drive", "Pen Drive", "Memory Stick", "USB stick", "USB..um..memory..thing", or "You know, that thing that goes in the USB slot that you keep stuff on". I personally call mine 'Steve' to avoid the confusion.
Maybe a wisdom-of-crowds GPS system would help you follow all the traffic if you get lost, under the assumption that everybody else probably knows where they're going.
Come on, this isn't the "Wisdom of Crowds". This is just collecting and organising a lot of information from asked from different people. We should keep the "Wisdom of Crowds" tag for times when knowledge or decisions spontaneously emerge, otherwise it'll become another meaningless buzzword.
Football clubs don't set their tickets at market prices because they need to protect their long term interests and markets. Current top teams could raise their prices and still sell out making short term gains, but those guy would be gone quicky enough when the success stops coming. Short term fans also don't buy the shirts and the merchandise.
Clubs need to protect their real supporters, who are there for life, whose kids will support them and will be there through thick and thin. These people can't necessarlily afford market prices for the games, so the club needs to find another way to make sure they get tickets.
As an aside I believe in the UK it's now against criminal law to attempt to resell a ticket for a sports event.
Consolas does look nice, and quite a lot like Computer Modern Typewriter. Calibri is also very nice, and to my untrained eye at least seems extremely close to Computer Modern Sans.
The spacing of Cambria looks odd. Not sure if that's the font's fault though.
If people have a problem grasping 'evolution' as a concept, ask them to think about language evolution. Languages more obviously evolve, 'speciations', 'hybridisations' etc of English can easily be identified. The analogy with Darwinism isn't exact, but it is surprisingly close.
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Full of admiration, awe and wonderment?
There's a whole lot of devil in those details, though.
Absolutely. With the size, sparsity, self-censoring and ordinal nature of their dataset, a 'straightforward statistical linear model' would not get very far.
Wiley are not responsible for copyright infringement in the stuff the publish. They can't possibly be expected to check all of the work submitted by every author against every other known source. They do ask authors to sign a warranty that the work that is submitted for publication is not somebody else's intellectual property. So if the authors did this, and signed it off as their own, then it's the authors fault.
next time they should hire a civil engineer ...
I think the trick is to get both.
Food scientist are the people who make sure that all the food or product come to you are the same.
Food chemists also do a lot of work in food safety and nutrition. See the UK Institute of Food Research (where I did some of my PhD work in yeast genetics) if you want to know more.
Are you nuts? The flying car was invented at least six times this year.
What the article was talkin about in this regard is that a genome will tend to evolve in such a way that mutation rates will be at a good rate for the organism.
Indeed. Which is kind of related to this previous study Rate of Evolution Metrics Observed which showed that the optimum rate of evolution varied between small fast reproducing animals and larger slower reproducing ones.
What this adds is the news (or further evidence if it was already known) that the optimal rate might even vary across different parts of the genome in the same organism.
I haven't RTFA and frankly I don't plan to, but I think the significance here is that they've found regional variation at the genomic level, rather than the genetic level as you describe. That is, there are certain parts of the genome where genes themselves are more likely to be different. Having said that, I was always taught that areas near telomeres evolved more readily than other areas, but thinking about it that could have been speculation by my supervisor.
Where in the Guardian article does Smith claim that mining the moon is bad? He just points out that it is the likeliest cause for renewed interest in moon missions and goes over a couple of the good and bad consequences. There's no argument in there either for or against. At least from reading the article I've decided moon mining is a pretty good idea.
Even the last sentence, which is jumped on by the AC article only describes a possible environmentalist reaction.
That's basically what radiotherapy is, AFAIK. Radiation to damage DNA of cancer cells. It's not great for patients either.
If there is one side you should not listen to on if web comic X should be put there, it is the web comic writers. Because these are already biased.
I don't think this is a good argument. Most people who are knowledgable and motivated to write about anything also have a personal interest or a 'bias' in the subject. It's unreasonable to expect a balanced opinion about anything from a single informed individual. Instead we need to hope that balance is achieved by the mix of different people, each with their own opinions, contributing to an article.
This sort of thing is science when it works at its best. Someone throws something out there, and another scientist checks it, and bam, we learn something.
I can't help thinking that we should wait for the authors response to the reviewer before we start judging the original work. Maybe the reviewer has a point, but maybe he doesn't.
Maybe human beings are just porn's way of making more porn.
And maybe it was Galileo's telescope that discovered Jupiter's moons.
Good point. In my ignorance I had assumed it was the same thing.
I am. Not because I don't think they're capable, but when I was an undergrad we just learned things and then repeated them. It took me a long time to believe I could contribute anything meaningful to my subject. I also think it's notable that he was a computer science undergrad, and not reading mathematics. We need to encourage undergrads in math to think more, then maybe we'll see more of this kind of thing.
I suppose they're wondering too. Which is why they're doing the experiments.
I think that in Europe, space exploration is seen as science expenditure, and not military expenditure (since 'Europe' as an entity has no military). There's a lot more competition and public scrutiny regarding where the money goes.
Who calls USB keys "USB"s like one of my computer illiterate friends. Or is this some new kind of slang that I am not aware of.
Is there a common standard term for them yet? People I know call them variously "USB drive", "USB key", "Key drive", "Pen Drive", "Memory Stick", "USB stick", "USB..um..memory..thing", or "You know, that thing that goes in the USB slot that you keep stuff on". I personally call mine 'Steve' to avoid the confusion.
Maybe a wisdom-of-crowds GPS system would help you follow all the traffic if you get lost, under the assumption that everybody else probably knows where they're going.
Come on, this isn't the "Wisdom of Crowds". This is just collecting and organising a lot of information from asked from different people. We should keep the "Wisdom of Crowds" tag for times when knowledge or decisions spontaneously emerge, otherwise it'll become another meaningless buzzword.
Football clubs don't set their tickets at market prices because they need to protect their long term interests and markets. Current top teams could raise their prices and still sell out making short term gains, but those guy would be gone quicky enough when the success stops coming. Short term fans also don't buy the shirts and the merchandise.
Clubs need to protect their real supporters, who are there for life, whose kids will support them and will be there through thick and thin. These people can't necessarlily afford market prices for the games, so the club needs to find another way to make sure they get tickets.
As an aside I believe in the UK it's now against criminal law to attempt to resell a ticket for a sports event.
However, where such oddities really shine is in the arcade.
Yeah this'd be really cool in Laser Quest or something like that.
Consolas does look nice, and quite a lot like Computer Modern Typewriter. Calibri is also very nice, and to my untrained eye at least seems extremely close to Computer Modern Sans.
The spacing of Cambria looks odd. Not sure if that's the font's fault though.
If people have a problem grasping 'evolution' as a concept, ask them to think about language evolution. Languages more obviously evolve, 'speciations', 'hybridisations' etc of English can easily be identified. The analogy with Darwinism isn't exact, but it is surprisingly close.