It's a lot more complicated than that. Everyday conversation is not the whole spectrum of human existence. A lot of clinically depressed people appear to be normal in short conversations—are you saying that they, too, are indistinguishable from 'everybody'? It's only because they work hard to fit in that they appear normal, not because there's no difference.
For what it's worth, though, it's certainly true that under some circumstances the complex gene networks involved can behave in ways that appear to be trivial if the problematic environmental condition is sufficiently prevalent. This past summer I did linkage analysis on a family that appeared to have Mendelian inheritance of autism. But given the plethora of subtly different autism conditions that our lab has seen and studied, it's absurd to believe that their situation describes the majority of cases.
No, there are different degrees (and causes) of autism, ranging from "barely noticeable in everyday conversation to an untrained observer" to "unable to talk until age 50, and even then only because of extensive therapy." If autistic characteristics were a good evolutionary fit for the majority of the human species, they would have become much more prevalent a long time ago.
Researchers have recognized for years that autism is heavily a question of chemical pollution in the environment, just like cancer. However, it's pretty clear that there is also a genetic component to vulnerability, otherwise we'd all have it. The problem still needs to be understood in full if we want to do anything about it.
The Haber process converts H2 and N2 into ammonia. Carbon is not a major growth-limiting resource in most plants. They have this wonderful thing called CO2 fixation. You may have heard of it.
(At any rate, all the cool kids get their fertilizers from decommissioned German World War I munitions, also made using the Haber process.)
Like the dozens of similar comments waiting to suggest that this technology could be used to target land-based settlements (although if you RTFA, it's suggested that it might not be able to) or other satellites, there will probably be a number of concerned politicians who will gun this down on the same premises. With all of the cyberwar going on these days, both intergovernmental and rogue, it seems inevitable that someone will figure out how to hijack these things. (Possibly Kevin Mitnick whistling into a payphone with a wad of chewing gum and a wrapper.)
And hence the first rule of world-changing mad science: don't make the world's largest bomb if you have to count on others to use it for deterrence.
SGI's assets were bought up by a new shell company around the turn of the millennium. These suits are no more SGI's fault than Oracle's suits are Sun's fault. The sad thing is, just like Sun, SGI was committed to keeping the fruits of their innovations open and available to everyone (e.g. OpenGL) and would never have done this.
The chemistry and ecology departments here swears by Office and various other low-end Microsoft technologies. It really messed me up in first year to be inundated with crappy spreadsheets and "press the magic button to calculate the t-statistic!" in first year. Fortunately, later years have been more focused on real-world standards as my coursework has gotten more and more specific to bioinformatics. Presumably that's why I've had four separate lectures on the FASTA format.
Here is the history and on-going debate. Personally, I side with you, but that is primarily because I am a typography nut. The real reason that the period goes inside the quote is because a period is a very delicate piece of metal type, and is more secure when it's protected by having the larger, more solid closing quote at the end of the word instead, in the event that the text needs to be re-arranged or moved around.
I'm sorry, but you have just violated the DMCA. I demand you take your post down immediately! ROT13 is anindustry standard for secure communications, and your post constitutes a circumvention device!
I want to live in your world. I don't like synecdoche or meronymy either. Unfortunately there are enough anecdotes against such precision in language from marketers and buzzword distributors that we're on the losing team. (Exhibit A: this book.)
Autism researcher here. (Well, I'm not actually an autism researcher, but I do their computer stuff.) It's now generally believed that, whatever the genetic component of autism actually looks like (and it's now believed that there are many, many subtle mutations working in concert), a significant portion cases are triggered by environmental conditions. Like cancer, the incidence rate of autism is pretty much correlated with how horribly contaminated our world is. Here's an opinion piece by David Suzuki (PDF; scroll to page 8) on the matter. It's possible that the data set for people with autism will never be large enough for us to actually do statistically useful genetic screening.
Also: try not to be too hard on people with Asperger's. Certainly there are people out there who are just socially maladaptive and use it as a label to hide behind, but just from a short conversation with someone suffering from AS, you simply can't tell. There's a lot going on behind the scenes, however, in how they think, plan, feel, and perceive, and the apparently-normal facade is more of a testament to determination to fit in than anything.
Well, it appears they're still getting a trial and investigation; it's just that the handling afterwards is sketchy. Can't exactly comment on the validity of the trials either, I suppose. Pretty solid nightmare fuel.
Citationsprovided. It's pretty grisly stuff. The profitability of doing organ donations on the side, without official due process, has even motivated some jurisdictions to convict more readily. Better still, fraud is a capital offence.
I'm well aware; it's just an amusing choice of words with potential awkward misinterpretations. (And the fraud-fish needn't be imported from an entire other country; it could just be anything foreign to a given local population. I imagine fishermen cheating a quota by stealing from another region, even along the same coast, might be cause for alarm.)
Kind of funny language... the description could be taken as saying only foreigners would transport fraudulent fish. Oh, xenophobia, you are so hilarious.
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It's a lot more complicated than that. Everyday conversation is not the whole spectrum of human existence. A lot of clinically depressed people appear to be normal in short conversations—are you saying that they, too, are indistinguishable from 'everybody'? It's only because they work hard to fit in that they appear normal, not because there's no difference.
For what it's worth, though, it's certainly true that under some circumstances the complex gene networks involved can behave in ways that appear to be trivial if the problematic environmental condition is sufficiently prevalent. This past summer I did linkage analysis on a family that appeared to have Mendelian inheritance of autism. But given the plethora of subtly different autism conditions that our lab has seen and studied, it's absurd to believe that their situation describes the majority of cases.
Citation needed.
The environment as an etiologic factor in autism: a new direction for research. (2000)
Autism, Brain, and Environment. (2006)
ASD-CARC Genetics and Environments Studies. (2007 or so.)
Nurture over nature (page 8). (2011)
You may need to elaborate a little.
No, there are different degrees (and causes) of autism, ranging from "barely noticeable in everyday conversation to an untrained observer" to "unable to talk until age 50, and even then only because of extensive therapy." If autistic characteristics were a good evolutionary fit for the majority of the human species, they would have become much more prevalent a long time ago.
Researchers have recognized for years that autism is heavily a question of chemical pollution in the environment, just like cancer. However, it's pretty clear that there is also a genetic component to vulnerability, otherwise we'd all have it. The problem still needs to be understood in full if we want to do anything about it.
The Haber process converts H2 and N2 into ammonia. Carbon is not a major growth-limiting resource in most plants. They have this wonderful thing called CO2 fixation. You may have heard of it.
(At any rate, all the cool kids get their fertilizers from decommissioned German World War I munitions, also made using the Haber process.)
Like the dozens of similar comments waiting to suggest that this technology could be used to target land-based settlements (although if you RTFA, it's suggested that it might not be able to) or other satellites, there will probably be a number of concerned politicians who will gun this down on the same premises. With all of the cyberwar going on these days, both intergovernmental and rogue, it seems inevitable that someone will figure out how to hijack these things. (Possibly Kevin Mitnick whistling into a payphone with a wad of chewing gum and a wrapper.)
And hence the first rule of world-changing mad science: don't make the world's largest bomb if you have to count on others to use it for deterrence.
SGI's assets were bought up by a new shell company around the turn of the millennium. These suits are no more SGI's fault than Oracle's suits are Sun's fault. The sad thing is, just like Sun, SGI was committed to keeping the fruits of their innovations open and available to everyone (e.g. OpenGL) and would never have done this.
The chemistry and ecology departments here swears by Office and various other low-end Microsoft technologies. It really messed me up in first year to be inundated with crappy spreadsheets and "press the magic button to calculate the t-statistic!" in first year. Fortunately, later years have been more focused on real-world standards as my coursework has gotten more and more specific to bioinformatics. Presumably that's why I've had four separate lectures on the FASTA format.
Here is the history and on-going debate. Personally, I side with you, but that is primarily because I am a typography nut. The real reason that the period goes inside the quote is because a period is a very delicate piece of metal type, and is more secure when it's protected by having the larger, more solid closing quote at the end of the word instead, in the event that the text needs to be re-arranged or moved around.
I'm sorry, but you have just violated the DMCA. I demand you take your post down immediately! ROT13 is an industry standard for secure communications, and your post constitutes a circumvention device!
"She", but probably. :)
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I want to live in your world. I don't like synecdoche or meronymy either. Unfortunately there are enough anecdotes against such precision in language from marketers and buzzword distributors that we're on the losing team. (Exhibit A: this book.)
If cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.
Autism researcher here. (Well, I'm not actually an autism researcher, but I do their computer stuff.) It's now generally believed that, whatever the genetic component of autism actually looks like (and it's now believed that there are many, many subtle mutations working in concert), a significant portion cases are triggered by environmental conditions. Like cancer, the incidence rate of autism is pretty much correlated with how horribly contaminated our world is. Here's an opinion piece by David Suzuki (PDF; scroll to page 8) on the matter. It's possible that the data set for people with autism will never be large enough for us to actually do statistically useful genetic screening.
Also: try not to be too hard on people with Asperger's. Certainly there are people out there who are just socially maladaptive and use it as a label to hide behind, but just from a short conversation with someone suffering from AS, you simply can't tell. There's a lot going on behind the scenes, however, in how they think, plan, feel, and perceive, and the apparently-normal facade is more of a testament to determination to fit in than anything.
Never mind the terrorism; I wanna know how someone named Nestle got a PhD in nutrition!
Well, it appears they're still getting a trial and investigation; it's just that the handling afterwards is sketchy. Can't exactly comment on the validity of the trials either, I suppose. Pretty solid nightmare fuel.
(By 'due process', I just mean proper procedures, not trial. Bad choice of words.)
Citations provided. It's pretty grisly stuff. The profitability of doing organ donations on the side, without official due process, has even motivated some jurisdictions to convict more readily. Better still, fraud is a capital offence.
I think it's more likely that it's NpHR: a related channelrhodopsin protein that suppresses neuron firing when activated.
I'm well aware; it's just an amusing choice of words with potential awkward misinterpretations. (And the fraud-fish needn't be imported from an entire other country; it could just be anything foreign to a given local population. I imagine fishermen cheating a quota by stealing from another region, even along the same coast, might be cause for alarm.)
It's mice. The unawareness is restricted to the editor and/or submitter. You may find this pattern familiar.
I see you found the guilty foreigner. :)
Kind of funny language... the description could be taken as saying only foreigners would transport fraudulent fish. Oh, xenophobia, you are so hilarious.