I used to work at a small grocery store in the poor part of town. We had one woman who came in multiple times per day at bought 7 lottery tickets each time (lucky 7), sometimes she would buy 3 sets of 7. I estimate that she wasted at least $50 day on lottery tickets and obviously never won more than $500 pot when I was there.
She was the worst case, but I wish I could say she was alone. We had many, many patrons that burned so much money on lottery tickets and cigarettes. Since that experience I have never had the urge to buy a lottery ticket or smoke a cigarette.
I counted 445 authors on this publication. The author list is so long that they had to put it in the back pages.
When I was an undergrad, I remember the discovery of the top quark having a billion of authors. I counted and it had only 436 authors, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103%2FPh...
The top quark author list motivated me to get out of high energy physics and into biophysics. I am sure there are papers out there with even longer author lists, but I am always glad to see significant papers with shorter lists as well.
Not that I want to defend Texas, but based on the wiki-table, you posted:
Texas produces the most renewable electricity (w/o Hydro) at 37,784 GW.h of any state in the USA (California close 2nd). I just happens to be a small percentage of its total electricity usage.
Yes, they can actually look at the plagiarized sections and fix them. The reaction tends to depend on how I contact them. If I am nice and say they can redo it for most the points, they admit their mistake and fix it. If you say they are getting a zero, then they start lying and say they do it in other classes and it is fine.
Self-delusion seems to be extreme or unlikely in this case. Based on this blog, she plagiarized her entire abstract only changing the cell name from ES to STAP.
A simple plagiarism detector would have detected this fraud. I run turnitin.com service on all my students' papers and I catch plagiarizer every semester. I think this should be routine for high profile article going in to Nature or Science.
While I thought the results were cool, I was annoyed by the bloggers use of the word 'chromatic aberration' instead of color noise.
Chromatic aberration means the lenses bend different colors of light differently resulting in color fringes around the edges of object. Color noise which is observed in low-light conditions here is not an aberration effect of the lens, but pixel counting noise on the CMOS detector.
In "Brief History of Time" Stephen Hawking states that "Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales. I therefore resolved not to have any equations at all. In the end, however, I did put in one equation, Einstein's famous equation, E = mc^2. I hope that this will not scare off half of my potential readers."
Glad to see the community benefiting from a fork. Usually when canonical makes a new project the community loses because we get two of the same thing and neither work well (see GNOME3/Unity or Wayland/Mir). I fully support RedHat's approach to improve existing technologies rather than scraping existing project and creating crap.
We have a few expensive microscopes with WinXP on the corresponding machine, an expired service contract and in reality cannot upgrade without buying a new microscope (an newer drivers), so what do you do, other than put it behind a firewall and hope for the best.
The podcast that the student listened to was produced on June 7 and the slashdot comment was June 4. Hmm... to think user JustOK could have been in Nature.
Yes, because being off by 2 seconds every billion years is something to worry about. I am sick of having to adjust my watch for the inaccuracy of atomic clocks.
After reading the paper, they are definitely doing something novel, but the claims made in the paper far exceed what is being presented. Imaging bacteria cells is considered pretty easy -- show me some atoms.
In my experience when the lab moves the students either (1) get a degree from old university or (2) apply to new university and go through the qualification process over. I would check again, before assuming it is your decision. I even know a case, where a 3rd year grad student at Yale was turned down acceptance into Berkeley grad school
While life expectancy has been consistently increasing in the modern era from 30 to almost 70 now, maximum life span has really not changed at all and stays at about 120 years. This true both for humans and laboratory rats, scientist are having difficulty increasing the maximum life span.
We are going to need a medical break-through in order to push 150 years, but it is a good thought experiment, I just don't see it changing dramatically this century.
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>Web browser using HTML5 (i.e., 80% of all PCs in the world)
Internet Explorer 6 for the win.
Who knows we may use the common cold to actually cure cancer.
I used to work at a small grocery store in the poor part of town. We had one woman who came in multiple times per day at bought 7 lottery tickets each time (lucky 7), sometimes she would buy 3 sets of 7. I estimate that she wasted at least $50 day on lottery tickets and obviously never won more than $500 pot when I was there.
She was the worst case, but I wish I could say she was alone. We had many, many patrons that burned so much money on lottery tickets and cigarettes. Since that experience I have never had the urge to buy a lottery ticket or smoke a cigarette.
I counted 445 authors on this publication. The author list is so long that they had to put it in the back pages.
When I was an undergrad, I remember the discovery of the top quark having a billion of authors. I counted and it had only 436 authors, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103%2FPh...
The top quark author list motivated me to get out of high energy physics and into biophysics. I am sure there are papers out there with even longer author lists, but I am always glad to see significant papers with shorter lists as well.
Do not become the next Sergey Aleynikov. He was acquitted, but not without a huge impact on his life.
Not that I want to defend Texas, but based on the wiki-table, you posted:
Texas produces the most renewable electricity (w/o Hydro) at 37,784 GW.h of any state in the USA (California close 2nd). I just happens to be a small percentage of its total electricity usage.
Yes, they can actually look at the plagiarized sections and fix them. The reaction tends to depend on how I contact them. If I am nice and say they can redo it for most the points, they admit their mistake and fix it. If you say they are getting a zero, then they start lying and say they do it in other classes and it is fine.
Self-delusion seems to be extreme or unlikely in this case. Based on this blog, she plagiarized her entire abstract only changing the cell name from ES to STAP.
A simple plagiarism detector would have detected this fraud. I run turnitin.com service on all my students' papers and I catch plagiarizer every semester. I think this should be routine for high profile article going in to Nature or Science.
Well maybe we should start funding more basic research or off the main path ideas.
While I thought the results were cool, I was annoyed by the bloggers use of the word 'chromatic aberration' instead of color noise.
Chromatic aberration means the lenses bend different colors of light differently resulting in color fringes around the edges of object. Color noise which is observed in low-light conditions here is not an aberration effect of the lens, but pixel counting noise on the CMOS detector.
In "Brief History of Time" Stephen Hawking states that "Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales. I therefore resolved not to have any equations at all. In the end, however, I did put in one equation, Einstein's famous equation, E = mc^2. I hope that this will not scare off half of my potential readers."
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stephen_Hawking
It is even more interesting when you look at number of tickets sold rather than adjusted gross:
http://boxofficemojo.com/alltime/adjusted.htm?adjust_yr=1p=.htm
This seems to be the opposite story of the previous slashdot article from 2 week ago, The Air Force's Love For Fighter Pilots Is Too Big To Fail
Glad to see the community benefiting from a fork. Usually when canonical makes a new project the community loses because we get two of the same thing and neither work well (see GNOME3/Unity or Wayland/Mir). I fully support RedHat's approach to improve existing technologies rather than scraping existing project and creating crap.
I was disappointed to find out this was about computer viruses. Nothing in the description makes relevant to computers until the word malware.
The most unique biological viruses would be much cooler to look at than some stupid man-made computer virus.
We have a few expensive microscopes with WinXP on the corresponding machine, an expired service contract and in reality cannot upgrade without buying a new microscope (an newer drivers), so what do you do, other than put it behind a firewall and hope for the best.
Google Cache worked for me, link here
Interesting to me, is that in the linked article there is a slashdot comment with the "red crucifix" text discussed in this article.
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2893343&cid=40208359
The podcast that the student listened to was produced on June 7 and the slashdot comment was June 4. Hmm... to think user JustOK could have been in Nature.
Yes, because being off by 2 seconds every billion years is something to worry about. I am sick of having to adjust my watch for the inaccuracy of atomic clocks.
After reading the paper, they are definitely doing something novel, but the claims made in the paper far exceed what is being presented. Imaging bacteria cells is considered pretty easy -- show me some atoms.
took me forever to find it, but here is the original article behind the Nature paywall
http://www.nature.com/ncomms/journal/v3/n3/full/ncomms1733.html
the paper feels like it written by the marketing department for his company.
I think I would prefer office to boot with a splash screen rather than suck up memory when I am not using it.
I especially hate it, when I choose restart and the OS has open all these stupid programs. When I rarely hit restart, I was a fresh system.
In my experience when the lab moves the students either (1) get a degree from old university or (2) apply to new university and go through the qualification process over. I would check again, before assuming it is your decision. I even know a case, where a 3rd year grad student at Yale was turned down acceptance into Berkeley grad school
Not to mention its potential impact on local groundwater:
http://water.epa.gov/type/groundwater/uic/class2/hydraulicfracturing/index.cfm
While life expectancy has been consistently increasing in the modern era from 30 to almost 70 now, maximum life span has really not changed at all and stays at about 120 years. This true both for humans and laboratory rats, scientist are having difficulty increasing the maximum life span.
We are going to need a medical break-through in order to push 150 years, but it is a good thought experiment, I just don't see it changing dramatically this century.