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Comment · 8 years ago
Personally, Bash on Ubuntu on Windows is a fine solution for my most common use cases.
Comment · 8 years ago
I think the most egregious example is latter seasons of The Big Bang Theory clocking in at 16 minutes. That's ~50% ads.
Comment · 8 years ago
In the case of vaccines specifically, there is just a surprising amount of things we still don't understand.

Vaccination is positively ancient technology (Smallpox circa 1796), but it is still difficult to say why e.g., some vaccines are broadly effective at producing immunity and some aren't (and what the factors at play are in the recipients), or why we can produce successful vaccines to some diseases and not others.

A specific example: the efficacy of BCG vaccination (tuberculosis) varies by manufacturer and the reasons for why that is are still unclear.

There are a number of large NIH-funded initiatives that aim at understanding the complex cellular and molecular interactions that result in immunity as a result of vaccination under the Human Immunology Project Consortium (a bunch of high profile papers in Cell, etc. over the past few years).

Comment · 8 years ago
> There is so much money circulating in private markets, but employees just can't access it. This seems pretty unfair to me.

Isn't this almost certainly by design?

Comment · 8 years ago
I haven't looked into their new minion much yet, but how cheap are really talking about?
Comment · 9 years ago
Originated in the 'magrittr' package. The early tidyverse used a different pipe before depending on magrittr's version.
Comment · 9 years ago
Not to mention 'tweaking' required.
Comment · 9 years ago
I bought directly and was passed around by Google and Huawei support for months (and multiple calls; hours of my time wasted - why can't anyone just do support by email anymore?) before ultimately giving up on getting the constant battery issues addressed. Initial contact was precisely 3 weeks outside of the warranty period for the now well-documented phone shuts off when battery reaches [15|30|50]%.

I feel like I purchased a year's worth of problem-free phone experience for nearly $CAD900. To me, that's not great value.

Comment · 9 years ago
> Is this "grammar of graphics" any good if you invest more time in it?

For some, it was probably one of THE things that kept them using R over something else. Yes, definitely worth it.

Comment · 10 years ago
Overemphasis on commercialization is a common complaint of the current funding situation in medical research, so I don't think we're failing for lack of interest in commercial exits. In fact, many scientist are serial entrepreneurs.

Moreover, many discoveries that went on to make a lot of people a lot of money had no obvious commercial application when they were first being researched... Predicting future markets is hard.

Comment · 10 years ago
Quant-itative analyst. Yes, industry jargon.
Comment · 10 years ago
Turning to the Vulkan API allowed me to comfortably play at 1440P, Ultra, 60FPS on my (aging) 280X... That just blows my mind.
Comment · 10 years ago
I think this is true, but it's also the case that businesses that cater to the very rich are doing very well. My wife works for a luxury retailer who's Vancouver location is seemingly supporting the entire company with it's sales. Revenue has basically tripled over the past 4-5 years.
Comment · 10 years ago
Any chance you might be able to expand on this? I don't dislike OneDrive, but I've started to run into more and more issues with various machines falling out of sync unless I restart the OneDrive service to force changes to be detected... Dropbox has the same issue on those machines, so I'm not really sure what 'causes it.
Comment · 10 years ago
Many (most) of the things we're interested in measuring in blood are bound to some sort large macro-molecular assembly... be it cells, lipid vesicles, large protein agglomerates, etc.

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