lell

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Comment · 5 years ago
CGEn | Data Scientist | COVID-19 research | Canada (remote or onsite).

https://academicpositions.com/ad/university-of-toronto/2020/...

CGEn leads a nation-wide Host Genome Sequencing Initiative to sequence genomes of 10,000 Canadians to help understand the genomic architecture of the host response to SARS-CoV-2.

Several roles are being considered. The skills required for these roles include any subset of the following:

• Data cleaning and visualization, and dealing with missing data.

• Database management and data preprocessing in R, matlab, python or SQL.

• Website development, including backend development using python or administration of apache servers (or prior experience with the pheweb software).

Comment · 10 years ago
The pledge:

What is the Community Commitment? You commit to treat everyone—regardless of race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation or age—with respect, and without judgement or bias.

Also, they're serious about it:

If you decline the commitment, you won’t be able to host or book using Airbnb, and you have the option to cancel your account. Once your account is cancelled, future booked trips will be cancelled. You will still be able to browse Airbnb but you won’t be able to book any reservations or host any guests.

Comment · 10 years ago
Didn't help me, heroku is still unreachable with DNS servers changed to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4.
Comment · 10 years ago
TypeError exception: Expected even more equals signs.
Comment · 10 years ago
Reminds me a bit of the quest for alphanumeric shell code.
Comment · 10 years ago
Comment · 11 years ago
Is there a way to make this cover a period of >2 weeks? I can only see 2 weeks of traffic for my repos.
Comment · 12 years ago
I'd be interested too.
Comment · 14 years ago
Nice! I got bored before I finished the first level, but not before I was trying to use stuff like ^,$ and ctrl+f, ctrl+b, 5l to get to the end of the tunnels faster and those didn't work. Is more advanced editing unlocked in later levels? or is this just for getting off the arrow keys? I can imagine some cool things in a more advanced vim game like * for teleporting between words, mm to drop a bookmark, :badd to get to a new level ...
Comment · 14 years ago
What's the js to make a site editable with your cursor (you can click on text in a <p> and then you get a cursor in it where you can insert more text, also changes your mouse cursor to indicate that you can edit, over text)? I saw it here on hn once in the comments, but then I couldn't find it again later when I needed it. (I had also saved it in a vim window but forgotten to save it, ugh!)
Comment · 14 years ago
In pathology, it is sometimes hard to publish radical ideas in traditional & high impact journals. They prefer breakthroughs in established approaches.
Comment · 14 years ago
I read the plos article when it came out. Basically, when a cell realises it is infected with a virus sometimes it will try to kill itself. There are a bunch of checks it does to make sure killing itself is a good idea. Many viruses try to counter these checks. DRACO works by short circuiting the detection -> kill self pathway.

It's a great idea. But sometimes a large proportion of cells can get infected when you have a virus. Someone might get in a lot of trouble if all their infected cells instantly died. Like, can anyone speculate what the side effect would be for an AIDS patient? I don't know myself, but I'd want to know more about this before saying this is a miracle cure.

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