mrestko

As a medical student, I though the Coursera course on Clinical Problem Solving was quite good: https://www.coursera.org/course/clinprobsolv

I'm sorry but this is nonsense.

You mean a return to the wold before antiobiotics? The world that existed when my grandparents were born? I doubt the few generations of people born during the "antibiotic era" have any meaningful genetic traits connected with the use of antibiotics

Your comment makes if sound like you might think the passage you quoted was intending to highlight a shortcoming of Python 3. The article is in fact praising this behavior in Python 3 and stating that the default in Python 2 was goofy.

Yep, that's basically what everyone has to do.

I used a variation of this trick when I was a resident assistant in college. We had the unfortunate job of busting drinking parties in the dorms and part of our responsibility was to collect ID numbers or social security numbers if the person claimed to not have their IDs. People would quite happily rattle-off a fake SSN. But if you wait 60 seconds and come back to them and ask for the number in reverse, it's essentially impossible to repeat the same fake, especially if you've been drinking.

Sputnik orbited, it didn't reach escape velocity to leave the influence of Earth's gravity.

A picture of the E-ink shipping label can be seen here (I was curious): http://www.geekwire.com/2015/amazon-unveils-snowball-shippab...

In the U.S. at least, doctors smoke at a much lower rate than the general population. It might be that they stand-out more when smoking if you know that they are physicians.

For future reference (F*ck You. Pay Me):https://vimeo.com/22053820

This would not be permitted for any NIH funded lab, there are pretty strict rules about handling recombinant DNA. There might also be laws preventing this, I'm not sure.

Google N-Gram Viewer: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=hypertext&year...

I'm highly ignorant about sea travel, but I wonder why the towing vessel didn't hook back up to the ship when the line broke. Maybe someone here can explain.

I think people downvote because the Javascript ship has largely sailed.

I always suffer the same confusion when I try to shop at amazon.com

Okay, so forget the word felony. "You would have aided/abetted a malicious criminal and profited monetarily by doing so?" My point is that selling an exploit doesn't become morally okay just because the company doesn't offer a bounty.

You would have committed a felony?

Your concern is addressed within the first three sentences of the article.

I'd second this. The core message of the book is well stated and though I read it a few years ago now, I still regularly use the communication techniques in every day life.

It is very long though so I'm not sure it's exactly the type of book being requested here. Not that the data is unimportant, but the inclusion of so many tables and tables and charts caused me to give up on trying to finish the book.

Any idea what they were doing with them? Mining bitcoins? Hosting CnC for a botnet?

Another area hugely lacking in open source is image manipulation. People who think GIMP is a 1:1 replacement for Photoshop have never used Photoshop.

I paid a huge fare once for a long drive home from the airport (in Chicago) because I didn't feel like taking the L as planned. Of course, the taxi driver also had attitude about that, because apparently they are acustomed to quickly flipping back and forth from the nearby hotels, not driving all the way into the city to drop people off. I have avoided taking taxis as much as possible because I hate the attitudes that many of the drivers have. I actually find I'm more willing to pay for an Uber/Lyft because the drivers are usually pleasant, or at least not actively hostile.

It wouldn't work because the bomb was full of nitroglycerin. Concrete is strong but it would only possibly dampen the explosion. Also recall that the bomb was set to detonate without any delay if it was subject to even slight vibration. I wouldn't have volunteered to cover it in concrete.

In terms of listing certain brands, you're completely correct that this should not cause there to be different results. But I disagree that these details should be left out of the paper. Any competent scientist attempting to replicate a result can make assumptions about which equipment (like tubing) should not reasonably be expected to change the results. It should be up to the replicating scientist to make the equipment substitutions that he deems reasonable.

An example might be listing that a certain brand of pippetor tips or centrifuge were used during the experiment. It is highly unlikely that a lab is going to go out of their way to acquire the exact brand of pipettor tips or centrifuge in order to replicate the experiment. But should they have difficulty reproducing the results, having the additional specific data in the original write up allows for the replicating lab to being troubleshooting on their own. They can begin looking at small level details which may have affected their results.

They are usually used as bridge devices until a patient can be scheduled for an AICD placement. Not all patients that need a permanent defibrillator are immediately fit for surgery and having a device like the Life Vest allows for them to be safely discharged from the hospital until it's time for surgery.

CRISPER/Cas9 for targeted gene editing.

What did you use for making the charts? They look nice.

I also think that there is no practical way his solution could work, at least not with the laws the way they are. How would you ask people to explain gaps in their work history? Are you no longer allowed to consider why someone was unemployed for 4 or 5 consecutive years? Additionally, I don't think you can easily do general intelligence testing for a job. You have to be able to show that every question relates to job performance and that it does not cause a disproportionate impact on the hiring of people from protected classes.

He somewhat address this in the article. Would as many people pay the substantial cost of college merely for the "life enrichment".