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windows_tipson One in five genetics papers contains Excel errors (2016)

I didn't expect Excel to understand gene data. I expected that scientists would have used an appropriate tool for gene data.

>complex models for others in Excel

It's best not to do that except in cases of emergency, I think. If you are going to get complex, SQL may be a much better solution, or something else.

windows_tipson One in five genetics papers contains Excel errors (2016)

I don't know how good most geneticists are at Excel, it just seems to be the wrong tool for the job.

windows_tipson One in five genetics papers contains Excel errors (2016)

What is it?

windows_tipson One in five genetics papers contains Excel errors (2016)

Did the researchers license Excel for genetic work? This seems like a major error to treat your gene data as dates.

windows_tipson One in five genetics papers contains Excel errors (2016)

Thanks to the person whom ran their genetic data through their Excel autoformatter?

Is this what really passes as science around here?

windows_tipson Press leaks during Google's all-hands meeting enrage insiders

It's hard not to sympathize with the yelling angry people. The problem seems to maybe be more that the Councilors appear to enrage people, either for their actions directly, or for actions perceived to be originating from the Councilors.

Have their been any investigations into why people find them revolting?

windows_tipson Press leaks during Google's all-hands meeting enrage insiders

Elect new councilors. Have their shenanigans been televised?

windows_tipson Bombing forest fires sounds ridiculous, but is grounded in physics

https://www.definitions.net/definition/unsubstantive

Not sure what you mean. My post appears to be entirely appropriate to the comment it replied to.

Do you know what they were referring to? Unfortunately, this comment thread appears to be censored on this platform, so I'm unsure I'll ever receive an answer.

windows_tipson NYU Makes Tuition Free for All Medical Students

Do you have an official reference? I would believe that persons in the industry may use slang terms, but technically it would be incorrect to refer to a bank as a lender in most 'loans' they perform.

If you check the Promissory Notes, I'd guess they probably don't say "lender", except as possibly an alias for a definition that is not equivalent to the standard definition -- wherein, one forgoes actual physical property (cash, for example) for another's use; with the expectation that the property will be returned at some point (possibly with some form of payment to compensate for the real loss of property).

Edit: Do you think Wells Fargo has myriad $100k bundles just sitting around waiting for students to take? I don't think so. They use their power to create new money, rather than loan out the entire principal from their reserves.

windows_tipson Show HN: git-bug – Distributed bug tracker embedded in git

Would be nice if there was a tracker done in all shell, or just plain text, so that we don't need to rely on go, or another program.

Maybe it could work to develop a core protocol and data structures that are usable by others, with your own go implementation to work with those structures and protocol.

windows_tipson NYU Makes Tuition Free for All Medical Students

>The lender is not guaranteed to be paid their principal back.

This may apply for personal loans, where real money is given up; but, it's not really correct to call a bank, the originators of most private student loans, as far as I know, a 'lender'; as, banks don't lend their own money, but create new money through promissory notes.

windows_tipson Serverless Docker Beta

Sounds expensive.

windows_tipson Italy bridge: Genoa motorway collapse kills at least 22

rubenbe31 posted it

windows_tipson Beijing struggles to defuse anger over China's P2P lending crisis

Overnight-marinated special.

windows_tipson Secret DMV office near California Capitol serves lawmakers and their staff

69 minute average wait time for DMV services statewide. Is it true that a competitive, market-based DMV industry would not produce better results for "customers"?

windows_tipson Bombing forest fires sounds ridiculous, but is grounded in physics

>A slight puff from a tiny f-15 is a butterfly compared to the winds generated by the fire itself.

May be all that's required [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effect

windows_tipson The science of ultra pure silicon

A minute is simply 1/1440 of a "day".

Edit:

>2 guys on a forum

More than two guys. OED too.

windows_tipson The Man Who Solved Bitcoin’s Most Notorious Heist

Of course "bitcoin fanbois" want rule of law and law enforcement.

Bitcoin is like the ultimate in law enforcement. Basically the only way to get the coin is through proof-of-work and ownership rules are rigorously enforced.

windows_tipson Google will lose $50M or more in 2018 from Fortnite bypassing the Play Store

What does Fortnite's size have to do with this? Can't anyone distribute apps that way?

windows_tipson Giant shipload of soybeans drifts off China, victim of trade war with US

The chart shows most of the data points on a small portion of the arc.

windows_tipson Google will lose $50M or more in 2018 from Fortnite bypassing the Play Store

So you're saying this publisher would have used Google's store, even though they didn't when they had the choice, if Google had locked down its phone?

windows_tipson Google will lose $50M or more in 2018 from Fortnite bypassing the Play Store

That's a strange definition of lose. A third party doesn't contract with someone for their product launch, and that is considered a loss of money?

windows_tipson Google Boots Open-Source Anti-Censorship Tool "Ahoy" from Chrome Store

It didn't.

windows_tipson Mini antimatter accelerator could rival the likes of the Large Hadron Collider

What does this have to do with the article?

windows_tipson List of Websites not available in the EU because of GDPR

EDD: EU-law Driven Design

windows_tipson What did Earth look like X million years ago?

The earth will have moved from its original position, so you'd probably need to catch photons that were shot off on 'paths' that will intersect your future position, which may not necessarily be photons that were 180-degree reversed.

windows_tipson The Disturbing Fate of a Planet Made of Blueberries

Everything was replaced with blueberries, so there'd be no organisms to break things down. The sun would mostly dry things out probably, but eventually would start to change things.

windows_tipson Handshake: An experimental peer-to-peer root DNS

How many have simulators?

windows_tipson You don’t need standups

4. Managers need the Programmers, to make sure the business exists.

5. Agile may or may not be good for Programmers.

6. Agile may or may not be good for the business.

windows_tipson You don’t need standups

The standup should be with the people on the current sprint. Alignment should have happened in earlier planning stages. "Discussion" is (should be) highly structured in a daily standup and any discussion that is like a dialog should be placed in the parking lot until the meeting ends, when only those interested in that discussion need to attend.