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Re:Ticker: Don't Die of Heart Disease on Saturday November 08, 2025 @12:40PM (#45858445)
This is wrong. Our bodies evolved to eat a diverse omnivorous diet and complex carbs + the antioxidants present in vegetables and fruits are anti-oxidative.
Re:Everything You Need to Know About [California] SB 79 on Sunday October 12, 2025 @09:42PM (#45563880)
What an incredibly weird take. Higher density cities are better in virtually any environmental metric per capita. This is widely supported
Am I missing something or are they reporting that prices have "jumped" because they've increased 30% since 2020? That seems like a fair use of the word.
Re:Positron, a New Data Science IDE on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @02:20PM (#44954586)
It's really a shame posit quadrupled the cost of rstudio server/workbench because these tools are really nice in an academic hpc environment
Re:Uv's killer feature is pulling in local dependencies on Sunday January 12, 2025 @06:19PM (#42678057)
pixi seems fine, but it also is just using mamba on the backend so you might as well continue to use miniforge
Re:Maker of RStudio launches new R and Python IDE on Thursday June 27, 2024 @11:49PM (#40817519)
I can't stand jupyter notebooks for several reasons. I've been using https://quarto.org/ and writing .qmd docs and really enjoy it.
Re:Why We're Turning Psychiatric Labels into Identities on Tuesday May 28, 2024 @04:13PM (#40505056)
Jerry Fodor? Noam Chomsky? Hilary Putnam? Patricia Churchland

What is a pure philosopher??!? I'm not arguing the specificity of the question, I'm saying that question is nonsensical.

Re:Why We're Turning Psychiatric Labels into Identities on Tuesday May 28, 2024 @11:42AM (#40501857)
Are you not a practitioner if you contribute to the field...? Seems impossible to meet your criteria.

What's a pure philosopher? Are Frege and Decartes not philosophers because they also did math? Does Alan Turing count? What about Popper and Kuhn? Are they philosophy enough for the philosopher club? Where, when, how and by whom do you think the concept of 'empirical science' was derived?

To be clear, everyone, including scientists, do philosophy every single day. You don't think Darwin did some philosophy in on the origin of species?

Re:Why We're Turning Psychiatric Labels into Identities on Tuesday May 28, 2024 @11:08AM (#40501434)
You haven't looked very hard then
yeah, I also disagree with this. It's true Seurat is still heavily used for scRNA/scATAC but I see most new models increasingly being written/tooled for python and based on anndata. Geneformer, scGPT, scVI etc. I wish there was better operability between the scverse stuff and Seurat, but Seurat went their own way from SCE/bioconductor so that's probably not going to happen.