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It's been around for a decade and was $1k in early access, so don't hold your breath.

Per the article, ONT sells tiny sequencers that all this genre of "Omg I just sequenced my genome" posts use. They've been around for a decade or so. A commercial lab will give you 30x illumina sequencing for maybe 5% of the cost of this post.

The good thing is we've learned this already from cloud. When one AWS region is degraded we all failover to other regions, and then other cloud providers, right? ...right?

Roll your own

Even simpler it just takes screenshots (or at least that's what it was doing last time I used it)

> In complex systems, such as the human body, the only evidence of safety is time -- a very long time. The Stevia plant (though not the same as extract) has been used for centuries. Aspartame was (accidentally) created in the lab in 1965.

Time is not evidence of safety, that is an odd claim (see smoking tobacco), thankfully we have the scientific method to investigate hypotheses like "x is bad for you".

This is an example of the "appeal to nature" logical fallacy. You may be able to make a case that Stevia is healthier than Aspartame, but it should be based on evidence to that effect rather than because you like the idea that it has ingredients derived from organic material.

In the bioinformatics sphere there is this MIT-licensed Stack Exchange clone: https://github.com/ialbert/biostar-central

All crops are inclined to be grown in monocultures. That's because even if you'd get more yield pairing with other species — as in these studies — pragmatically the time and cost of sowing, harvesting and separating multiple species outweighs the theoretical yield gain per unit area of a monocrop.

These are indeed links but quite random ones. Mostly they are reporting that growing two things together in a field can give higher yields than growing a single thing. None seem to be related to GMOs, which could obviously also be grown with complimentary species to increase yield.

I'm not sure if this was an unfortunate accident but almost every banana worldwide is essentially genetically identical: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavendish_banana

To re-iterate: there is no biodiversity in agriculture. As an example, "non-GMO" bananas are cloned from a single species the world over. If you'd be concerned about a single disease destroying genetically-identical crops worldwide, that happened with the Gros Michel cultivar in the 20th century. Competing GMO banana products would introduce more diversity than exists today.

There is no biodiversity in agriculture. Whether or not the seeds you purchased have been edited to add drought resistance or high vitamin A content or other fantastic benefits to humankind you are still growing a monoculture, just as you were with non-GMO crops.

I agree, I'm guessing the highest (arguably avoidable) risk to a baby or child is driving them around in a car.

Your points in order were:

1. There's no way to hedge against inflation (you didn't know TIPS existed)

2. Having learned about TIPS you assert they're illiquid and can't be traded easily (you didn't know about TIPS funds)

3. Having learnt about TIPS funds you don't the recent returns of a specific fund (you don't know that TIPS adjustments lag reported inflation numbers)

Erm, just buy a TIPS fund like VIPSX from Vanguard.

> You can't even hedge inflation without the stock market (or real estate, if you can afford the buy-in).

See also: treasury inflation-protected securities (TIPS).

Proteins are written in standardised IUPAC amino acid codes that carry some semantic meaning, e.g. Alanine: A, Glycine: G etc. Also viral genomes often have overlapping transcription with shifted open reading frames. Biology is not as simple as you think.

Suspend?

Also CRAN, which is still meant to be pronounced C-RAN as an homage.

It's an academic webpage so by definition at least a decade since last updated.

He talks about this in lots of annual letters. Reality is that Berkshire Hathaway undoubtedly has (a perception of) the lowest bus factor of any holdings group and Buffett has been priming for years to prevent shares tanking when he inevitably passes or steps down.

Aside: to those who enjoyed reading this annual letter I recommend "The Essays of Warren Buffett" — an arranged collection of edited previous letters by theme (though they are all also freely available online).

Both sound good, maybe you could highlight these on your landing page? The picker for RColorBrewer palettes looks particularly handy!

Making R available from Excel seems a good idea to ease the transition for newbies (like R commander) but what advantages does the standalone IDE have over RStudio or the default R.app?

Edit: actually I managed to click through to find this screenshot: http://fasterstat.com/Images/Desktop/12_R_gui.png which looks novel (can't currently watch the video unfortunately)

Randall's been sitting on this since 20 Nov 2014?

Post title is particularly horrible IMO, Ambroise STD Francois with uppercase transform ugh.