robotmagician

Ah, I see what you mean. Chrome is throttling client-side operations. Because the python kernel of an iPython notebook is running as server-side code (even if that 'server' is local), it couldn't be subject to throttling by Chrome.

Not super familiar with how the components of iPython/Jupyter notebooks function, so I'll go ahead and ask a potentially stupid question: How might this affect notebooks open in tabs that are running tasks in the background?

This bothers me. What's a good alternative for a medical student on a paltry budget (so preferably free)?

I still use Skim from time to time but the comment annotation UI being broken in 10.12 was a deal-breaker.

I think there are pretty important implications of cell counts.

It is probably more apparent if we look at the brain - it has been pretty important to evolutionary biology to study not only the whole number of brain cells but also the proportion that are neurons and the proportions that are other, supporting cells. Similarly, it matters how many cells there are in a particular region of the brain when we ask the question - how did this region evolve to be of this size?

If this piques your curiosity I'd recommend Suzana Herculano-Houzel's work - either her popular TED talk ( https://www.ted.com/talks/suzana_herculano_houzel_what_is_so... ) or this kind of paper if you want to take a deep dive ( http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnana.2014.00... ) << should be open access.

Getting accurate measurements of the numbers of cells gives us a good idea of the number of divisions required to produce them, and could also be used in normalizing cancer risk across organisms.

Measurements of types of cells in a tissue give us an idea of the magnitude of the signaling / secretion events from these cells.

I'm a fan of Scribophile. http://www.scribophile.com/

Yup, I enjoy Github Pages a lot - go ahead and download the Jekyll rubygem and muck about with it locally if you want to get grips on it fast.

I have a question - what do you find is the best way of hosting images for a Github Pages blog?

To be clear (from an undergraduate microbiologist), my thought process behind the claim that IBM's polymer is less likely to promote resistance: Faster-acting agents that cause immediate destruction are much harder to develop resistance to because normal minor variation from mutations is much less likely to produce anything that will save a cell from death. So even if a cell produces a minor variation in its membrane protein it will likely still be killed and the "resistance" gets no chance to develop.

For something like penicillin, the bacteria gets quite some time to die (it inhibits synthesis!) and there are many different places in the peptidoglycan synthesis pathway for the cell to develop a resistance.

Does that make sense?

Also the obnoxious "whitelines" at the bottom of each page. I like filling my pages with words, thank you very much.