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Re:Deno Is Joining Cloudflare on Saturday October 10, 2026 @02:18AM (#50030167)
W&B -> CoreWeave
I recently saw this about AlphaFold: https://elanapearl.github.io/blog/2024/the-illustrated-alpha.... I don't think it's going to answer all your question but it might still help!
Re:Goodreads Has No Incentive to Be Good on Friday June 30, 2023 @10:30AM (#36535571)
I have been enjoying https://oku.club/ recently in case anyone is searching for a nicely functioning alternative.
Re:I should have loved biology on Saturday July 09, 2022 @08:30PM (#32040692)
I believe the parent refers to this [1,2,3] study. Indeed, this was about targeting many (11,923) genes with Perturb-seq (CRISPR screen with single-cell RNA-sequencing readout). There are two human cell lines used in the study (K562 and RPE1). For functional annotation, authors focused on 1,973 targeted genes that had strong transcriptional phenotype after the perturbation. As there's some correlation structure, that's what they studied, annotating clusters of individual perturbations using public databases (like STRING [4]) and literature. Seems like a lot of great work has been done here though stating that we now know all the functions of all the genes might be a bit of a stretch indeed.

[1]: https://news.mit.edu/2022/crispr-based-map-ties-every-human-... [2]: https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(22)00597-9 [3]: https://gwps.wi.mit.edu/ [4]: https://string-db.org/

Re:The human genome is, at long last, complete on Saturday April 02, 2022 @03:47PM (#30891119)
Seems to be an immortalized (telomerase*-transformed) cell line from a female fetus with near-complete homozygosity (https://sites.google.com/ucsc.edu/t2tworkinggroup/chm13-cell...).

* Telomerase is a reverse transcriptase that allows to achieve replicative immortality (https://academic.oup.com/hmg/article/9/3/403/715108).

Re:Interface ergonomics: automation isn't just about time saved on Thursday October 14, 2021 @09:50AM (#28864151)
Sounds similar to the consequences of reading Don Norman's «The Design of Everyday Things»...
Re:What can mRNA treat next? on Sunday May 02, 2021 @05:03PM (#27018990)
Maybe something like that is relevant: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/371/6525/145. There's also a bit more context here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-021-00880-0.
Re:I Miss My Bar on Friday February 19, 2021 @10:11AM (#26193978)
To add to the collection of websites recreating acoustic environments, there's https://imisstheoffice.eu for office sounds.
Rectangle (https://rectangleapp.com/) is Spectacle's successor, works great, and its source is available as well (https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle).
I think the quote is from the keynote itself. Here's the timestamp: https://youtu.be/GEZhD3J89ZE?t=4250.

Ask HN: Cutting-edge research in bionics?

What are the most advanced developments of bionics? How do modern prosthetics and bionic implants compare to human body parts? What are the major challenges in this field? What about exoskeletons and other developments to extend human abilities? Where can one get the respective education to work in this field?Any comments, suggestions, and references will be helpful.

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Re:New Sci-Hub domain on Monday March 06, 2017 @04:19PM (#13806139)
Personally I find this [0] extension useful when it comes to using SciHub.

And yes, it seems old domains are still working.

[0]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/scihubs/jamkadfgfk...

Thanks for posting this. As a side note, I really like the style of nautil.us and their idea of writing about a single topic from different perspectives. How is this journal not very popular? (Or is it?)
Re:Crystal: life after Ruby on Sunday May 17, 2015 @06:18AM (#9559444)
Sweet Ruby syntax + close to C speed are promised. One may find this interview interesting: http://rubyc.eu/posts/24.

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