dbcooper

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dbcooper··on History of Techno

Music for Programming is a great site for electronic music mixes that are suitable for working to.

https://musicforprogramming.net/

dbcooper··on TSMC reportedly planning on building six new manufacturing facilities in the US

I wonder if this would indicate Intel going fabless ...

dbcooper··on UCSF team has engineered a tiny antibody capable of neutralizing the coronavirus

Absolutely right, Pfizer has failed on those as drug candidates for the last 20 years.

dbcooper··on City Guesser – GeoGuessr but with video

This is great fun.

Thanks!

dbcooper··on How a British Covid-19 vaccine went from pole position to troubled start

I've worked with nucleic acids (DNA and RNA) in my postdoc, and now in my own lab, and I'm quite shocked that anyone would rely on UV absorption measurements. They're inherently insensitive, and suffer from unreliability and reagent interference. Especially when they were taken over PCR based methods.

It's a remarkable f*ck up for a clinical trial. These decisions should have been made with data from gold standard analytical methods.

dbcooper··on Seuss-Star Trek mashup crashes and burns at Ninth Circuit

Big thumbs up to the reporter for the “Victory is life” DS9 reference.

dbcooper··on AMD to Acquire Xilinx

"We will use TSMC."

dbcooper··on The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020

Wow, neither Feng Zhang nor one of the earlier people in the discovery chain.

dbcooper··on Is it time to kill the calculus curriculum?

Nonsense. Physical chemistry and thermodynamics are underpinned by calculus. Try studying engineering without calculus ...

dbcooper··on Is it time to kill the calculus curriculum?

Please don't keep pushing fundamental education to colleges to fix. It just makes everyone worse, and fundamentally changes the role of universities - they are not there for remedial learning!

dbcooper··on Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B

Has it had any successes with hardware acquisitions?

dbcooper··on Intel’s 11th Gen Core Tiger Lake SoC Detailed

Is Intel deliberately making its branding and specs as confusing as possible now?

dbcooper··on Silicon MacBook could launch on 27 October and cost $800

Apple doesn't pay anywhere near full retail.

dbcooper··on Silicon MacBook could launch on 27 October and cost $800

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/apple-...

>The new Mac processors will shave $75 to $150 off the cost of building a computer, estimate analysts, who say Apple can pass those savings on to customers and shareholders.

dbcooper··on Silicon MacBook could launch on 27 October and cost $800

How much is an i3? Surely well under $200.

dbcooper··on Silicon MacBook could launch on 27 October and cost $800

The $999 MacBook Air comes with a core i3. Where is the purported $200 cost saving coming from?

Edit:

According to the WSJ $75 to $150 per Mac could be saved.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/apple-...

>The new Mac processors will shave $75 to $150 off the cost of building a computer, estimate analysts, who say Apple can pass those savings on to customers and shareholders.

dbcooper··on Ask HN: What is the current state of Google Stadia?

Anyone play turn based 4X games on Stadia? Seems like a good use case.

dbcooper··on Twitch Is Developing Talk Shows and Dating Programs for Gamers

Just watch Stavros Halkias' advice show.

https://www.twitch.tv/stavvybaby

dbcooper··on A New Problem Is Brewing in the Beer Industry: One Million Kegs Are Going Stale

It's based on brewers yeast extract.

dbcooper··on Firefox Preview 3.0

Does it support page translation?

dbcooper··on Thousands flock to Wikipedia founder's 'Facebook rival'

I find a group chat on Whatsapp much better than Facebook for keeping up with my immediate family.

dbcooper··on Apple CEO becomes chairman of China university board

It's their MIT. Peking University is their Harvard.

dbcooper··on California power outage triggers chaos in science labs

Thanks for the clarification; I was wondering what had happened to their cogeneration plant.

I remember some time ago when the cogeneration plant failed and took out power in one building where many biological samples were stored at -80.

dbcooper··on Malaysian government plans to promote startups by becoming a venture capitalist

Very interesting post. I was going to cynically ask if this was another 1MDB scam ...

dbcooper··on Free Open Source VPN – Curve25519,ChaCha20 – WireGuard and OpenVPN

Who are these people?

dbcooper··on A list of the top recipients on Patreon shows an obsession with the ordinary

Anyone who can't recognise the genius of Nick Mullen and Cum Town deserves to find disappointment.

dbcooper··on Kasper-Spy: Kaspersky Anti-Virus Puts Users at Risk

Is there any point in using antivirus software now?

dbcooper··on Quantum Computing Through Quaternions (2008) [pdf]

Very interesting ... A friend (senior lecturer in astrophysics and mathematics) is looking for a collaborator for this application.

dbcooper··on DNA sequencing progress has stagnated

Quality may have improved though.

dbcooper··on MIT professor is accused of claiming others’ scientific discoveries as his own

Connecting the sequence dots: shedding light on the genesis of antibodies reported to be designed in silico

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19420862.2019.16...

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