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mtuon How to Turn Off AI Overview in Google and Set "Web" as Default

Adding to the litany of bad google ideas from the past 10+ years:

- Killing google reader

- Pointless UI changes

- Multiple chat and videocall apps that cannibalize each other.

- Stadia fiasco

- Shoving AI down our throats in their MAIN PRODUCT

What's the source of this rot? I have a friend at google who says the place is filled with smart people competing with each other. Perhaps this competition fuels a chaotic lack of coherency? Kind of feels like they have no clear vision in the "Google Ecosystem", and are hopping on the AI bandwagon with hopes it'll ride them into the future.

mtuon Fractional Factorial Experiment Design: There Are Too Many Experiments to Do

JMP is used industrially for design of experiments: https://www.jmp.com/en_us/software/capabilities/design-of-ex...

R also seems to have some libraries for things related to design of experiments.

mtuon Open Source PCR Thermocycler

For those of you who are interested in this space (open source/affordable scientific equipment) I recommend the lab on the cheap blog[0]. They have a lot of links to interesting websites/papers in this space.

[0] https://www.labonthecheap.com/

mtuon Open Source PCR Thermocycler

You'll need to run RT-qPCR (Reverse Transcriptase Quantitative PCR) to detect Covid-19 viral sequences.

Simple thermocyclers allow us to amplify sequences but it can't do measurement like a Quantitative PCR machine.

mtuon Ask HN: Do you know of a US news RSS feed with a high signal to noise ratio?

I found that wikipedia current events has a great signal to noise ratio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events

I used https://www.to-rss.xyz/wikipedia/current_events/ to make it a RSS feed.