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New comment by CatMtKing in "Tissue Nanotransfection"

CatMtKing — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 23:56:12 +0000

I think it's this one https://www.nature.com/nnano/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nnan...

New comment by CatMtKing in "If you can’t explain something in simple terms, you don’t understand it"

CatMtKing — Thu, 15 Jun 2017 23:01:45 +0000

I practice taijiquan, a martial art. My teacher often describes concepts that I can relate to basic mechanics. When I do, it feels like I understand, but as my teacher says -- until you can actually express it with your body, you don't really understand.

For example, a lever seems conceptually simple, but to create a lever in the body is extraordinarily hard. The joints have to be solidly connected and free to open or close. The direction must be precise and rotation must not wobble. There are so many things that can err and lots of places for force to leak out.

New comment by CatMtKing in "Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf]"

CatMtKing — Wed, 09 Nov 2016 22:58:14 +0000

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trump-picks-top-c... Is this what you consider cleaning up our mess?

New comment by CatMtKing in "Donald Trump Is Elected President"

CatMtKing — Wed, 09 Nov 2016 18:35:49 +0000

I thought Michael Moore's reasons were pretty on point: http://michaelmoore.com/trumpwillwin/

Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin were indeed critical to the election, though it was by a hair that Trump won.

The liberal vote was not very enthusiastic, whereas Trump pulled in people that were die-hard fans.

New comment by CatMtKing in "Search Ads"

CatMtKing — Wed, 28 Sep 2016 23:23:19 +0000

I only use the search when I know what app I'm looking for. Wouldn't that would drive up the numbers artificially -- as I had the intention of downloading the app before I began searching.

New comment by CatMtKing in "Modeled After Ants, Teams of Tiny Robots Can Move 2-Ton Car"

CatMtKing — Tue, 15 Mar 2016 18:06:55 +0000

It's also how muscles work, isn't it? A ton of tiny myosin heads pulling in parallel.

New comment by CatMtKing in "Stephen Hawking Says We Should Really Be Scared of Capitalism, Not Robots"

CatMtKing — Sun, 11 Oct 2015 04:43:34 +0000

Show me a society that is pure anything. Capitalism is an idea among many ideas that influence society -- pure capitalism doesn't exist in the real world.

New comment by CatMtKing in "If you are storing important info in Evernote, think twice"

CatMtKing — Sun, 22 Feb 2015 20:09:43 +0000

Funny story I have with Dropbox:

I was setting up my new desktop to dual boot Debian and Windows. In the interest of saving space, I tried to have Dropbox in both systems target the same directory to sync. I'm not precisely sure what happened - I think the folder hadn't finished pulling in all the files before I logged out - but it somehow trashed everything in my lab's shared directory. Thank god for their API and their automatic file versioning, or I would never have gotten out of that pickle.

New comment by CatMtKing in "Why is Golang popular in China?"

CatMtKing — Tue, 13 Jan 2015 04:49:30 +0000

Being able to read English is a different skill from being able to write it. A lot of the Chinese students I know can understand it mostly fine but have trouble writing coherently for an English reader.

New comment by CatMtKing in "The Ebola Wars"

CatMtKing — Mon, 20 Oct 2014 21:14:08 +0000

UCSC has the sequenced strains loaded in their genome browser, too, if it interests you

http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgTracks?db=eboVir3

New comment by CatMtKing in "Phison USB Custom Firmware and Existing Firmware Patches"

CatMtKing — Fri, 03 Oct 2014 14:35:30 +0000

It looks like it is software to exploit vulnerabilities in the USB implementation to do some very nasty stuff with the target computer.

New comment by CatMtKing in "How I Rewired My Brain to Become Fluent in Math"

CatMtKing — Fri, 03 Oct 2014 00:05:16 +0000

When I was learning C, I would write my program, then run it step-by-step in the debugger (I was using Visual Studio at the time) until it was pointless to do so because I knew what would happen next. If I made a change and did not have a mental model of what would happen, I would run the debugger.

Learning how to solve problems is a different process, but this gave me good understanding of basic code structures.

New comment by CatMtKing in "I'm Leaving Mojang"

CatMtKing — Tue, 16 Sep 2014 02:50:26 +0000

Is the definition of talent that one does something noteworthy on a regular basis?

I think that Phil Fish video that he linked really hit the nail on the head.

New comment by CatMtKing in "I'm Leaving Mojang"

CatMtKing — Tue, 16 Sep 2014 02:48:25 +0000

I think that's exactly why he's not going to get what he wants. He's not going to have a normal life with the comforting blanket of anonymity again.

New comment by CatMtKing in "With genetic testing, I gave my parents the gift of divorce"

CatMtKing — Wed, 10 Sep 2014 17:46:38 +0000

Well if that's how you're analyzing it, the writer is female -- Julia Belluz.

New comment by CatMtKing in "Today We’re Eating the Winners of the 1948 Chicken of Tomorrow Contest"

CatMtKing — Fri, 05 Sep 2014 22:31:57 +0000

Yeah, the eggs are the best. Love them raw over rice.

New comment by CatMtKing in "Dreadnoughtus, a 130,000-Pound Dinosaur That Wasn’t Done Growing"

CatMtKing — Thu, 04 Sep 2014 20:49:47 +0000

I thought it wasn't uncommon for some reptiles to continue growing for their entire lives? Don't fish do it too?

Edit: it also says on wikipedia that they slow down in adulthood, so maybe it is somewhat different http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indeterminate_growth

New comment by CatMtKing in "White House Names Google’s Megan Smith the Next CTO of the US"

CatMtKing — Thu, 04 Sep 2014 16:38:36 +0000

tbh, if it changes anything, Google ought to hire more privacy advocates.

New comment by CatMtKing in "The Kids Who Beat Autism"

CatMtKing — Sat, 02 Aug 2014 04:58:41 +0000

From the article it seems like some of the symptoms are associated with inadequate sensing or awareness of social cues. That makes me wonder if taijiquan is a good exercise to help with that, as it trains sensitivity to small movements, intentions, and body structure. I'm not sure how well kids pick it up, though.

New comment by CatMtKing in "A computer algebra system written in Python"

CatMtKing — Wed, 30 Jul 2014 19:50:28 +0000

Why not the ipython notebook, in that case?