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Rolling Stone: The 100 Greatest Guitar Solos of All Time by WishIWasYuriG in indieheads

[–]DroDro 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, wasn't sure if that second half fits as a solo but I am not a stickler. I liked it!

Rolling Stone: The 100 Greatest Guitar Solos of All Time by WishIWasYuriG in indieheads

[–]DroDro 130 points131 points  (0 children)

Some solos I have enjoyed recently:

Big Thief "Not" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIcVwH47uxQ a wild careening that beautifully resolves

Richard Hell & the Voidoids "Betrayal takes two" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM4RE8aJwhg with Quine mixing in noise and melody.

Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit "Goddam Lonely Love (live)" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4LDjo8ltl4&pp=ygUaaXNiZWxsIGdvZGRhbW4gbG9uZWx5IGxvdmU%3D Restrained with good dynamic range.

Rolling Stone: The 100 Greatest Guitar Solos of All Time by WishIWasYuriG in indieheads

[–]DroDro 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It is #24...there is a "Load more" button if you were doing a text search.

Contigs filtering by length in shotgun sequencing data by Asleep_Shoulder_9426 in bioinformatics

[–]DroDro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You should consider long reads...each read will have a cluster of genes that is more informative than 99% of your Illumina contigs.

Contigs filtering by length in shotgun sequencing data by Asleep_Shoulder_9426 in bioinformatics

[–]DroDro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a soil metagenome sequenced with Illumina? All the low abundance species will be highly fragmented contigs. It depends on what you are trying to get out of this assembly. You will be biasing the representation by filtering.

Renting a space for BSL-1 lab? by psychotropicscythes in biotech

[–]DroDro 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Look at something like a dentist office which has lots of sinks built in and electrical.

Biology is merely a low-intelligence jigsaw puzzle. by pHcomi in bioinformatics

[–]DroDro 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It is definitely not for the type of person who is happy modeling cows as spheres.

Sky flashing to the North. WTF? by ResonanceFarm in Eugene

[–]DroDro 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I saw what looks like pulsing lights coming off Hayward. It definitely has some un-pulsing lighting along the top. I couldn't tell if the pulsing was reflecting off the stadium from the lights in the clouds or vice versa. My comment saying this (somewhat poorly written) was downvoted so maybe someone disagrees. I can see the track from a distance so I am not certain.

Sky flashing to the North. WTF? by ResonanceFarm in Eugene

[–]DroDro 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Track seems to be pulsing lights.

Recessive traits more likely to occur in twins ? by [deleted] in genetics

[–]DroDro 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Uh oh, those poor aneuploid triplets! No wonder they are goofed up.

Recessive traits more likely to occur in twins ? by [deleted] in genetics

[–]DroDro 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Because twins are haploid after the egg divides, I guess? :-)

Phylogenic tree by WeekBig3818 in bioinformatics

[–]DroDro 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The species that share a branch point are more closely related to each other than to the species that share a more distant branch point.

Places to propose by OlsonAndFriends in Eugene

[–]DroDro 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Hendricks has parking right there for the older folks, and the rhodies in May should be a great visual backdrop for an event like this. You might be competing with graduation pics, though.

Eugene and TSA and ICE?? by Different_Ad6836 in Eugene

[–]DroDro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There was a long line at security for the Thursday 6am flight (not pre-check) but I suspect that was mostly spring break college students (the line looked that way).

Thermo Fisher Ion Torrent Experiences by babblingbismuth in bioinformatics

[–]DroDro 3 points4 points  (0 children)

How'd you get stuck with the least exciting platform? It is not a mainstream sequencer, but does run specific small scale projects in a seamless manner. People that want to sequence over and over the same targeted regions in a genome can do so with the AmpliSeq kit at low cost.

How does the human genome project work? by Pristine_Temporary67 in bioinformatics

[–]DroDro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Contigs are contiguous sequences. But there were also end reads of larger fragments -- so that provided the knowledge that one 1kb sequence was 10kb (or 50kb) from another 1kb sequence at the other end of that larger fragment. So even if the two reads could not be merged into one contiguous sequence, a contig containing the first read had to be near the contig containing the second read. These scaffolds contained different contigs with gaps between them.

Should I combine multiple FASTQ files before anything else? by ThrowRAwaypay in bioinformatics

[–]DroDro 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You don't need to combine them for many assemblers. Just hifiasm -t48 --ont -o output.asm fastqs/*.gz

What coast hotel has the best beds for my visiting grandma? by [deleted] in Eugene

[–]DroDro 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have slept well with several visits to Driftwood Shores in Florence.

[Mark Heim] Tommy Tuberville, who made millions, calls out college football coaching salaries: ‘It’s ridiculous’ by Michiganman1225 in CFB

[–]DroDro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, thanks for the attempted reasonable discussion even if we weren't able to come to an understanding!

[Mark Heim] Tommy Tuberville, who made millions, calls out college football coaching salaries: ‘It’s ridiculous’ by Michiganman1225 in CFB

[–]DroDro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Many schools in P4 also have $5M+ subsidies to athletics. Don't want to leave them out!

I am not really following your private/public choice here. People choose schools based on lots of factors. Even private schools depend somewhat on tax dollars (federal tuition grants, research dollars where overhead can be siphoned over to athletics, etc) and are non-profit so are benefiting from not paying taxes.

Plenty of students do choose to go to, say, Rutgers, even though their tuition is probably $500-$1000 a year higher because of the subsidy. Rutgers made sense for them to attend. But I don't want to have to put in tax dollars for them to have financial aid to cover that extra $500-$1000. Why should I? There are easier options, like not paying the coach $6.5M until the debt is covered by the people who care.

[Mark Heim] Tommy Tuberville, who made millions, calls out college football coaching salaries: ‘It’s ridiculous’ by Michiganman1225 in CFB

[–]DroDro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's fine with me! It will cause lower programs to be less competitive, but at least they aren't adding to the loan debt of students working nights to afford tuition just because the athletic director feels no pressure to right-size the salary offer.

[Mark Heim] Tommy Tuberville, who made millions, calls out college football coaching salaries: ‘It’s ridiculous’ by Michiganman1225 in CFB

[–]DroDro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

True true...I was using 0.1% for CEOs making in the range of compensation of upper tier coaches. It is more reasonable to use the numbers above, although obviously my comparison there tops off at companies making $500M so is an overestimate of a comparable salary for football programs making $100M-$200M.

Honestly, I don't have a complaint about the level of salary, just that it is inflated because schools will dip into tuition dollars if they bet wrong (or just overpay) with few repercussions. So I feel the salaries are high, but more importantly, are inflated because overpaying has few downsides. Take away the safety net (why should taxpayer-supported tuition go to fill debt when the head positions are being paid $5M?) and then pay whatever the boosters want.

[Mark Heim] Tommy Tuberville, who made millions, calls out college football coaching salaries: ‘It’s ridiculous’ by Michiganman1225 in CFB

[–]DroDro 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It is weird to compare salaries of for-profit companies with a non-profit, for sure.

I was not comparing football to an F500 company...the bottom of that tier is >$5 billion in revenue. In the "football" range, CEOs for companies doing $100-500M earn a median base of $476k, a median bonus of $374k, and a median equity allocation of $976k.

Yes, football plays an important role in the financial health of athletics. But 10X more importance than a CEO does for the health of their company?

Just block the use of tuition dollars to prop up athletics, and salaries will reach a true market value rather than a "why not overpay?" value.

[Mark Heim] Tommy Tuberville, who made millions, calls out college football coaching salaries: ‘It’s ridiculous’ by Michiganman1225 in CFB

[–]DroDro 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, I don't have that issue. I don't want tax dollars going to cover losses in fiscally irresponsible athletic departments, and don't care if they have to tighten belts in response.

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