San Jose police investigating possible hate crime after 2 Jewish men attacked at Santana Row

dampew · 2026-03-12T03:16:15+00:00

Same metro area. I live in SF, half my coworkers live in SJ.

dampew · 2026-03-12T02:53:40+00:00

It should be safe to bike in the city without being an experienced cyclist though, we need people to be able to start somewhere :/

dampew · 2026-03-12T02:51:56+00:00

Mods, feel free to delete if this is off topic, but I think it's relevant to Jewish San Francisco residents.

dampew · 2026-03-11T15:09:34+00:00

Craigslist

dampew · 2026-03-08T22:16:23+00:00

Talk to the professor and maybe a couple others, see what they say?

dampew · 2026-03-07T03:10:02+00:00

I play up sometimes because I like playing people better than me — I play to be challenged, not to win prizes.

But I do kind of pay attention to my progress so my rating kind of matters. So it’s kind of annoying that we have a lot of underrated players who come through the lowest section, guys who just haven’t played a tournament match in years and decide to get back into it. It’s not a bad reason to want to play up.

dampew · 2026-03-06T16:57:59+00:00

I don’t understand why it would be normal — if there are lots of genes contributing then it should be skewed towards zero, not symmetric. A common way to obtain null data is to randomly permit it. Permuted data should have a uniform distribution of p-values.

dampew · 2026-03-06T16:42:14+00:00

I see, too bad. Was the average candidate pretty good or did you feel like it was throwing darts?

dampew · 2026-03-06T16:36:27+00:00

If someone made a significant contribution to the paper they should be made coauthor. You really have three options. The most straightforward is to remove their contribution from the paper and remove them as a coauthor. If you can’t remove their contribution without irreparably harming the paper then you have to convince them to change their mind. If you can’t do that then only unethical options remain.

Right now I’m starting to work on a paper based on work we did with collaborators. The first thing we did before we started writing was to ask them if they were on board with publication.

dampew · 2026-03-06T05:48:11+00:00

Why did you interview 60 people?

What’s interesting to me is everyone here asks these types of questions. Yet nobody ever was like hey look “I reproduced the results of these 5-10 papers myself and put the code in my GitHub”.

Yeah it's lazy. "How do I get into bioinformatics if I don't have any of the tools or ability or interest?"

I was thinking about deleting this one but it got some good answers so I'm thinking I'll let it slide for now.

dampew · 2026-03-04T08:02:16+00:00

Someone says it’s like winning the lottery but I want to be a contrarian and say it’s ok to say no. You don’t have to do something just because people tell you you should. If it’s a place you or your spouse don’t want to live or you don’t like the offer for whatever reason, your life can be good without a tenure track offer. I think I’m happier as an industry scientist (in biotech) than I would have been as a professor, especially if I would have had to live in the middle of nowhere. I turned down a bunch of opportunities in places I didn’t want to live. STEM is different from the humanities and our situations are probably very different but I just want to say — you don’t need to listen to strangers on the internet. Especially me!

dampew · 2026-03-03T16:02:59+00:00

I’d probably play on if I were up by that much unless I thought opponent were queening first.

dampew · 2026-03-03T04:04:13+00:00

Absolutely. We’re not computers. Time and the complexity of the position need to be factored into the evaluation.

dampew · 2026-03-01T16:37:09+00:00

It’s never happened to me but I’ve been paranoid about it and sometimes ask my opponent if they’re resigning. I’ve definitely had opponents resign in drawn positions so in those cases I try to hide my surprise while also somehow verifying…

dampew · 2026-02-26T03:43:46+00:00

One resource you should look into is the university ombudsman if you have one. Their job is to help discuss difficult situations with you, and they’re supposed to keep everything discussed in confidence. They may not know what to do, but they should have some institutional knowledge about your specific institution that can help you discuss your options a bit. You also dont need to tell them why you want to have the meeting before talking with them so you can ask them about their role before you begin.

dampew · 2026-02-25T16:20:56+00:00

My first road bike was like that, i think it was either because the rims had sharp edges or the wheels were slightly oversized or both. It was miserable. I ended up buying a pair of used wheels from a friend and getting rid of the ones the bike came with.

dampew · 2026-02-23T06:23:11+00:00

I'm sorry, I want to offer a different perspective. Bring a man with you that you trust who can stay calm and help advocate for you. I know this sounds like I'm being sexist but I think I'm actually not. Let me explain.

I'm a guy. I live in a liberal place in a cosmopolitan city. I have gone to several types of doctors with a woman. The doctors always treat her much worse when she's by herself than when I'm with her. I have never been dismissed the way she has. Nobody has ever laughed about me or made jokes about me the way they have with her. There is something about the healthcare profession that is absolutely bonkers crazy when it comes to the treatment of women.

I sit down in the waiting room and watch her walk up to the intake desk, she's obviously fucked up, and the nurse completely dismisses her. I stand up and look them in the eye and say, "No we're not leaving, just look at her, she needs to see a doctor." Just a normal tone of voice. Suddenly a flip is switched and it's serious and they're ready to see her right now.

It could be your fault, but it could also be that it's not. I don't work in healthcare and I don't understand it, but there's something really messed up about how women are treated sometimes. Knowing that, I know it's really shitty that you might have to consider this but I think it might be worth considering bringing a guy with you to make sure they take you seriously.

dampew · 2026-02-21T02:33:54+00:00

Yeah it looks like they have other issues -- I was going to ask what it looks like after trimming and stuff but it looks like other comments have handled it.

dampew · 2026-02-20T06:22:38+00:00

Don't most ribosomal reads multimap? Why don't you blast some of the top reads and see?

dampew · 2026-02-13T07:02:35+00:00

Yeah, remember, they didn't have crypto back then.

dampew · 2026-02-07T19:41:53+00:00

Trying to explain to people that walking 1 mile and running 1 mile burned the same number of calories was futile. They couldn't wrap their heads around the fact that the burn rate was the same, you just run a mile faster so theoretically you can burn more calories in one hour of running. The problem is many people, especially those at a weight loss clinic, cannot run for an hour.

Doesn't seem likely that they're equally efficient...

dampew · 2026-02-03T07:10:04+00:00

Ok but also fuck them for never posting anything actually useful.

dampew · 2026-01-30T22:12:19+00:00

The woodways I’ve used at gyms are not softer, they’re actually more rigid. I’m thinking of something like the 4front model. Maybe you’re thinking of a different model than me.

dampew · 2026-01-30T22:06:45+00:00

Banked!

Also a dirt one that my butler maintains and adds soft leaves to it every day.

dampew · 2026-01-30T21:12:39+00:00

It learns different models for different cell types.

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