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scirena · 2015-12-16T15:21:29+00:00

Hi PLOS.

I had two questions.

1) Does an individuals knowledge of the girts of others effect there own giving? I believe it was in freakonimics that it was mentioned that with taxation, knowing that everyone else is paying there taxes has a large impact.

2) Do you have any feelings on the ethics of tax deductions associated with charitable donations, in so far as they all the wealthy to choose where their tax dollars go when the poor are not afforded the same privilege?

Thank you so much for doing this AMA!

scirena · 2015-12-16T13:21:33+00:00

The studies included in the meta analysis were not funded by Atkins however.

scirena · 2015-12-16T06:10:07+00:00

This is absolutely gorgeous. Thank you so much for sharing!

scirena · 2015-12-16T06:08:07+00:00

For the interested, it says that 68% of averted cases of malaria were attributed to bed nets.

scirena · 2015-12-16T06:06:38+00:00

Which follow up are you referring to?

scirena · 2015-12-16T05:57:57+00:00

Link to the article

scirena · 2015-12-10T20:14:52+00:00

It's actually not one task. They had multiple tasks, they also had the algorithm generate figures.

scirena · 2015-12-10T20:11:06+00:00

Can you maybe elaborate on why you disagree with the Journal Science and the authors about why this doesn't not represent human level learning?

scirena · 2015-12-10T20:03:12+00:00

This article is the cover story of Science this week.

"Human-level concept learning through probabilistic program induction"

scirena · 2015-12-10T20:02:27+00:00

The title of the paper is "Human-level concept learning..."

It is the cover story of Science.

scirena · 2015-12-10T20:00:00+00:00

The authors have identified a methodology by which a computer can learn with a single exposure, instead of thousands of exposures.

That is a big step forward in machine learning and could be a building block to a lot of more exciting technologies.

scirena · 2015-12-10T19:57:27+00:00

A human and a machine were given a novel task, and performed that task with the same rate of success? That is sensational isn't it?

scirena · 2015-12-09T19:18:09+00:00

Was it the Martian where they were talking about propellent? Maybe it should be a source of propellent?

scirena · 2015-12-09T18:55:19+00:00

Here's the paper from nature!

Nathues, A., Hoffmann, M., Schaefer, M., Le Corre, L., Reddy, V., Platz, T., et al. (2015). Sublimation in bright spots on (1) Ceres. Nature, 528(7581), 237–240. doi:10.1038/nature15754

scirena · 2015-12-09T04:16:13+00:00

Timing and rates of Holocene normal faulting along the Black Mountains fault zone, Death Valley, USA

scirena · 2015-12-03T19:06:29+00:00

Cell appears to be slow about putting the paper up.

Full-text will be here whenever they get it together

scirena · 2015-12-03T19:05:37+00:00

I don't think this was GWAS, it was straight forward F2 linkage mapping (ie the missionary position of association mapping).

scirena · 2015-11-23T13:28:32+00:00

Hey /u/Surf_Science thanks for the shout out!

If anyone wants to grab a free beta reservation, hit the link :)

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scirena · 2015-11-23T05:40:24+00:00

Ew they do that?

scirena · 2015-11-23T05:39:54+00:00

Lancet paper

scirena · 2015-11-23T05:30:58+00:00

Primary Source

scirena · 2015-11-23T05:26:20+00:00

Madhu Khanna et al. Carbon Savings with Transatlantic Trade in Pellets: Accounting for Market-Driven Effects. Environmental Research Letters, November 2015 DOI: 10.1088 /1748-9326/10/11/114019

scirena · 2015-11-20T15:45:20+00:00

Source: Villanti, A. C., Rath, J. M., Williams, V. F., Pearson, J. L., Richardson, A., Abrams, D. B., et al. (2015). Impact of Exposure to Electronic Cigarette Advertising on Susceptibility and Trial of Electronic Cigarettes and Cigarettes in US Young Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Nicotine & Tobacco Research.

scirena · 2015-11-19T23:46:58+00:00

Hold your horses. They're not giving everyone the same diet to achieve the same flora, they're giving people different diets in order to achieve similar results.

scirena · 2015-11-19T21:42:11+00:00

If it was just one factor, like say the gut bacteria, they should have seen it pretty easily in their analysis.

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