ecoli

On 3/3/2019 at 3:45 PM, swansont said:

The Expanse (though it is now an Amazon show and not technically a TV show)

the first episode was slow enough that I never continued. I'm hearing good things about the latest season though.

Sure, which one?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuG1vyQ1mUQ

From http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/05/allen-quist-michele-bachmann-campaign:

"and went undercover at an adult bookstore and a gay bathhouse in an effort to prove to a local newspaper reporter that they had become a "haven for anal intercourse." "

sure... Want to know how I know this guy is secretly gay?

they're using a drum machine/ synthesizer. It doesn't necessarily have to be an actual instrument.

Pretty much, yeah. It wasn't well received, so he tried to say the same stuff a different way. I don't know much about the historical context, to be honest.

I think I was reading the first version. Could explain the differences in opinion about his writing style.

A Treatise of Human Nature, by David Hume, is the work of his I'm most familiar with. My senior year thesis in college was actually about this book, and how it can lend some persective to early problems in quantum mechanics. (If you can believe that.) I didn't find it dry at all, personally, but by that time I was used to reading some far more dry philosophy.

Isn't that the version of an earlier book that he re-wrote because the original wasn't well received? (because it was too dry?) Or am I thinking of a different one.

Some things currently on my desk/ recently finished:

Philosophy of David Hume by Norman Kemp Smith - so far seems like a good overview and well written. (original David Hume is pretty dry, if you ask me)

Introducing Empiricism - A neat book that goes over the major players and concepts. uses cartoons and graphics, so also a fun read and great if you like to visualize concepts.

Logic: a Very Short Introduction - This was a great little book that goes into philosophical and mathematical concepts. Especially handy as a reference because it's not too long.

- an audio book lecture about Western and some Eastern ethics. Wasn't a big fan and wouldn't recommend it. I got it for free.

Machiavelli - The Prince.a classic I've been meaning to get to.

What Would Socrates Do - an audio lecture on western and some eastern ethics. Wasn't very good and I wouldn't recommend it. but it was free for me.

Also some original works by Kant, Hume and Locke, the titles of which slip my mind.

Essays concerning rationality by Eliezer Yudkowski (free material, on Bayesianism, etc)

Along similar lines, and from the same author, The LessWrong "sequences"

You are in college. There are lots of people there who use computers to do exactly what you are talking about. Rather than asking us what a good language to learn would be, ask them. Ask your advisor. Go snooping around in labs and ask the RAs what they are using. Find out who is publishing papers in this domain at your school and ask those authors.

I currently work in a department that uses zero computation, aside from the odd statistical test. I'll poke around, however.

Don't ask us. All you will do is provoke religious wars and get a bunch of wrongheaded answers.

I haven't read an answer here that I would characterize as "wrong" yet.

A few questions to help you narrow things down, ecoli:

• What domain are you interested in? I do not mean stochastic modeling; that is far too broad. I mean something like atmospheric modeling, chemical modeling, biological systems, ...

Biological systems for sure. Probably infectious disease transmission and/or evolution.

Also I'm interested in social science research and economics.

 

• Academia or industry?

 

• Does one, maybe two, languages dominate in that field? If so, you know what you eventually need to learn.

I have no idea, I'm a complete newb.

 

It would also behoove you to learn something of the art of computer programming. Scientists and engineers for the most part are quite lousy at programming because they have either learned it on their own or have learned it with the aid of other (equally inept) scientists and engineers.

would you recommend a class then? That could be possible

I take it that I'm not going to get a consensus on this

I should explain that I don't have any modeling project in mind, per se. I just want to learn something that would be adaptable to future use. I've heard of C and python, and got a recommendation of Java from a friend of mine...

What's R, klaynos?

Eventually, I want to be able to do some computationally-heavy modeling work, which obviously requires programming knowledge.

Is there a specific language that would be good for this type of interest. Where can a newb start learning about building the tools to develop skills to develop stochastic-type models?

Thanks!

how about electrolysis of water demonstration to show how to produce hydrogen gas (relevant to hydrogen fuel technology).

and/or - making your own soap using a soponification reaction.

I hope these are not prefilled chambers? Those are rather nasty. Cervical dislocation is usually better, but one needs some skill to pull it off (no pun intended).

Actually CO2 use is getting much disputed in a number of labs.

no, compressed CO2 from a tank.

Doesn't CO2 make the blood very acidic? That would be kind of painful.

I just assume they suffocate first... doesn't cutting off O2 to the brain causes a sort of mild hallucinogenic affect?

Do you kill your own mice? I'm just wondering what the accepted way for killing mice to disect is. I'm sure there are plenty of nutters out there who want to kill you!

We do it with CO2 chambers, though I've heard of some labs that break their spines by pulling on their tails a specific way. I think the latter has to many chances for error, and unnecessary pain.

oh yeah, I have a clean room for mouse experiments as well (no pictures though).

I had these on my computer...

I think that, according to the classical conservative ideals (like Ron Paul) conservatives aren't unflexible, they just think that traditional thinking is the perfect way to run things today... you don't need extra bureaucracy to get the job down.

You also have to consider how this would affect our relationships to mutualistic symbiotic relationships we have with many microorganisms.

I don't think the future of immunity lies with the type of complete genetic engineering you're talking about.

Mrs. Tilly likes broccoli but hates cauliflower

Mrs. Tilly likes to be left unattended, but hates to be alone

Mrs. Tilly likes brooks but hates streams

Mrs. Tilly likes quizzes but hates tests

Mrs. Tilly has a wallet but no money

Mrs. Tilly is friends with Bill but not Ted

ecoli does not taste like it smells

very true... I taste awful. I'm a "he" btw, not an it.

Two engineering students were walking across campus when one asked' date=' "Where did you get such a great bike?"

 

The second engineer replied, "Well, I was walking along yesterday minding my own business when a beautiful woman rode up on this bike. She threw the bike to the ground, took off all her clothes and said, "Take what you want."

 

The second engineer nodded approvingly, "Good choice; the clothes probably wouldn't have fit."[/quote']

 

HAha... I laughed my ass off. Thanks for that one.

Unfortunately I am not allowed to post new threads, I do not know why.

you should send an PM to dave or blike about this.