An overview of how Twitch uses staged rollouts to perform experiments, biases we found, and methods we use for significance testing.
Today we’re launching a preview of Nextjournal: part writing tool, part interactive programming environment, designed for every stage of research from experimentation to publication.
Why would a group of international scientists including Papua New Guineans under the leadership of Dr. Allen Allison from the Bishop Museum based in Hawaii — USA, be carrying out biodiversity field surveys in the Baining…
Mathematicians introduced the concept of complex numbers to solve real problems, but we are often taught they are there because we need to take square root of negative numbers. Rafael Bombelli when he introduced complex numbers, he had no intention to give square…
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Daemonosaurus chauliodus’ name literally means “big toothy demon-lizard”, and a quick glance at its skull shows how…
It must have been with incredible awe that our ancestors considered the ball of fire in the Earth’s sky…
If you were hiking through the Andes foraging for edible fruits, you may encounter a climbing shrub covered in…
I showed up to my first day at the pharmaceutical company like the first day of high school: outfit carefully planned, not sure what to expect. I had a cappuccino silk blouse (tight in the shoulders), a magnifying glass pendant (to signify my ability to look closer into phenomena), a black pencil skirt (corporate, if constricting), pointed Chelsea…
I think Einstein would agreedenuded of all the equationsgeneral relativity is poetry
When all stars and planets are the descendants of the same beautiful cosmos or universe, how can earth and its inhabitants alone be different or even suffer or degenerate?
It may have been listed as a “fun fact”, but the claim that Nigeria hosts more butterfly species than anywhere else is incorrect.
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Nielsen just published the data on traditional TV audiences in USA for 3Q16: weekly viewing times for 18–24 years olds keep falling, at 14h 21min/week in 3Q16, a -7.4% yoy decrease, and a -40%…
At the heart of every medical advance is a story waiting to be told.
In the complicated world of health care — where innovations can be highly technical, markets are diverse and difficult, and audiences are varied — it can be challenging to simplify the complex into…
In 1803 William Blake wrote the well-known lines:
“To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.”
In physics, there is something called an “entropic clock” in layman’s terms this merely means “hot drinks get colder” and you know time passed “because my coffee is colder than it used to be”
He was out there way out there in a place he had no idea where writing at his computer trying to tell a story a story…
Surprisingly, insight on self consciousness. I am reading cool book, 1999 but very actual still now, name: Genome. Looks like DNA determines a lot. Finding your own path and real self is the way from standard school and university and career into your, really…
Unclear if evolution is blind. Or ruthless. Or both. We are lucky to feel good things. We could miss it. Evolution fits environments and that’s it. Other bio agents become part of the environment and so you adapt to this unknown configuration also. Evolution really doesn’t…
Islam adalah agama ilmu yang memberikan perhatian sangat besar kepada ilmu pengetahuan serta memberikan kelebihan kepada orang-orang yang mendalaminya, sebagaimana firman Allah swt yg artinya : “Niscaya Allah akan meninggikan orang-orang yang beriman di antaramu dan orang-orang yang diberi ilmu…
Production of fruit jams was known for hundreds of years and today commercial and “home-made” jams use century-old techniques. The important parts of jam are sugar and pectin, and with gradual boiling it can preserve the foods.
Actually, there are eight generic future, majority end badly. The diversity of ideas and how they’re unfortunately cobbled together, the misinterpretations of evolution more broadly, and spurious speculations on the future beg for a pause and major rethinking of what…
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Researchers have developed the first computational method based on evolutionary principles to predict protein dynamics. These researchers are from the Structural Biology Computational Group of the Spanish National Cancer…
Seemingly the most difficult change for mankind is the ability to think differently. The threat of change appears to drive most into the security of doing what they have already done.
Africa is witnessing the birth of a new ocean which will eventually split the continent in two, say scientists.
Source: Africa ‘witnessing birth of a new ocean’
Originally published at Cogly.
