Sure but since most of its components have been Frankensteined into MS Teams it lives on right?
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This is going to be one of those things where people look back in 50 years and the motives and playbook will be so obvious
It's funny to think how different the equivalent would have been when I came here. Probably a lot more about the web (and open source) than about AI and cryptocurrency. That was, I guess, a full generation ago now!
Blue bottle at South Park would still be there at least :)
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No
squirrel6 commented on Cannabis pollen dispersal across the United States nature.com/articles/s4159... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
It's not a very popular opinion, but I don't think any grower really knows what strain they are growing anyways. I think the strains have been so mixed and matched, and probably some growers will call theirs a specific strain just to sell more of it. And with how long Marijuana growing was underground, the sources of the seeds are totally undocumented. It's basically like a big game of telephone at this point.
I never thought about this. It would be interesting to run mass spec on resin samples from different growers to see the interval of genetic variation
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The fact that cannabis is so genetically unstable is very interesting. The root cause of the problem is that the level of CBD or THC produced by the plant in the resin is a result of polygenic expression— in other words, even if you have two strains of CBD-dominant crop, pollination can still result in increased THC in the next generation of the plant.
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Interesting read. I don't think this came up in my stats classes:
> Gosset solved many problems at the brewery with his new technique. The self-taught statistician published his t-test under the pseudonym “Student” because Guinness didn’t want to tip off competitors to its research. Although Gosset pioneered industrial quality control and contributed loads of other ideas to quantitative research, most textbooks still call his great achievement the “Student’s t-test.”
This was in my textbook and my professor covered it as well! Class of 17 here
Will be interesting to see how this affects math research. He has pumped unthinkable amounts of money into the field. The only first-class flights I've taken in my life were to get to Simons-funded conferences at super fancy hotels. (I found these conferences a bit ridiculous, but the luxury treatment did ensure that they could get together a lot of the biggest names in the field in one place.)
Besides the conferences, there is the SCGP at Stony Brook, the Simons Center in Manhattan, whatever MSRI is called now, AMS-Simons travel grants, tons of money for the arXiv, the Magma license deal... and that's just the stuff that I've benefited from personally. I know there's more, Simons Collaboration grants and probably other things I've never heard of. He was very good to us all.
We've always joked that Phds in geometry-adjacent fields have to have one of the highest average incomes of any degree, probably at least $1 million a year. Simons making $3 billion, the rest of us making 90k apiece.
Not to mention Math for America, which is one of the best funded organizations of its kind…