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| bio | website | vyznev.net |
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| location | Helsinki, Finland | |
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| visits | member for | 1 year, 5 months |
| seen | Apr 2 at 23:40 | |
| stats | profile views | 13 |
I like programming in Perl and C. I know Java and PHP too (I'm a MediaWiki developer), but I can't really say I like them. I keep meaning to learn Python some day, but never seem to get around to it.
I'm working on a Ph.D. in biomathematics. I also like programming puzzles and cryptography.
Please consider any (original) code I post to Stack Overflow (and other Stack Exchange sites) to be released under CC-Zero unless stated otherwise. You may do whatever you want with it and don't have to credit me in any way, although of course that would be nice.
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Dec 24 |
awarded | Yearling |
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Sep 28 |
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What causes the characteristic 'gleam' in the eye of a living being? +1 for "dead people don't blink." |
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Sep 12 |
answered | Is DNA mutation locally energetically stabilizing the DNA molecule |
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Aug 31 |
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Short-term Lamarckism in asexual single cell organisms @KonradRudolph: Looks like you've more or less answered the question; would you mind turning your comments into an actual answer? |
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Aug 11 |
revised |
Why would diffusion be faster across a non-specialised tissue? the tissue is called "mucous membrane" or "mucosa", "mucus" is the stuff it secretes |
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Aug 5 |
awarded | Good Answer |
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Aug 2 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Aug 1 |
answered | Is the theory of evolution being disproved by bats? |
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Aug 1 |
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Shortest strings not present in the human genome @rwst: The method I described can just as easily process multiple genomes, or fragments of genomes, and find those k-mers which are not present in any of them. I'm sure there are other complications one would need to deal with to apply it to actual genome data, but this should not be a major one. |
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Aug 1 |
revised |
Shortest strings not present in the human genome added 131 characters in body |
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Aug 1 |
answered | Shortest strings not present in the human genome |
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Jul 6 |
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Will fruit/seed of a bonsai yield another bonsai plant/tree? @Everyone: In any case, I'd assume that a bonsai tree, if allowed to bear fruit, would produce normal-sized fruit and seeds, just very few of them. At least that's what seems to happen with naturally stunted trees growing e.g. in cracks in rock. |
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Jun 30 |
answered | Why do only only two sexes exist for animals? |
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May 15 |
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Is the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch” beneficial for marine wildlife? @David: I'll see if I can dig up some. |
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May 15 |
awarded | Enlightened |
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May 15 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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May 10 |
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Is it plausible that eukaryotic organelles like flagella and cilia are the result of endosymbiosis with spirochetes? To play devil's advocate, I'd say that the fact that cilia in modern cells are fully encoded by nuclear genes (and thus that non-ciliary cells can develop cilia) does not entirely rule out the possibility of an endosymbiotic origin: transfer of endosymbiote genes to the nucleus does occur, with e.g. mitochondria having a highly reduced genome, and with some eukaryote species actually possessing mitochondria (or organelles derived from them) that have no DNA at all. That said, there does seem to be other evidence against the endosymbiotic origin of cilia. |
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May 10 |
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Does red light preserve your night vision? One such cell-specific mechanism, at least, is the direct result of active rhodopsin depletion: when it reacts to light, the rhodopsin pigment photobleaches and must be recycled to reactivate it. This recycling is quite slow in rod cells; Wikipedia says it takes about half an hour for the rhodopsin level to fully regenerate after exposure to bright light. Thus, to retain night vision, it would certainly seem desirable to avoid exposure to light at frequencies that can trigger rhodopsin transformation. |
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May 10 |
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Does red light preserve your night vision? -1, sorry. This is a nice answer, but it's not an answer to the question asked here. |
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May 10 |
awarded | Critic |
