JAMA has a new revision of the Helsinki Declaration. Compared to the 2013 version there is now a new chapter on scientific integrity
Scientific integrity is essential in the conduct of medical research involving human participants. Involved individuals, teams, and organizations must never engage in research misconduct.
Additional details can be found in an Editor’s note and my comments are at Retraction Watch.
(Gert Scobel ist im übrigen der einzige dem ich bisher einer Einladung zu einer TV Podiumsdiskussion gefolgt bin)
Nature has a short report about historical peer reviews including a link to the Referee Report of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin about the 1954 Watson & Crick complementary paper (not the 1953 Watson & Crick double helix paper).
And here is Fig 5 and Fig 6 of the paper under review. So did Watson & Crick follow her advice?
I don’t think so.
I wrote about this about this basically 15 years ago
Confidentiality has been seen in the past as a fundamental ethical principle in health care and breaching confidentiality is usually a reason for disciplinary action. It has been assigned such a great value because it directly originates from the patient’s autonomy to control his or her own life […] Two types of re-identification are possible: the “Netflix” type and the “profiling” type.
There is a new Cell paper that builds a “profiling” attack using even single-cell gene expression data only
we demonstrate that individuals in single-cell gene expression datasets are vulnerable to linking attacks, where attackers can infer their sensitive phenotypic information using publicly available tissue or cell-type-specific expression quantitative trait loci (eQTLs) information.
So this should be included in informed consent forms also.
Many PubPeer records highlight papers that are never corrected. Unfortunately there are many authors who never respond to comments in the hope that everything will be forgotten a few days later. Also Stanford’s Tessier-Lavigne hoped that time will let the dust settle while the Kirkland & Ellis Report by July 17,2023 clearly states
After a recent discussion here I followed up the empirical data that are published in “Fundamentalismus und Fremdenfeindlichkeit Muslime und Christen im europäischen Vergleich“.
Almost half of European Muslims agree that there is only one interpretation of the Koran, that Muslims should return to the roots of Islam, and that religious rules are more important than secular laws. Based on these items, a WZB study shows that religious fundamentalism is much more common among Muslims than among Christians. This is alarming in the light of the strong link between religious fundamentalism and outgroup hostility.
Geoffrey Hinton, the new physics Nobel prize winner, had also a big influence on the biology and omics field. This cannot be emphasized enough when reading his 2008 paper on “Visualizing Data using t-SNE” and the current implementation at t-SNE and UMAP projections in R.
Ich habe es schon immer vermutet, was bei der Horvath Studie nun schwarz auf weiss herauskam
Die deutschen Bundesministerien sind einer Studie zufolge auf Leitungsebene von Expertinnen und Experten mit politikwissenschaftlichem und juristischem Hintergrund dominiert. Nur knapp ein Viertel verfüge über ein abgeschlossenes Studium im Bereich der Wirtschaftswissenschaften oder der MINT-Fächer, heißt es in der Studie „Top-Verwaltung im Fokus“ der Unternehmensberatung Horváth. Zudem hätten nur 42 Prozent vor ihrer Tätigkeit in einem Bundesministerium Berufserfahrung in der Privatwirtschaft gesammelt.
Nach einigen früheren Projekten auf Basis des Raspberry Pi Zero kommt hier nun ein viertes mit dem Temperatur und Luftfeuchte im Keller und der Aussenluft bestimmt wird. Es funktioniert auf Basis des häufig verwendeten SHTC3 Sensors.
Da die physikalische I2C Adresse des SHTC3 nicht geändert werden kann, brauchen wir zusätzlich ein Mux Board, das mit einer Lötbrücke auf dem ADR0 Jumper die Adresse von 0x70 auf 0x71 ändert.
#!/usr/bin/env python3
import csv
import board
import busio
import adafruit_shtc3
from adafruit_tca9548a import TCA9548A
def main():
# Initialize the iic bus
i2c = busio.I2C(board.SCL, board.SDA)
# Initialize the TCA9548A multiplexer
mux = TCA9548A(i2c, address=0x71)
# Initialize the SHTC3 sensor on MUX channel 0
shtc3_channel_0 = adafruit_shtc3.SHTC3(mux[0])
# Initialize the SHTC3 sensor on MUX channel 1
shtc3_channel_1 = adafruit_shtc3.SHTC3(mux[1])
with open("/home/admin/www/taupunkt.log","a+") as out_file:
tsv_writer = csv.writer(out_file, delimiter='\t')
temperature0, relative_humidity0 = read_shtc3(shtc3_channel_0)
temperature1, relative_humidity1 = read_shtc3(shtc3_channel_1)
dt = time.strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
tsv_writer.writerow([dt,
temperature0,relative_humidity0,
temperature1,relative_humidity1])
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
Damit kann nun nach Bedarf ein Lüfter angesteuert werden, mit unter 40€ Bauteilen statt mit 570€ Fertiglösung. Als smarte Steckdosen gibt es zB die Edimax Smartplug SP1101W auf der ein Webserver läuft der curl Befehle annimmt.
Trusting a private for-profit company with your genetic data was never a good idea.
23andMe is not doing well. Its stock is on the verge of being delisted. It shut down its in-house drug-development unit last month, only the latest in several rounds of layoffs. Last week, the entire board of directors quit, save for Anne Wojcicki, a co-founder and the company’s CEO. Amid this downward spiral, Wojcicki has said she’ll consider selling 23andMe—which means the DNA of 23andMe’s 15 million customers would be up for sale, too
30.3.2025
News article and paper showing
bigger AI chatbots more inclined to spew nonsense — and people don’t always realize.
and some solutions
various emerging techniques should help to create chatbots that bullshit less, or that can, at least, be prodded to disclose when they are not confident in their answers. But some hallucinatory behaviours might get worse before they get better.
I used to parse PDFs using the Allenai method and the layoutparser.
This worked in many instances but is no longer maintained.
I still have Nougat on my to do list while a new paper now points to AceParse
AceParse includes various types of structured text, such as formulas, tables, algorithms, lists, and sentences embedded with mathematical expressions, among others. We provide examples of several dataset samples to give you a better understanding of our dataset.
From the creator of wordfreq
Generative AI has polluted the data
I don’t think anyone has reliable information about post-2021 language usage by humans.
The open Web (via OSCAR) was one of wordfreq’s data sources. Now the Web at large is full of slop generated by large language models, written by no one to communicate nothing. Including this slop in the data skews the word frequencies.
I wanted to allow a PDF download on my blog. Unfortunately this turned out to be complicated for multiple problems including WP and browser caching, CSS failure and mPDF misdirection. Here are the solutions.
Issue 1: If you are editing the print.css but the browser shows the old version: Comment out or delete the reference to parent in child css
/*
Theme Name: Twenty Twenty Child 1
Theme URI: http://wordpress.org/themes/twentytwenty
@import url('../twentytwenty/style.css');
*/
and include versioning in header.php
function my_theme_enqueue_styles() {
wp_enqueue_style( 'twentyfourteen', get_template_directory_uri() . '/style.css' );
wp_enqueue_style( 'twentyfourteen-child1', get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/style.css', array(), filemtime(get_template_directory() . '/style.css'), false );
}
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'my_theme_enqueue_styles' );
Issue 2: css editing is applied but printing is still not correctly formatted, possible due to higher specificity of formatting instructions in the parent theme.
Solution: This is a bit tricky as it needs try and error to find the offending element. Chrome can show the print version in the browser as shown on this SO thread
Then add the important flag to the specific css rule..
@media print {
.myelement1 { display: none !important; }
}
Issue 3: mPDF pulls the screen not the print version. Solution: Create an own mpdf media tag.
@media mpdf {
#sidebar, #header {
display:none !important;
}
blockquote, table, pre {
page-break-inside:avoid !important;
font-size: 0.7em !important;
}
}