[RD] Daily Graphs and Charts II: Another 10,000 to come.

[Arwon]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1751934798312980977

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Oh hey, a graph with a hard R

 

[Samson]

Previously unknown microbial gene families. The large-scale analysis of DNA sequences captured from microbial samples as reported by Rodríguez del Río et al. and by Pavlopoulos et al. has revealed hundreds of thousands of previously unknown gene families. These data — which were gathered from microbes in the wild and across different habitats, and include species that have not been cultivated in the laboratory — provide a starting point for gaining insights into unexplored aspects of the biology of bacterial and archaeal microorganisms.

 

[The_J]

TBH this is only interesting until you read the umpteenth publication which found X new types of Y, and then nobody has a clue what to do with it :/.

You can also find new genes or bacteria or whatever if you touch your nose and look closely at it. Not so very interesting in itself.

 

[The_J]

I actually had not meant to be so negative, sorry @Samson .
It is great to see that there is much unknown out there, and how many interesting things could still be discovered.

 

[Arwon]

Australia's recent rapid renewables expansion in some context vs big countries that didn't already run mostly on hydro. Target is getting this to 80% by about 2030, a position currently only held by said hydro-driven countries.

 

[Samson]

Online images amplify gender bias

Gender bias is more prevalent in online images (from Google Images) and online texts (from Google News) for both male- and female-typed social categories.

Spoiler Legend :

a, The correlation between gender associations in images from Google Images and texts from Google News for all social categories (n = 2,986), organized by deciles. Our image-based measure captures the frequency of female and male faces associated with each category in Google Images (−1 means 100% female; 1 means 100% male). Our text-based measure captures the frequency at which each category is associated with men or women in the Google News corpus (−1 means 100% female; 1 means 100% male; measure is minimum–maximum normalized; ‘Constructing a gender dimension in word embedding space’). Data are shown as mean values, and error bars represent 95% confidence intervals. ***P = 2.2 × 10−16 (Pearson correlation, two-tailed). b, The strength of gender association in these online images and texts for all categories (n = 2,986), split into whether these categories are female- or male-skewed according to each measure separately. Box plots show interquartile range (IQR) ±1.5 × IQR. c, The gender associations for a sample of occupations according to these online images and texts; this sample was manually selected to highlight the kinds of social categories and gender biases examined.

 

[The_J]

How is "Monk" not exclusively male o_O?

(disregarding anything coming from the series)

 

[Samson]

How is "Monk" not exclusively male o_O?

(disregarding anything coming from the series)

Monks can be female in many traditions as I understand it. The ones that surprise me are event planner, interior decorator and cook.

 

[Kyriakos]

Looking at other graphs, and then walking into one by Samson is like turning the page on a comic magazine and having to solve a problem in Spivak's calculus book.

 

[really]

https://hungarytoday.hu/has-romania-really-caught-up-with-hungary-in-economic-development/
Have Orban's policies transformed Hungary into the poorest country in the EU, behind even Romania?
Hungarian government economists: No, not if we come up with a different measure to compare.

 

[Samson]

A Chemical History of the Universe

 

[Samson]

Astronomers are a little unsure of the applicability of this index, but NASA's Planetary Protection Officer is all in favor.

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

 

[r16]

hah , not the case .



got to make it bigger to read .

 

[stfoskey12]

What this seems to suggest is that the Democrats are actually close to Labour on social issues, except for Christianity where they are more like the Conservatives. On the other hand Republicans are far more extreme than anything in the UK.

 

[Samson]

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

Tweet

https://twitter.com/x/status/1772396232293446112

 

[Arwon]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1772399005290430539

Countries where a party got over 50% of the vote in their midst recent parliament/legislative elections