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Snævar Sigurðsson

@snaevar

Scientist, genetics,

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My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area.

(15 in Manhattan btw)

09.08.2025 16:47 👍 10476 🔁 1243 💬 634 📌 621
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The Non-Antibacterial Effects of Azithromycin and Other Macrolides on the Bronchial Epithelial Barrier and Cellular Differentiation The respiratory epithelium maintains the barrier against inhaled harmful agents. When barrier failure occurs, as in several respiratory diseases, acute or chronic inflammation leading to destructive e...

www.mdpi.com/3210838

07.03.2025 08:21 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This may seem to be harmless silliness, but as Joe points out, people are developing LLMs for things like drug dosing, and the goddamn things can’t even read scientific notation.

Training data: “An otherwise healthy adult should take 10^-3 g of drug X”

LLM: Take 7g of drug X.”

03.12.2024 04:51 👍 572 🔁 166 💬 23 📌 12
A brown old vellum book in a colden cabinet

A brown old vellum book in a colden cabinet

Yesterday I got to lay eyes on the one and only Codex Regius Poetic Edda.

This little book is by far the most valuable book in Iceland, and arguably for the whole of Northern Europe. It was written during the 1270s and it is the sole source of so much that we know about Norse Mythology.

28.11.2024 12:01 👍 1021 🔁 242 💬 39 📌 30

This is fun: A word cloud from my Google Scholar profile

21.11.2024 22:17 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

jamm, mætti alveg vera skýrar í einföldum texta fyrir alla en ekki falið í 5 mgr 77 greinar

15.05.2024 10:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Bendir til hvers? þú mátt greiða utankjörfundar á kjördegi. En greitt atkvæði sem berast eftir að kjörfundi er lokið komast ekki með í kjörkassann. Það þarf greinilega að bæta orðalag í íslenskri löggjöf til að allt sé á hreinu.

15.05.2024 07:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

ja 76, sma talnarugl i mer

15.05.2024 07:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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112/2021: Kosningalög

Lögin grein 66:
[Fyrir alþingiskosningar, forsetakjör og þjóðaratkvæðagreiðslu er nægjanlegt að koma bréfi með utankjörfundaratkvæði í einhverja kjördeild þess kjördæmis þar sem kjósandinn er á kjörskrá. ....
www.althingi.is/lagas/nuna/2...

15.05.2024 07:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Já mætti orða skýrar. En það er 100% þannig að ef atkvæði er ekki komið í hús fyrir lokun kjörstaða, þá er ekki hægt að bera saman við kjörskrá og setja ofan í kjörkassann. Stundum koma utankjörfundaratkvæði með sendlum hlaupandi rétt fyrir lokun og þau eru tekin með í talninguna.

15.05.2024 07:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Ég held að engin atkvæði sem berast eftir lokun kjörstaða séu talin með. Utankjörfundaratkvæðin eru sett ofan í kjörkassana þegar kjörfundi er lokið, eftir að athugað hefur verið hvort viðkomandi hafi nokkuð komið að kjósa á kjördegi.

15.05.2024 07:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I consider this one of the most important parables to come out of Twitter’s existence

21.12.2023 19:41 👍 6283 🔁 2793 💬 57 📌 91
satellite image showing Gaza on october 15 with many fields and greenhouses

satellite image showing Gaza on october 15 with many fields and greenhouses

satellite image showing Gaza on november 24 with bare dirt

satellite image showing Gaza on november 24 with bare dirt

satellite image showing Gaza on november 24 with many fields and greenhouses

satellite image showing Gaza on november 24 with many fields and greenhouses

satellite image showing Gaza on november 26 with much of the green fields razed

satellite image showing Gaza on november 26 with much of the green fields razed

Human Rights Watch has confirmed that Israel is systematically razing Gazan agricultural space and farmland, with evidence they used the humanitarian pause where they had complete control over North Gaza to bulldoze hundreds of acres of farmland belonging to displaced Palestinians

04.12.2023 19:17 👍 226 🔁 206 💬 10 📌 8

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17.12.2023 11:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Henry Kissinger, War Criminal Beloved by America’s Ruling Class, Finally Dies Henry Kissinger has died at age 100, his consulting firm said in a statement on Wednesday.

Honored to write the Rolling Stone obituary for the worst American of the post-World War II era. Rot in piss

30.11.2023 01:59 👍 13967 🔁 5264 💬 433 📌 523

www.skatturinn.is/um-rsk/frett...

16.11.2023 11:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Interesting new protein sequencing technique

21.10.2023 22:27 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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06.10.2023 10:32 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0