What's an example?
I can't find it now, but it says something to the effect of "researchers with closed doors are more productive now, but over the long term they lose the pulse of research and become increasingly irrelevant, whereas researchers with open doors are less productive but keep the pulse of research and stay relevant."
This is from Richard Hamming's You and Your Research. The relevant part:
...Another trait, it took me a while to notice. I noticed the following facts about people who work with the door open or the door closed. I notice that if you have the door t
The only company I know of actually offering polygenic screening available to the general public is Genomic Prediction.
There's also Orchid (https://www.orchidhealth.com/). (And Genomic Prediction is now LifeView, https://www.lifeview.com/.)
Reminded of a tweet from Gwern:
Connotations: 'thrift' is achieving one's goals as cost-effectively as possible and maximizing one's bang-for-buck; 'frugality' is choosing one's goals to be as cost-effective as possible, and picking a bang which minimizes one's buck. The former is a virtue; the latter, a vice.
Both "transistor" (transconductance and varistor) and "bit" (binary digit) come to mind as new technical words.
Quoting from Jon Gertner's The Idea Factory.
...The new thing needed a new name, too. A notice was circulated to thirty-one people on the Bell Labs staff, executives as well as members of the solid-state team. “On the subject of a generic name to be applied to this class of devices,” the memo explained, “the committee is unable to make [a] unanimous recommendation.” So a ballot was attached with some possible names. [...] The recipients we
I was going to comment "I wonder what AllAmericanBreakfast's thoughts are", but I guess that's already covered!