Month: November 2018
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Open Thread – Brown Pundits
Please keep the other posts on topic. Use this for talking about whatever you want to talk about.
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Open Thread, 11/4/2018
So in a few days everyone can stop pretending to be cut-rate Nate Silvers. My prediction: Dems will take the House. But Republicans will make a gain of +1 in the Senate. Pakistan’s Hybrid Government and the Aasia Bibi Fiasco.. Basically, reasonable people in Pakistan are terrified about being openly reasonable, lest the crazy minority…
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It’s raining selective sweeps
A week ago a very cool new preprint came out, Identifying loci under positive selection in complex population histories. It’s something that you can’t even imagine just ten years ago. The authors basically figure out ways to identify deviations of markers from expected allele frequency given a null neutral evolutionary model. The method is put…