There have been plenty of biomedical discoveries from numbercrunching data that was collected for some other reason. The guy who drew a graph of blood chemistry

There have been plenty of biomedical discoveries from numbercrunching data that was collected for some other reason. The guy who drew a graph of blood chemistry readings of diabetics realised that he was looking at type-1 and type-2 diabetes. That's not quite prediction, though. FWIW: previous mentions of "bio" and "unreasonable effectiveness" https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=unreasonable%20effectiveness%20bio&sort=byPopularity&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...