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An interesting statistic to put this article into perspective. 1. This system scans 200,000 cells per second. 2. There are 30 trillion blood cells in an avera
by adaml_623 14y ago
An interesting statistic to put this article into perspective.
1. This system scans 200,000 cells per second.
2. There are 30 trillion blood cells in an average human.
We'll have stuff like real time blood filtering eventually and when we do that will be something really really impressive.
- beefsack 14y agoAnd another thing to put it into perspective: https://www.google.com/search?q=30%20trillion%20%2F%20200000%20seconds%20in%20years https://www.google.com/search?q=30%20trillion%20%2F%20200000...
- icegreentea 14y agoWell, a better statistic is the false positive rate. They have a one in a million false positive rate. If they did do a full scan, they would have 30 MILLION false positives. If they improve their speed a 1000 fold, it brings their scan time to a day and a half. If they improve their false positive rate by a 1000, they would still have 30,000 false positive events. Edit: I guess the point is that the purpose of the device is not full scans, nor are full scans really needed, or maybe not even helpful.