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by Blahah 13y ago
best it's ever looked
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by Blahah 13y ago
Because he has a great team of advisers who understand plant molecular biology and are betting on Monsanto's technology playing a role in future food security.
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by Blahah 13y ago
No, they don't. Having studied the case histories of Monsanto, I can say with confidence that they are careful to bring cases only against farmers who they think have deliberately infringed on the patent agreements. As a plant scientis
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by Blahah 13y ago
It does work like that: in bacteria (as in the OP), there are no highly stable intergenic regions, and in viruses (as in grandparent's suggestion) where there are rarely significant intergenic regions at all, the mutation rates are the
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by Blahah 13y ago
It would be extremely surprising if any exploit could be triggered by a particular valid DNA sequence (which it would have to be to be able to be sequenced/synthesised).
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by Blahah 13y ago
This would be possible but not a good data storage strategy - high mutation rates would lead to very rapid data degradation. A workaround would be to design a highly redundant encoding so the probability of sequence modifications altering t
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by Blahah 13y ago
This is pretty trivial - of course we can encode anything we want in DNA - people have done cool things with this since synthesis was first invented. And assuming DNA synthesis technology continues to improve rapidly we might even be able t
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by Blahah 13y ago
But is he his own favourite DJ?
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by Blahah 13y ago
Something that might have been interesting (information content of life forms vs. programs) has been wasted by equating base pairs with lines of code. This is totally arbitrary. Unfortunately I don't know of a specific better measure,
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by Blahah 13y ago
The figure originates from this Wired article, where it is uncited: http://www.wired.com/autopia/2012/12/automotive-os-war/ I think we can take it with a large helping of skepticism.
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by Blahah 13y ago
Change from one version to the next.
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by Blahah 13y ago
OSS doesn't mean writing for free. A very large chunk of the code on Github was writing on paid time.
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by Blahah 13y ago
Hey, I'd love to talk. I have a list of exactly such problems. No contact details in your profile, but please feel free to email me or let me know how to contact you.
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by Blahah 13y ago
I'm working on a way to scalably allow good coders to get involved. In the meantime, please feel free to email me.
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by Blahah 13y ago
I didn't have to - it was just chance :). Regardless of what he did to make his money, he's spent more of it on trying to make the world a better place than anyone in history. I'm not ashamed to take inspiration from him.
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by Blahah 13y ago
Fomite - I was going to email you but couldn't see details in your profile. I'd like your input on an idea - could you drop me an email?
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by Blahah 13y ago
It's not really necessary to test any food, but because people are scared of GMOs, we do. Being natural does not imply safety or health.
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by Blahah 13y ago
The most interesting data is not yet public (and I'm not in a position to make it so). But feel free to email me if you'd like to talk.
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by Blahah 13y ago
I'll put together a blog post and link back
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by Blahah 13y ago
I feel like there are probably a lot of people in that position. I'll write up some ideas and post them.
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by Blahah 13y ago
Hey, email me - address is in my profile.
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by Blahah 13y ago
Many of the most promising potential routes to solving the hardest biology problems are heavily maths and software dependent. We use high-throughput techniques to generate a lot of data of different types, then use mathematical insights and
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by Blahah 13y ago
Yes, we have Gates funding for the C4 rice project.
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by Blahah 13y ago
"If you write great code or are an expert in genomics or know how to develop new seeds, I’d encourage you to learn more about the problems of the poorest and see how you can help." Check, check, check. And actually it was a previo
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China’s bystander problem: Another death after crowd ignores woman in peril(washingtonpost.com)
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by Blahah 13y ago
It looks a lot like the prose.io interface. I like prose.io, but the huge problem with the browser editor is that there's no on-going autosave, so for example, accidental backspaces can wipe out all the work you've done since the
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by Blahah 13y ago
I got my downvote arrows at 500 karma
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by Blahah 13y ago
I agree, the situation you describe sounds very annoying and rude, and indicates someone is just interested in jumping through the hoops to get their qualification.
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by Blahah 13y ago
> Good student: "When will the midterm be?" > Me: "Why do you care?" > Good student: "Um... I'd like to be able to plan when I > should study for it." > Me: "Oh, okay. I don't kn
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by Blahah 13y ago
ggplot is a beautiful thing - excellent job porting it to python. I only wish something similar were available for ruby.

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