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by JunkDNA 14y ago
This is a great, detailed description about what it's like to do image processing from a space probe on Mars http://cdn.oreilly.com/radar/2012/08/Beautiful_Data_Chapter3... It's from O'Reilly's "Beautiful Data", made available free in hon
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by JunkDNA 14y ago
This presupposes that funding is a limiting factor. I don't know enough to know if that's true. However, in many areas of life, more money does not always equate with more success. I worked in pharma for years and there was no wanting for r
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Agreed, I missed that tidbit. I guess I was focusing on the idea that someone can wipe your iPhone, iPad, and Mac without ever touching your gmail account. As a father of two year old and 4 month old girls, the photos are the part that of t
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I was worried this would be a major pain when I enabled it, but I have to say, it has been much more painless than I thought it would be. Most of the time, I don't even think about it. Most of my consumption of google mail is through client
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Philadelphia, PA The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia We're not technically a start-up, but our small group inside CHOP is striving to be a startup within a larger organization. See my interview at OSCON for why you might want to work fo
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I agree here. My first thought was that you optimize for the two floors and forget about most of them. One of the best skills you can have when solving real world problems is to recognize when they're specifically not general case math pr
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by JunkDNA 14y ago
I have been waiting for the haptic stuff. I think it's almost certain they will go there (in fact, it's likely the perfect antidote to the MS Surface keyboard). Unfortunately, I think you need to think about this from a manufacturing standp
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One thing missing in all these write-ups is what the "killer feature" will be. If you look at new products in an existing product line from Apple, they almost always have something unique that differentiates them, even if it's something min
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by JunkDNA 14y ago
Philadelphia, PA The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia We're not technically a start-up, but our small group inside CHOP is striving to be a startup within a larger organization. ----- We are seeking an experienced software development pr
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The difference is that you can as of today get a 3GS free with contract. Don't underestimate Apple's desire to push competitors out of the low end of the smartphone market. Steve Jobs always said that the Mac went premium when they should h
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by JunkDNA 14y ago
Came here to make a similar point: not only could you make a plant that produces enzymes that cleave the herbicide, you could make a plant that expresses efflux pumps that pump the herbicide out of the cells, making the plant immune as well
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Well I think it will happen in a way that circumvents their traditional oversight. It's not so much that the FCC will allow it, more that someone will find a way to operate largely outside the FCC. For example, cable TV successfully routed
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by JunkDNA 14y ago
One could have said the same things about airlines before the emergence of Southwest and similar carriers. When dissatisfaction is so high, and you treat your customers with utter contempt, it leaves a gaping hole for someone to disrupt you
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Google does lack a sufficient "moat". If someone were to have a demonstrably better take on finding answers to what people are looking for on the Internet (be it traditional search, or something else), Google might not be able to pivot quic
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Lots of US hospitals already use offshore radiology services who interpret various medical imaging tests taken in the overnight hours an report back the findings.
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by JunkDNA 14y ago
Am I reading this right that I can take a "standard" 3.5" floppy from a PC, hook it into this board, and it will read my old Amiga formatted disks?? I thought this was impossible to do with modern drives. Anyone know how this gets around al
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by JunkDNA 14y ago
While I agree with you that there is a ton of automation, it's a bit flippant to suggest the manual work in biology is because of old-timers. You can't exactly automate necropsy on a rat liver to see if the compound you just gave it caused
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I'll second this after playing around just a tiny bit today. I wanted to train it that I really like the "Four Short Links" in O'Reilly Radar's feed. The problem is that the title looks like this: "Four Short Links: April 19, 2012". Turns o
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I am well aware of these approaches, having worked on some of them myself in prior work I've done. You always run into limitations of what was known about the biology and how various things interact. The network models will probably work so
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This is the first I'm hearing of Newsblur. I've contemplated building something similar to try and tackle some of the issues I raised in my comment in this thread. Looks like you're well on your way. I hope you stick with it! I'd really lik
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by JunkDNA 14y ago
This is the first I'm hearing of Newsblur. I've contemplated building something similar to try and tackle some of the issues I raised in my comment in this thread. Looks like you're well on your way.
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While it's nice from a technical perspective, this is unlikely to lead to a cancer cure. Having worked in cancer drug development, I can tell you, there is no shortage of cancer targets. Researchers have a list of targets they want to hit,
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I use RSS readers almost exclusively to consume content and would miss RSS if nothing else replaced it. I'm an information junkie and RSS readers have made it far easier for me to keep up with the torrent of information out there. That said
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Wow, how can you seriously plan releases of a programming language out to 2021? That is an eternity in this industry. Even 2015 for JDK 9 seems mighty far off, especially accounting for the usual slippage of release dates with big software
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I'm having trouble locating the source, but 5 - 10 years ago (when Best Buy was flying high) I read an article that talked about Best Buy's financials and it revealed that a massive portion of their profits came from (mostly impulse) buying
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It's always nice to have someone with an insider perspective around here, so thanks for taking the time to post. I think one thing that gets lost in a lot of these discussions is that there is no law of nature that says movie production wil
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This is a common misconception. While the basic research that underpins the biological theory might happen in academic labs, turning basic research into an actual medicine that will a) work and b) not blow up your liver in the process is ex
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If you took the time to look at the link I posted that talks about the Forbes piece, you'd see that they specifically excluded the cost of marketing from the analysis of how much it costs to put out a new drug. When companies do marketing
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The reason the EPS hasn't taken a hit is because these companies aren't stupid. If they can't bring in more money by selling new products, they cut costs instead. Pharmas have been laying off huge numbers of research scientists and slashing
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I worked in the drug R&D business for over 8 years. I still follow the industry closely. Some things always get lost in these discussions. First, manufacturing an existing drug is absurdly cheap. Modern industrial chemistry ensures th

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