JunkDNA

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by JunkDNA 12y ago
I've made my fair share of hairball networks over the years. but I don't think this fixes the issue. The problem is that biological network diagrams of sufficient detail to be accurate, are far too complicated to be useful. Plus,
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by JunkDNA 12y ago
Syapse Inc -- Palo Alto & Philadelphia, PA You can build advertising networks, make tools for financial institutions, help retailers target buyers...the options are endless. But are you excited by any of these choices? There is another
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by JunkDNA 12y ago
Syapse Inc -- Palo Alto & Philadelphia, PA Syapse provides a precision medicine data platform that enables laboratories, registries, and providers to use molecular profiling to diagnose and treat patients. See here for all the open posi
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by JunkDNA 12y ago
LOVED these as a kid. I loved building all sorts of fans and paddleboat things. Only bummer was that my mom who knew jack about electronics was hyper-paranoid that I was going to electrocute myself playing with them in water. I used to snea
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by JunkDNA 12y ago
This might be one of my most favorite posts of Patrick's ever. It's often so much easier to start something new than it is to sustain something old. Hanging around HN too long makes you an addict of "new". Guess what: gr
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by JunkDNA 12y ago
Syapse Inc -- Palo Alto & Philadelphia Syapse provides a precision medicine data platform that enables laboratories, registries, and providers to use molecular profiling to diagnose and treat patients. See here for all the open position
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by JunkDNA 12y ago
I fully admit you may not be the right person for this question, but IBM has made a lot of hay about Watson in healthcare: lots of booths and talks at industry conferences, trotting out partner medical centers, PR pieces in the Wall Street
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by JunkDNA 12y ago
This is entirely unsurprising if you've spent time around enterprise software. I once worked in a very large, global (non-IT) company that was interested in software made by a very well-known, large, global IT company. We wanted to see
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by JunkDNA 12y ago
Apple has been testing sapphire. It has been in the cover for the camera since the iPhone 5 over two years ago. What is interesting is that they have gone back to glass for the lens cover in the new phones. My wife had a problem with her iP
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by JunkDNA 12y ago
The article addresses the so-called airborne nature of Ebola in other species and calls into question whether or not it was truly airborne in those instances. Furthermore, "very nearly airborne" is not a fair characterization. Bod
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by JunkDNA 12y ago
I knew where this article was going before it even mentioned Chromebooks. It had the distinct smell of submarine: http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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by JunkDNA 12y ago
I wonder if there is a way to adopt something analogous to a franchise model here. It strikes me that only the communities that are really, really engaged are going to be able to pull this off (which is true of most public works projects).
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by JunkDNA 12y ago
This is really nice, I've often wondered about the dearth of such things every time I look at a church website. In the Catholic churches in my area, the company that prints the paper bulletin appears to also have something to do with t
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by JunkDNA 12y ago
You're quite welcome! Definitely would love to try again in the future. Best of luck to you guys!
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by JunkDNA 12y ago
I ran through this for real. Here are two major issues that made this not really work for me: The mobile experience on an iPhone left a bit to be desired. It was responsive, but not totally and I found myself panning incorrectly because of
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by JunkDNA 12y ago
I definitely gave this some thought, I think it's not so straightforward though. There is a bit of an impedance mismatch between the things that a bug tracking system emphasizes and captures and the things a project management system c
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by JunkDNA 12y ago
My team tried it several times over the first 1 - 2 years it was out. I have not tried it recently. That said, at that time, we could never get it to stick. It was good for high level stuff, but like all project management software, we ende
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Verizon FiOS finally symmetrical, upload speeds boosted to match download(arstechnica.com)
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by JunkDNA 12y ago
Indeed, first thing I thought of was the radiation-using mushrooms at Chernobyl: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/05/070522210932.ht... Talk about a crazy energy source!
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by JunkDNA 12y ago
Wasn't comparing my situation to flyover country. I was arguing that for me, it's a turnoff to get any closer to a city than I already am, and we would actively be interested in an area much less populated if it offered quality of
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by JunkDNA 12y ago
A million times this. I'm in a similar situation. My wife and I just aren't that interested in relocating to a higher cost of living area and trading our nice yard and larger house for something small and expensive. With two kids
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by JunkDNA 12y ago
Biotech needs a serious kick in the pants. It has always been remarkable to me just how little automation is used in the field of molecular biology. There is a huge amount of work that involves humans doing repetitive tasks and then waiting
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by JunkDNA 12y ago
I don't see IBM as a big player in Health IT. I think they desire to be a big player which is why there's all sorts of noise about Watson and healthcare. It's marketing aimed at the C-suite. Epic systems is probably the IBM
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by JunkDNA 12y ago
Lots of people in this thread are talking about this being scary for authors. When I was a kid, I got to read a ton of books any time I wanted. I got them at this place called a "library" where they let people come in and take boo
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by JunkDNA 12y ago
Classic example of pricing based on value to the end-user (in this case, a pretty nice fuel savings) and not on actual cost of materials. Something to keep in mind as a developer when selling your skills, software, etc...
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by JunkDNA 12y ago
This is just awesome. Even on my iphone it is a compelling experience.
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by JunkDNA 12y ago
Very well said. If I proposed this study to the IRB where I work they would likely freak out. I think Facebook should be taking advantage of their data and conducting research. But they need to do this the way most respectable research orga
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by JunkDNA 12y ago
From my days in pharma, I remember they are used extensively for testing anti-nausea medicines because they are some of the few animals that actually experience the symptoms nausea (many mammals vomit, but nausea is actually more rare).
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by JunkDNA 12y ago
You can read more about it in the supplementary material (which sadly may be pay walled). I'm not qualified to judge. It certainly sounds like adequate safeguards: fully redundant systems, access controls, air locks (or whatever they c
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by JunkDNA 12y ago
I went and pulled the original article. The characterization of recklessness is in my opinion unfair here. It's not like these researchers were cooking this up on their kitchen counters: "All experiments with 1918-related viruses

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