aaronmck

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by aaronmck 3y ago
Sigma is a huge supplier to the sciences; you can (with 40,000 pages of DEA approval) get just any chemical overnighted to you. For instance, you can order a Methamphetamine/Cocaine/Heroin solution (all in acetonitrile): https:&#
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Community-owned fiber broadband for rural America(usnews.com)
3 points by aaronmck 7y ago|0 comments
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by aaronmck 8y ago
The article title seems like an overreaction to a really sad situation. We have to trust at least someone, and although he clearly had some issues (maybe recent), he wasn't out to hurt anyone or aligned with any groups that wanted to i
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by aaronmck 9y ago
Well, you'll have to wait for the genetics to catch up -- we know nearly nothing about the effects of variation on complex traits like intelligence or athletic performance. Even in known 'cancer genes' like BRCA1, we know wha
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by aaronmck 9y ago
Currently there's limits on how long you can keep embryos going -- the '14-day rule': http://www.nature.com/news/embryology-policy-revisit-the-14-... Will be interesting to see the moral and ethical deba
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by aaronmck 10y ago
Why doesn't my FRT site logo invert when I reverse complement it? (not a serious complaint..) Signed up and played around a bit tonight. Really great concept. I think a couple of features will probably be helpful to your target audienc
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by aaronmck 10y ago
This is a bit of a repeat: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13113819 . To echo the old thread's sentiments, I'd be extremely happy to see this hit the market in late summer as a great full-page PDF viewer. Acad
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by aaronmck 10y ago
I'm with you on most of it... the one thing that seems really appealing is concepts and constraints. If for no other reason than to restore sanity to template error messages. Check out Bjarne's writeup about it for another nice pe
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by aaronmck 10y ago
If this kind of work interests you, I'd also recommending reading Yaniv Erlich and Dina Zielinski's DNA fountain paper (which just came out in Science). They've done some really nice work on error correction, and they also un
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by aaronmck 10y ago
Yes an no. Of course, in something like an animal model it can be really hard to control everything, and the result you find could just be 'luck'. On the other hand, figuring out what variables to control is huge part of science.
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by aaronmck 10y ago
Ironically they're targeting the wrong end of the person. The sewers would be a great place to collect DNA and narrow down a manhunt in a large metropolitan area.
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by aaronmck 11y ago
Yeah I think the use-case here is more the writing that you have to do, but don't want to do. For me, I have to write up some method sections for a paper. Boring, but easy. This 'app' is nice for that; you don't want
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by aaronmck 11y ago
Well, better / more uniform access to patient records would be nice, but more money into basic research is probably the best bet (as it has always been). It makes me think of this Gregory Petsko commentary (open access): http:/&
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by aaronmck 11y ago
I can't figure out what they're implying about Norman Borlaug's award at the end... that it was a mistake too? Either way, the NYT had a much better critique of why big scientific prizes are bad: http://www.nytime
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by aaronmck 11y ago
Seems like there are much more intuitive ways to show these differences, something like the plot on Dr. Moran's blog: http://sandwalk.blogspot.com/2012/01/whats-difference-betwee... Although the 3D plots are
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by aaronmck 12y ago
Cool, though a more community friendly license would be great ("Confidential Proprietary" doesn't seem encouraging...)
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by aaronmck 12y ago
I can't wait for nice bindings to a JS plotting library (something on top of D3). One of the big missing parts of Scala for analysis...