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by aheilbut 7y ago
see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayh%E2%80%93Dole_Act and even intramural NIH inventions get patented and belong to the government
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by aheilbut 7y ago
The kinds of analysis and visualizations you can build in 5 minutes with Tableau (and the ability to explore the space of possible analyses and visualizations) would take hours of futzing to reproduce with python.
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by aheilbut 7y ago
At its core, Tableau is an implementation of a really elegant formalism to specify visualizations, and it's much more organized and declarative than something like Grammar of Graphics. http://graphics.stanford.edu/paper
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by aheilbut 7y ago
see https://csunplugged.org/en/
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by aheilbut 7y ago
Was this built on some underlying web-based vector graphics editing library, or did they build the whole app from scratch?
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by aheilbut 7y ago
On the other hand, biology is so complicated that you have to simplify things down to abstractions that let you communicate and reason about causal stories, and that's what these sorts of figures are good for.
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by aheilbut 7y ago
The FDA regulates (or fails to regulate) many different classes of products (drugs, biologics, devices, human cell and tissue products, supplements, food, tobacco and nicotine products, etc). FDA's authority and its effectiveness is e
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by aheilbut 7y ago
The code for doing the indexing (at least by default) could be built right in to the web server, so it'd just be a matter of enabling an option in Apache or the like. It would be pretty easy to verify whether or not the index is accura
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by aheilbut 7y ago
That is a start, but I mean an actual inverted index, and preferably even more structured indices with appropriate metadata. Web servers should also be responsible for archiving themselves and providing a change history.
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by aheilbut 7y ago
I've always thought it would make more sense if each web server could be responsible for indexing the material that it serves (and offer notifications of updates), so instead of having to crawl everything yourself, you could just reque
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by aheilbut 8y ago
Phew, somebody gets it.
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by aheilbut 8y ago
Are they counting the electricity used to heat the pizzas that feed the programmers?
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by aheilbut 8y ago
Why didn't they just buy uBeam??
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by aheilbut 8y ago
Irony is also a New York thing.
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by aheilbut 8y ago
Rather, gut bacteria may affect certain social behaviours in mice.
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by aheilbut 8y ago
Though it's probably not a good time to buy a house in Toronto, it's easier to employ much more leverage on a house compared to a piano.
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by aheilbut 9y ago
There is an open-source linux client that works reasonably well, at least for retrieving passwords. http://hg.icculus.org/icculus/1pass/
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by aheilbut 9y ago
Potentially any of the roles mentioned above. We aren't looking to fill specific positions for interns at the moment, but we've had them in the past and are open to discussion. Feel free to contact me directly (adrian at kallyope
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by aheilbut 9y ago
Kallyope | Data Scientist, Data Science Research Associate | New York, NY | Full-time, ONSITE, Interns | https://www.kallyope.com Kallyope is a biotechnology company based in New York City, focused on the identification of new
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by aheilbut 9y ago
Like Netezza?
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by aheilbut 9y ago
Are you thinking of Kary Mullis?
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Another Alzheimer’s failure: Axovant’s drug flops in late-stage trial(statnews.com)
2 points by aheilbut 9y ago|0 comments
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by aheilbut 9y ago
No one in biology would be able to publish anything.
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by aheilbut 9y ago
What exactly can be provided for $0.78 per month?
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by aheilbut 10y ago
I've always wanted a version of this for math.
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by aheilbut 10y ago
Housing prices have been rising very rapidly over the last couple of years: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-03/million-d...
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Trump’s budget calls for seismic disruption in medical and science research(washingtonpost.com)
10 points by aheilbut 10y ago|1 comments
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by aheilbut 10y ago
Your assessment is correct.
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by aheilbut 10y ago
I'm curious why you view the jupyter kernel idea to be not implemented well?
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by aheilbut 10y ago
There are a couple of recorded webcasts where they mentioned the pricing; it's approximately $2k/seat/year, if I recall correctly. They do make you register for the trial, but they approve it quickly. It's definitely w

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