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by aheilbut 10y ago
Quantrix isn't quite mainstream, but is very similar to Improv.
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by aheilbut 10y ago
It runs over the cable, so the latency is lower and it ends up working much better.
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by aheilbut 10y ago
I have never understood why RSS, in addition to being a document format, doesn't include a specification for a really simple API that supports requesting the full archives for a feed. Every feed could be responsible for providing its
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by aheilbut 11y ago
Maybe React Native will lower the barrier and we'll get some of those javascript vector graphics, publishing, video editing, and music composition apps ported to the Mac, so people won't have to suffer from pretty bad apps any lon
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by aheilbut 11y ago
Wasn't Papert talking about this stuff in the 1960s and 70s? It seems a little arrogant to celebrate the 10th anniversary of something published in 2006 without reference to the preceeding 50 years.
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by aheilbut 11y ago
Many years ago, after the University of Toronto installed ads in the bathrooms, Steve Mann set up his Eyetap system to replace the ads with pictures of waterfalls. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/25/science&#x2
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by aheilbut 11y ago
ZocDoc addresses this problem really well.
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by aheilbut 11y ago
One interesting group of practical applications are the product design and optimization tools from Affinova http://www.affinova.com
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by aheilbut 11y ago
I always thought Netmanage Chameleon worked better.
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by aheilbut 11y ago
Someone knows something about how to get sustainable research funding.
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by aheilbut 11y ago
This is a company making a device for Pavlovian conditioning.. Remember, you'll get zapped if you don't make that commit on time!
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by aheilbut 11y ago
Netezza (acquired by IBM) has been doing this for many years.
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by aheilbut 11y ago
I should probably give Zotero another try. At the time I started using Mendeley, it was really the best at automatically importing metadata for pdfs. And I don't think Zotero does the watch folder thing. One thing I do like about Men
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by aheilbut 11y ago
Mendeley is not bad at all. I save papers to a Dropbox folder, organized directories by general topic / relevance to project. Mendeley (on one computer) watches that folder, and imports the papers and fills out the bibliographic info,
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by aheilbut 11y ago
It's so bizarre that it must be intentional.
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by aheilbut 11y ago
It's incredibly telling that the only thing the NYT was allowed to photograph was the machine shop.
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by aheilbut 11y ago
It does make a lot of sense for notifications to be unbundled from social networks, individual apps, and the phone operating systems, but there really ought to be an open protocol for this stuff.
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by aheilbut 11y ago
As a Canadian, why can't you do such work on TN status?
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by aheilbut 11y ago
This is much more psychobabble than neuroscience.
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by aheilbut 11y ago
Have a look at ExAC, which has 60k exomes and a pretty snazzy UI: http://exac.broadinstitute.org
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by aheilbut 11y ago
I think the other factor was supposed to be the cost of the assays. If they're just using the same machines as everyone else to do the same tests, they have no competitive advantage.
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by aheilbut 11y ago
Nobody can, because none of the relevant data has been made available.
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by aheilbut 11y ago
According to these reports, there is only one test that they are allowed to run on the proprietary system that is supposed to provide that advantage. All the others are being run using conventional methods.
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by aheilbut 11y ago
It's usable with their javascript-based version, but someone has also written a 1Password-compatible clone that works quite nicely: http://hg.icculus.org/icculus/1pass/
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by aheilbut 11y ago
It's an empirical question. I would predict that you could do pretty darn well with height, weight, resting heart rate, blood pressure, bloodwork, and asking the patient about their physical activity. Fitness trackers are cool, but I
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by aheilbut 11y ago
What if you could pick out early warning signs of heart conditions just by looking at somebody and observing that they are overweight? It turns out that you can.
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by aheilbut 11y ago
Introspection probably isn't a good way to assess this.
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by aheilbut 11y ago
This is interesting, but while the article focuses on the issue of attention, it doesn't address the role of abstraction and chunking. There's been a lot of work in psychology that argues that 'expert performance' comes
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by aheilbut 11y ago
If you don't understand the difference, read this sentence again.
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by aheilbut 11y ago
It's self-referencing, but I agree that this is not strictly recursive.

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