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by aheilbut 14y ago
I think a lot of that classic work on search, heuristics, and problem-solving has been overshadowed lately by the emphasis on more 'modern' statistical machine learning. There's definitely value to both perspectives.
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by aheilbut 14y ago
The disease foundations and other charities are possibly a better model for this kind of funding, although there may be political and efficiency problems there too. I actually really like the kinds of science education and literacy projects
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by aheilbut 14y ago
People donate a lot of money to medical research through organizations like the American Cancer Society and many more specific foundations. Just because crowdfunding is cool, it doesn't follow that it makes sense as a funding mechanism for
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by aheilbut 14y ago
Using PARP inhibitors to prevent transmission of a BRCA mutation seems like an exceedingly risky strategy, when pre-implantation diagnosis or selective termination are effective and have pretty well-defined risks. Messing with DNA damage d
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by aheilbut 14y ago
They said that he had a "debilitating cardiac arrest" several years ago and had been very sick for a long time.
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by aheilbut 14y ago
You haven't considered the simpler possibility that what has been reported is significantly incomplete and/or BS.
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by aheilbut 14y ago
My guess is that if what was reported is close to real, it was basically an SRI spin-out, there was a real team behind it before it even started, and they either merged with Summly or brought on D’Aloisio as 'Founder' as a marketing tactic.
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by aheilbut 14y ago
If it smells like it doesn't quite make sense, the most likely explanation is that it doesn't make sense and they are spinning a narrative that suits them.
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by aheilbut 14y ago
It must have taken a lot of effort, and/or licensing agreements with publishers or the existing citation indexes.
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by aheilbut 14y ago
One existing institution that is fairly close to you're imagining is the HHMI. However, I think you are making two assumptions about research that are incorrect. First, it isn't at all clear that separating teaching from research entirely w
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by aheilbut 14y ago
And that's why there's the computer fraud and abuse act...
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by aheilbut 14y ago
All of this absurdity is why we have a legal system, not mob rule.
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by aheilbut 14y ago
This is reading way too much into it. Google happens to have a very nice confluence of money, data, people, and interesting applications at the moment. But there is and always has been back-and-forth of ideas and people between academia a
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by aheilbut 14y ago
The beauty of this aspect of google reader though is that they have archived every feed that anyone has read in the past 5+ years, and there's actually an API to retrieve that data as RSS/Atom.
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by aheilbut 14y ago
You can get an RSS file (well, Atom) for any feed that includes all posts going back to whenever google reader started following it. Normally if you get the RSS from the originating site it'll only have the latest 20 or so posts, and there
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by aheilbut 14y ago
Are there any alternative sources of archival RSS feeds like those that Google Reader (unofficially) provides?
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by aheilbut 14y ago
What's amazing is how few copies it takes to get onto the list.
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by aheilbut 14y ago
It really isn't useful to base discussions on the nonsensical graphs in this series, which seem to be an artifact of how and when people are being surveyed.
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by aheilbut 14y ago
Also, the research that people are writing grants for and doing is dictated by what is fundable, which is not necessarily exactly what they'd choose to be doing were there no constraints.
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by aheilbut 14y ago
4 years?
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by aheilbut 14y ago
I'm not even sure that all tenured professors are doing research as they would define it.
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by aheilbut 14y ago
And by 2035, they are planning to get the WiFi working properly.
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by aheilbut 14y ago
Skepticism towards synthetic chemicals is quite justified given a century of irresponsible dumping of genuinely toxic chemicals which still goes on in many parts of the world. Be rational about risks and benefits of chemistry and pharmaceut
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by aheilbut 14y ago
Whoops. I misread 'naturopath' as 'homeopath'. When you dilute something 10e60-fold, I'm comfortable dismissing it, and it's not woo-ey at all. But that wasn't the case here. I didn't mean to imply that traditional treatments can't conta
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by aheilbut 14y ago
This is true, but totally misses the point of the NYT Magazine article. The 'four marvels' powder was mentioned only in passing. [edited to remove my dig at homeopathy, which wasn't at issue here - it was naturopathy] The more interesting
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by aheilbut 14y ago
A big problem with R is that much too much semantics gets buried in critical optional parameters to functions.
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by aheilbut 14y ago
With pandas / statsmodels / patsy, it's getting easier to stick with python for everything.
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by aheilbut 14y ago
one more: http://www.burns-stat.com/pages/Tutor/R_inferno.pdf
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by aheilbut 14y ago
40,000 students are demanding their money back.
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by aheilbut 14y ago
There's more information about the project here: http://www.humanbrainproject.eu/ http://www.humanbrainproject.eu/files/HBP_flagship.pdf The project is not actually as absurd as it sounds -- the funding is over 10 years, and it's fundin

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