alex_stoddard

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   by alex_stoddard 17y ago

   I was hedging with "essentially". I didn't want to make an already biogeeky post too obscure. Some proteins can renature without chaperones. Also to quote the wikipedia article, "Chaperones do not necessarily convey steric information requi
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   by alex_stoddard 17y ago

   It would depend on how fancy you can get with engineering custom [transfer RNAs] ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer_RNA ), which are the bridge between the genetic code and the proteins that get made at ribosomes. Within the limits of
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   by alex_stoddard 17y ago

   The idea of homomorphic encryption has really caught my attention - I am trying to work on distributed computing with privacy sensitive biometric data. I hadn't appreciated before that Gentry's work was both general (any computation can be
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   by alex_stoddard 17y ago

   Open source engineering that is, rather than software.
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   Hydrogen car to be 'open source'(news.bbc.co.uk)

   5 points by alex_stoddard 17y ago|2 comments
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   by alex_stoddard 18y ago

   Why are you worried about carbon sequestration? If you are using plant matter to feed the fungus then the carbon source for the fuel is atmospheric carbon dioxide - "pre-sequestered" carbon, if you will. As I understand it, the issue with f