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Tracking trends on the web with Hadoop and Hive(cloudera.com)
6 points by bbgm 17y ago|0 comments
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by bbgm 17y ago
Mail and commerce. Those require separate and unique and crazily difficult to guess passwords. The problem is too many people just can't bother with the perceived hassle
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by bbgm 17y ago
I keep pruning, but I haven't been able to get away, partly because I read things that never show up anywhere else, plus it's still the most efficient mechanism of consuming information, at least for me, since you can crunch through full te
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by bbgm 17y ago
The cost of biotech comes from the risk associated with developing a therapeutic and the expense of managing clinical trials. Anyone who does not account for that, and the time it takes to go through regulatory procedures is just misguided
515.
by bbgm 17y ago
When I need to focus, I definitely need to use my left ear. Never really gave it any thought before. I just thought my right ear was not exactly doing a good job. Now I feel uncomfortably predictable too
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by bbgm 17y ago
I believe Friendfeed supports Farsi http://www.webolobby.com/2009/05/friendfeed-is-now-available...
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by bbgm 17y ago
It's hard, especially at the molecular level where our knowledge is changing on a near daily basis. I have spent years in the world of structural biology, but know only a little about cell biology. Having said that, Molecular Biology of th
518.
by bbgm 17y ago
The site is, for now, a demonstration of how you can use Hadoop and Hive to power a simple data driven website.
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A Hadoop/Hive driven analytics site(trendingtopics.org)
2 points by bbgm 17y ago|1 comments
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by bbgm 17y ago
But programming by itself is not knowledge. It's a means to solve problems. It's a very important and critical skill and like any other, it's difficult to become a master, but how are you applying it? For example, let's say you are trying
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by bbgm 17y ago
There's a great paper from about a couple of years ago that dives deep into what a gene is and provides historical context. As you'll see, the definition of a genes as being an explanation for heredity is somewhat dated. http://genome.csh
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Antibody Docking, Pfizer and AWS(bleedingedgebiotech.com)
1 points by bbgm 17y ago|0 comments
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by bbgm 17y ago
or this one (the utility is questionable, but it's the kind of derived data that makes WA "computational") http://www91.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=population+of+India*p...
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by bbgm 17y ago
Yeah, that's my main concern as well. That kind of curation just doesn't scale. There's a large body of people out there who can be leveraged, who spend their lives curating and optimizing data sources, especially in chemistry and biology
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by bbgm 17y ago
I like how Ars is able to make a complex topic more accessible. MS-based proteomics is still young, and it will take a few years for things to stabilize. RNA expression arrays were in much the same state several years ago. The key is to
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by bbgm 17y ago
How does one get from a very narrow discussion of medicine to all medical science? Without questioning the merits of the post (happen to agree with a good chunk of it), that's a sliver of what one might call medical science, albeit a rathe
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by bbgm 17y ago
This is not a story about living in a foreign country in the end, but Timo Hannay's talk "The Future is a Foreign Country" is a must read for anyone who has lived in a different country for any length of time. Having lived in three very di
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A Wolfram Alpha review from someone who actually understands computational science(bytesizebio.net)
5 points by bbgm 17y ago|0 comments
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(The lack of) abstractions in high performance computing(cacm.acm.org)
2 points by bbgm 17y ago|1 comments
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by bbgm 17y ago
And it goes beyond intelligence. You can become passable at something fairly quickly, even competent. However becoming really proficient at most things takes years of work and effort.
531.
by bbgm 17y ago
Chris Dagdigian's Bio-IT World plenary keynote
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Current and future trends in life sciences IT(blog.bioteam.net)
1 points by bbgm 17y ago|1 comments
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Warner Music just picked on the wrong lawyer(techdirt.com)
2 points by bbgm 17y ago|0 comments
534.
by bbgm 17y ago
The two I am most pleasantly surprised by are Chad Mirkin and Ahmed Zewail.
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by bbgm 18y ago
Any time I see a science related headline with words like "revolutionize", "cure for cancer", "breakthrough", and similar absolutes my eyes get all-a-rolling. I've never understood why so many PIs sign on to University PR overhyping their
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by bbgm 18y ago
I don't understand why they are saying this is the first time someone is saying that genes, and genetic association, are not sufficient. Eric Schadt has published some great work on network analysis and eQTL ( http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p
537.
by bbgm 18y ago
Don't disagree there, but you cannot explain evening spent talking, Sunday mornings watching birds, Friday evenings in the library, walks explaining why leaves are green and the beauty of mathematics. In other words, how do you distill 20
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by bbgm 18y ago
I am pretty sure I would be a different person, perhaps even better, but my character, as I understand it, has been shaped by my parents. Part of that comes from them staying out of my way when it came to certain decisions that would impac
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by bbgm 18y ago
Probably more than anything else in the world. I wouldn't be close to where I am, or who I am, without mine, and that's an observation that I can extend to pretty much everyone I know well.
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by bbgm 18y ago
Given that the rant comes from Merlin, it's likely that he has his tongue somewhere in his cheek Edit added later: After hearing the podcast, he might just be sincere about this. Somewhat weird to see Merlin's cynicism not laced with a hea

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