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by bbgm 18y ago
The fear of being scooped is more a function of the "pubish or perish" model and the reward model than anything else. Half the times someone gets beaten to a publication, it's because they were not the only ones with the idea in the first
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by bbgm 18y ago
There are probably too many Twitter apps, esp in the "me too" category, but Twitter is worth that effort in general. It's rare that any web-based service platform changes the way you function and Twitter has definitely done that not only f
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by bbgm 18y ago
In the life science space, R dominates research informatics. A large chunk of molecular profiling methods and techniques use R, or quite often the Bioconductor package, http://www.bioconductor.org/ (from Gentleman's group). Most commerci
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by bbgm 18y ago
There is a lot of value in failed results, especially in science. What doesn't work is critical, if for nothing else, than for protocol and experiment design. Freeing up negative data is a huge motivation behind Open Notebook Science(1) a
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by bbgm 18y ago
The people I know at McKinsey like working there a lot. They are also driven by different things that those working at a startup, so their idea of a "good place to work" is likely to be rather different as well
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by bbgm 18y ago
One could just as easily argue that they are a victim of poor marketing. You can hype something up to a degree that you are setting yourself up for failure. Good marketing in the end is about setting expectations. The ones their marketin
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by bbgm 18y ago
I think Friedman makes a fair point. I've lived in three very different countries for some lengths of time, and traveled to many others over the years, so the following is a little more than anecdotal. When I first came to the US several
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by bbgm 18y ago
I have been in enough meetings over the years where you hear all kinds of profanities, and you're right, the key to successful meetings is when people call it like it is. However, antagonism is not necessarily productive. Remember, you ne
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by bbgm 18y ago
Apparently they've never read their Drucker, or have conveniently chosen to forget.
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by bbgm 18y ago
Teachers teaching well, making you realize the beauty and power of a converging series is what worked for me. If the teachers enjoys what they're teaching, it's infectious and makes you want to learn as well.
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by bbgm 18y ago
Eigenfactor is very cool (as is Carl) and allows you to do stuff like this http://plindenbaum.blogspot.com/2008/06/pubmed-impact-factor... Wish it were more mainstream since there are a lot of interesting possibilities.
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by bbgm 18y ago
And that department does some of the best work on alternative energy out there, so he knows how to attract (and presumably manage) talent. Wonderful
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by bbgm 18y ago
Yes. And have been doing so for years. Not the only thing I track, but works quite well. Of late, I also track particular terms on twitter, made easier if you use Tweetdeck
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by bbgm 18y ago
I've always found Textmate to be emacs-y. One reason I like it
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by bbgm 18y ago
First thing I thought about when I saw Gabe's post was your site and how well it works, even though it is fully automated. Your last point is probably the most important one, and in my book that's an acceptable trade off. One question. Wh
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by bbgm 18y ago
Heartily agree. Godin has made me pause and think which is more than I can say for most people
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by bbgm 18y ago
In the scientific computing world, the move away from Solaris was swift and comprehensive. It's not a question of what's better, but of what gives you the best bang for the buck at an acceptable level and Linux has more than delivered that
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by bbgm 18y ago
Nowhere close to prime time, but essential for the future of diagnostics, especially if we want to measure multiple analytes using very small samples. There are some systems on the market today that go in that direction (although not quite
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by bbgm 18y ago
IMO the times is trying, with their APIs, which are a good start. They're just a couple of years late. If you look at their tech side (open source libraries, great election map, etc), they have the people and tech to make it happen. It's
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by bbgm 18y ago
That doesn't explain why there are so much women in biology (for example) where the techniques, required skill and knowledge base change every few months or so it seems, and it isn't exactly financially rewarding.
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by bbgm 18y ago
I use a mac (officially sanctioned) at work. There are only a few times I envy my PC using colleagues and that's the functionality they have with Outlook. Nothing on my Mac gives me that kind of functionality. Sure I can hack up alternat
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by bbgm 18y ago
Not quite true. I know a lot of scientists who program in Java (depends on the community) and there are any number of companies supporting scientific computing that are Java shops as well. Usually you will see a mix of Java or C++, a scri
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by bbgm 18y ago
He isn't always right, but experience has taught me that he is more often right than wrong.
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by bbgm 18y ago
One reason the British Empire went down cause it became too difficult to sustain, both globally and internally
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by bbgm 18y ago
I liked the article. When someone writes well, and makes a reasonable point, long form is just fine. Many are on the internet as their primary information consumption medium, and it's not just about byte sized chunks. That said, I wonder
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by bbgm 18y ago
I mostly agree with most of the comments, especially since Seth oversimplifies, but he has a point. I know a couple of people who loved painting and graphic design, but lost all love for it when it became a career, so they switched to anot
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by bbgm 18y ago
No it won't but if you don't know what an integer is, how are you going to program simple math? You have to understand the basics. Programming is implementation, and of course, must be taught well to be mastered, but it becomes a whole lo
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by bbgm 18y ago
To offer the contrarian view, I know many who've changed careers and explored alternative paths because they had a sound conceptual understanding. Yes, you can't just be theoretical, but I'd argue that you go a lot further when you know wh
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by bbgm 18y ago
The quality and level of education in school in the US is somewhat pitiful. On the other hand, at least in grad school, I found the level to be very satisfactory and pushing my own intellectual needs and interests. I didn't do an undergra
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by bbgm 18y ago
It's probably worth your while to take a loop at Hadoop them. When you can fundamentally map your problem into many small problems and then reduce the results (true for most sequence alignment, etc problems), then Hadoop is very viable. N

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