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by busyant 10y ago
Last line should be "built a gigafactory"
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by busyant 11y ago
This may seem weird, but is this being posted because of some standardized testing? My 6th grader took home a practice standardized test today. Last question on the test required a MAD computation. He didn't know what MAD was and I had
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by busyant 11y ago
My thesis advisor (when speaking of a fellow department member): I use people in our lab to proofread and polish our manuscripts. He uses the peer-review process.
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by busyant 11y ago
I worked w/ a guy who was good at editing my manuscripts. His opinion (which I agree with) was that the word "very" was almost always superfluous. You can delete it without affecting your message.
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by busyant 11y ago
Judge and jury can then be algorithms, too!
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by busyant 11y ago
Moderately amusing story. I was born and raised in the USA, but my parents emigrated from Italy. About 20 years ago, my brother applied to grad school @ MIT (physics department). Somehow, my father got it in his mind that he would "hel
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by busyant 11y ago
I was born in the US...Not to stereotype a whole city or region...but my parents grew up near Naples. A lot of their world view (and that of their napolitani immigrant friends) seems governed by a philosophy of "the world is out to sca
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by busyant 11y ago
> The market is going to collapse my friend .... Put your $ where your mouth is.
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by busyant 11y ago
> My most favourite social status indicator is the number of children. It seems to me, that having more than 3 children is an indicator of either the lower class, because the marginal costs of an additional child are mostly paid by the s
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by busyant 11y ago
I am just one data point, but here's how I ended up in a position similar to that described in the article. I went to a "HYPS" school for grad school and postdoc (molecular biology). I wanted the typical tenure-track research
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by busyant 12y ago
I think you're spot on with all of this. The only way to do good molecular/cell biological benchwork is with access to a bona-fide lab. I have a suspicion that I could ferret out most of the kids who didn't do the bio work, b
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by busyant 12y ago
I'm right in the middle of this. I have two sons (11 and 8 yo). Yesterday was the cub scouts Pinewood derby. The "kids" each build a 4-wheeled car out of a pinewood block. There are various rules that need to be adhered to. I
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by busyant 12y ago
It's red flag. I asked the same question of one startup and was told that i didn't need to know the answer. Fast forward 10 years ... The company tried to go public and they had to do a 5760 to 1 REVERSE split to shore up their sh
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by busyant 12y ago
This is the best analogy of modern biology that I've ever heard. Just to add one bit of color commentary... > but still have precious little ability to quickly interact with the biological systems under study (phenotype) In case it&
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by busyant 12y ago
I heard this first hand from Judah Folkman ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judah_Folkman ) at a seminar in 1999. He was discussing news reports that other labs were unable to reproduce the anti-cancer properties of certai
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by busyant 12y ago
I apologize for hijacking the thread, but this is a moderately interesting story. My father was a child in central Italy during WWII. He was about 8 years old when the Americans pushed the German line north of his home town in 1944. My fath
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by busyant 12y ago
A lot of people are like this. There's a quote about a nerd being a person who never has to apologize about his her passion.they l ove what they do and they're not ashamed to speak gleefully about it. I dont have the quote quite r
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by busyant 12y ago
I agree that there's not a stigma for driving a foreign car around Detroit anymore. Interestingly, my father worked for Chrysler outside of Detroit from the late 1950s into the 1970s. And oddly enough, he drove a VW Beetle in the 1960s
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by busyant 12y ago
So...maybe I'm being nitpicky here, but I mention it b/c maybe I just don't understand... They state in the article: You will have to plunk down your $2 at least 86 million times. Williams...could have simply said the odds
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by busyant 12y ago
Well, Buffet is in the process of engineering movement of Burger King to Canada in part b/c of tax considerations. > who thinks taxes (on ... corporations) need to go up quite a bit... Many US-based organizations are trying to estab
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by busyant 12y ago
Back in 2012 (I think), I thought it was insane that they were willing to pay $11B for Pharmasset based on Phase 2 data. At the very least, it was a ballsy move that has generated about 6 billion in revenue in just the 1st 6 months on marke
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by busyant 12y ago
Unfortunately, you can always game the system: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-05/pfizer-s-u-s-losses...
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by busyant 13y ago
I used to do antibiotic drug discovery for a living. You hit the nail on the head. I'll go so far as to say that we've found all of the important bacterial targets (e.g., ribosome, peptidoglycan, DNA gyrase & a few others). Th
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by busyant 13y ago
Exactly. "If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to throw away." - Linus Pauling
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by busyant 13y ago
I've heard it said this way. "In school, first you get the lesson, then you get the test. In life, it's the other way around."
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by busyant 13y ago
I use Google Drive and the new price seems quite nice to me. That being said, I find the web interface for Drive to be awful. What I want is for the web-interface to be more "desktop-like". For example, * It's difficult to se
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by busyant 13y ago
You make a fair point and my generalization was certainly too sweeping. One of the things that I tell my students is that sometimes, if they stick around long enough, things will make sense. That being said, I'm still at a loss on how
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by busyant 13y ago
That is a fascinating paper referred to in the blog post. I teach introductory chemistry, and for a long time, I've felt that there are students who are just incapable of making relatively simple mental models of the concepts that we d
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by busyant 13y ago
I used to work at a biotech startup (late '90s) and our senior management was trying to get Corey to join our scientific advisory board. Eventually, he agreed and our company drafted a press release (it was a big coup for us). Apparent
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by busyant 13y ago
I generally agree. I don't know our it's the technology or the age or both, but those letters were far more cordial than I expected.

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