cmrivers

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Dallas health worker who tested positive for Ebola wore ‘full’ protective gear(washingtonpost.com)
135 points by cmrivers 12y ago|126 comments
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by cmrivers 12y ago
Here is an alternate link on usaid.gov: http://www.usaid.gov/grandchallenges/
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by cmrivers 12y ago
I think this challenge has the potential to be useful. We launched a similar effort last week geared more as a hackathon [0], and we have some really interesting projects in the works. Even just simple visualization and analysis of the data
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Join the Computing for Ebola Challenge Hackathon(hackerleague.org)
7 points by cmrivers 12y ago|0 comments
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by cmrivers 12y ago
My suggestion is just based on the findings reported in the NEJM paper I linked, which has an incubation of 11 days and a long infectious period.
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by cmrivers 12y ago
The 'tool' used to generate these results is available for download as an excel spreadsheet here: http://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/24900 . Today parameter estimates were published in the NEJM [0] that confl
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On frequentism and fried chicken(jakevdp.github.io)
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Downloadable data for the 2014 Ebola outbeak in West Africa(github.com)
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by cmrivers 12y ago
The WHO is now reporting on Twitter that the species in DRC is not the same as the one causing the West Africa outbreak [0]. In other words, this is a separate emergence event. [0] https://twitter.com/WHO/status/5
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by cmrivers 12y ago
But why have we never seen an outbreak in a city before? It's not just good luck. We've had (at least) seven imported cases of Lassa hemorrhagic fever in the US [0], and at least one imported case of Marburg [1]. Both have a simil
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by cmrivers 12y ago
I agree wholeheartedly with your last sentence - stopping transmission in West Africa and improving health systems is key. I don't agree with your other points though. Ebola patients are only infectious while symptomatic, so accidental
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by cmrivers 12y ago
You're right, I revisited the article that gave me that impression [0], and it's very clear that staffing is the resource that is exhausted. Nonetheless, it's an excellent organization and a worthy cause in my opinion. [0] h
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by cmrivers 12y ago
Medecins Sans Frontiers (Doctors Without Borders) is an excellent choice. They have been integral to controlling several past Ebola outbreaks, and have been fighting this one since the beginning. They are almost entirely tapped out right no
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Project Jupyter: language agnostic IPython platform(speakerdeck.com)
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Facebook's unethical experiment manipulated users' emotions(slate.com)
130 points by cmrivers 12y ago|148 comments
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Incarceration is an epidemic – literally(phys.org)
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by cmrivers 12y ago
The measles vaccine is live attenuated, so in the rare case it does cause disease, it's less severe than wild type. Measles is one of the most infectious diseases known to man. In a fully susceptible population, one infected person can
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Skip the Humans: Drug Discovery by Simulating Cells(theatlantic.com)
1 points by cmrivers 12y ago|0 comments
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Obama seeks to end NSA phone sweeps(politico.com)
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The Toxins That Threaten Our Brains(theatlantic.com)
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Show HN: Epipy – Python tools for epidemiology(cmrivers.github.io)
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Now you can get online from pretty much anywhere(slate.com)
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Python, Clojure & Julia - a contest of text and grouping(matthewrocklin.com)
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by cmrivers 13y ago
If I ever read another long, rambling screed about the failings of millennials, it will be too soon.
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by cmrivers 13y ago
I'm also an academic. I use Scrivener, then pop it into LaTeX. Scrivener has a non-commercial version for Linux. It's not fully featured, but it still does a good job. You have to download it from their forum: http://ww