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by dkural 13y ago
Exactly my point - you make it more clear: free != good. Must optimize for good. That kind of community would be great.
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by dkural 13y ago
A more accurate title would be "We've found parameters for our simulation that gives a role to room-temperature entanglement a shot at being somewhat relevant to base pairing", by and large ignoring all that chromatin structu
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by dkural 13y ago
Time is very, very precious. One piece of advice to learners: A math book takes a very long time to read. Optimize for "best", and best fit only. If it's free, good, if not, it's still ultimately the best return on in
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by dkural 13y ago
Instead of blaming parents for 'no one told us', a second option would be look around and ask: How does philosophy, history, sociology, english help me do something in a company, besides HR, Sales, Marketing, and with luck, Manage
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by dkural 13y ago
This would be more credible if I didn't find qualified candidates who are 20 years old with skills + knowledge many in their 30s lack. I have nothing against a liberal arts degree, but not teaching yourself / taking computer sci
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by dkural 13y ago
There a literally millions of open positions in the US economy, and millions of upper-middle class liberal-college educated jobless millennials who can't be bothered to master these STEM fields to qualify. They all want to be an aid wo
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by dkural 13y ago
Excessive based on what metric? Inventing the worlds first successful peer-to-peer crypto-currency? Zuck @ Facebook, and other startups (Square etc.) made their founders far richer. Do you realize how hard it is to build trust in a currency
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by dkural 13y ago
I strongly disagree with some of this advice. No detailed term sheet, no access. No one gets to interview team members before "It’s at this point the buyer should come to you with a pretty cut-and-dried view of exactly how they’re lo
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by dkural 13y ago
I used to 100% believe in this, but came to appreciate people interacting face-to-face. There is a reason that great artists, philosophical circles, mathematicians etc. come in clusters of excellence. People feed off of each other. This can
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by dkural 13y ago
He meant postgres, as you also know. When autocorrect fails, there is empthought.
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by dkural 13y ago
The universe never does anything just once.. black holes, gamma ray bursts, supernovae, planets, and yes, life.
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by dkural 13y ago
I wish I became of this earlier as well! Great point. Somewhere in high school I lost touch with this, and it took a lot of effort in my twenties to consciously realize this & bring it to my life.
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by dkural 13y ago
Just don't get too used to thinking being gifted is particularly rare and requires a different system to thrive. Many acquaintances of mine at a certain crimson ivy university grew up with similar notions, and got into a different kin
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by dkural 13y ago
I've often thought that in a warped, twisted way totalitarianism gives meaning to life for certain people. If it opression is so intense to make life worthless, then one has a cause dearer than life itself - to fight this opression. Th
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by dkural 13y ago
Note that Plos One is not exactly the top journal one would publish such "groundbreaking" research. In general I've found university press releases to be little more than propaganda machines, and unreliable sources that do pa
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Bezos says discovery is Apollo 11 Engines(edition.cnn.com)
1 points by dkural 13y ago|0 comments
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Why We Need Elon Musk: A Simple Heuristic for Startup Dynamics(denizunchained.com)
1 points by dkural 13y ago|0 comments
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by dkural 13y ago
I have great empathy for what you're facing. I've lost family members to cancer. It is a very unique form of helplessness in face of calamity. That said, I'm working for a genomics company, part of our mission is to understand each cancer
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Why we need Elon Musk(denizunchained.com)
1 points by dkural 13y ago|0 comments
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What Quentin Tarantino can teach us about UX in NGS data analysis(dataink.io)
1 points by dkural 13y ago|0 comments
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by dkural 13y ago
this basic fact is understood by scientists and children alike. it is still either incompetence (lack of middle school statistics) or fraud (ignoring the above fact).
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by dkural 13y ago
I found a company to precisely fix this problem. Every dataset, every analysis, every computation fully transparent, reproducible, accessible. You can even embed it in your blog. For instance check out https://igor.sbgenomics.com/lab/publi
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Astrid & UX: Managing a users transition *away* from a product(dataink.io)
1 points by dkural 13y ago|0 comments
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by dkural 13y ago
I'm a recovering PhD. OSF looks pretty cool. By the way OSF costs money if it is done by scientists. Those scientists get paid by someone. They spent shit ton of money (in form of salaries + time) building it + publishing it. Science works
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by dkural 13y ago
I have very clear advice for PhD: Agree to work 4 hours a day on your thesis + papers (including reading literature!), and stop. You won't get more done anyways, so enjoy the rest of your day guilt-free. It is a marathon, and the consistent
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An introduction to short sequence (DNA) alignment(blog.sbgenomics.com)
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by dkural 13y ago
The protein families we know of are based on a very small number of full genomes. Even if we have conservative assumptions - i.e. that new protein families are not uniformly distributed, but obey some kind of power law, where the first few
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by dkural 13y ago
They are indeed extinct, but spread over that time span. The "mass" in "mass extinction" come from the fact that a much greater # than usual are going extinct at the same time. Which is the case today. You may eat one burger a day for a lo
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by dkural 13y ago
.. and here is us, destroying millions of years life, in what is a split of a second in comparison. We are undertaking the greatest mass extinction of all times.
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by dkural 14y ago
How about we just let people vote up and down on stuff they like? Why do you think it is important to control this democratic process? If you haven't noticed there is some commercial aspect to pretty much every post on HN. Let the people

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