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by dluan 10y ago
Your view is a bit rare these days. Nearly all my friends who started PhD's who've dropped out or quit early with a master's wasn't because they didn't get this experience. They all loved doing the science, that&#x2
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A Soccer Con Man Who Couldn't Play the Game(atlasobscura.com)
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Bioconductor for Genomic Data Science(kasperdanielhansen.github.io)
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by dluan 10y ago
Would the inverse be better? Tax breaks for local buyers to incentivize naturalization, formal taxation, etc?
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Biomedical Data Science(genomicsclass.github.io)
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I think the answer is closely tied to funding. The whole prestige of impact factor, national academy membership, etc are basic heuristics that help the current funding process. Grant review committees comprised of already established scient
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by dluan 10y ago
My point is, the inevitable march is driven by the market pipeline created by the Glaxosmithkline, Merck, and Amgen's of the world more than anything else. A good black swan event disrupts this to some extent, but not really. As long a
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by dluan 10y ago
That's given the techniques used so far. See the recent work by the Lewis group [1] which uses a new method to culture soil bacteria to identify new antibiotics and opens up an entirely new pipeline. Previously, we've never been a
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by dluan 10y ago
Not really, new resistant strains and new antibiotics to fight those strains is a constant inevitable march of evolution, and for the most part, driven by money from large pharma companies. An equivalent might be murphy's law and silic
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by dluan 10y ago
This is such a clickbait title. It's like saying "Dogs that can learn tricks discovered in NYC".
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by dluan 10y ago
Tax law is a math problem. Google is a company run by math nerds. Of course they are going to solve for X.
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by dluan 10y ago
Didn't Amazon start off in that weird decrepit hospital near Beacon Hill? I mean, SODO could very well have been Seattle's tech hub in an alternate timeline. Though if I get your gist, the point is that the decision was made befor
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by dluan 10y ago
I dunno, a giant green park within the city like SF's golden gate park or NYC's central park sounds really incredible.
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Interactive Chondrichthyan Tree of Life(sharksrays.org)
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Zero electricity air cooler(eco-cooler.com)
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What does Experiment do? It’s a jelly delivery system(xclassifiedxexperimentsx.tumblr.com)
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Experiment to paint eyes on cow butts to reduce lion attacks(experiment.com)
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This is one of the coolest things I've ever seen.
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Good luck! I'll be following closely. I've always envied how in economics it's the practitioners who can push the boundaries the furthest. Of course, if you ever have any results you'd like to post on Experiment feel fre
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by dluan 10y ago
There's been a lot of research into this, particularly around the concept of savings as the big obstacle towards independence and freedom. The poorest people who struggle to achieve even a basic income (think participants in microcredi
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Experiment is hiring full-stack engineers(experiment.com)
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Maybe when the stakes go up, it's harder to call something out as bullshit. One $10M study saying the NFL is safe for mental health will outweigh 100 $10k studies too scared to state the opposite. tbh, the NFL was smart to lump so much
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by dluan 10y ago
Would you like me to list more? The point isn't hot button topics, like gun control research, GMOs, transportation, etc, the point is that it's a feedback loop. The system is set up so that the rich get richer. The top 20 research
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by dluan 10y ago
In 200 years, when we look back on how science was funded, it will seem backwards and poorly designed. Big money has infiltrated politics, media & journalism, and of course science, but for some reason the public regards scientific rese
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by dluan 10y ago
Curious what you think about more independent schemes like microfinance or loans for education. Have you noticed any difference between that and outright aid?
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Training Deep Neural Networks with Dropout(youtube.com)
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This is a very big deal for the field of paleontology! A lot of scientists are excited by this. Equivalent of the human genome project, but for really old rocks!
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by dluan 10y ago
Link to install: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chengyu/hfkdhcgcel...
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Show HN: Chinese idioms in a new tab(github.com)
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Is Crowdfunding an Okay Way to Raise Money for Zika Research?(npr.org)
3 points by dluan 11y ago|0 comments

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