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by entee 10y ago
Nebraska too I think, but yeah pretty rare.
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by entee 10y ago
FHIR is great. It's also a pretty complex data structure, but we use it internally and are generally happy with it. It has flaws, notably that it's not always clear what parameters to set on the resource (for example there are a b
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by entee 10y ago
I don't think that's true. There seems to be a view that nobody can try to be objective and the objective doesn't exist. I'm a scientist by training and trade, and in my experience the real world is pretty damn objective
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by entee 10y ago
Isn't there a way to not be a censor, but also encourage truth? Some things are factually true and others are factually false. We have huge numbers of fact checkers out there, maybe there's a way to give that work a little more pr
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by entee 10y ago
We need to have a common set of facts to have a legitimate discussion about where we should go as a country. We can interpret facts differently, but the facts themselves should be concrete and real.
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by entee 10y ago
It's true, this is really hard. That said, there should be some way to counteract things that are explicitly and provably false. Perhaps integrating some sort of fact checking? I don't know, it's dangerous territory, but it&#
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by entee 10y ago
It's unclear what methods they're using to make these burgers, but often you need many animal-derived products to culture cells. Fetal bovine serum, growth media, all of these have animal products in them. If they make an ethical
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by entee 10y ago
Looking over the application, the science claims are wildly overblown. Claims of CRISPR making DNA sequencing free, having a 100% cure rate for cancer, eliminating the need for antibiotics are just on their face flat wrong. It seems they mi
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by entee 10y ago
I'm curious about how Palantir works as a public company. It has always looked like a data-centric McKinsey clone to me, and those kinds of consulting companies are usually partnerships. Granted, Goldman Sachs and other investment bank
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by entee 10y ago
Except that they didn't, they said "probably carcinogenic". That implies dangerous.
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by entee 10y ago
Generally, I think this is true. If a manuscript goes to review before publishing, typically the reviewers are anonymous and the reviews are shared only with the authors of the submitted manuscript. This process is usually secret and does p
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by entee 10y ago
Seems a little clickbait-y and I don't think it's true from what I've seen anecdotally (though I work in data science with Spark so I'm clearly biased). I started out as a Scala skeptic at my current company, but have gr
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Venture capital is a hell of a drug(techcrunch.com)
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by entee 10y ago
Buries the caveats a little at the end of the second paragraph: "They have yet to reassemble those pieces into a functioning E. coli." What they actually did was make copies of the genes in E. Coli, completely remove 7/64 of
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by entee 10y ago
Of these I hadn't thought of the data utility, but yeah that's probably pretty useful. However, as you suggested, it's a little hard to take advantage of that without creepiness potentially killing the larger customer relatio
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by entee 10y ago
It's easier if you have one device. It's easier to avoid getting tangled up. It's harder if you want to listen to something on your laptop for a minute instead or on the phone. It's also harder when the phone is in your
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by entee 10y ago
Yeah, I recognize that. It's also extra space to shove battery into. Like I said, I don't think it's a real worthwhile trade-off.
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by entee 10y ago
They ship the phones with a small adapter that goes from micro USB to lightning. You're allowed a proprietary port into the phone as long as you provide the adapter for free.
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by entee 10y ago
I agree with the bluetooth being inferior, I hate that the standard headphone jack is going away. If it isn't broken, don't fix it. That said I've been told that the 3.5mm jack takes up a surprising amount of internal space,
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by entee 10y ago
Why does the genetic nature of the polymer as a record of its function need to be the primary purpose for the original ancient life-like polymer? You identify the prion as a good candidate, but it's just a polymer that can do some sort
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by entee 10y ago
I think unit tests are a great tool to motivate code that is simple and easy to reason about. After all, a good unit test is itself simple and easy to reason about. It also forces you to think about what is the simplest unit of software for
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by entee 10y ago
This is precisely an area where CRISPR can have a huge impact in a fairly short timeline. With animal/crop genetics we often have more understanding for what genetics are important for what feature and how to introduce the CRISPR machi
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by entee 10y ago
You're making a distinction between practical thinking and thinking for thinking's sake. There's a difference between arguing and critical thinking. I've often found myself in discussions with graduate students in humani
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by entee 10y ago
I think the last bit of your comment can't possibly help your case: "Rampant immigration into countries that have never seen it before, from hostile lands, from illiterate masses" How is that not a xenophobic and simple-minde
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by entee 10y ago
I'm not sure if he's completely blind or self-deluded. I hope to believe that he's not saying these things just to line his own pockets. Being delusional isn't malicious. That said, it makes me wonder how it is possible
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by entee 10y ago
This is a really great idea, especially when done right. The difficulty with machine learning and AI is understanding the pitfalls inherent in selecting data and training systems. You can fool yourself pretty easily into thinking you'v
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by entee 10y ago
This criticism of the way biologists/geneticists/biochemists approach problems is I think quite misguided and misunderstands both limitation of testing things you can't manipulate with your bare hands, and how subtractive (ta
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by entee 10y ago
It's quite hard but not impossible (pun intended). Full disclosure: Patrick Brown was on my committee in grad school. I've had many long conversations with him about these things and he's quite aware of all the challenges. Th
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by entee 10y ago
That would likely be a hassle because you'd have to be consistent for all programs that ever save or read a file. As a result it has to be an OS-level thing at least, if not at the file system level. I don't have a huge preference
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by entee 10y ago
It would be really nice is there was a modern file system that "just worked" regardless of device. I'm tired of having exFAT/FAT being the only filesystem I can reliably use on multiple different OS-es painlessly, and ev

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