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by graeham 10y ago
There is work going on in this sort of arena, and I've wondered why there hasn't been more. I think probably there are a few reasons. First is medical imaging tends to have relatively low resolution and high noise compared to opti
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by graeham 10y ago
This is a great post, thanks for writing and sharing. I'm a biomedical engineer and found both posts interesting. There are really exciting things happening right now where the murky area between expensive, slow medtech and fast-moving
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by graeham 10y ago
Also, TU Delft is one of the best universities in the world at engineering/ product design.
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by graeham 10y ago
Arguably, they already do tax IP(for patents) by maintence fees. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maintenance_fee_(patent) https://www.uspto.gov/learning-and-resources/fees-and-paymen... The problem
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by graeham 10y ago
An absolutely silly pressure! For those who might not be familiar, standard steels fail at about 0.5 GPa
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by graeham 10y ago
Anecdotally, I've seen this happen with pretty much any international group in a university environment when there is enough of concentration of that group to support an expat community. I don't think you have to totally abandon y
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Wallonia is adamantly blocking the EU’s trade deal with Canada(economist.com)
3 points by graeham 10y ago|0 comments
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by graeham 10y ago
I think its now well accepted that there is an 'art' to math/science/code - why should the inverse not be true? Not to say that art should become some sort of an applied math, but is it a crime that a publicly-funded bod
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by graeham 10y ago
Arguably, the main driver of the problem is foreign purchase of investment properties which aren't rented. Speculation drives this further, as lots of people have made high returns on a market that 'can only go up'. Nine stud
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by graeham 10y ago
Interesting article and I find it current for some problems I'm working on at the moment. I would add a few challanges. The example is a bit a of a strawman - a log(x) function has unique properties that make the Xmax-Xmin vs R^2 work
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ARM Holdings to be sold to Japan's SoftBank for £24bn(theguardian.com)
1 points by graeham 10y ago|0 comments
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by graeham 10y ago
Reminds me a bit of Groupon etc - its easy to get revenue when you're selling dimes for dollars. Fixed costs are presumably low, so it can't be scale that would lead to profitability. Utilisation rates? I've not heard a lot o
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by graeham 10y ago
Exactly - this is a pretty simple part, without fine details that would actually test an expensive printer. Its like comparing how Facebook or Word works on a netbook vs a top-end desktop. And I'd say furthermore, although not knowing
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by graeham 10y ago
That valuation should be for more like $3B in profit!
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by graeham 10y ago
Sorry for the slow reply, thought I was so far down the list people wouldn't be seeing it. First - thanks for the feedback and discussion. Really useful insights. You are correct in that the interface is the 'new' - and also
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America's secret weapon(blogs.reuters.com)
4 points by graeham 10y ago|0 comments
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by graeham 10y ago
Cool concept as art, but is basically a patent version of infinite monkeys on typewriters hoping to write Shakespeare. That said, with a bit of guideance such as learning/ feedback and/or being routed around an initial framework (
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by graeham 11y ago
Mood would be self-reported, then the tag and message is sent by the user. I've been thinking about business models. Data privacy and control by the user is important to me. I see the service as being something that users may want to p
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by graeham 11y ago
Definately can be a problem. What I've found helps is encouraging new users to actually not set too many reminders, to avoid burnoit when novelty wears off. Secondly is to allow individual sets notifications to be disabled easily to av
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by graeham 11y ago
Cool concept - I have been thinking about something similar but for mechanical rather than electrical cardiovascular signals. One problem I foresee with a direct-to-consumer device is that I'd think most people would need such monitori
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Apply HN: IoQS – Message-based service to measure and track anything
3 points by graeham 11y ago|6 comments
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by graeham 11y ago
Why not just general analysis-as-a-service? Tosca is already a somewhat niche product within analysis software. FE and such analysis programs cost $X000/seat, but selling relatively few seats. How will you make money selling 'per
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by graeham 11y ago
The FDA does a fair bit of this already, both through their open API https://open.fda.gov/device/enforcement/ and through MAUDE https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfm
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by graeham 11y ago
Depends a fair bit on location. Many of the 'cheap' places there aren't actually in Vancouver, but a 45 min drive away in a neighbooring city/ suburb. Part of the problem is much of the central property has been redevelo
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Beyond the stack fallacy(jeremykooyman.com)
2 points by graeham 11y ago|1 comments
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Uber racked up big international losses during 2014 expansion(reuters.com)
1 points by graeham 11y ago|0 comments
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by graeham 11y ago
I immediately though of this as well. Its becoming increasingly in demand in IoT-related things (particularly in industrial applications, certainly automotive and medical).
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by graeham 11y ago
The cost comparison is flawed if it is accounting for secondary costs of coal, but not solar or wind. (Which will probably be lower than coal, although perhaps not if accounting for vast land areas needed for generation and some rather nast
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by graeham 11y ago
I can't comment on China - my guess is their regulations on things other than CO2 (sulfur oxides and nitrous oxides mainly) is probably also more lax than Europe and North America. Scrubbers exist for both of these and are used EU&#x2F
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by graeham 11y ago
Coal is cheap and plentiful. It does have one of the highest carbon densities relative to energy produced, but there are developing ways around that: Capture and sequestration -CO2 from large source power plants is scrubbed from emissions,

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