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by irollboozers 12y ago
Surely someone at WSJ is wondering "Hey, this article is doing really well in organic search. Our numbers are up, great job everyone."
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by irollboozers 12y ago
The fact that exciting scientific discoveries like this are being presented on WSJ behind a paywall is absurd. Science on the internet is going to be dramatically different in 10 years than it is right now...
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by irollboozers 12y ago
Makes you think about the sheer amount of traffic. Incredible.
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by irollboozers 12y ago
That's what I immediately noticed - his grammar and processing speed is pretty slow and steady but his vocabulary is incredible. I mean, he's been studying for what, 2-3 years? I wouldn't be surprised if he was in like the to
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by irollboozers 12y ago
This is incredible. Wish more organizations and institutions took this approach of beautiful and striking science, then perhaps more scientists would start the value other new ways to communicate science.
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Dollar a Day(dollaraday.co)
377 points by irollboozers 12y ago|94 comments
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by irollboozers 12y ago
Unfortunately, there just aren't many good metrics for future potential scientific value. It's not like you can just give NSA / DARPA / NIH one impact factor, as weird as that sounds.
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by irollboozers 12y ago
Curious, what do large scale companies in the cloud currently do for this?
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by irollboozers 12y ago
You can't really blame them, Kickstarter is composed of artists, not scientists.
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Experiment passes $1M for science(experiment.com)
16 points by irollboozers 12y ago|0 comments
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by irollboozers 12y ago
Should be noted that the original authors are the founders of the SciFund Challenge, and they've gathered tons of great empirical data.
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by irollboozers 12y ago
It's funny that most of the jokes tend to revolve around becoming some sort of super hero. The stranger thing is that no one has pondered the potential cons having the ability to see beyond the spectrum. Or maybe I don't read enou
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by irollboozers 12y ago
a lengthy discussion over on reddit about this: http://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/2e5wry/biohacker...
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Biologically extending human vision into the near-infrared: Initial success(experiment.com)
228 points by irollboozers 12y ago|60 comments
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by irollboozers 12y ago
Sorry, but in this case, it's actually N^x. Even running PCR and gel analysis requires steps where the time is dependent on the number of samples (e.g. pipetting, walking to the centrifuge, making multiple gels)
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by irollboozers 12y ago
I wonder what the equivalent of MacBasic would be today?
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Eisenbahnnet: Bohr's trip about spin(commandcenter.blogspot.com)
2 points by irollboozers 12y ago|0 comments
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by irollboozers 12y ago
Experiment is working on that. :)
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by irollboozers 12y ago
There are probably others much more familiar with cloud infrastructure who can chime in, but the AWS of science and the Heroku of science are two very different challenges, and I feel the analogies probably cross over pretty well. Definitel
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by irollboozers 12y ago
The startup equivalent would be "it's easy to build the app, it's hard to get users". Not all apps can yield users, but lowering the bar to launch will certainly yield more opportunities for successful apps.
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by irollboozers 12y ago
There's been quite a few efforts in this. See Transcriptic and Emerald Therapeutics ( http://www.emeraldcloudlab.com/ ), while there's the more traditional suppliers for things like short oligos or expression vector
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Heroku for Science(dennyluan.tumblr.com)
58 points by irollboozers 12y ago|36 comments
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John Nash's PhD Thesis [pdf](dl.dropboxusercontent.com)
3 points by irollboozers 12y ago|0 comments
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The future of design and biology with Drew Endy(synbio.plos.org)
2 points by irollboozers 12y ago|0 comments
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by irollboozers 12y ago
Experiment (YC W13) started off as a Show HN, but back then we were called Microryza. It was a very modest thing, and after somehow getting near the top of the front page, we were flooded with traffic [ http://i.imgur.com/miM
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by irollboozers 12y ago
You would think someone at Facebook is already looking at this question...
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Causes for the Persistence of Impact Factor Mania(mbio.asm.org)
1 points by irollboozers 13y ago|0 comments
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Scientists are learning to embrace online lab notebook(nature.com)
2 points by irollboozers 13y ago|0 comments
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by irollboozers 13y ago
Check out Experiment ( http://experiment.com ). Even in 'research', there are different types and different motivations. I believe the Science that we see today is more a reflection of the past decades' focus on com
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by irollboozers 13y ago
Will there ever by a YC recipe book? Pretty please? I want to know all of PG's culinary secrets.

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