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by irollboozers 13y ago
Elizabeth Iorns, the CEO of Science Exchange (YC S11), is currently conducting independent research to find a potential cure specifically for the BRCA mutation. ( https://www.microryza.com/projects/can-we-prevent-the-transm... )
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by irollboozers 13y ago
This is such a beautifully and elegantly done analysis. The economics (and particularly in this article, the history) of science is such an untouched gem as a fascinating topic. I am so freaking excited to see this post as #1 on HN. One thi
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by irollboozers 13y ago
Negative results vary from field to field. In math or physics, a conclusive negative can be very important in deciding what to study next or disproving established theory. In biology, a negative usually just means "I haven't found what I'm
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by irollboozers 13y ago
Hmm - it seems those guys are not what I remembered/thought they were. I think they were somehow tied to the open bio standards project which is what I was thinking of.
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by irollboozers 13y ago
I'm curious, is the goal to prove one or few models wrong? I think while it is extremely sexy, his explanation kind of answers the question for him in a cheesy way - "depends on which lens you look at the problem with". Doing a nematode-ver
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by irollboozers 13y ago
Side note, I used to do work with CAD systems for simulating/building gene circuits. I can't wait until we move from open tools (Tinkercell, Biobricks, Genome Compiler, etc) to fully-modeled open platforms for organisms. Imagine having the
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by irollboozers 13y ago
There are people on the Bayshore Express line living below the poverty line. Wow.
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by irollboozers 13y ago
No problem, the firehose that is HN is definitely exciting. Hope you guys are getting good traffic :)
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by irollboozers 13y ago
Congrats, this looks great! Some of the buttons are a little off ( http://i.imgur.com/9CRvFQj.png ) Mac OS X, Chrome 26.0.1410.65. I'm very excited to tell people that github for science is now a thing. I'll be signing up for sure.
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by irollboozers 13y ago
For most of these cases, skin color is the lowest common denominator that allows them to game the system. http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/education/story/2011-12-...
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Microryza is hiring hackers
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by irollboozers 14y ago
I like to imagine theyre roommates or something. I think I prefer it to whatever the reality is.
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by irollboozers 14y ago
This is something I've thought of before, and I've always wondered how one would go about actually measuring this. I think Peter Thiel would normally wrap up the UX or the 'it just works' effect as part of some nebulous brand strategy. I be
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by irollboozers 14y ago
Hey if you're doing extensive research, I think it'd be great if you put up on Microryza.
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by irollboozers 14y ago
There are a lot of mixed emotions with the confirmation of the rumors that have been floating around for a while now. On the one hand, it's a huge positive sign of just how desperate the dying giants are to protect their business. On the ot
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by irollboozers 14y ago
I like that this is a first world problem.
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Microryza (YC W13) is making science awesome again, join us
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by irollboozers 14y ago
Microryza ( http://microryza.com , YC W13) is hiring full stack Rails developers. SF/bay area, equity + benefits, preferably a science background. contact@microryza.com
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by irollboozers 14y ago
I strongly disagree with you, in that the big potential solution we offer is to simultaneously help small foundations and eat their lunch. The whole notion of someone at a desk stamping papers to identify what research to fund, when there i
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by irollboozers 14y ago
It will take some time before it gets more and more into the public consciousness. Meanwhile, we have a giant backlog of things we can be doing to improve transparency and trust, so that when someone lands on a project they know exactly wha
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by irollboozers 14y ago
>What I'd like to see is Microryza incorporate NIH grant scores, or some other established peer-review metric. If the public could crowd-fund interesting, legitimate scientific research, there's definitely a need for the money. Working
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by irollboozers 14y ago
We do have several larger scoped projects in the works. The project sizes have been kept intentionally small up until now.
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This is going to be such a powerful tool in the future. Any investors who sleep on this are going to miss out because whoever wins this space will be a public company, hands down.
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It was intended for the HN crowd who believes in build first, ask questions later. Hoping to get more people to build solutions that fix science.
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by irollboozers 14y ago
Thanks for the response. You included real world examples from academia, and your supportive attitude means a lot to us. I'm really interested in what you're working on. If you need help with your YC app, send me an email and I'd be happy t
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by irollboozers 14y ago
We openly tell researchers that crowdfunding isn't for everyone, at least not yet. If it isn't valuable for you, that doesn't mean it can't be valuable for anyone else. Just don't do it and wait around for others to validate it. I don't bel
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by irollboozers 14y ago
Science is notoriously bad at fixing its own problems. The meme plays well on HN because most people here believe in building solutions for themselves. We were scientists. We didn't want to deal with stupid shit. So we built something for o
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by irollboozers 14y ago
>"it makes me sad to think about it." I think this is the best way to sum up my original message. I wrote this blog post out of frustration.
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Yeah but you have to realize 'industry' is still a dirty word. Industry is not the solution that the adjuncts and post-docs are looking for, it's inclusion.
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Many of those academic positions are just for show, so that another university can't lay claim on them. University of Washington has many 'sponsored' positions, but basically what it amounts to is Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft giving money i

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