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by jostmey 11y ago
I've heard people say that Austin no longer has a better startup scene than Dallas. It's probably not true, but it reaffirms that Austin's startup scene is hurting.
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by jostmey 11y ago
While there are many problems with how research is funded, the NIH and NSF grants awarded to University's and their professors are not biased toward business friendly solutions to diseases, at least as far as I could see during my year
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by jostmey 11y ago
What surprised me was the number of battles fought in Europe. It appeared to be the most violent place on the map. Is this because of a bias in the collection of the data, or is this representative of Human history?
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by jostmey 11y ago
Something about pouring molten metal on an ant colony just feels wrong.
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by jostmey 11y ago
I think this speaks more about a broken research system than it does about the challenges in determining how bad excess salt is on our health.
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by jostmey 11y ago
Is this what the top brass at the NSA fear the most, or what the developers working behind the scenes fear?
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by jostmey 11y ago
I am there, I use Molecular Dynamic simulations to study proteins, and I have to agree with you. Chemistry is an umbrella term---It is the summation of all the little tidbits of information we have accumulated about molecular systems. As su
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Faulty Towers: The Crisis in Higher Education(thenation.com)
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First time cancer detected in Naked Mole Rats(sciencemag.org)
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by jostmey 11y ago
The US is not Europe. US colleges already abuse their student population by increasing tuition costs faster than inflation. I do not believe the cost of providing an education has gone up---actually the Internet has made the cost of accessi
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What's so wrong with a free college education?
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There is more than one way to skin a cat. Somehow, the heat problem needs to be solved. Perhaps what would help is to store energy locally, like our brain. Each cell has its own store of ATP, so a constant feed of ionic current is not neede
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by jostmey 11y ago
True, but transistors are already smaller in size than a human synapse. But synapses don't produce so much heat, so you can stack as many as you want in 3D space without overheating, unlike silicon transistors.
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by jostmey 11y ago
I would guess that just like any physical trait, some emotions will be conserved by evolution and some will be unique. For example, emotions from the primitive parts of our brain like fear may be conserve across much of the animal kingdom.
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by jostmey 11y ago
Agreed. I think the top Universities will maintain their prestige, but people will begin to question the value of an education from a run-of-the-mill University. The education won't be that different, but the top schools will offer acc
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by jostmey 11y ago
I hope that scientist find an alternative system to CRISPR, perhaps by continuing the research that lead to the discovery of CRISPR --- how bacteria fight off phages. It would reduce the value of the patents on CRISPR.
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by jostmey 11y ago
It only seems bad to those in business of pushing out IPOs. To everyone else, it appears as a market correction.
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7 things wrong with getting a PhD in academia
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Private funding is great for engineering projects. But it is only useful in scientific endeavors when the scientist can talk with the academic community openly.
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No, the government just needs to stop subsidizing loans. The price of tuition has reason in step with the availability of loans---Colleges and Universities are simply charging the maximum amount they can get away with. The federal governmen
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Free, high-quality, open source text books for the world.
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Empathy is the glue that holds society together. Our ability to share emotional states with others enables us to forge societies on a large scale.
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When I first picked up the book I was not ready for it---I hated it. It took about ten years for me to read the book, and by the time I finished my view of biology/evolution was forever changed.
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by jostmey 11y ago
A play for political power. The NSA probably doesn't care if data is encrypted---they most likely already have a back-door to take data before its encrypted or after its decrypted. So if encryption is used, the FBI will be dependent on
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by jostmey 11y ago
The way civil forfeiture is being used in these examples is a violation of a citizen's constitutional right and the perpetrators, no matter their appearance, are criminals and must be dealt with as such. I'm sure there are some la
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by jostmey 11y ago
And wait! Government officials will be glad to take credit for the driving revolution that is about to happen :-) For some reason, people in power think that it was by their hand that the world turns.
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by jostmey 11y ago
Transistor counts keep going up although clock speeds and single core performance peaked starting ten years ago. Check out this graphic: http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Dennar... Si
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by jostmey 11y ago
Ah, then I must have a negative amount of knowledge about the subject.
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RBM trained with persistent states, written from scratch in Julia(github.com)
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by jostmey 11y ago
Amazing. So how high does the first stage fly?

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