jrkelly

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Nervtag meeting on SARS-CoV-2 variant under investigation(khub.net)
2 points by jrkelly 6y ago|0 comments
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Synthetic Biology (and beyond) Community response to Covid-19(ginkgobioworks.com)
3 points by jrkelly 7y ago|0 comments
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Ginkgo Bioworks (YC S14) accepting designs for DNA for Covid-19 R&D(ginkgobioworks.com)
2 points by jrkelly 7y ago|0 comments
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by jrkelly 7y ago
Yeah look at research group websites at major research universities that are working in your area of interest. The students are usually listed on the lab website. They’d love to be emailed.
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by jrkelly 7y ago
"If you want to start a company working on a better way to build homes, gene editing, artificial general intelligence, a new education system, or carbon sequestration, you may actually be able to get it funded, even if you don’t have a
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Making Meatless Burgers a Little Less Impossible(inc.com)
2 points by jrkelly 8y ago|0 comments
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Motif Ingredients raised $90M to make it easier to invent new plant-based meats(fastcompany.com)
3 points by jrkelly 8y ago|0 comments
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Why the Biggest Threat to Silicon Valley Could Be Inside Your Gadgets(inc.com)
1 points by jrkelly 8y ago|0 comments
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The End of More – The Death of Moore’s Law(steveblank.com)
9 points by jrkelly 8y ago|2 comments
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Shkreli's Wu-Tang Album Is the Newest Target in Odd Virtual Coin Craze(bloomberg.com)
4 points by jrkelly 9y ago|7 comments
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by jrkelly 10y ago
hedonic treadmill is close to word you are looking for.
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by jrkelly 10y ago
Agree the professor track is tough but a PhD is a great idea even if you don't want to be a professor. It's just a unique experience that both gets you deep in a specific area of science and teaches you how to conduct open-ended
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by jrkelly 10y ago
Getting a PhD was one of the best decisions I ever made. You have your whole life to go optimize for making $ if you want afterwards. At a top research school in the right lab you get a 1:1 apprenticeship with a world-class expert in an ar
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by jrkelly 10y ago
If you'd like to spin up on GMO debate / tech this series is the best source I've found: https://grist.org/series/panic-free-gmos/
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by jrkelly 10y ago
Yes should be 400 million. 100 million from our last order plus 300 million in this new order.
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by jrkelly 10y ago
The biggest technical problem in general for synthetic biology is predictive design. Most of the technology we are building is to enable massive numbers of designs to be tried in parallel b/c the complexity of the cell rebuffs predict
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by jrkelly 10y ago
I'm Jason Kelly, one of the Ginkgo co-founders -- happy to answer questions!
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Bolt Threads raises $50M to brew spider silk, inks deal with Patagonia(techcrunch.com)
1 points by jrkelly 10y ago|1 comments
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Tweaking Genes to Save Species(nytimes.com)
1 points by jrkelly 10y ago|0 comments
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by jrkelly 11y ago
YC is the only credible threat to elite higher education that I've seen come out of Silicon Valley.
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by jrkelly 11y ago
This is complete nonsense. Here's a decent debunking: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/science-sushi/2016/01/31/g...
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by jrkelly 11y ago
This sentence in pretty staggering: "... people who had nothing to do with the design and execution of the study but use another group’s data for their own ends ... or even use the data to try to disprove what the original investigator
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by jrkelly 11y ago
This is what is going to make Echo the next big computing platform. The voice recognition just works. It's like being on the Enterprise.
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How to Hire(medium.com)
30 points by jrkelly 11y ago|11 comments
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Soylent running pro-GMO billboards in LA(twitter.com)
2 points by jrkelly 11y ago|0 comments
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Move Over, Jony Ive–Biologists Are the Next Rock Star Designers(wired.com)
17 points by jrkelly 11y ago|3 comments
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Earnest, Fueled by Growth in Student Loans, Raises $275M(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
22 points by jrkelly 11y ago|12 comments
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by jrkelly 11y ago
Haha, I'll vouch that it is him. He's a cofounder of a YC company with me (Ginkgo Bioworks) and I emailed him about this thread a couple hours ago. But I would like to see him take the quiz someone posted below :)
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by jrkelly 11y ago
They recently added Anne Wojcicki (23andMe) as a part-time partner.
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by jrkelly 11y ago
Also this post on "the mathiness of Nassim Taleb" -- Taleb is a serial offender on the mathiness front: http://www.inexactchange.org/blog/2015/07/24/the-mathiness-o...

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