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by kanzure 14y ago
I never claimed that the physiology of C. elegans should be preferred over that of the human brain.
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by kanzure 14y ago
> As far as I understand, we simply do not understand neuron activity at > a low level enough to make such a thing feasible. Henry Markram has always been adamant that there are enough details already discovered and put i
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by kanzure 14y ago
Not a spider, but how about C. elegans? http://openworm.org/ https://github.com/openworm http://nemaload.davidad.org/ http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/neuro/nematodeuploadproject/
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by kanzure 14y ago
> If we were that close to simulating a human brain there would be implementations up on github already IIRC, the Blue Brain Project uses NEURON. hg clone http://www.neuron.yale.edu/hg/neuron/nrn
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by kanzure 14y ago
This video/lecture is rather long, but it's an excellent introduction to what the Blue Brain Project is working on: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gFI7o69VJM&list=PLgO7JBj... That was back when Henry Markram was still collaborating w
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by kanzure 14y ago
> Why aren't we aiming for a physics level of understanding in psychology? We call that neuroscience. On a related note, Henry Markram just got $1.3 billion EUR for whole brain emulation. So there's that.
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by kanzure 14y ago
The filename, keepgrabbing.py, was mentioned in the court documents, and on HN. 135 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4528563 15 days ago (me): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5058288 12 days ago (me again, wtf): http:/
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by kanzure 14y ago
What is his current email address? I just learned about Pat, but he's already my hero. His emails on USENET are hilarious. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Arnold "Patrick Arnold is an American organic chemist and bodybuilder known fo
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by kanzure 14y ago
> I mean, unless they expect crackers to run their servers from a jailbroken iPad? Way more sophisticated than that. Think in terms of emulation, simulation, HTTP spoofing, etc.
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by kanzure 14y ago
I didn't claim that they were working on an API, and I don't see how you could have read that from what I wrote. Maybe you were skipping ahead. > and a core mission that is held to much moreso than in private industry Is there an
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by kanzure 14y ago
I think GiveWell could accelerate their plans the best if they would try to make your point extremely well heard. Someone must have done a really brilliant marketing campaign somewhere along the line to convince everyone of that ideal phila
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by kanzure 14y ago
What I am particularly curious about is why people tend to believe that NPOs or charities are "especially different" from other businesses. In many cases, there are entrenched non-profits that share many of the same values as their corporat
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by kanzure 14y ago
Why aren't they selling off the campaigns, users, or other assets? Just a complete shutdown?
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by kanzure 14y ago
> I can't find that critique with Google. I didn't link the source because I am ashamed to admit that I clicked on the reddit link that was posted in this thread. http://www.reddit.com/r/bioinformatics/comments/179e9k/a_far...
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by kanzure 14y ago
Regarding samtools, it doesn't sound very good from what I'm hearing: "Look at the disgusting state of the samtools code base. Many more cycles are being used because people write garbage. For a tool that is intimately tied to research, the
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by kanzure 14y ago
> and if it's a good idea, it will be worth polishing the turd later, Which of the released turds do you consider to be polished?
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by kanzure 14y ago
bugseverywhere
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by kanzure 14y ago
I wish there was some way to fix the situation with protocols in biology. Maybe we could attempt to identify the reasons that they suck, and then fix those reasons. There was a stackexchange site for protocols called methodmint, but nobody
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by kanzure 14y ago
I wish github would fix how they parse closed issues. Yesterday I typed "fixes #8011 and #8012", and it only marked the first one as closed. Next I tried "fixes #8011, #8012" but it only marked the first one again. Also, while I'm at it, su
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by kanzure 14y ago
You don't have any contact info in your profile.
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by kanzure 14y ago
"The usage info is (a) collected only for the first 30 minutes and (b) is only used to prove to the advertiser that the install is by a human and not a bot." Well that sounds easy to spoof.
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by kanzure 14y ago
Many of the JCVI programmers groan and complain that they can't turn that organization around. I am not convinced additional programmers will fix JCVI.
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by kanzure 14y ago
> I created software that generates meal plans according to my Crohn's symptoms You should also consider making gut bacteria for zonulin production.
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by kanzure 14y ago
"Counsel for the government understands that a number of external connections were made and/or attempted to the Acer laptop between January 4, 2011 and January 6, 2011, including from a Linux server at MIT and from China." ("Attempted" mean
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by kanzure 14y ago
Maybe you could consider taking him out of school, before you consider medication. School shouldn't be the first priority. Many people learn outside of school just fine. Medication can come later.
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by kanzure 14y ago
> Are you sure that every article behind the JSTOR paywall was 100% publically funded? No, but we also don't know if his 'keepgrabbing' script was checking whether or not an article was in the public domain. This metadata is somewhat pr
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by kanzure 14y ago
It would be great to be able to paste a url to others of a work-in-progress pastebin-style dump of something I'm commenting or reversing. Also, symfiles.
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by kanzure 14y ago
Yep, shoot an email to science-liberation-front+subscribe@googlegroups.com and you'll get a feed of interesting hacks and projects. Hopefully this will catalyze some scrapers during the hackathons. https://groups.google.com/group/science-l
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Memorial hackathons for Aaron Swartz(groups.google.com)
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by kanzure 14y ago
I used plural "publishers" and it happens to be that many publishers are commercial. I know JSTOR is not one of them.

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