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by laserson 7y ago
Also, the PCR reaction was effectively described in an earlier 1971 paper from Gobind Khorana (see final paragraph): https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0022283671...
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by laserson 7y ago
More color on Kary Mullis: https://classic.esquire.com/article/1994/7/1/is-kary-mullis-...
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Kary Mullis, inventor of PCR, has died(mynewsla.com)
2 points by laserson 7y ago|2 comments
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by laserson 7y ago
Strang just published a new book called "Linear Algebra and Learning From Data" [1] which I only just started but find to be quite enjoyable so far. It's simultaneously conversational but also quite terse (similar to "Al
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by laserson 7y ago
Strongly agree. This was actually the text book when I took numerical methods at MIT. As far as math texts go, it is definitely a joy to read.
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The Martians – Jewish Hungarian Refugee Scientists(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by laserson 8y ago|0 comments
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by laserson 8y ago
Hadley Wickham
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by laserson 8y ago
So many people use Excel/Google Sheets as a database rather than a spreadsheet, except you don't get any of the advantages of a database. It's astounding to me that there hasn't really been a webapp that's essential
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Disease Heritability from Familial Relationships Reported in Medical Records(cell.com)
3 points by laserson 8y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Easy to move from macOS to Linux?
2 points by laserson 8y ago|2 comments
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by laserson 9y ago
Congrats! We've had a good amount of fun playing with the OT-One (and also some frustrations). I think the large range of volumes is great, along with what seems to be more streamlined/accurate pipetting. I think the enclosure is
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by laserson 9y ago
Is it possible to have a notebook and a console using a single, shared kernel?
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by laserson 9y ago
>I also thought it was funny that she complained about the committee not raising those questions when she submitted her proposal years ago. At least in the sciences, your thesis committee is supposed to continually/regularly keep ta
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Lou Jost, Biologist(loujost.com)
2 points by laserson 9y ago|0 comments
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by laserson 10y ago
The Hail project at the Broad Institute makes use of Kudu I believe. https://hail.is Not sure if that group is paying for CDH, but this tool is definitely being built for others to use.
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by laserson 11y ago
And separate from the issue of whether it's a good or bad idea, it will shortly be possible to send raw SQL queries to the backend. https://github.com/cloudera/ibis/issues/412
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by laserson 11y ago
That's directly addressed here: http://www.ibis-project.org/faq.html
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How-to: Use IPython Notebook with Apache Spark(blog.cloudera.com)
4 points by laserson 12y ago|0 comments
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Impyla: a new Python client for Impala(blog.cloudera.com)
4 points by laserson 12y ago|1 comments
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Distributed streaming quantiles on PySpark(github.com)
10 points by laserson 13y ago|0 comments
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Hadoop ecosystem for the life sciences(slideshare.net)
2 points by laserson 13y ago|0 comments
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Compute squarify treemap layout with python(github.com)
1 points by laserson 13y ago|0 comments
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How to Resample from a Large Data Set in Parallel with R on Hadoop(blog.cloudera.com)
14 points by laserson 14y ago|0 comments
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by laserson 14y ago
My goal was to use mrjob's features, not strip them down for performance. I find mrjob's natural use of JSON very appealing in terms of user-experience. It means that keys can be more complex types without the user having to manually figu
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by laserson 14y ago
Here is the profiling output: https://gist.github.com/4478737 The input is RawProtocol, which simply splits on tab. But after that, mrjob defaults to using JSON internally, and this is causing a lot of slowdown.
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by laserson 14y ago
I did only a bit of profiling on mrjob, but it seemed that the ser/de was significantly slowing down the overall computation.
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A Guide to Python Frameworks for Hadoop(blog.cloudera.com)
93 points by laserson 14y ago|15 comments
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Battery Park water level(tidesonline.nos.noaa.gov)
1 points by laserson 14y ago|0 comments
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The Royal Society is striving to stay relevant(nytimes.com)
2 points by laserson 14y ago|0 comments
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Poll: What email client do you use?
4 points by laserson 14y ago|20 comments

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