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   by moh_maya 9y ago

   That's only assuming they are competing at the same time. An average of timed trials across a pre-defined route (like TDF) would allow you to present a similar challenge to both the human & the automated motor cycle. Couldn't
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   by moh_maya 9y ago

   yep. Power law distributions / rich get richer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_law This discussion, yesterday, on normal distributions, also has some very good insights.. https://news.ycombinator.c
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   by moh_maya 9y ago

   Sort of tangentially relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/573/
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   by moh_maya 9y ago

   Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14614863 Also, perhaps the title is a bit of a flame-bait. Sci-hub does not facilitate scientific research piracy - whatever that means. Depending on your PoV on
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   by moh_maya 9y ago

   Mastercard has expressed interest. They haven't joined yet. From the link: "Mastercard is developing capabilities in blockchain specifically in clearing and settling and has a strong interest in joining the Enterprise Ethereum A
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   by moh_maya 9y ago

   I suppose. But there is no guarantee of return, or even the promise of return, which is something a Ponzi scheme almost always offers. As OP pointed out, everyone who is investing in mining / purchasing these coins is hoping they will
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   Dissecting Ponzi schemes on Ethereum: identification, analysis, and impact(arxiv.org)

   221 points by moh_maya 9y ago|121 comments
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   by moh_maya 9y ago

   At some level, this is sort of the world that Ian Banks had created in the Culture series..
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   by moh_maya 9y ago

   ok. This reminds me of Neal Stephenson's snowcrash [1] , where he weaves the tower of Babel into his story, and talks of the Sumerian culture & the idea of "me", instructions on how to run civilization. In the novel, he s
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    by moh_maya 9y ago

    certainly interested; will be spreading the word.
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    The story of kitchenaid(stories.maker.me)

    1 points by moh_maya 9y ago|0 comments
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    by moh_maya 9y ago

    and to add to car's point, it is a recombinant protein produced in E.coli (the foundational bacteria on which biomedical research has been built). Easy to grow, easy to manipulate. We may not need cord-blood at all. Which is a good thi
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    by moh_maya 10y ago

    Ribonucleotides are very very very reactive / unstable - definitely in today's atmosphere / world, and likely even in a neutral / reducing abiotic world. (almost every surface we touch today will be left with very robust
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    Election Commission of India throws “open challenge” to hack voting machines(thehindu.com)

    140 points by moh_maya 10y ago|101 comments
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    by moh_maya 10y ago

    From the Ars technica comments: (ArcSyc) --> Fortunately, they put pricing right up on their website. https://prismic-io.s3.amazonaws.com/axo ... +plans.pdf $15/user/month for basic access to their server an
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    by moh_maya 10y ago

    I doubt if the telecom regulations in India allow for this. The phone numbers have to be mapped to a verified subscriber ID, and mobile telephone companies are very particular when it comes to KYC regs. There was also a recent report that a
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    As Clocks Get More Precise, Time Gets More Fuzzy(sciencealert.com)

    74 points by moh_maya 10y ago|42 comments
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    by moh_maya 10y ago

    they are used for treating prostrate enlargement as well as hair loss in men, among other things.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finasteride https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutasteride But I don&#x2
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    by moh_maya 10y ago

    Just wanted to highlight that the Indian Parliament recently passed a law requiring 26 weeks (6 months) of paid maternity leave for all companies with more than 10 employees [1]. Though, obviously, good on Ikea to extend it to both the pare
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    by moh_maya 10y ago

    8 core CPU; 6 Tflops of performance.
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    by moh_maya 10y ago

    I suspect DL will have a limited to modest role in the actual search / alignment part, and a lot more to do with the analysis part. This includes medical diagnosis, identifying regulatory patterns based on high throughput expression d
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    by moh_maya 10y ago

    I don't think it is because no one has tried it as much as the fact that the workloads need the cpu architecture / are not easily parallizable (as far as I understand). Comp bio in genetics is largely sequence alignment & sear
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    by moh_maya 10y ago

    //OT:: Your user name: a fan of the cre-lox system, or the enzyme itself? Cool uid! In my past life, I've used flp/frt & cre/lox; and studied mismatch repair enzymes. And topoisomerases.. :)
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    by moh_maya 10y ago

    Anandtech's article on the same chips: http://www.anandtech.com/show/11183/amd-prepares-32-core-nap... One of the AMD images claims a naples cpu + 4 instinct cards (gpu) have the equivalent computing power of
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    by moh_maya 10y ago

    Why? I mean, to what end?
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    by moh_maya 10y ago

    I'm not sure of immediate applications. But imagine a situation where you have robots using biopolymers [1]; such storage could be part of their long term storage (along the lines of Amazon glacier). I could also envision a more comple
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    by moh_maya 10y ago

    I agree completely. Being competent in analysis and statistics and understanding confidence & testing (the way of thinking more than the actual procedures / tests) will be of immense value across the board. It's the same reaso
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    by moh_maya 10y ago

    BRO = Border Roads Organization (?). Not the frat 'bro'..
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    by moh_maya 10y ago

    This is very cool, and very hard! The observation has its own significance of course, but I think even the method they used is important in its own right. Also shows how little we still understand of biological fine structure and detail. $
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    by moh_maya 10y ago

    Hi Pratish, just emailed you! :)