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by nkrumm 12y ago
Would you mind elaborating on the "dual motor" aspect? That would be down from 4 motors?
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A quantitative analysis of the graying of Barack Obama's hair(pnis.co)
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Ready for Rain: Why Seattleites Crave the End of Summer(medium.com)
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A new report shows nuclear weapons almost detonated in North Carolina in 1961(vox.com)
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by nkrumm 12y ago
We agree! We're working on improving the scope of the reference database. Out of curiosity, what kind of use case do you envision for eukaryotes? (Amoeba, etc?)
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by nkrumm 12y ago
We're working on polishing a command-line version of the tool, amongst other features. But we'd love to get in touch with users/researchers looking to run some large scale projects (our intent is to have an open, free-for-aca
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by nkrumm 12y ago
Good question. We're targeting analysis of "next generation" DNA sequencing data, as is commonly applied in research settings today. Clinicians and researches are beginning to use sequencing to try and identify bacteria, viru
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by nkrumm 12y ago
OP here. We've been working on faster bioinformatics algorithms for the past year – this is a demo of one application which is effectively a fast replacement for BLAST. Happy to answer any questions about tech or usage.
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Show HN: Helix I/O – Ultrafast genomic search(demo.helix.io)
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by nkrumm 12y ago
In the field of genetics-- and specifically for copy number variation (i.e., big chunks of genome deleted or inserted)-- the red/green contrast was deemed inaccessible to color-blind individuals, and so a new red/blue scheme was i
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by nkrumm 12y ago
For a general magazine, I cannot recommend the New Yorker highly enough. By far some of the best writing in the field.
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by nkrumm 12y ago
For those interested in what the text of the email was, from the study [1]: ----- Subject Line: Prospective Doctoral Student (On Campus Today/[Next Monday]) Dear Professor [Surname of Professor Inserted Here], I am writing you because
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Discrimination starts even before grad school, study finds(blogs.nature.com)
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by nkrumm 12y ago
It's true that the price has not practically hit $1k, but it's close. We recently looked to do 1,600 high coverage genomes through one of the X10-capable centers. We were quoted around $1,800 per genome for 101-bp 30X coverage. Th
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Facebook's friend problem(theverge.com)
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Seattle's University Bridge still operates on Compaq 8080 and 5.25" Floppy disks(seattlebikeblog.com)
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by nkrumm 13y ago
This was on HN recently, though it sounds like there's more experimentation to be done.. http://mattvukas.com/2014/02/10/comcast-definitely-throttlin...
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by nkrumm 13y ago
Their paper [1] mentions this, and suggests that ~37% of individuals who returned for repeat testing had differing fingerprints (they assessed this via a control cookie, placed by the site). Although this seems high, this was over the entir
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by nkrumm 13y ago
Nice, honest article. Thanks. It's worth noting that Germany's 'Mitfahrgelegenheit' service [1] is highly successful, and includes many of the same features that Ridejoy built. I've used it a few times to travel bet
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by nkrumm 13y ago
I also agree, but I think the key here is balance: as pointed out above, convenience services such as these are wanted (i.e., people pay), and perhaps allow for more important things to take place -- however, we should think in terms of soc
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by nkrumm 13y ago
Incredible. I can't remember... were the labels really "Hot" "Cool" "Essential" and "In Progress"?
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by nkrumm 13y ago
Im surprised nobody has mentioned that this is a case (or variant) of "Impostor syndrome" (from Wikipedia [1]): "The impostor syndrome, sometimes called impostor phenomenon or fraud syndrome, is a psychological phenomenon in
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Next-gen film-making from LucasArts using realtime rendering (video)(thatvideosite.com)
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Americans Go to Great Lengths to Mask Web Travels, Survey Finds(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
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by nkrumm 13y ago
I agree, of course law enforcement wants to find the right fish. Short of a few bad apples (more food analogies!), I don't think that their intentions are malicious (i.e., find a person then find a crime). Instead, I'm concerned a
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by nkrumm 13y ago
Maybe in this case the false-positives were easily filtered out. However, if the initial search is too broad, and too un-specific, incorrect assumptions and false positives are certain to occur due to human error, prejudice or carelessness.
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by nkrumm 13y ago
Very interesting, thanks for that. I admit I had no idea if statistics was part of the law curriculum or not. Glad to hear it is!
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by nkrumm 13y ago
Exactly. The phrase "probable cause" can (and should) be directly related to the probability of a false positive; in the context of virtually unlimited 'data dumps', this paradigm must be adapted to reflect the probabili