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by pak 11y ago
I'm not sure how definitive that guide is. For what it's worth, all of my medical textbooks are very careful to include licensing and attribution information for all of their medical images, including X-rays. So even if there&#x27
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by pak 11y ago
I can see your point, but almost all clinical research already involves a consent process where the patient is told the benefits and risks of participating; signing away a license to a subset of their medical data could simply be included i
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by pak 11y ago
Whoa, hold on there. HIPAA generally gives patients the right to access their medical records [1], but I don't think it says anything about whether they "own" it in the sense that they get to edit the data to their liking (I
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by pak 11y ago
I can totally understand your sentiment. I would just note that writing a unit test for a class and designing a metric that unambiguously measures good clinical care are on very different levels of difficulty. In our research group, we&#x27
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by pak 11y ago
You found a singular NEJM paper by the celebrated "checklist champion" Atul Gawande for a method that applies only to one specialty, surgery. How can you be sure that this generalizes to all medicine? Given that doctors in most ot
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by pak 11y ago
I'm sorry you feel that way. You don't come off as unsure when you answer all your own questions and call these answers "undeniably true fact." But yes, I was more argumentative than I should have been. Best of luck to y
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by pak 11y ago
> What are you trying to prove, that it wasn't profitable? I'm trying to tell you that your chosen definition of "profitable" is utterly meaningless in a discussion of economics, but you have completely closed your mi
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by pak 11y ago
Look, man, there's a reason this thread is all the way at the bottom of the page. If you actually think that your "literal definition of profit" (that any returned Y in the future, minus X loaned now, exceeds 0) is at all mea
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by pak 11y ago
Is the fair market value for the interest rate on a loan really that abstract? This must be why with the simplest rhetorical flourishes, the financial industry can convince people that their hundreds of millions in lobbying dollars are well
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by pak 11y ago
Sure, it was a loan--that no other financial institution could have dared to make, thereby making the expected interest rate on the open market for such a loan much higher than whatever accounting tricks are used today to determine that the
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by pak 11y ago
The paper uses Illumina reads. The "laptop" in the article is referring only to the platform for analysis, not sequencing.
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by pak 11y ago
This is a wonderful contribution from a group that has been working in this field for a long time, and is further evidence that cheap and prevalent DNA sequencing will likely make its greatest near term impact in how we manage infectious di
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by pak 11y ago
Sure, you can connect the towers to the carrier however you want, and this is why certain carriers can sometimes hack in better quality protocols within-network (see the discussion on voLTE further down the page). Carrier-to-carrier connect
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by pak 11y ago
It's the combination of wireless packets dropping and the audio having to be degraded to 8bit/8kHz to pass between carriers that really brings on the terrible. It's kind of like TCP over TCP [1] -- works well enough a lot o
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by pak 11y ago
If you want to know the real reason for this, it's because normal cell calls still have to go over POTS ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_old_telephone_service ) on the backend, which typically uses 8-bit mu-law
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Online Security Braces for Quantum Revolution(nature.com)
8 points by pak 11y ago|0 comments
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by pak 11y ago
Pretty much anything in the "network biology" field will likely interest you, but here are a few sample articles (heavily biased toward people that I currently work with): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18
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by pak 11y ago
This is actually something one of my thesis committee members worked on. http://www.cell.com/abstract/S0092-8674(12)00776-3 In silico whole cell models are an extremely new concept, and his study demonstrated its capab
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FDA approves Theranos test for HSV-1(fortune.com)
40 points by pak 11y ago|24 comments
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by pak 11y ago
Well, also look closely at the most common failure modes for a front fork: (1) the handle bars wiggle out of alignment, which still allows you to brake and stop safely; (2) the axle nuts are loose, in which case you probably won't even
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BMC retracts 43 papers amid fake peer-review scandal(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by pak 12y ago|0 comments
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by pak 12y ago
True, but you've just emphasized my (and the GP's) point: 3D ultrasound is probably most relevant for pregnant women and 3rd world situations. Incidentally, besides the abdomen and pelvis, you can safely CT just about any other pa
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by pak 12y ago
Most of the ultrasound-using doctors that I've talked to in med school seem to agree with you; if there's a real need for 3D imaging today, doctors (in 1st world countries at least) send the patient for a CT. The cost/benefi
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by pak 12y ago
What if driverless cars can call upon a network of remote human drivers that can, in the case of computer confusion, take over and drive the car through the troublesome area? Sort of like an on-demand remote pilot, drone style. That's
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by pak 12y ago
In a workplace environment with a shared kitchen it absolutely is worth it to an average manager to avoid the spills and mess of grounds and keep everything in the pods. This is where I saw most Keurigs first, and then it seemed to "h
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by pak 12y ago
Canvas tiles are exactly the approach we took in making the ChromoZoom genome browser, where we wanted people to smoothly zoom in on client drawn data at 60fps through 10 orders of magnitude: http://chromozoom.org (Note that it&
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by pak 12y ago
Interns are typically not fully licensed to practice medicine without supervision, which is the point of a residency program (they take more exams to this effect at the end of the residency). This is why the hospital has enormous bargainin
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by pak 12y ago
> Despite the numerous tutorials out there, I still don't know what, if there even is one, the canonically best way to install ruby and necessary gems is. Wait, what? On production, install the exact ruby you need from your favor
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by pak 12y ago
Honestly, I hope for the best, but even if you find a way to break down the walling mechanisms of one cancer, a hundred will spring up to take its place. Leukocyte extravasation and infiltration is an intensely complicated process and has
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by pak 12y ago
> Imagine a billion nanobots swarming inside your body, networked [1] and analyzing every cell they come across. Over time, they build a gigantic database of your cells. Then they'll be able to use some heuristics to determine whet

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