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by patall 10y ago
While I primarily agree, the problem from a more long term prospective is not intra-day balancing but between summer and winter. Every place that is not near to the equator gets less sun in the time of the year when there is more need for e
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by patall 10y ago
I rather wonder why those philanthropists think they are the best to decide what to do with the money? If I understand it correnctly, neither Zuckerberg nor Gates have given up much control over their money, they just cannot use it anymore
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by patall 10y ago
It still does not work out. I am working at a major cancer center with 2.*00 employees incl. 1200 scientists. We have a budget of ~250 million. So you could pay for this centre for 15 years with Zucks money. Hardly enough time to treat all
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by patall 10y ago
Like the good old "chr1" == "1" problem? Well, yeah that’s true. But still I think we have those consortia in place, why do we need another authority. They just have to set (and somewhat enforce) the rules.
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by patall 10y ago
You turn off telomerase, your HSCs stop proliferating, you have no blood cells and game over (a bit exaggerated, but not too much). Cancer is not hard because scientists are stupid, it is hard because it is highly heterogenous and very diff
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by patall 10y ago
There are. Data types are pretty much standardized on the basic level (eg. fastq, bam, bed, vcf etc.). Else, most is done by the big science consortia like TCGA, ICGC & PanCancer. And obviously the big databases from NCBI and EBI-EMBL.
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by patall 10y ago
For those not that deeply involved into this: There is the whole field of bioinformatics that is involved in this kind of research, creating data in the range of multiple peta-bytes, using some of the biggest computing clusters around. That
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by patall 10y ago
That´s true. The bus at night is (or should be) there to prevent drunk drivers.
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by patall 10y ago
Because there is not much a difference in going to Australia or to the next big coast if you are staying in your hotel anyways. Many people go on vacation trips without any reason but showing off to friends how well they get around. Going w
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by patall 10y ago
Honestly, such projects keep me shivering at night. This time it is ISIS, next time it is an anti-google activist group, a political movement or what ever. If anyone should have such power, it should be the government and not a private acto
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by patall 10y ago
Might not be in physics or mathematics but in Life Science it certainly almost is. At the institute I am working right now has about 20 PhD students per full professor (every 3 years anew, so a Professor has 10 times that number in 30 years
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by patall 10y ago
Interesting, I had not thought of the investment market. My statement still stands though as the article also states that Vietnam is the primary consumer (at 1/15 of the population and 1/80 the GDP of China). Presumeptly China cou
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by patall 10y ago
You are mistaken. China very effectively fights against rhino horn smuggeling nowadays. It is primarily vietnam where the horn is consumed. It goes so far that the demand is heavily influenced by the economic situation in vietnam. Example s
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by patall 10y ago
From what I get from my own research, the talk about HGP-write and a few chats with Nick Goldman (who is a very funny guy) himself, the main problem is neither storing nor accessing (which you can improve by probing and is also not that imp
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by patall 10y ago
You are seriously mistaken. At abient temperature, DNA is very stable. Even in an active environment as a human, it keeps quite stable for about 100 years. Isolated for multiple millenia. It is the reason we can sequence neanderthals etc no
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by patall 10y ago
I totally expect this to happen. Although it will only lead to advertisers also using those programs to check their content and modifying it until it fits. I mean we already have pretty much an always on going evolution in advertising, why
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by patall 10y ago
Actually, genome editing would rather provide a defense against such an attack as you could specifically augment your DNA to look like someone else or be heterogeneous (within limits of autoimmune responses). I also fail to see how it could
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by patall 10y ago
In addition to the other comments, note that both the Chaos Computer Club and Freifunk are based in Berlin. The CCC has a space in Mitte though I am note sure that compares to Hacker Dojo.
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by patall 10y ago
Validity probably depends on whether you use a professional GPU or gaming devices. I am currently running NMF on a GTX980 and from time to time the algorithm totally fails, probably due to missing EC. I hope our new Tesla server will solve
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by patall 10y ago
yeah, you just invented GWAS (genome wide association studies), something done on huge scale but obviously you always need more data and better features. It' so wide spread to be considered a belief on its own: http://www.th
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by patall 10y ago
Exactly. Treating the symptoms does not mean treating the cause and might even enhance it.
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by patall 10y ago
A counter example would be Monsanto which pretty much saved (or at least fully transformed) the company from one of these small basic research groups. It think this is more a phenomenon that these big companies become more and more like nat
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by patall 10y ago
Seriously, you are critizising a technology that is not there yet in comparison to a technology that is also not there yet? Recharging electrical cars in a smart grid, long range capability (we all know what 200 miles in a Tesla means and h
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by patall 10y ago
I honestly think you should rethink this, I do not think the article is biased and clearly states that hydrogen is not cheap. And as soon as we are getting fully self-driving cars, the hydrogen vehicle can drive to the fuelling station on i
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by patall 10y ago
Not entirely true. I am not sure about the US but in Germany we have in times of very strong wind negative electricity prices. And that is to some degree the beauty of hydrogen: you can store it relatively well for some time, so you do not
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by patall 10y ago
No, that is not the problem. The science may be expensive but the main cost is seldomly the researcher him- or herself. Equipment is expensive and always will be, I mean we are speaking about cutting edge science not counting birds in the g
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by patall 10y ago
There is a fundamental difference between "half the studies are wrong" and "half of the people have encountered false results (at anytime in their life)". I agree that even "hard" sciences often claim dubious r
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by patall 10y ago
I disagree. While the price of agricultural product declines, the production increases. And because transportation gets better, the population change in the developed countries matters less as you get to serve the world market. Also, at lea
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by patall 10y ago
I honestly do not get it. How can you make any assumptions about an investment when you only consider prices then and now? I mean, this land has produced goods for a hundered years, why aren't those counted to the three times the inves
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by patall 10y ago
> If I understand you correctly, we can replace the cells in charge of producing other cells (stem cells) to make the changes lasting, but we are not yet certain how the changes will play with the rest of their environment (epigenetics).

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