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by robg 12y ago
Neumitra - continuous brain health - Boston, MA at South Station/Leather District Full-time for embedded, mobile (iOS and Android), and full stack applications from physiological data. At Neumitra we're building medical electronic
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Mapping the Most Stressful Places in Life to Figure Out How Stress Is Killing Us(fastcoexist.com)
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President Obama to Reddit: Thanks for your help on net neutrality(washingtonpost.com)
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Mapping the Most Stressful Places in Life to Figure Out How Stress Is Killing Us(fastcoexist.com)
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by robg 12y ago
Neumitra - continuous brain health - Boston, MA at South Station/Leather District Full-time At Neumitra we're building medical electronics to measure and manage you and your world. We're data scientists by training in neurosc
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by robg 12y ago
I've watched fMRI (the God region of the brain!) studies poison the well. Pop-science is an endless, multimedia beast. Research that replicates is truth winning out. Everything else, including many high profile journal articles, is jus
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by robg 12y ago
You are greatly overstating the complaints. It's not impossible at all. These efforts trade precision and control for quantity and real world conditions. That's a very fair trade off and the results remain to be seen and improved
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by robg 12y ago
Those are very strong statements without any evidence cited. Yes, bike riding is hard, but a bunch of clinical research studies aren't uniquely special or more accurate, not even with more frequent measurements or studier electrode to
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by robg 12y ago
I'm a neuroscientist with a decade in fMRI and that criticism is unwarranted. Scalp based EEG is inherently noisy but if hundreds toward thousands of people are using these, there's a real chance the signal could overwhelm the noi
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by robg 12y ago
I really love this work by Arlene and her team but the graphic here is each street mapped on one ride by one rider.
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by robg 12y ago
We are a tribal species. Teams (and schools) are modern tribes.
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by robg 12y ago
I was trained as a scientist in Pittsburgh. The Steelers taught me far more about the city and its people than any experiment I ran or article I read.
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by robg 12y ago
Funny how Chomskyan approaches to Linguistics and Syntax require their own indoctrination and belief system and "the most exotic information and understanding about all kind of arcane issues". Meanwhile, statistical approaches con
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by robg 12y ago
Asking YC companies to crowdsource benevolence is hardly earth shattering. I'd be surprised if they don't already. The difference is offering this guide as a public resource. The risk is that firms could still treat YC companies w
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by robg 12y ago
Having dealt with a wide range of great to a-hole scientists, I think you're subtly onto something here. Great scientists propagate through having a strong lineage. They effectively train, nurture, and then spin out more great scientis
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by robg 12y ago
Exactly my thought. The scatterplot he mentions in Footnote 1 seems uniquely in their wheelhouse.
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by robg 12y ago
[1] I'm not saying that if you sort investors by benevolence you've also sorted them by returns, but rather that if you do a scatterplot with benevolence on the x axis and returns on the y, you'd see a clear upward trend. [2
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by robg 12y ago
Does Apple have any way to detect a Point of Interest (POI)? This would seem to be their challenge today then designs like this could fall out. Am I missing something?
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by robg 12y ago
Really interesting to consider how self-driving cars will enable lower insurance rates.
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Among the Disrupted(nytimes.com)
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by robg 12y ago
Just re-post tomorrow?
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by robg 12y ago
Boston, MA at South Station/Leather District Full-time At Neumitra we're building medical electronics to measure and manage you and your world. We're data scientists by training in neuroscience, aerospace, and genomic enginee
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by robg 12y ago
One of the few speakers I saw as an academic and said to myself "This guy is a time traveler. I need to really pay attention to what he's saying." That was in 2001. A decade+ later and we're still trying to catch up.
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by robg 12y ago
Not true, real biological impediments that take time to overcome.
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by robg 12y ago
Amazing that 15 years ago I was watching primates do these things and more with neural implants. Perfect instance where the idea is amazing and revolutionary but the reality is so hard it takes decades if not longer to accomplish.
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by robg 12y ago
Not for nothing, the laying of new memories in the brain is exactly context sensitive. The hippocampus is actively weighting new information based on what we already know. And emotion hacks the hippocampal patterns that much more.
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by robg 12y ago
So are human brains.
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by robg 12y ago
Interested in tools for mental health and performance? At Neumitra we build data-driven technologies to help measure and manage stress, sleep, and exercise for individuals and large populations. Founded by a neuroscientist and engineers at
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by robg 12y ago
Thomas Edison is perhaps the best counterexample, especially as compared to Tesla. Edison won exactly because he was willing to be very mean. http://www.amazon.com/Topsy-Startling-Crooked-Elephant-Ameri...
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by robg 12y ago
I thought exactly that and thought it could be really cool. Like the Michael Jackson and Tupac holograms.

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