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Using CRISPR to learn how a body builds itself(theatlantic.com)
2 points by roye 10y ago|0 comments
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A DNA sequencer in every pocket(theatlantic.com)
4 points by roye 10y ago|0 comments
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by roye 11y ago
It could be that the standard for moonshots changed with the formation of Alphabet. That's the impression I got from yesterday's press coverage.
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by roye 11y ago
The mention of groups of robots learning together by exposing themselves to the real world and sharing lessons is very interesting to consider. I wonder if this is inspired by ants searching for food and leaving scent trails. Are there succ
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by roye 11y ago
Sounds like an accurate description of a ponzi scheme.
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The awesomest 7-year postdoc(blogs.scientificamerican.com)
3 points by roye 11y ago|0 comments
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by roye 11y ago
I don't think their intent is to replace existing database servers. My impression is that they have copied the data onto their servers to make analysis on their cloud service more attractive. For example, the fact that the 1000 Genomes
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by roye 11y ago
same here, had to watch some of those lectures at 2x speed
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by roye 11y ago
Outside of DBs, indexes have shown themselves to be extremely useful in string problems in bioinformatics (my area of research). The modern workhorses of this trend are the Burrows Wheeler transform + FM index (together) and Bloom filters (
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Nanopores: a sequencer in your backpack(nature.com)
1 points by roye 11y ago|0 comments
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by roye 11y ago
Twitter is actually becoming quite popular in science. It's a great tool to hear of new papers, find out about new findings reported in conferences you can't attend, and communicate in a public forum. Don't think you would ha
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Miller is like sed, awk, cut, join, and sort for name-indexed data such as CSV(github.com)
10 points by roye 11y ago|2 comments
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by roye 11y ago
It seems like all the hash implementations I've seen have an insertion rate of ~Million/sec. I wonder if it's possible to get at least an order of magnitude faster (single threaded). Are we close to the input string parsing
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Twitter users outside the US will soon be served by Twitter International Co
1 points by roye 11y ago|1 comments
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by roye 12y ago
I found this set of lectures to be really nice: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLT_GI2oINs-CRuwMGDa5_... Wish I had time to get through them all...
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by roye 12y ago
Despite the title, I found the details regarding rodent brains and the kiss and spit mechanism much more engaging and convincing than the discussion of effects on humans.
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Fiber-Famished Gut Microbes Linked to Poor Health(scientificamerican.com)
55 points by roye 12y ago|28 comments
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In Iceland’s DNA, New Clues to Disease-Causing Genes(nytimes.com)
15 points by roye 12y ago|1 comments
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by roye 12y ago
I didn't get much from the linked blurb, but the title made me think: if you sample training data exhaustively and then run a learning process, could you then take the training data maximizing algorithm performance to then better train
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When whole genome sequencing doesn't give us the whole genome(labspaces.net)
2 points by roye 12y ago|0 comments
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Simple Rules for Lifelong Learning According to Hamming(journals.plos.org)
169 points by roye 12y ago|11 comments
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New research connects food costs and the retail mix to the surge in U.S. obesity(bloomberg.com)
8 points by roye 12y ago|0 comments
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Ynet Interview: An Israeli startup addressing the passenger problem(youtube.com)
2 points by roye 12y ago|0 comments
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The big problem with police body cameras(businessweek.com)
2 points by roye 12y ago|0 comments
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by roye 12y ago
That's what struck me about it as well. I think things like this along with body/health tracking will be the true IoT killer apps
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Israel's water ninja(businessweek.com)
24 points by roye 12y ago|25 comments
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by roye 12y ago
sounds like Cython. Are any such optimizations planned for 3.5 (or beyond)?
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by roye 12y ago
This was discussed two weeks ago ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8779532 ). The title was changed at the source since it was originally too bombastic.
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RQC2: a protein that can elongate other proteins(sciencemag.org)
2 points by roye 12y ago|0 comments
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A stethoscope for the next 200 years(wsj.com)
2 points by roye 12y ago|1 comments

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