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Theranos scandal could end up being a legal nightmare for the company and/or WSJ(wired.com)
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by shas3 11y ago
> maintain many of their technical advances as trade secrets rather than patent them. That... is true about most companies. Patents are almost always strategic disclosures.
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by shas3 11y ago
I find it hard to understand what circumstances force them into this kind of homelessness. In most cases, within a 1 hr public transit commute, you can find a reasonably priced studio apartment. This reminds me of how poverty can sometimes
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by shas3 11y ago
I don't think anything is wrong, per se. But the notion that in 2015, we don't have more widely used fancier technology on stethoscopes is interesting. There are some problems in how stethoscopes are used, primarily because a lot
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by shas3 11y ago
Under FDA or American Psychiatric Association guidance and regulations, it could be a suitable aid for help in diagnosing mental health issues. Yet, it would only be ethically reasonable for it to be nothing more than a diagnostic tool in t
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The dangers ahead if tech unicorns fail(wsj.com)
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Many people do not have a choice over taking on credit card debt, in at least two ways: 1. Expenses over which they have little or no control, like health, addictions, etc. 2. Behavioral modifications are necessary to get out of debt, and o
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by shas3 11y ago
I'd add the amorphously defined 'weak' to the things that make people targets. News media, for example, has long been exploiting the basic human weakness of having an appetite for sensational news even if it contradicts facts
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by shas3 11y ago
> I'm wondering what is so difficult about this task. Well, conceptually it sounds simple. But it is certainly a complex engineering problem. You are forgetting building conforming actuators and sensors, controlling these, image reg
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by shas3 11y ago
The consolidation in the semiconductors/chip IP industry, thus far in 2015: 1. Intel-Altera: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-01/intel-buys... 2. Avago-Broadcom (and earlier, Avago + LSI):
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by shas3 11y ago
Also, sacking of Taxila/takshashIla [1] and Nalanda [2] in Indian subcontinent by Huns and Islamic marauders. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxila [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nalanda
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by shas3 11y ago
This is incredible stuff! One of the less-hyped slow revolution is what's happening in non-wearable sensing. Some of it is driven by the consumer-ization of advanced radar systems, a technology that was the domain of the military and s
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Moore's Curse: On the Historical Growth Rates of Various Technologies(spectrum.ieee.org)
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by shas3 11y ago
A good analysis of this is by Vaclav Smil (One of Bill Gates's book club guys) http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/renewables/moores-curse
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by shas3 11y ago
The only technology that has consistently grown at an exponential rate of doubling each year is IC/computing. It is utterly unreasonable to expect other sciences and technologies to exhibit similar growth. There doesn't exist a Fa
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by shas3 11y ago
It's all about the scale. Grossly speaking, on an average, Eiffel Tower is perhaps 99.999% air. But is this true at every scale? Does every cubic meter of the Eiffel Tower have 99.999% air? Or does every cubic micrometer? If we were to
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by shas3 11y ago
> That is precisely why a lot of us pursue STEM degrees - it is easier to immigrate with a STEM degree, and the job market is favorable. That's a needless generalization. Can you back it up with data from surveys? It is an offensive
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by shas3 11y ago
India, China, and South Korea (all countries with heavy STEM emphasis) together make up close to half of all foreign students in the US [1]. At just the graduate level, India and China contribute ~70% of all science and engineering students
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by shas3 11y ago
That is akin to asking, did he owe to it to us to write up his proof rather than lock up reams of papers in his cabinet? As others have elaborated, academics owe it to the community to not just spend their time 'working', but comm
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by shas3 11y ago
> It's pretty clear that some fields and paths to graduate study in the US are far more open to non-citizens than others, and that visa programs targeting STEM fields do provide an extra incentive for non-citizens to go into STEM gr
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by shas3 11y ago
I think a big problem is that he is not doing enough legwork to get out and talk about his ideas. Researchers should not publish major papers without doing a 'roadshow', especially when it is so dense with new ideas as Mochizuki&#
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by shas3 11y ago
I think there is a bit of exaggeration on the non-availability of grant money for research in applied science/technology. @sama acknowledges the adequacy of funds for applied research explicitly, "[1] Funding for technological dev
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The best story I heard about this was from a math grad student / instructor about how you had to jump through multiple hoops to even re-up on chalk for the blackboard.
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by shas3 11y ago
> "recreate" Other companies have had the 15% / 20% culture, etc. long before Google. Example, http://archive.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/1998/01/9858
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At one point in the page, it actually plays the old Microsoft Band video! http://imgur.com/a/v71Bi
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by shas3 11y ago
Why Chinese and Indians? Seriously, I'd like to know why your humor presupposes they'll be the ones to do it first.
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Incorrect count on visas disrupts lives of highly skilled immigrants(mobile.nytimes.com)
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Jerry Coyne retires from University of Chicago and introspects on his career(whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com)
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Well, given how common forest fires are, I think it can be useful. In the last two years, I've been through three forest-fire caused 'air quality warnings' which caused genuine discomfort in Arizona, Minnesota, and Oregon.
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> And why do kids text so much at school? Because they are bored to death by mind-numbing subjects and teaching that doesn't actually teach. Texting is the symptom, not the disease. Actually there is plenty of evidence that texting

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