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Asking over 8500 students to pick a random number from 1 to 10(reddit.com)
3 points by sprague 8y ago|3 comments
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Insights from 10 years of Facebook/Google/YouTube data(medium.com)
2 points by sprague 8y ago|0 comments
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Amateur sleuthing clues to colorectal cancer(medium.com)
6 points by sprague 8y ago|0 comments
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by sprague 8y ago
Interesting stat from a blog post announcing uBiome has the world's largest microbiome dataset: "47% of our samples come from female users, 45% coming from male users, and 8% come from people who identify with non-binary gender.&q
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uBiome – The Largest Human Microbiome Dataset(ubiome.com)
2 points by sprague 8y ago|2 comments
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by sprague 8y ago
Interesting chart enclosed in the SEC filing for LunaDNA, a company that will give you shares in exchange for your DNA and other personal health data.
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Your DNA is worth $21(sec.gov)
19 points by sprague 8y ago|3 comments
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Yes, Kefir changes the microbiome and I can prove it(medium.com)
1 points by sprague 8y ago|0 comments
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by sprague 8y ago
and I have a ton of wedding photos taken on that Quicktake that I'd love to be able view again. Any idea how to convert QuickTake formatted-photos into JPEG?
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People are not as scared about biological warfare “as they should be.”(businessinsider.com)
1 points by sprague 8y ago|0 comments
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by sprague 8y ago
An interesting move into therapeutics, from their previous main business in diagnostics. I wonder how much due diligence the new investors did.
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by sprague 8y ago
“When you actually talk to real doctors and patients, suddenly the things that weren’t apparent to computer scientists working in a basement with data become more evident,” Am I the only one who thinks, frankly, computer scientists already
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If AI is going to be the world’s doctor, it needs better textbooks(qz.com)
1 points by sprague 8y ago|1 comments
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Lehigh research team to investigate a “Google for research data”(lehigh.edu)
86 points by sprague 8y ago|17 comments
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by sprague 8y ago
Then there's this $500K just awarded by the NSF to build a "Google for data sets". I wonder if, before making these sorts of grants, the NSF looks at what Google and other and other companies are already (or likely) doing.
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by sprague 8y ago
The author of the original piece (Gideon) is quoting a different author (Brian). The "[sic]" is not about amplifying a spelling mistake, but rather to make clear that the quote is 100% verbatim.
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Maduro on Petro, Venezuela's new official cryptocurrency(bloomberg.com)
1 points by sprague 8y ago|0 comments
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by sprague 8y ago
Amazon Prime is the right idea long-term. Get people to sign on for one anchor subscription (free shipping) and then add other ancillary subscriptions over time. I assume somebody at AMZN right now is looking into adding all-you-can-eat ac
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Comparing recommendations from two microbiome gut tests(medium.com)
1 points by sprague 9y ago|0 comments
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Computer models can predict gender with 95.6% accuracy based on typing style(sciencemag.org)
1 points by sprague 9y ago|0 comments
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Calculating reproducibility of scientific papers(sciencemag.org)
1 points by sprague 9y ago|0 comments
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My Microbiome on Soylent(medium.com)
1 points by sprague 9y ago|0 comments
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Use SQLite for public databases instead of CSV(trackchanges.postlight.com)
4 points by sprague 9y ago|1 comments
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Science at uBiome(ubiome.com)
1 points by sprague 9y ago|0 comments
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A generating neural network (GNN) from Y Combinator's archive of startups(blog.revolutionanalytics.com)
2 points by sprague 9y ago|0 comments
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DIY recipes to make your own expensive pharma drugs(fourthievesvinegar.org)
100 points by sprague 9y ago|73 comments
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by sprague 9y ago
These same criticisms were lobbed at Microsoft 15 years ago (and IBM before that), but then, as now, people forget that part of why some of us love technology is that nobody can rest on past success. Ten years from now, some new upstart is
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Russians unsuccessfully tried to hack states election systems(geekwire.com)
2 points by sprague 9y ago|0 comments
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by sprague 9y ago
You can't stop science. Someday, somebody, somewhere will answer the questions that this IRB requirement silenced. Whether it's via underdeveloped countries, or through the use of technologies too new to catch the regulator's
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What makes PokémonGo so Addictive?(medium.com)
1 points by sprague 10y ago|0 comments

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