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   by stevenbedrick 17y ago

   I'll second the "strong grounding in statistics" point. Most computational bioinformatics ultimately boils down to statistics in some form or another...
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   by stevenbedrick 17y ago

   I was actually in Detroit over the summer visiting some extended family, and was awestruck. It's really quite remarkable... within maybe ten blocks of the (surprisingly nice) Renaissance Center and re-developed waterfront area, there were
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   by stevenbedrick 17y ago

   I think the author meant "option+clicking", which causes the scrollbar to jump to the precise location of the click (rather than a simple page-up/page-down, which is what it usually does on click).
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   by stevenbedrick 17y ago

   Anybody who finds this stuff interesting should also check out the Hunterian Collection ( http://www.rcseng.ac.uk/museums/history/collections.html ) at the Royal College of Surgeons in London. In addition to the famous collection of anato
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   by stevenbedrick 17y ago

   What I don't get: the iPhone came out in, what, 2007? Why is Nokia only just now getting around to suing Apple over these patents?
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   by stevenbedrick 17y ago

   Looks like somebody hooked up METAFONT to some hardware controls... nifty UI hack, but, as JCL already said, far from new.
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   by stevenbedrick 17y ago

   Agreed. It's great both as a reference and as a teaching/learning tool.
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   by stevenbedrick 17y ago

   The key to this (lovely) story, IMHO, is the iterative nature of the lesson. Each step was very small, built on the previous one, and resulted in clearly visible changes to the program. For novices, this is absolutely vital- especially in a
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   Google's Twitter/Facebook-esque functionality(google.com)

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    by stevenbedrick 17y ago

    One aspect of the article that I haven't seen much discussion of is the second part- about representing biological processes using an algebraic notation. While this might be really helpful for computational biology, it strikes me as a lousy
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    by stevenbedrick 17y ago

    Well, as a reformed biologist and current informatician, I certainly think that biologists should study CS. However, even more important than studying CS, they absolutely NEED to learn how to program. I've seen lab scientists use extremely
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    by stevenbedrick 17y ago

    Crikey. And I thought that baby-boomers were self-obsessed and whiny... I guess their kids are even worse.
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    by stevenbedrick 17y ago

    Oh, I absolutely agree with the usefulness of InQuickER! My argument was only with the idea of using surcharges to deal with overcrowding. The reason that ERs are chronically overcrowded is not (generally speaking) because of people getti
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    by stevenbedrick 17y ago

    The problem with the surcharge idea (and lots of other market-oriented solutions to health care problems) is that, under our current system, market forces don't really apply in the same way that they apply to, say, items in the grocery stor
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    by stevenbedrick 17y ago

    Great idea! Which EHR/scheduling systems do you currently interoperate with? EmStat, Epic, etc. Alternatively, if you're not directly hooking into the ER's systems: A) What sort of workflow do you use to exchange scheduling and appointment