t_serpico

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by t_serpico 6y ago
Average revenue per user is about 3-4 times higher in the US than in Europe (slide 4). Any ideas why? Do we just have a proclivity to spend more or are we more influenced by advertising?
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by t_serpico 6y ago
I generally agree with the author. I don't have hard evidence but basically feel that the culture, ethos, magic, whatever you want to call it is gone. Does this mean innovation is dead? Of course not! As the author pointed, it will jus
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Illumina to Potentially Purchase Cancer Diagnostic Startup GRAIL(fiercebiotech.com)
1 points by t_serpico 6y ago|0 comments
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by t_serpico 6y ago
unrelated, but I browsed your company website and think the idea is brilliant (especially after reading this: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/acel.12737 , which confirmed my initial speculatio
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by t_serpico 6y ago
I think we still lack fundamental tools that can allow anyone to say with reasonable certainty that drug X will work. All you can do is eliminate as much as risk as possible, but if you don't know baseline risk and how much each precau
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by t_serpico 6y ago
I've never written an email that was too long and then later realized it should have been way more concise. I generally know my intentions prior to writing the email, so if it needs to be short, I'll write it short. The reverse si
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by t_serpico 6y ago
How useful do you think measure theory is from a practical perspective? I've seemed to get by without more or less during my career (which is pretty stats heavy).
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Ad's Don't Work That Way(meltingasphalt.com)
2 points by t_serpico 6y ago|0 comments
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by t_serpico 6y ago
Tree of Life - Tererence Malick Stalker - Andrei Tarkovsky
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by t_serpico 6y ago
Everyone is aware that it's an imperfect model system. We just have nothing better to go off of. Granted, it got us to where are today so it obviously has had practical utility, but we may have exhausted the benefits of simplistic anim
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by t_serpico 6y ago
thats a great analogy
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by t_serpico 6y ago
that was a completely pointless analogy
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by t_serpico 6y ago
that, hubris, and intellectual dishonesty
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One Process(reactionwheel.net)
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by t_serpico 6y ago
This is one key comment that fundamentally differentiates software/hardware from biotech: "Overall the power of recombinant technology and its rapid growth in the 1970s/1990s didn’t necessarily translate into success for new
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by t_serpico 6y ago
Out of curiosity, why would the water form layers of different temperatures?
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by t_serpico 6y ago
You don't need to have a deep understanding of biology to have a decent grasp of drug development. You're operating at a higher level of abstraction. You could argue such a CEO wouldn't be able to independently gauge the valu
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by t_serpico 6y ago
Prenosis | Software Engineer, Applied Machine Learning | Full Time | Onsite | Chicago, IL | 90-120k | www.prenosis.com Prenosis is an early stage molecular diagnostics company specializing in infectious disease and critical care. The basic
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by t_serpico 6y ago
yea it's trivial for Amazon to create their own 'driver network'
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by t_serpico 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_spiking -- this seems like an old idea, no?
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by t_serpico 7y ago
Jesus. It's unbelievable that people can be so petty. This is why if I see an academic with tons of high profile publications, it generally signals that they merely know how to play the publication game (and they of course have the des
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by t_serpico 7y ago
As a somewhat outsider to deep learning, intuitively it seems to be true that if you were able to demystify the black box, then it would be easier to improve your models (as you understand where it succeeds and fails and why). From this per
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by t_serpico 7y ago
"As a tech person, you belong out here in the Bay, even if it's not with us" - What the fuck does that mean? People working in tech not in the bay aren't second tier.
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by t_serpico 7y ago
Glorious
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by t_serpico 7y ago
The difference here is that your input is used to specifically exploit you and others like you.
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Early High-Dose Vitamin D3 for Critically Ill, Vitamin D–Deficient Patients(nejm.org)
1 points by t_serpico 7y ago|1 comments
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MRI Screening for Women with Extremely Dense Breast Tissue(nejm.org)
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by t_serpico 7y ago
What exactly does it mean to invest in a 'philosophy of science'? I broadly interpret that as efforts geared towards gaining a big picture understanding of a problem, its subproblems, and interdependencies.
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by t_serpico 7y ago
It's easy to critique a paper but hard to pinpoint its value in the broader context of a field.
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by t_serpico 7y ago
PhD doesn't imply talent level is higher, just knowledge.

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