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by tdaltonc 12y ago
Paul Graham has reported that YC interview admissions exhibit that same pattern.
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Bitkup – Create your predictions for 2014 Brazil World Cup(bitkup.com)
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Shiny – webapp framework for R(shiny.rstudio.com)
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by tdaltonc 12y ago
> Smil introduces a surprising and counterintuitive idea he calls relative dematerialization. As innovation lets us make a given product more efficiently, with fewer materials or energy, prices go down and consumption goes up. This is ca
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by tdaltonc 12y ago
It's always seemed odd to me that most people douse their skin in antibiotics every day. I'd love to see a study on flora, like this study on gut flora: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19018661
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by tdaltonc 12y ago
Who has a hard time focusing on video games?
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by tdaltonc 12y ago
I feel like the economist does this every few years.
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by tdaltonc 12y ago
The viruses didn't have to evolve specifically to fight, it could have been a side effect. For example, maybe cancer cells make better viral hosts because of their unchecked metabolism. So the virus evolves to exploit cancer cells firs
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by tdaltonc 12y ago
Would you be interested in talking about this? I'm trying to get neuroimaging department to standardize methods for communicating data/models/findings and I'd love to talk to someone who's been through it.
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by tdaltonc 12y ago
What is Humble Bundle in his ontology of 'the supply chain of creative work'? it looks like they fill all of the same roles as Apple. I feel like this might not be the right way to divide the industry.
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by tdaltonc 12y ago
A javascript framework? For accessing obscure file types maybe?
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by tdaltonc 13y ago
Any idea what this starburst over the USC campus police headquarters is all about? http://labs.strava.com/heatmap/#17/-118.29075/34.02060/gray/...
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The Seductive Trap of Black-Box Machine Learning(machinelearningmastery.com)
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by tdaltonc 13y ago
What will this be that OpenID isn't? Why should a developer choose to use this authentication solution over one of the popular OAuth based systems (Facebook, Google, Twitter)?
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by tdaltonc 13y ago
BioTech is a subcategory of FRS10.
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by tdaltonc 13y ago
Those are victories, but I wouldn't credit them to peer review. I think of "peer review" as what happens between a manuscript being submitted and it being published.
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by tdaltonc 13y ago
I think that what is different now is the cost of trying out a new idea. A biotech team is able to try something out without buy-in from academia or the big bio-tech firms. They need some money, but much less than they would have needed 10
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by tdaltonc 13y ago
Science has become sclurotic. Teams that are funded outside of state science system are going to be able to take risks and try things that would be unthinkable in academia. Each of these teams in an experiment in a different way to do expe
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by tdaltonc 13y ago
I was more struck by this part: > How many Nature papers are not reproducible? To call out a new bunch of people who are trying something different because people are afraid they’ll fail is sort of hypocritical given that we don’t really
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by tdaltonc 13y ago
I had the exact same experience. I was expecting it to be another 'Big Bang Theory.' But I genuinely enjoy it. It's not the dumb kids making fun of the smart kids. It's the smart kids making fun of themselves.
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by tdaltonc 13y ago
In my experience, CS faculty are more open to the idea that their PhD students probably won't be pursuing academic careers. In biology, the attitude is more like, "if you don't want to be a professor, what are you doing here?
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by tdaltonc 13y ago
Really? What makes you say that? I really like it.
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by tdaltonc 13y ago
I think that Technica could differentiate if it allowed you to quickly scale up and down to match your hardware needs. Long term leases can be hard to escape. They don't emphasise or even mention this as a feature on their site thoug
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by tdaltonc 13y ago
This is an interesting idea. For this to impact market correlation, would you need to insist that everyone place their orders in beta adjusted terms or would it be enough for the bid making protocol to allow for it?
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by tdaltonc 13y ago
The sort of academics I'm talking about don't think about whether or not they'll alarm the public. They don't think of the public as their audience. Thier audience is other academics, and all that they care about is maki
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by tdaltonc 13y ago
Actually this is exactly the kind of thing that I humbly defer to experts on. A dataset and a few hours in R couldn't get you to the truth of this question. It would take me a couple of years to figure out for myself if there is an und
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by tdaltonc 13y ago
Autism isn't my field. But the Autism epidemiologists I've spoken to all think that in addition to those two trends ((1) better coverage, and (2) Shifting diagnostic baseline) there is still a underlying increase in symptom freque
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by tdaltonc 13y ago
If you put a ring on an asteroid, i think that everyone would agree that it would stay there. What's surprising is that the dominate theories of ring formation don't really allow for something this small to form rings. Too small
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by tdaltonc 13y ago
If the goal is just to get the patient cold why not use ice cold blood? Why use saline? You could even use a cardiopulmonary bypass to rapidly cool a patients own blood.
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by tdaltonc 13y ago
The challenge is finding a fair way to compensate talented engineers. Many might do it for free under a "code for science" campaign. But that would require a lot of scientist to realize and then admit how deeply incompetent they a

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