thronemonkey

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by thronemonkey 14y ago
I have no idea where this sentiment is coming from. I'm typing this from an MBP with a das keyboard, navigating with a razer mouse and viewing with a samsung monitor, everything works fine.
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by thronemonkey 14y ago
I have no idea where this sentiment coming from. I'm typing this from an MBP with a das keyboard, navigating with a razer mouse and viewing with a samsung monitor, everything works fine.
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by thronemonkey 14y ago
I like that people outside of academia do this :)
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by thronemonkey 14y ago
I'm not saying that biologists should have to think about QM, just than biologists should think about chemistry. Our understanding of gene regulatory networks (which are definitely an emergent phenomenon), for example, has, until relatively
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by thronemonkey 14y ago
It is phrased very poorly, and admittedly does sound pretty crazy, but it made sense to me as someone who works in the field. Gene regulation is a really complicated process, and its becoming increasingly clear that 3D interactions and chro
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by thronemonkey 14y ago
Yeah, I largely agree. My comment was more to indicate that when Xcelerate thinks about simulating a biological process, he thinks on the level of simulating individual atoms, which is much more likely to make someone think about the fundam
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by thronemonkey 14y ago
Oh I see, perhaps I misread. In any case, from what I understand neuroscience needs better experimental methods, not better math, so still sort of an odd challenge—unless the point is have "brain-like" function without regard to how human b
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by thronemonkey 14y ago
>Biology is really just an emergent phenomenon after all. Absolutely, and it enrages me that there are many in the field who don't think like this. I would point out, however, that the physics/chem we have is likely good enough for the
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by thronemonkey 14y ago
"Develop a mathematical theory to build a functional model of the brain that is mathematically consistent and predictive rather than merely biologically inspired." Huh? As far as I'm concerned that's the wrong way to think about neuroscienc
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by thronemonkey 14y ago
I think your fear is totally justified. Programming for play is many people's first step towards a deeper understanding of the machines that run so much of the world these days, and that's important.
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by thronemonkey 14y ago
Moreover, can you imagine America being so good at science without people the will to fail and fail again and again in order to pursue their passion?
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by thronemonkey 14y ago
I agree with the gist of your comment (that we're VERY far away from anything like conquering mortality) but I am a biologist and I would describe myself as a transhumanist — not the Ray Kurzweil, this-is-happening-in-the-next-50-years sens
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by thronemonkey 14y ago
Even in the talk where he introduces the iPhone, Jobs says something along the lines of "we have over 200 patents for technologies that went into this device . . . and we aim to protect them!" and then everyone applauds. Kind of eerie looki
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by thronemonkey 14y ago
Not sure, might have something to do with the ACLU/AMP wanting to set a wide reaching precedent that patents of endogenous DNA sequences are not ok? They won't just want to win the single case, they want to change the wider legal landscape
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by thronemonkey 14y ago
It was easy even then. PCR and Sanger sequencing have been in wide use for a long time. Yes, Myriad did do a lot of streamlining and optimizing, but everything they did was with preexisting technologies. There's nothing novel or innovative
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by thronemonkey 14y ago
The problem with their argument is that pulling out genes in large quantity from an isolated sample is pretty damn easy. Its molecular biology 101; we clone genes all kinds of genes all the time. If you read their technical spec ( http://ww
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by thronemonkey 14y ago
This seems difficult because what makes Hollywood profitable is the movies they make, which cost big dollars and often license expensive IP from others (think Transfomers, superhero movies, etc.). It seems like the kind of thing that's hard
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by thronemonkey 14y ago
This is something that a favorite instructor of mine has stressed to me—the most difficult part of data analysis (and the part in which mistakes are most often made) is not choosing the correct analysis to do, nor actually performing it, bu
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by thronemonkey 14y ago
Transmission is where its at. Can be controlled from a web interface and the command line to boot.
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by thronemonkey 14y ago
Wow looks cool! Might give it a whirl.
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by thronemonkey 14y ago
Damn! Just installed ML, I was hoping to check it out :(
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by thronemonkey 14y ago
It looks pretty slick, but really what I'm looking for is something to manage the huge library of music files I've managed to accumulate :/ Streaming music is exciting, but not the focus I'm looking for. Thanks for the suggestion though!
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by thronemonkey 14y ago
looks interesting, a command line player might be just what the doctor ordered.
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Ask HN: Favorite music player for OSX?
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by thronemonkey 14y ago
I use ggplot2 all day baby. http://had.co.nz/ggplot2/ It has a bit of learning curve but its an extremely flexible way to quickly visualize data in a lot of different ways to get a feel for what's going on in your dataset (you should prob
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by thronemonkey 14y ago
That's the day I'll finally try Linux as my full time OS! :P
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by thronemonkey 14y ago
+1 for MBOC, it is the best molecular biology textbook there is. Read this book before trying to understand anything else about biological systems.
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by thronemonkey 14y ago
The best textbooks for this (this is something of a consensus in the field also) are Molecular Biology of the Cell by Alberts et al. and Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry by Nelson and Cox.
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by thronemonkey 14y ago
We actually have created a few things from scratch. Specifically I'm thinking of Top7, a protein that a friend of mine works on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top7 Protein design is an exciting field.
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by thronemonkey 14y ago
I agree completely, so I try to buy music on bandcamp as much as possible. I basically see it as a donation to the artist and to a service (bandcamp) which I think does a good thing.

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