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by toufka 13y ago
Entirely different concept. I want simple data to be easily distributable and interpretable. Make a format that can universally read/write the data in these very basic graphs: http://download.cell.com/images/j
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by toufka 13y ago
yep, yep & thanks :) Most of my peers either use Excel, blindly learn by rote a series of 'voodoo' commands to input into a very specific program running on a dusty old Win98 machine. Get out a calculator. Or beg their CS&#x2
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by toufka 13y ago
It would be really nice to have an open, human-readable scientific data format. Basically a CSV+ that had a single piece of metadata - uniform mandatory SI units. To be able to read/write/import/export that to and from deskt
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by toufka 13y ago
There are a lot of much more basic (far less sexy) things a basic programmer can do that don't need much power. Being able to access those Biopython/biohaskell libraries entirely from a GUI would aid so many people. If you alrea
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by toufka 13y ago
A specific example from my own use. Basic image processing to track a bright spot. I want to be able to take a stack of 100 TIFs, look for a few white spots on a black background - and track their centroids. That's it. State of the a
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by toufka 13y ago
Educating us is not the problem. We know. Just not much we can do about it. We don't have funding to hire coders/developers/designers. And even if we did, we'd likely spend it on that new microscope instead. Much of w
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by toufka 13y ago
In combination with the recent Monsanto case, it'd be consistent that the individual would owe licensing fees for each additional reproduction.
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by toufka 13y ago
It's great that Snowden is a pivotal character in that story too!
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by toufka 13y ago
It'd be perfect. It would have been instigated by the fall of one character, name 'Snowden'. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yossarian#Snowden
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by toufka 13y ago
"Mavericks" is different than both the singular noun/adjective found in Ubuntu, "Maverick" and the plural adjective/noun NBA team, "Mavericks". It is a singular place name - "Mavericks". Co
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by toufka 13y ago
Classically, White has been consumer grade and black has been the professional grade in Apple design. See iPhoto vs Aperture, or iMovie vs Final Cut Pro. The Macbooks were all white, while the pros were (admittedly not black, but) metalli
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by toufka 13y ago
Almost an inevitable consequence of growing too large. You have to start hiring people farther and farther from your core. If you want to spy on everyone, you need everyone's help. But if even a single person isn't willing, you
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by toufka 13y ago
They are not and should not be a consistent critic of any administration. I see them as a non-partisan voice of the people for and against policies which otherwise are without a voice. When the administration issues a call against bad pat
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by toufka 13y ago
It gets weirder too. In SF I can make substantially more money working for a random social startup than I can working as a postdoc directly on cancer-curing science. I have the capacity to work on such science at a high level, or a social
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by toufka 13y ago
Except for one thing. GPS computation is one of the few things we deal with in daily life that actually requires relativistic compensation to be accurate. The satellites are moving so quickly (relative to the receiver) and experience such
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by toufka 14y ago
actually posited on reddit, http://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/1cn9ga/is_missing_st... a day ago - well before his name was released over the police scanners.
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by toufka 14y ago
And this used to matter when you subscribed to a few journals and they arrived at your home or workplace. Those that did were your sources of even access to the information. Now we have this thing called 'google' - where if I want to find
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by toufka 14y ago
Um, google, are you really targeting the right people with Target, Toys R US, Staples, and Office Depot? I was about to give it a try, but I don't think I've bought anything from any of those stores ever - nor do I really plan on it either
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by toufka 14y ago
As a practicing (biomedical) scientist I can say that the claims get bolder the higher the publishing cost. This is because the highest costs generally are associated with the most prestigious journals, and you won't be published in those
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by toufka 14y ago
However, the question is about tiger stripes. And modern cell-signaling analysis has given us the answer. So why no discussion about the answer?
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by toufka 14y ago
Absolutely. As a grad student about to graduate from a prestegious biomedical institution I'm looking at no new grants for the next (few?) years. The NIH is likely zeroing any new grants in order to maintain current grants. Guess what in
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by toufka 14y ago
you do realize those 21 million units can be divided indefinitely. There is currently a soft limit imposed on the size of fractional units - but unlike the total, it can be changed quite easily. So just because there are 21 million units a
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by toufka 14y ago
pretty sure it was Japanese, not Chinese
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by toufka 14y ago
obviously? care to share for those of us who don't read JS fluently?
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by toufka 14y ago
top link: "This file has been truncated, view the full file [by clicking]."
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by toufka 14y ago
Um, it can. I work in a lab that is 3D printing live mammalian cells to build living tissues.
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by toufka 14y ago
It actually wouldn't be much more complicated to have a machine into which you pour a bit of bakers yeast, sugar and water and out comes a highly-enriched biomolecule of your choice. Most (recreational) drugs can be created via natural bio
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by toufka 14y ago
Check out EM reconstruction. Electron microscopy images are taken at very terrible resolution. But you pick out tens of thousands of them, from different angles, and you can average them to get a very high resolution average.
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by toufka 14y ago
You're just not looking... in SF, and on highway 280 - I see a roadster about once every other week (for the past few years), and a couple of Ss in the past few months.
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by toufka 14y ago
Want to teach us? A bunch of us work right near AT&T park in Mission Bay and would love to learn. Even a long day or two from you guys would be awesome. But as was eluded to, we can't pay you - we're poor as shit - especially when compa

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