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ML is fairly common in genomics, but for identifying predictive variables for cancer status, it's difficult. The training set is a matrix where rows are people (where some have can…

Your intuition here is great. 1. Nano bots -- no idea; outside my wheelhouse. 2. Liquid Biopsy -- many companies are working on diagnostic tests to detect cancer early, monitor tre…

Wow, that's an elegant solution! I also have a difficult time reading large numbers without commas. Because I use Alfred (mac command launcher) quite a bit, I wrote up a simple wor…

The point is to end the constraint that only astronauts can go to space, to open it up to everyone.

> For to accurately and repeatably describe positions IMO, for most use cases, you don't need to describe positions; you provide something analogous to a SQL where clause. Most que…

Actually, a 'debug' or 'dry-run' mode that simply prints out the git commands without running them would be useful for all kinds of users. Newbies can learn from it and pros can ma…

But random-mutation is just ONE part of Darwin's theory. The other critical part is natural selection and that is what allows for organisms that are specialized for their specific …

I would guess that any observed differences are from lifestyle (food type, amount of sun, exercise, beauty products, hair styles) rather than epigenetic differences. I haven't seen…

Epigenetics is a really exciting area of Biology right now as studies begin to investigate the causes and consequences of DNA methylation. It seems that, after all these years, Lam…

Racial disparity doesn't just result from racism or "like preferring like". There are many institutional and structural issues that are partially causal and a frank discussion coul…

Space might be an issue but it's also strategic. I need the higher-resolution screens and have bought (and will continue to buy) the 15" versions even though I don't really need th…

I'm getting the 15" for just that reason. The extra weight is worth having two vim buffers side by side.

The table needs context. How much could the same person make in private industry for a similar job?

I remember people asking the same kinds of questions when Wolfram Alpha was released. Alpha and Watson work in very constrained spaces and transferring their success to general sea…

I agree but my conclusion based on this is that, for the foreseeable future, we'll need hybrid systems that can merge expert knowledge with machine learning. In the coming weeks th…

The Personal Genome Project [personalgenomes.org] is aiming to recruit 100,000 people to publicly release their DNA sequence and medical data. The website currently has phenotype a…

Interestingly, one of the cofounders is Dileep George, previously the CTO and cofounder of Numenta.

I would say "Brain-inspired". As I see it, Numenta's model (as of about a year ago) is based on (1) the hierarchal organization of neurons, (2) the presence of feedback loops in ne…

Instant app compatibility? Wouldn't they also need to provide the same set of APIs that Android provides?

There have been congressional hearings regarding Ticketmaster's monopoly. Not sure why nothing came out of them.

http://www.indiegogo.com/ is getting good press lately but I don't have direct experience using them.

FYI: http://mygengo.com/ provides a platform for crowd-sourced translations. Of course, the market is big enough for multiple players..

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I agree that AT&T should not have "personal privacy" rights but the reasoning described in the article seems very odd to me (IANAL, obviously). To me, "personal" and "person" seem …

I interpreted his quote differently. The difference is not in abstract vs concrete but in open vs closed. Presumably, the researchers building open-source EMR systems do talk to pa…