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Marketing/BizDev Co-founder for Thinklab https://thinklab.com I'm looking for a co-founder for Thinklab. I believe there is opportunity to dramatically accelerate academic research…

What if there were a startup that partnered with science funders to help them distribute their money in a way that produced better models of doing science? That's the idea behind T…

Hey folks. Thinklab founder here. Would be happy to answer any questions you have.

> The tricky part is that the current system may act as a filter where the best people will still try to hide their methods and get into the existing Journals because it's best for…

Yes. I mean broken in the sense that the incentives of individual scientists are not aligned with what's in the best interests of science a as a whole. It's the reason scientists h…

Great! I read your comments and have to admit I'm unfamiliar with what a "collaborative atlas" is or would be? But I certainly agree it's a big problem that scientists are only rew…

I agree -- we're making great progress. Science IS working. My point is really just that since the advent of the internet, we've had the potential of making progress much faster.

> Academic publishing is obsolete To expand upon this, it's not just publishing papers behind paywalls that is the problem. The entire system we use to advance humanities shared kn…

My startup, Thinklab, is trying fix the incentives. The concept is to partner with science funders and help them distribute their money in a way that rewards scientists for openly …

Hey Lucas, I'd love to connect. I'm currently in Saigon bootstrapping http://thinklab.com Regarding talent -- what do you think about the technical talent here? I find myself still…

We're also working on this as part of ThinkLab http://thinklab.com/publications

Thanks for the comment. To answer your questions - Funding availability by country will depend on who our funding partners are (right now we have none). - Yes, we could support exi…

It takes data (last 4 weeks of market update data) and learns how to predict price movements and how to make profitable trades.

This is such an odd comment. What motivates you to write such a comment? And what makes my system amateur and noob in your eyes?

There are plenty of shops making tons of money with HFT who do not have deal flow at all - it's got nothing to do with luck. Survivorship bias would mean I simply got lucky. If you…

It's easy to fall into that mindset. And in fact, that mindset is right back where I am now. The only reason I had the gall to attempt this in the first place was the the simple fa…