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Academic here. It's actually great for us. You're usually the first to see the implications for your niche area and have a chance to get a hot paper out rather than a moderately im…

The fed tracks this data: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/APU0000709112

Somebody has to pay for the trial. Drugs are expensive and the amount needed to dose a single person is orders of magnitude more than mice. So who funds the study? If it's the gove…

Somewhere between $500K and $2M for an mRNA vax is my guesstimate. You don't have to hypothesize about what the rich might do, though. The co-founder of GitLab was diagnosed with o…

For all the folks complaining about "it's only in mice! things never work in humans!" -- I work at MSK and we definitely have seen success treating PDAC in humans: https://www.natu…

PI at a cancer center here. These two ideas are not mutually exclusive. Cancer is indeed not 1 disease but many countless ones. At the same time, cancer diagnoses are based on site…

> Sugar basically doesn’t exist in nature without fiber Honey?

It's political news: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new …

Here goes nothing: - bio startups rise, ag tech startups rise, food startups rise-- everything to do with engineering life. - second and third tier cities rise in the US while firs…

The type of quants talked about in this article probably has a PhD in math, stats, CS (with a focus on machine learning), or something similar.

Yes. Exactly this. Building models that assess risks and potential gains. A quant is a catch-all term though, so one person may be working on models that predict some sector of the…

This is why people do twin studies. Orphaned twins that were separated at birth are as close to a natural instrument as one could ever hope to get.

You can if it's defective: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon_law

The problem with the idea of cheap screening tools is Bayes' theorem. If doctors go ordering this for most people since it's just a blood test, and if only 1% of people ever really…

Except it seems there is good case law to show that in fact suspected cannot be forced to open a combination lock, as it falls under fifth amendment protection. They can, however, …

The usual way they reduce variance in these man vs. machine poker showdowns is to do "pairs" play. You have two humans playing simultaneously in isolated locations. The decks for b…

Educate them to do... what, exactly? What could Uber do with two million mostly-uneducated truck drivers that are scattered all through out the country? Most do not want to move, d…

Stan ( http://mc-stan.org/documentation/ ) is arguably the most advanced language. It's especially pushing the bounds of doing automatic variational inference, for the scenario whe…

> The data is useless unless it is annotated (e.g. a human labels where the lanes are, where the obstacles are, what the bicylist is doing, etc.) - that's the bottleneck, not colle…

Not sure what the source is on that chart, but I'll assume it's credible. If that's the case, then despite what the article says, it's hard to believe that most of this decline is …

It's not that much data. You're storing about 2M voxel image every 2s or so. There are open repositories out there already: https://openfmri.org/

Most (good) encryption schemes have the property that knowing part of the message, or some other information like message length, will not help you decrypt the message.

I guess I don't understand what is really novel about this. Don't brands like Digiorno and Freschetta already have highly-optimized pizza assembly lines? Is it really that hard to …

The contrastive divergence paper that Hinton published in 2006 definitely set the field off again. I remember entering grad school in 2010 and everyone was still really excited abo…

Isn't the labeling really tricky, though? In my limited experience, EHRs aren't usually setup to handle structured labeling of something like an image. There are lots of different …