abhikshah

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by abhikshah 7y ago
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 cancer and some don't) and columns are genomic featur
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by abhikshah 7y ago
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 treatment, detect recurrence, etc. Some of these products are a
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by abhikshah 7y ago
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 workflow to re-display selected numbers with commas. Not a
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by abhikshah 8y ago
The point is to end the constraint that only astronauts can go to space, to open it up to everyone.
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by abhikshah 13y ago
> 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 querying in cell biology appears to content-based rathe
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by abhikshah 14y ago
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 make sure that the commands are going to do what they expect i
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by abhikshah 16y ago
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 could help uncover them as they relate to the startup world. Sad
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by abhikshah 16y ago
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 the better CPU or GPU. I'm sure there are many others like me
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by abhikshah 16y ago
I'm getting the 15" for just that reason. The extra weight is worth having two vim buffers side by side.
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by abhikshah 16y ago
The table needs context. How much could the same person make in private industry for a similar job?
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by abhikshah 16y ago
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 search is very much non-trivial. So, no Watson will not make a
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by abhikshah 16y ago
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 there will be a lot of hand-wringing about Watson's performanc
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by abhikshah 16y ago
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 and medical history data and genotyping data for the first te
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by abhikshah 16y ago
Interestingly, one of the cofounders is Dileep George, previously the CTO and cofounder of Numenta.
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by abhikshah 16y ago
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 neural architectures and (3) the importance of temporal proces
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by abhikshah 16y ago
Instant app compatibility? Wouldn't they also need to provide the same set of APIs that Android provides?
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by abhikshah 16y ago
There have been congressional hearings regarding Ticketmaster's monopoly. Not sure why nothing came out of them.
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by abhikshah 16y ago
http://www.indiegogo.com/ is getting good press lately but I don't have direct experience using them.
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by abhikshah 16y ago
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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by abhikshah 16y ago
infochimps.com
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by abhikshah 16y ago
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 obviously related. And more importantly, the fact that t
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by abhikshah 16y ago
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 patients and hospitals rather than building abstract software
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by abhikshah 16y ago
I'm also in a similar situation. The name I'd like for my webapp is taken and i'm considering hq.com or app.com. Or would it be better to use a .net or .biz?
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by abhikshah 16y ago
Shared hosting at webfaction. For the app (medical documents workflow) and scale (for small company, < 50 employees) webfaction is great. I could probably find a cheaper host but being able to work with support staff who actually unders
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by abhikshah 16y ago
Bringing some game mechanics like this is a great idea. The rewards of doing work are usually distant but an index like you describe makes it apparent immediately..
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by abhikshah 16y ago
Looks interesting, will definitely have to play with it. How does performance compare with cut,grep and friends on large files?
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by abhikshah 16y ago
In "about:flags" on Chromium (10.0.613.0 on OSX) there's an option to enable expose-style viewing of tabs by swiping three fingers down.. which is really convenient because swiping 4 fingers down is the default on Macs to invoke expose.
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by abhikshah 16y ago
"couchsurfing" is a worldwide community of people that is quite different from just going from couch to couch.
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by abhikshah 16y ago
I believe there's another lesson here: the importance of failing early. Ed didn't spend a frustrating career before quitting politics or fours years before quitting math. It can often be far easier to continue doing something you don't trul
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by abhikshah 16y ago
Looked through the blog but don't have time for the videos. From my perspective (computational systems biology), it looks like an amalgamation of ideas surrounding Complex Adaptive Systems and Statistical Machine Learning. And I really do l

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