biotechbio

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by biotechbio 17d ago
Is this headline misleading? From reading the article, Berkeley is pausing authorizations for Course Credit CPT, which enables international students on visas to work in exchange for credits to complete their degree programs. It doesn’t out
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by biotechbio 3mo ago
Not true, there is a growing class of "operator" VCs that both fund and help run early stage companies.
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by biotechbio 3mo ago
The obvious other factors in this reframing of equity compensation effectively render it a useless take. The disparity in expected value calculation is due to assuming you can predict the future after joining a company, which is obviously n
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by biotechbio 3mo ago
This post is a little long winded. At times I agreed, and others I felt the author was doing a little too much hand-wringing on what-is-mine vs. what-is-the-AI's. The opportunity is and always has been the possibility of accelerating w
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by biotechbio 7mo ago
+1. From the original post, I found this video to be particularly damning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hksVvXONrIo Does anyone have an explanation for how something like this passes QC at a company with the resources of
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by biotechbio 8mo ago
When you use a microscope to magnify something, the objective (magnifying lens) is literally taking the Fourier transform of the image. The optical system recovers up to a limiting frequency, determining the spatial resolution of the image.
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by biotechbio 8mo ago
I disagree, in my opinion passing the bar exam is necessary but not nearly sufficient for competently practicing law. The bar is an imperfect filter. One could study for the exam and pass and still be hugely deficient in ability as an attor
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by biotechbio 9mo ago
While cancer is caused by mutations in the genome, these mutations in turn produce the unifying property of cancer: unchecked cell replication. Most cell types have systems to safely manage replication. Broadly, there are gas pedals (oncoge
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by biotechbio 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clonal_hematopoiesis
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by biotechbio 1y ago
Some thoughts on this as someone working on circulating-tumor DNA for the last decade or so: - Sure, cancer can develop years before diagnosis. Pre-cancerous clones harboring somatic mutations can exist for decades before transformation int
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by biotechbio 1y ago
This is a pretty cool study with some interesting findings! Cancer immunotherapy has a long history but has become very prominent in recent years. (Fun fact: the senior author on this paper, Ed Engleman, co-founded of one of the first cance
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by biotechbio 1y ago
I've had an excellent experience with Cursor: https://www.cursor.com/en I used VSCode as my default IDE so the switch was very natural. I am working on machine learning in bio, and many of the tools, methods, and data
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by biotechbio 1y ago
Strongly disagree. My son is going to be born into a county with an active measles outbreak caused entirely by misinformation and stupidity. We can’t vaccinate until 6 months. Absolutely preventable. Zero arguments against vaccination for m
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by biotechbio 1y ago
I am curious about the same thing. I worked as a ML engineer for several years and have a couple of degrees in the field. Skimming over the document, I recognized almost everything but I would not be able to recall many of these topics if a
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by biotechbio 2y ago
There's a decent amount of cynicism in the comments, which I understand. I think this is a really cool and novel study, though. Historically, cancer was treated with therapies that are toxic to all cells, relying on the fact that cance
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by biotechbio 3y ago
It’s fairly common for private companies to have non-transferability clauses for both options and stock. IANAL, but this sounds pretty standard and I doubt OP will be able to fight the legitimacy of the claim. Re: a forward sale, sounds lik
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by biotechbio 3y ago
Sure, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. But these PCAWG results have been discussed to death since they were published, and its pretty sound science. You could also take the bottom-up approach of asking what DOES cause certain
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by biotechbio 3y ago
Sure, a 2020 study from the Pan-Cancer Analysis of Whole Genomes (PCAWG) Consortium, looking for viral evidence in thousands of tumor genomes and transcriptomes[0]. Part of a massive, cross-institutional effort. "Searching large pan-ca
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by biotechbio 3y ago
This is not true. Some cancers are caused by viruses. Many oncogenes were initially discovered in viruses. But the majority of tumors are definitely not caused by viruses. This was a hypothesis in the field for a number of years, and has be
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by biotechbio 3y ago
The lifespan of T cells varies from months to years (memory T cells). T cell development begins in the bone marrow and continues in the lymphatic tissue and periphery. During their lifespan, these cells circulate in the body and migrate bas
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by biotechbio 3y ago
bioscience phd student. Why is this interesting? Tl;dr from the article, they used flow cytometry to quantify different cell populations in the blood, and noted that the proportion of CD8+ T cells (cytotoxic, the kind of immune cells that r
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by biotechbio 4y ago
Just finished assignment 2 of cs224n[1], which has you derive gradients and implement word2vec. I thought it was a pretty good exercise. You could read the glove paper and try implementing that as well. Knowing how to step through backpropa
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by biotechbio 4y ago
I have had friends tell me forecasts like this with complete confidence. Just curious- what industry? What info do you know that convinced you to believe this? Eager to hear whatever you're willing to share. Look at the last 12 months.