niels_olson

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by niels_olson 5y ago
I interviewed at Sikorsky back in the day. Sort of wish I had pursued it, because the factory floor was amazing , but the manager reminded me of a guy from The Sopranos, and then I got into medical school. But that floor, man. Swashplates.
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by niels_olson 5y ago
Soundgarden’s Black Hole Sun for those of a certain age: https://youtu.be/3mbBbFH9fAg
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by niels_olson 5y ago
Actual paper here: https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/aer.20162015
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by niels_olson 5y ago
You should probably read the actual analysis (free, 40+ page paper), they accounted for all sorts of things. https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/aer.20162015
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by niels_olson 5y ago
They’re going to do their version of “Other bets”.
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by niels_olson 5y ago
My first job out of college was as a junior engineering officer on a ship. I had taken naval architecture and the daily draft report was part of my job. The fuel king had a spreadsheet where the engineering watch input all the tank levels o
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by niels_olson 10y ago
I believe socialism has a pretty specific definition: government ownership and control of the means of production. Which is easy to grasp for steel mills, power plants, and hospitals. A bit trickier in the creative economy and the gig econo
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by niels_olson 10y ago
Unfortunately, some people are going to read this wrong. For example: I know some folks who have "second dinner" after 8 pm. Their children are definitively obese, and I can see them citing this study as a reason to keep eating &q
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by niels_olson 10y ago
How do you propose to infect cells deep inside solid tumors?How do you target cells that have lost cell surface markers? Your example, p16, is used in many cells intermittently, or only in certain microenvironments . How do you deliver? IV,
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by niels_olson 10y ago
You may be interested in the FedRAMP marketplace: https://marketplace.fedramp.gov/#/products?status=FedRAMP%20...
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by niels_olson 10y ago
I donated white 2007 to the local Lego robotics team and it's still winning.
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by niels_olson 10y ago
There is: they are intertwined with other regimes: * The international banking regime * The US legal regime for corporate purposes * Many other national regimes for operating purposes
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by niels_olson 10y ago
> I can't think of a single other example of a single-purpose CA like this. Department of Defense: http://www.disa.mil/enterprise-services/identity-and-access-...
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by niels_olson 10y ago
Look up Sanger sequencing.
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by niels_olson 10y ago
There are regions with sparse coverage due to higher concentrations of C-G bases. This can make alignment results less reliable. Plasmids may interfere with alignment or need to be isolated out before or during library prep. And you want to
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by niels_olson 10y ago
Personal opinion based on anecdotal evidence: population mobility has increased career opportunity at the expense of the opportunities afforded to young families through staying close to home. From newborn to age N, local gandparents can be
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by niels_olson 10y ago
I'd go beyond "general problem-solving skills". Physics gives you high quality math training (albeit somewhat truncated with respect to number theory), coupled with demanding experimental methods, and a deep, principled under
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by niels_olson 10y ago
Theory vs experiment. More data always wins.
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by niels_olson 10y ago
Then please cite the better ones...
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by niels_olson 10y ago
Matt Cutts now works for Defense Digital Service....
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by niels_olson 10y ago
My sense is that the major issue is not the algorithms. The algorithms are plenty fine today. The major issue is data. Not "more" data. Just data. There are vast swaths of the economy where people simply haven't figured out h
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by niels_olson 10y ago
> also ordering services such as use of the clinic, assistants, supplies, and so forth For things like moles, a big chunk is the pathologist's professional fee, as well as the technical fees for whatever additional studies may be ne
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by niels_olson 10y ago
The methods of Medicare pricing were established by DeBakey's subordinates when Johnson pushed Medicare through. It's backroom deals all the way down.
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by niels_olson 10y ago
Can't vote on those, and it's five hysterical pacifist comments who conveniently forget that the DoD also owns the "homeless missions" by default, and complained when Obama didn't send more troops to Allepo. Look, t
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by niels_olson 10y ago
Ah, cholesterol plaques in arteries are in fact the ghost of inflammation past, and specifically macrophage-mediated inflammation. In medicine this is far from a departure from the prevailing hypothesis -- it is a consolidation of multiple
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by niels_olson 10y ago
That said, you will be on-site and likely working on the most interesting problems.
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by niels_olson 10y ago
They are building ahead of the collapse of their labor pool as the population greys to an precedented degree.
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by niels_olson 10y ago
Karpathy's explanation in CS231n is great: for any computational unit that is a function, you can calculate a derivative. So propagating the derivative backward through the function, just aplly the chain rule. This is much with simpler
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by niels_olson 10y ago
My experience with development cost estimates suggests the easy parts are easy and the interesting parts might as well be splatter-paint.
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by niels_olson 10y ago
Every atom of every element heavier than iron is stardust (1). Uranium is no more fossil than gold is. (1) Most of the lighter stuff is stardust too, but there's some small number of heavy nuclei that decayed down to more stable, light

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