sakai

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by sakai 11y ago
Well, the troubling thread here is that that may not be posssible using the amount of blood Theranos collects . Then the question becomes not only why is their valuation so high (which the public doesn't need to care too much about) b
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The Trans-Everything CEO(nymag.com)
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1284 Slides Prepared by Ryan Allis for 30th Birthday(businessinsider.com)
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by sakai 12y ago
Hey – working on a startup in the space and am very interested in talking with somebody working in infection control. If it's of interest, please send me an email (in my profile). And would love to hear your plans too!
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by sakai 12y ago
Yes, and you've promoted Catalyze.io several times on Twitter in the past month. So let's not feign too much outrage please.
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by sakai 12y ago
OP here. This was just a little module that I found very useful in quickly exploring large, unfamiliar SQL databases and their associated business logic. It's fairly rudimentary feature-wise, but has worked well for me. Happy to answer
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Show HN: Simple interactive SQL exploration with IPython/Pandas(github.com)
22 points by sakai 12y ago|3 comments
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Google Runs All Software In Containers(enterprisetech.com)
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Getting a job at a top university will not make you a better researcher(economist.com)
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by sakai 12y ago
Ah – well to clarify, we're performing exact match lookups on individual k-mers (k-length genetic strings), and then computing a classification result from those exact searches.
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by sakai 12y ago
Yes, we're building out the features to make it easy to use with your own corpus. I'll follow up by email, but can you clarify what species identification issues you're seeing? (Would like to double check and get it fixed asa
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by sakai 12y ago
That was an attempt to say (without resorting to Big Oh notation) that the data structures and algorithms we're working on provide O(1) lookups that take a fixed amount of time regardless of the reference / dataset size. Does that
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by sakai 12y ago
Hope it was clear that you can test it out with some small FASTA or FASTQ files now (just drag onto the upload icon). And yes, we'd be happy to discuss your use case and get you set up with something. Just shoot me a note at nick at he
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by sakai 12y ago
In principle, some of them can be yes. Though genetic reference datasets tend to be much larger than, e.g., codebases -- and therefore require different approaches. One of the core things we're working on is a data structure for more e
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by sakai 12y ago
cfontes – Yes, that's definitely another use case of the underlying technology, though please note that the database loaded for the demo only include archaeal, bacterial and viral genomes (so you'd have a very hard time getting a
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by sakai 12y ago
Honest suggestion: Change the tagline to "less than 1000 lines" or exclude the GUI or whatever, but don't just not include line breaks anywhere. You have 7 very sensible, and indeed admirable, style guidelines and while no li
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Antivirus is dead. Meet the next-generation of anti-hacker tools.(fastcompany.com)
2 points by sakai 12y ago|1 comments
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by sakai 12y ago
Got it. Apparently I tried with a very short sentence! Thanks!
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by sakai 12y ago
Very cool. One question – I noticed that you're doing some validation of the inputs (i.e., I can't seem to submit a sentence without a period) – could you explain the reasoning for this? On the one hand, it seems fairly constraini
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by sakai 12y ago
Ah ha. Thanks for the heads up! (Looking over the application again now...)
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by sakai 12y ago
I find the timing of this and the "New Deal" press releases a bit confusing -- is YC starting to take biotech companies now (like YC S14) or in the next batch? I'm assuming the New Deal terms are for S14, but was also surpr
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by sakai 12y ago
Yes! Well said. It would definitely need to include: * Web code editor for jobs (JS, Python, Ruby, Perl, Go, etc., etc.) * Results served over an authenticated API (e.g., servicename.com/api/<username>/<jobname>&#
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by sakai 12y ago
A simple service for setting up and running jobs/workers without having to run a server. Ideally, it would have the following features: * Pay once, run forever (pay for the job up front and never again -- no recurring billing to worry
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Illumina Accelerator Program(illumina.com)
49 points by sakai 12y ago|11 comments
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The Flaw at the Heart of [Chua + Rubenfeld's] The Triple Package(slate.com)
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by sakai 12y ago
It is really awesome, though I'm kind of bummed that they held off on announcing this (or didn't otherwise finalize the details) until after the summer applications were due. As someone working on some bioinformatics tech, that de
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by sakai 12y ago
If you haven't seen it already, check out Cryptol from Gallois: http://corp.galois.com/cryptol/ It's a crypto DSL that I believe is implemented in Haskell (it compiles to Haskell, C, C++ and a few others).
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by sakai 12y ago
Aside: would be very interested in connecting about a metagenomics project I've been working on. My email is in my profile if you want to reach out.
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by sakai 12y ago
16S reads should be fine for basic characterization. The bioinformatics tools for sequence classification of short reads from a full sequencing run have also improved dramatically recently. Especially in terms of speed (100-1000X improvemen
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by sakai 12y ago
OP here – this is a tool we built for doing really fast metagenomic classification. Happy to answer any questions if folks have them.

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