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www.scotthyoung.com 9y ago

Can You Learn to Draw Realistic Portraits in One Month?

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stackoverflow.com 11y ago

Replacing 32-bit loop variable with 64-bit introduces performance deviations

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www.datapointed.net 13y ago

Game of Life Javascript Benchmark

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aigamedev.com 13y ago

Procedural Characters and the Coming Animation Technology Revolution

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www.wired.com 14y ago

Homeless and Overweight: Obesity Is the New Malnutrition

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www.spiked-online.com 14y ago

The university: still dead

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www.bostonglobe.com 14y ago

Which [genes] make someone want to start a business?

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evan-roth.com 14y ago

Sculptures made from motion tracked graffiti data

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nplusonemag.com 14y ago

A look inside Sotheby’s

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www.foreignpolicy.com 14y ago

The Top 100 Global Thinkers

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www.datapointed.net 14y ago

A time lapse study of the sky for a year

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www.teamliquid.net 14y ago

Game theory article from a professional Starcraft player/caster.

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the-scientist.com 14y ago

Study finds 50% of intelligence is attributable to genes

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www.myfoxtampabay.com 15y ago

America's massive secret weapon (U.S.S Florida)

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www.newyorker.com 15y ago

How Ray Dalio built the world’s richest and strangest hedge fund

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scientopia.org 15y ago

Things Everyone Should Do: Code Review

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www.nature.com 15y ago

Genome study solves twins' mystery condition

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www.chron.com 15y ago

Twins' recovery a key step in genetic medicine

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blog.evernote.com 15y ago

Overview of Evernote's architecture

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svn.python.org 15y ago

Notes on optimizing python dictionaries

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blog.makezine.com 15y ago

Japanese Gravity Marimba Plays Bach In An Ancient Forest

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lethain.com 15y ago

Introduction to Architecting Systems for Scale

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www.suasnews.com 15y ago

MIT Multicopter Maps Environment With Kinect

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www.boston.com 15y ago

What history can teach us about the Arab revolutions

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www.anurbanteacherseducation.com 15y ago

How far do consequences go?

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www.theatlantic.com 15y ago

Mind vs Machine

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www.anurbanteacherseducation.com 15y ago

How My School and District Failed its Students

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www.sleepycity.net 15y ago

Urban exploration in the Paris metro

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www.scientificamerican.com 15y ago

Why is the north magnetic pole racing toward Siberia?

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www.bbc.co.uk 15y ago

601 Squadron: Millionaire flying aces of World War II

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Codified Genomics - Houston TX codifiedgenomics.com

Codified Genomics is hiring a user interface and HCI developer. We have a massive amount of data to show users and need someone to develop new ways of presenting and interacting with it. Our current user interfaces are written in GWT, so experience with Java and css are important.

The software you write at Codified will directly influence healthcare decisions for thousands of patients. We do clinical genomic variant analysis. We take whole-exome sequence data and predict clinical outcome for the variants we observe in patients, which is then used by clinicians to inform treatment. To do this, we aggregate large amounts of additional data on individual genes and variants, and apply a series of proprietary algorithms.

A willingness to learn is more important to us than a Biology background, but the job will require you to become familiar with the Biology that we're working with.

Send resumes / portfolios to codifiedgenomics@gmail.com

Codified Genomics - Houston TX (remote OK) codifiedgenomics.com

Software you write at Codified will directly influence healthcare decisions for thousands of patients. We're looking for experienced software engineers who are up to that challenge, and who have a track record of working in an environment that demands a high level of quality.

We do clinical genomic variant analysis. We take whole exome sequence data and predict clinical outcome for the variants we observe in patients, which is then used by clinicians to inform treatment. To do this, we aggregate large amounts of additional data on individual genes and variants, and apply a series of proprietary algorithms. We started with seed funding and are currently profitable with revenue from our first customer.

We're hiring our first engineer. At Codified your responsibilities will be wide - you will probably end up touching every piece of software we write, with an emphasis on the user facing applications. We are currently using GWT and mysql with some scripting in Python. Additionally, you'll help us grow our team over the next few months as we continue to add engineers.

We have a large number of interesting projects under active development, spanning natural language processing, machine learning, user interface design and of course sequence analysis.

We're looking for someone who is experienced, flexible and willing to work outside of their comfort zone. A willingness to learn is more important to us than a Biology background, but the job will require you to learn the basics of the Biology that we're working with.

We're willing to consider remote work for experienced candidates, but preference will be shown to candidates in the Houston area.

We are offering 70k+ salary and equity. Contact us at codifiedgenomics@gmail.com

Interfering with telomere activity is a critical step for cancer progression (see the halmarks of cancer, limitless reproductive potential), so this procedure essentially makes every cell in your body pre-cancerous.

In my opinion, the most amazing part about this is that the way in which telomerase is delivered is via a retrovirus, typically a relative of HIV.

Why we Die 14 years ago

I'd encourage a different interpretation of the data: Cancer holding steady actually is an improvement.

Everyone is guaranteed to die of something, and the longer you live the likelihood of that something being cancer greatly increases. So as people shift away from other categories, i.e. heart disease and childbirth, and live longer, they're going to shift towards the cancer category. I'm actually amazed that cancer hasn't gone up significantly.

From the description, this sounds quite over-engineered. You need a system to queue jobs and to automatically restart jobs that fail? I must be missing something here, can you help me figure out what it is?

This should be the top comment. This article seems to be playing games with the numbers. Why do they choose to focus on the fraction of the unemployed? This trend could just be explained by greater numbers of people attending some amount of college relative to the past. They should really show the fraction of college educated unemployed, vs fraction without college educated unemployed, but that wouldn't fit their narrative.

"The norms don’t encourage the sharing of an interactive, full-color, 3 dimensional model of the protein, even if that would be a more suitable media format for the kind of knowledge that is being shared."

This is simply wrong - when you solve a protein structure is is mandatory that you submit it to the pdb (i.e http://www.pdb.org/pdb/101/motm.do?momID=148) and nearly every journal I read has both color figures and extensive online supplementary materials.

I agree with this suggestion.

Also, I want to point out that "essential readings" is not the right attitude. In order to really make progress you're going to need to get your hands dirty and work though some examples. One very good exercise is to write an interpreter for a language you invent.

I love the idea and hope it happens. Day[9] springs to mind, he's a former pro starcraft player who teaches the high levels of the game to other players in a weekly stream. He appears to be at least ramen profitable. I wonder if he serves as a model for this kind of approach. It would be great to see a Day[9] for every subject, even something as far flung as tennis instruction. Access to coaches is limited to highschoolers or those with gobs of money.

He really needs a positive control, i.e. something he knows for sure improves his sleep in order to quantify the effect. Say his data shows a small effect, and it is even statistically significant. He still won't have learned anything without having some reference for the magnitude of the change.

The standard test for causality (at least in biology, where I work) is to test for rescue. You first establish that under conditions a, event b happens. You then reverse a, and observe b returning to normal. This, followed by controls demonstrating that you're only changing a and are actually measuring b serve as a stringent test for causation.

How Doctors Die 15 years ago

It would be nice if the author provided a citation or two to back up the sweeping statements he or she is making.

There are some major inaccuracies in the way biomedical research is presented in this article. For one, in nearly every mouse study, confirmatory studies are also carried out in human tissue cultures (Hela cells are a famous example), which are completely absent from their pie chart.

Secondly, the article completely ignores sequencing efforts - an astonishing oversight in my opinion. Obviously, we can't do genetic studies on humans, but inexpensive exome sequencing is rapidly allowing us to do observational studies in humans.

Sounds like you're doing great - you're miles ahead of where I was at 15, that's for sure. I think you need a mentor. Look to open source, local universities, etc. I've heard good things about the google summer of code.