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tuxguyon Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #8

What a neat story ! Congratulations and all the best Are you hiring ? :)

tuxguyon With a nudge from AI, ketamine emerges as a potential rare disease treatment

I am also a big fan of yours Prof Might! I am very passionate about genomics and rare diseases and your contributions (code, writings, setting up the PMI, and all the others too numerous to list them all here) in this oft neglected area have been very motivating and inspiring to me . Wish more software folks were aware of and work on these important problems at the intersection of biology and software

p.s. would love it if you do a reddit AMA

tuxguyon GitHub’s engineering team has moved to Codespaces

woah, this is bonkers !

tuxguyon Software Engineering principles to make teams better

link seems to be down

slashdot(hn) effect at work ?

tuxguyon When Death Comes: An Oncology Nurse Finds Solace in Mary Oliver

What beautiful writing !

tuxguyon Launch HN: Pyroscope (YC W21) – Continuous profiling software

This is so neat ! Congratulations and all the best !

tuxguyon Good Books for a Lousy Year

https://apps.npr.org/best-books/#view=covers&year=2020

tuxguyon Benefits of Walking

so sorry to hear that ! hope medical science advances that one day you can walk(& maybe even run) again ! sending you lots of love !

tuxguyon All Pluralsight videos are free for the month of April

Great move, thanks Pluralsight !

But I think the site is getting pounded by the massive onslaught of traffic.

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tuxguyon Turing-NLG: A 17B-parameter language model

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22291417

tuxguyon The Cost of Avoiding Sensitive Questions

thanks for sharing ! i feel less of an outlier, i behave a lot like your wife. It doesn't go over well in my experience (in the US & India). But i have formed some beautiful friendships thanks to "radical empathy & questioning" and am just wired to be curious about people and their lives !

tuxguyon A plan to mine the world’s research papers

a, minable interface to sci-hub :)

tuxguyon Apple Watch detects irregular heart beat in large U.S. study

Some insightful analysis here : https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1106956668439617537.html

tuxguyon Good sleep, good learning, good life (2012)

Found one : https://www.supermemo.com/articles/sleep2000.htm

tuxguyon Good sleep, good learning, good life (2012)

The link is down, does anyone know of a mirror/backup ?

tuxguyon A doctor in Bangladesh has found a simple way to treat infant pneumonia

pdf of the paper : https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mohammod_Chisti/publica...

tuxguyon A doctor in Bangladesh has found a simple way to treat infant pneumonia

Most hospitals have access to an autoclave ! It seems trivial to sterilize the bottles

tuxguyon Two Years Ago, India Lacked Fast, Cheap Internet – One Billionaire Changed That

thanks a ton ! this is so neat !

tuxguyon Two Years Ago, India Lacked Fast, Cheap Internet – One Billionaire Changed That

My gut says Google is eyeing an isp play . That would be a godsend for consumers, although dont know if telecom regulators like the FCC and anti monopoly regulators a would clear such a proposal.

tuxguyon Two Years Ago, India Lacked Fast, Cheap Internet – One Billionaire Changed That

why is this article behind a wsj paywall ?

tuxguyon Two Years Ago, India Lacked Fast, Cheap Internet – One Billionaire Changed That

The average quota is 1.5GB/day (for the latest recharge, they provided 3gb/day). That's a lot !

Some side effects of Jio have been : 1. average media consumption per user, specifically video(youtube, netflix, amazon prime) has gone up drastically 2. voip calls(audio & video calls on whatsapp, telegram) have gone up drastically ! 3. A lot of users, especially youngsters i know, dont download content anymore, they stream it ! Its an interesting usage behaviour shift !

I think Jio's end game is content - getting Indian users to pay for content will be tricky though !(there have been very few successes - unlike the us, the average indian user doesnt like paying for digital subscription content , paid tech news and analysis site, https://the-ken.com/ is an exception)

tuxguyon Ask HN: What are your favorite non-fiction books of all time?

"when breath becomes air" by Paul Kalanithi. Influenced me a great deal & one of my all time fav reads. A short excerpt : https://stanmed.stanford.edu/2015spring/before-i-go.html

tuxguyon A $250 Biohack That’s Revolutionizing Life with Diabetes

https://diyps.org/2016/05/12/how-i-designed-a-diy-closed-loo...

tuxguyon Why diagnosing Alzheimer’s today is so difficult, and how we can do better

interesting ! could you describe the key technology behind optinadx to a layman, in some more detail ?

tuxguyon Waymo teams up with Jaguar to intro a new, premium self-driving car

Nobody on this thread, has accounted for the value of the time, that self driving cars or cabs, free up for you !

tuxguyon Tempe Police Release Video of Uber Accident

Did anybody else think that the human operator in the driver's seat, should always be looking in the front, than being distracted by looking down or below ?

tuxguyon Zuckerberg on Cambridge Analytica situation

No mention of the fact that fb knew that Kogan sold users’ fb data to CA, and fb intentionally didn’t inform its users about it until the Guardian’s investigative report blew up in the press

tuxguyon DC’s war on rats goes digital

elsewhere on the planet , some rats being trained to be productive members of human society :)

https://scitechafrica.com/2016/04/16/super-rats-are-eliminat...

tuxguyon Applying machine learning to mammography screening for breast cancer

https://deepmind.com/applied/deepmind-health/working-nhs/hea...

http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcolleg...

tuxguyon Haemophilia A trial results 'mind-blowing'

The NEJM paper : http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1708483#t=article

pdf: http://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMoa1708483