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merqurioon MWC 2020 canceled over coronavirus health concerns

This paper suggest even a bigger R0, I'm still going through the details.

[1]: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.07.20021154v...

merqurioon MWC 2020 canceled over coronavirus health concerns

It makes sense total sense to compare, it's another respiratory virus, from a family of viruses already known. We must not reinvent the wheel when we know the dynamics of these viruses and the countermeasures to take.

The key metric that determines whether COVID-19 can establish and generate a sustained outbreak is it's ability to reproduce, "R", which represents the average number of individuals to which each transmitter transmits the virus.

- If "R" is greater than 1, the transmission may become sustained; - If “R” is less than 1, then the transmission will simply dissipate.

In the current outbreak, it represents an R of 2.2 [1], meaning that on average each patient has been spreading infection to 2.2 other people.

Only a little bit more than half of the infections should be avoided so that R falls below 1. Preventive isolation and the measures established by the protocols should be sufficient.

Besides, there is little evidence to suggest the presymptomatic transmission of COVID-19

[1]: https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa2001316

merqurioon MWC 2020 canceled over coronavirus health concerns

We have a good understanding of what's happening outside mainland China[1], and China seems (surprisingly) transparent so far. But it is indeed difficult to trust that they have reported 100% of the cases.

[1]: https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.h...

merqurioon MWC 2020 canceled over coronavirus health concerns

The MWC was going to be attended by 100,000 people, 75% of them from Europe and the US, 10% from Asia-Pacific (excluding China) and 9% from the rest of the world. Only 6% of visitors were going to be from China, and less were expected much less due to the COVD-19.

Can any of them come infected by the COVD-19?

The probability is very low. Almost all of the participants will come from areas where the presence of the COVD-19 is nil or extremely low.

By comparison, a number of passengers equivalent to three times the MWC go through the airports of Atlanta or Los Angeles, two times pass through the airports of London, Paris or Amsterdam each day, and 1.5 times through Madrid and Barcelona each day. And none of them closed so far.

The basic hygiene measures (handwashing, not sneezing or coughing to the open) and common sense are more solid and effective.

If we follow the same line of thinking (we shouldn't), we would have to close all the airports tomorrow.

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merqurioon MWC 2020 canceled over coronavirus health concerns

It doesn't make sense from a medical point of view.

China, and specifically Hubei Province and its capital Wuhan, suffer an epidemic that they are trying to control with titanic efforts. 99% of cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) infection, today more than 40,000 with a thousand deaths, have been registered in China. Of them, almost 70% in Hubei. Only 1% of cases have been registered outside China, in 24 countries (including Spain), with transmission chains (secondary cases from a first imported case) very short so far.

To put things in perspective, although perhaps inaccurate, the number of cases of COVID-19 infection in China is less than 3 cases / 100,000 inhabitants.

The flu, in Catalonia, this week has reached figures of 360 cases / 100,000 inhabitants: more than 120 times higher than the incidence of COVID-19 infection in China.[1]

Our Health Alerts and Emergencies system works, works as a team and the protocols established in the EU apply: detect the case, isolate it, treat it and follow all possible contacts. In this way, the transmission chain can likely be properly controlled.

There are many things we do not know for sure about this disease, but most cases (80%) are mild. Serious cases and mortality (2%) will be adjusted downwards safely in the coming weeks, as the detection of mild cases increases. There is WHO data that indicate that control measures are slowing the epidemic in Hubei and better controlling the situation in the rest of China.

[1]: http://canalsalut.gencat.cat/web/.content/_Professionals/Vig...

merqurioon 13.3" full color ePaper display

I love the hardware and they provide you root access. I really didn't like their software for document sync, but I installed syncthing and it works like a charm. Next step for me is to replace their document reader.

merqurioon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2019)

IOMED | Fullstack Engineer | Barcelona, Spain | Full Time | Onsite

Are you looking for a job with a direct impact on healthcare?

* Problem: Clinical data is messy and makes research slow. * Mission: To structure clinical data and give unified, standardized access to it. * Product: Natural language processing models and a unified SQL data access interface for researchers. * Traction: Validated idea, Validated business model, growing and scaling stage. * Funding: +2y runout and growing. Backed by national and international VCs. * Stack: Python, Cython, SQL, Postgres, Kubernetes among others * Values: Scientific, methodic, transparent, hard workers with a HUGE emphasis on work-life balance. Join a multidisciplinary team working hard to make clinical research faster, accessible and ubiquitous. Also it's a nice excuse to enjoy Barcelona's vibe and nice weather !

Want to know more? Ping me at rocio@iomed.health Check our site for more info https://iomed.health/en

merqurioon Meetup.com alternatives

Mobilizing[1] seems like it's already implemented using ActivityPub !

https://framagit.org/framasoft/mobilizon/

merqurioon Meetup.com alternatives

I would happily work on implementing a Meetup.com alternative based on ActivityPub and push for a federation of instances, much like Mastodon.

Each community has very different needs, but a federated network would help making the multi-community reality we experience much easier.

merqurioon Gatsby raises $15M Series A for its modern web development platform

I evaluated Gatsby, among other solutions, for our company's website. We use React in production for a large application, nothing new there, but for a static site, I thought it had an overly-complicated build pipeline. In the end, we went with Hugo[1], never regretted, huge fan of static site generators and Netlify CMS[2].

About raising that series A, I hope they have a bigger plan in mind than hosting sites or yet another CMS. If the vision is the "reinvent" the way we work on static sites, I respect that, but I don't see a business case there.

[1]: https://gohugo.io [2]: https://www.netlifycms.org/

merqurioon Ask HN: Which one is your favourite talk?

Bryan Cantrill - Principles of Technology Leadership https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QMGAtxUlAc

merqurioon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2019)

IOMED | Data Engineer | Barcelona, Spain | Full Time | Onsite

Are you looking for a job with a direct impact on healthcare?

  * Problem: Clinical data is messy and makes research slow.
  * Mission: To structure clinical data and give unified, standardized access to it.
  * Product: Natural language processing models and a unified SQL data access interface for researchers.
  * Traction: Validated idea, Validated business model, growing and scaling stage.
  * Funding: +2y runout and growing. Backed by national and international VCs.
  * Stack: Python, Cython, SQL, Postgres, Kubernetes among others
  * Values: Scientific, methodic, transparent, hard workers with a HUGE emphasis on work-life balance.

Join a multidisciplinary team working hard to make clinical research faster, accessible and ubiquitous. Also it's a nice excuse to enjoy Barcelona's vibe and nice weather !

Want to know more? Ping me at rocio@iomed.health Check our site for more info https://iomed.health/en

merqurioon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2019)

IOMED | Data Engineer | Barcelona (Spain) | Full Time | Onsite

Are you looking for a job with a direct impact on healthcare?

  * Problem: Clinical data is messy and makes research slow.
  * Mission: To structure clinical data and give unified, standardized access to it.
  * Product: Natural language processing models and a data access interface for researchers and pharma companies.
  * Traction: Validated idea, Validated business model, growing and scaling stage.
  * Funding: +2y runout and growing. Backed by national and international VCs.
  * Stack: Python, Dask, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, Docker, and Kubernetes among others
  * Values: Scientific, methodic, transparent, hard workers with a HUGE emphasis on work-life balance.

Join a multidisciplinary team of mathematicians, statisticians, bioinformaticians and physicians working hard to make clinical research fast, accessible and ubiquitous. Enjoy Barcelona's vibe and nice weather.

Want to know more? Ping me at gabi@iomed.health

Check our site for more info https://iomed.health/en

merqurioon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2019)

IOMED | Data Engineers | Barcelona (Spain) | Full Time | Onsite

  * Problem: Clinical data is messy and makes research slow.
  * Mission: To structure clinical data and give unified, standardized access to it.
  * Product: Natural language processing models and a data access interface for researchers and pharma.
  * Traction: Validated idea, Validated business model, growing and scaling stage.
  * Funding: +2y runout and growing.
  * Stack: Python, Dask, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, Docker, and Kubernetes among others
  * Values: Scientific, methodic, transparent, hard workers with a HUGE emphasis on work-life balance.

Want to know more? Ping me at gabi@iomed.health https://iomed.health

merqurioon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2019)

IOMED | Backend developer | Full time | ONSITE | Barcelona

IOMED builds ML tools that enable other developers to make analytics and ML models on complex healthcare data with ease. The tools structure clinical texts written by physicians, extracting and encoding relevant medical concepts like symptoms, diseaseases… taking into account their context (negations, family/personal background, past events...).

We're based in Barcelona, funded by local and international ventures.

You can definitely expect to:

- Design, implement & test microservices.

- Integrate our products with external APIs.

- Development and testing of our core products and frameworks.

- Be comfortable with container development with Docker.

- Query, model and deploy with PostgreSQL, Redis, RabbitMQ.

- Fast prototyping with Python and maturing prototypes to production.

Please apply directly to the email address below: dev at iomed dot health

If you have questions you can reach me at gabi at iomed dot health (I’m the CTO).

@recruiters & agencies - please do not contact me

merqurioon PaperTTY – Python module to render a TTY on e-ink

I'm a huge fan of libremarkable ! Thanks for making my remarkable more hackeable !

merqurioon The homogenization of scientific computing (2013)

I remember the great joy it was rewrtot some MATLAB and Bash scripts for neuroimaging to Python, and how fast it let us iterate. Thanks to that rewriting we ended up having a proper pipeline that we were able to parallelize.

Since then Python is my go-to language, but that didn't stopped me from exploring other languages like Julia, for large numerical analysis or Go.

I see that Pythonification he talks about around me, and it's true that is becoming ubiquitous and the defacto langugae on sciences, specially on life sciences.

merqurioon Horrors of Using Azure Kubernetes Service in Production

We were very surprised with the quality of IBM's Kubernetes service too ! We had a cluster there for almost a year and everything runned very smoothly.

We missed having more instance types to choose from, but it was a nice experience.

merqurioon EnclaveDB: A secure database using SGX

If I understood it well, the main security concerns are moved to the KMS, that you must refer is not susceptible to the same kind of attacks that they describe (untrusted environments, potentially with unknown database administrators, server administrators, OS and hypervisors). I have not a vast experience with KMSs, what would be your approach to deploy one you can trust in a cloud environment, deploying it on bare metal?

merqurioon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2018)

IOMED | Systems administrator or NLP Researcher | Barcelona | Fulltime | https://iomed.es

Help us bring data science to health care. We're a small team building a machine learning platform and helping hospitals make smarter decisions.

IOMED structures data from medical notes using NLP for creating predictive models and descriptive analytics for the hospitals. We automate away the pain of data wrangling for Hospitals.

If you can communicate with clarity, enjoy small teams, lead your area of expertise and you are aware of your own limits, join our multidisciplinary team in Barcelona.

Our stack is mainly Python, Cython, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL.

If you are interested, please email at gabi@iomed.es

merqurioon Clive OS: Go applications that can run without an operating system (2016)

There is a new paper[1] from F.J. Balleteros published on 2017 that serves as a great justification too.

- [1] https://jisajournal.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s13174...

merqurioon Agens Graph – PostgreSQL Based Graph Database

It reminded me http://grakn.ai , another quite solid and interesting project right know.

merqurioon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2017)

Net salary of 1000€/month. Social security and (salary) taxes on us.

merqurioon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2017)

    FRONTEND_DEVELOPER_INTERNSHIP (location='Barcelona', remote=true) => {

        const opt = {
            minKnowledge: ['JS', 'ES6'],
            ourStack: ['React', 'Redux'],
            yourTask: (design) => React.Components,
            emailContact: 'javier.deoca' + '@' + 'iomed.es'
        }

        return salary('12000€/year', opt)
    };

merqurioon Ask HN: Tell us about your S2017 startup

Sound a great alternative the actual centralized model. Any guess if other browsers would be interested in adopting Dat ?

merqurioon Ask HN: What medical datasets do you need?

I agree, FHIR serialized data would be great, it's easy to move it around.

merqurioon Ask HN: What medical datasets do you need?

Tagged medical notes from Medical Records. The same way there is ImageNet.

merqurioon Ask HN: Tell us about your S2017 startup

What is the purpose of the AI? What is it's function ?

merqurioon Ask HN: Tell us about your S2017 startup

Awesome! thanks for sharing

merqurioon Ask HN: Tell us about your S2017 startup

wow, that's really cool. Why is it cheaper than normal wind turbines ? Maintaining drones that take off and land autonomously sounds expensive

I really like the idea of low environmental impact