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In California, dude is not gendered.

Link seems to be dead. Is there another copy somewhere?

Twitter and Github are still down here in LA (and confirmed on isup.me)

Man I love all the Kandinsky ones. My favorite kind of art.

I don't have specific pieces but I second this suggestion. Always love to see history stuff outside of Western civilization!

This looks cool! I'll probably subscribe in the next month or so. You should definitely highlight "from the creators of the Discovery Channel" on the landing because it takes you from "who are these people" to "ohh cool these guys are legit"

Maybe I'm missing something, but it looks like this has nothing to do with DNA? Why is it called LogDNA? Seems a little misleading.

That aside, it looks very interesting!

True. The problem with DIY labs I think is the barrier to entry. It's really hard to start from nothing to having a DIY lab where you have some idea of what's going on. Maybe an online lab (videos?) is the way to go? My microbio and biotech labs in college did serve me pretty well as far as knowing what the bands in my gel mean, etc.

Wow this post is fantastic! Great read Julia!

Yep, 22!

Man this article screams "kids today blah blah blah" and is totally ill founded. I was born in 1993 and grew up with video games and now I'm a scientist (anecdotal I know, but this article isn't scientific either). Being a scientist is about asking questions that intrigue you and finding the answer to them. People who want to do this will do this regardless of whether or not they play video games (or do any other leisurely activity like Netflix bingeing).

This is awesome! I'm gonna set up my R-Pi at home to run this and merge my brother's and my music libraries. Thanks for this!

That's great! Did you do any advertising to get it going? How long has it been around?

Do you have someone managing the rental or do you do that?

I'm curious to know how well your cheap bastard plan (https://www.s3stat.com/web-stats/cheap-bastard-plan) has been working out. Has it brought in some customers?

This seems like something that could easily be hacked together over a 3 day weekend (at least a basic version). It could be profitable pretty quickly too if you go for the current Imgur model of ads/pro accounts. *adds to to-do list&

I chatted with support and they said to email their support.

Well, now I have a coin base account but not $10. Looks like UC Davis email doesn't work.

Yes, very much so!

How do you guys feel about telling us a bit about your algorithms and data structures? I'm always fascinated by that kind of stuff.

Usually when you do a genetic experiment, you have a model of how things work in your head, then you do the experiment and test that model on living organisms.

It's entirely possible that your model is way off and you get results that don't mean anything. With computational models, we can test hypotheses (the models in our heads) much faster (don't have to wait for the worms to grow up) and much cheaper (we can do it on the computers all of us already own).

There's this project by Stanford to simulate Mycoplasma genitalium: http://wholecellviz.stanford.edu

There's also this, which is part of the project above: http://www.cell.com/abstract/S0092-8674(12)00776-3

The problem is you need to know about tons of stuff before doing anything useful with it. For example, you need to know the biology of M. genitalium (or even what the hell it is) and you need to know at least a little bit about how the biology works (i.e. what is the metabolome? etc.). Then you need to know enough about software to be able to install and get everything running (often with poor documentation). Sometimes you need access to expensive software like Matlab.

So I guess that means it's coming, but very slowly and only for people who are in the field, not DIY biologists.

This is actually something I'm interested in working in (once I get to grad school).

This looks great! I'm only missing a USB microphone. I'll be sure to make this once I get my hands on one.

It also seems pretty trivial to set up Wolfram Alpha on here. From what it looks like, you'd just have to: 1) get a developer account at Wolfram Alpha 2) download this promising looking module: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/wolframalpha/1.0.2 3) integrate it into Jasper (create a module)

I'll be sure to try it once I get it set up.

Signed up to be a developer and told them I'd make a beer pong trainer app. Here's to hoping they give me one for free!

Could you post an example of the "I'm learning and journaling my progress" writing style? I'd like to start doing this and I don't want to come off as an expert on things I'm just learning.

Did the portfolio work for getting a job? For some reason the games industry seems quite impenetrable to me, so I'd like to know what worked/didn't for getting a job in it.

Yeah, especially with Markdown integration, which makes incredibly easy for someone to host their own "information site" and make it look nice and modern. I wonder if Wikipedia would ever change their revision system in favor of git.

Similar list with more differences than the Stack Overflow one: http://programming-motherfucker.com/become.html

This is important. The people cashing in their skills to make small things like Angry Birds (perhaps with the intention of making a lot of money without a lot of effort) aren't the people who can sit down and figure out how to cure diseases.

Research is hard and not everyone can do it. Progress on diseases will be slower than progress on new forms of entertainment (or productivity, as many startups are geared towards).