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Looks like the main advantage is bqplot allows you to create interactive data visualizations. Bokeh and Plotly (commercial product) are the existing libraries that do this, but leave a lot to be desir…

Reminds me of a blog post on using PCA for sorting colors http://nbviewer.ipython.org/gist/CamDavidsonPilon/abe3f0e4f5... …

They're a CLIA certified lab so they don't need to publish public peer reviewed studies. They're also slowly submitting their tests to FDA, which isn't required for their kinda lab…

Really good in depth dive into the problem, love it

You have to answer one question -- will you learn a lot? Will you learn more at the startup or at university? Do you have other work experience / internships where you can graduate and get a job?…

Lots of resources out there! www.datasciencemasters.org -- comprehensive list of things to learn / explore www.dataquest.io -- (disclaimer: I'm involved with the company), teaches data scien…

I would hold off on any of these and actually work with vanilla JS + some jQuery. Once you outgrow those, THEN move to one of the above. The first 25% of most web apps won't need need anything pa…

It's a nice notion but I've yet to see an existence proof that a machine can do that. It's not about just passing the Turing test and fooling humans, I'm sure that will happen, but…

You have a wonderful skillset! I would definitely learn more programming and more 'data science' & analytics (datasciencemasters.org) and then think deeply about finding companies whose …

The first immediate thing I would recommend is moving all of your files into AWS S3: http://aws.amazon.com/s3/ Storage is super cheap, and you can get rid of the clutter on your …

I highly recommend this book, which provides a super good framework to think about the situation you're in: http://www.amazon.com/Good-They-Cant-Ignore-You/dp/145550912.…

Few things: - Usually drug prices are dropped / negotiated with foreign governments for developing countries - Drug price often starts high but drops as government / FDA criticizes and once …

FDA process is way more than $13M generally for real medical devices. Regardless, if they're exempt they're exempt. FDA won't look at something that isn't regulated / has stra…

There's research that shows that in practice, grid search / random search beat most of the alternatives. It's also easier to parallelize thankfully!

It's ironic how the Bioshock games vaguely follow the Seasteading Institute's plans (Bioshock 1 with Rapture, underwater cities not quite floating islands and Bioshock infinite with floating…

still there https://twitter.com/teslamotors

The animations are incredible, more quantitative posts should have illustrations like the ones in this post!

> Ironically, we can attribute the flourishing of trash articles like these to the new media landscape that has arrived due to the emergence of new technologies... While I generally agree, it'…

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