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Re: Basics | Query Variables | Learn GraphQL

100ideas — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 20:06:00 -0000

disqus inserted itself in the url you shared, presenting a hyperlink prepended with it's own domain like so `disq.us/url?url=https%3A%2F...`, I assume for analytics. A minor evil. But for me, the link is broken. More evil! If this happens to anyone else, here is the path at medium of the article /the-graphqlhub/graphql-tour-variables-58c6abd10f56#.uiiykbmpi

Re: Here's Why Most Neuroscientists Are Wrong About the Brain

100ideas — Sat, 19 Dec 2015 20:24:21 -0000

yeah, poor misunderstood glial cells. some uni somewhere should double down and start a glialscience department :)

Re: Here's Why Most Neuroscientists Are Wrong About the Brain

100ideas — Sat, 19 Dec 2015 20:20:03 -0000

high-five!!!

Re: Here's Why Most Neuroscientists Are Wrong About the Brain

100ideas — Sat, 19 Dec 2015 20:16:35 -0000

my understanding is that sensory systems use frequency encoding to represent information from the cochlea and the retina for example. clearly there is no obvious universal clock signal for these systems, but perhaps a resonant frequency of sorts emerges from the collective action of locally connected neurons.

Re: Here's Why Most Neuroscientists Are Wrong About the Brain

100ideas — Sat, 19 Dec 2015 20:10:37 -0000

surprised the author didn’t mention dendritic spines. the constant remodeling of these, on the dendrites (or axon?) of, for instance, a purkinje cell, may be the mechanism by which information is represented.

why are ontological questions such as "what IS s number" irrelevant here? the author unermined his position by implying this line of questioning was ridiculous without backing that up in any way. personally, I think its useful to distingush what one means by "by number". if the switches in a particular register are set in such a way to encode the number 256 in binary, should we then say that the register literally is the same thing as the number 256? this seems to be the authors position. it's like saying the fingers on my right hand IS the number 5. what is the difference between the two numbers? is it important that a register was designed to hold numbers, or that it can hold a range of different numbers, while it is rather coincidence that my hand is the "number" five?

Re: The Meteor Testing Manual by Sam Hatoum

100ideas — Fri, 05 Jun 2015 05:08:28 -0000

Had an npm problem while following this tutorial. Velocity would run then crash, here are the key log messages:

Error: Cannot find module 'underscore'
...etc...
[xolvio:cucumber] Bad response from Chimp server." in the log and velocity-html widget.

Solution:

$ cd tests/cucumber/

$ npm install
> underscore@1.8.3 node_modules/underscore

Did I miss that important step in the tutorial above? Anyway, here are details on velocity using npm modules. https://github.com/xolvio/m...

Re: Latency Compensation - The Meteor Book

100ideas — Sat, 09 Nov 2013 14:15:48 -0000

When adding the this.isSimulation code to my Meteor.methods, my server kept crashing. Not sure if I'm missing the 'future' package or what.

Edit: added then removed 'future' package w/ npm, don't have the issue anymore.

Re: http://cadeparade.com/post/20220774460

100ideas — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:49:51 -0000

Great post, Jason :) Sweet apartment cum science museum gift shop too.

Re: http://cadeparade.com/post/19772770271

100ideas — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 16:12:29 -0000

Man this photo is fantastic! I love it. Are you also posting them to flickr?

Re: Hello world!

100ideas — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 18:06:51 -0000

Hi Jason, FLC occurred in 2011. There are no solid plans to host it again in 2012 in Boston. You might be interested in working at bosslab, though, a public wetlab in Davis Sq. http://bosslab.org

Re: Boston Venue: Templeman Automation

100ideas — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 18:05:51 -0000

Right next door :)

Re: Genome at Home: Biohackers Build Their Own Labs

100ideas — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 15:16:23 -0000

@twistmatt , I'm Mac Cowell, one of the developers of GeneLaser mentioned in the article. We looked at other isothermal PCR techniques when we were developing the GeneLaser kit, but we didn't come across RPA. It looks really interesting. I see that the commercial price / reaction is about $4, not including template preparation and analysis costs. That's more expensive than the PCR mastermix we include in Genelaser, but possibly worth it if our users don't need a thermocycler (and the reaction is only 15 min!).Shoot me an email at mac@cofactorbio.com - I'd like to request some samples.

Re: cofactorbio : primersets

100ideas — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:21:17 -0000

Identifying the herbs in herbal teas using DNA barcoding & conventional sequencing. http://www.nature.com/srep/.... Pretty cool - especially since they were able to separate the herb samples in a way that didn't require relatively-expensive next-gen sequencing. (Hat-Tip to Tito Jankowski for pointing out the article)

Re: cofactorbio : primersets

100ideas — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 22:29:00 -0000

Hat-tip to this post by Dr. Stephen Guyenet for mentioning the review, and also some GWAS studies. http://wholehealthsource.bl...

Re: cofactorbio : primersets

100ideas — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 22:19:04 -0000

A 2009 review on metabolic disorders (obesity, diabetes) lists some interesting targets. From the paper: "There are now at least 20 single gene disorders that clearly result in an autosomal form of human obesity. Notably, so far all these disorders affect the central [i.e., brain] sensing and control of energy balance." - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov....

Re: makerbot as microscope: what we learned

100ideas — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 11:56:12 -0000

Great idea. I built an independent x-y stage to do the exact same thing w/ a webcam. I also used processing and a blob-analysis library to begin rudimentary tracking of microbes. Ping me if you'd like to work together.
http://vimeo.com/11139943

Re: Boston: Flatbed Gel Electrophoresis Scanner

100ideas — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 20:31:47 -0000

Carlton,

FLC has been an experiment. The first to events were very open-ended: mash up Biotechnology researchers with local engineers, inventors, artists, and makers; encourage radical tool development; see what happens. No hypothesis :)

FLC 3 is going to be a bit different. I am going to do a fair amount of organizational work to find and invite 10-15 PhD researchers that each have a "if only I had a '....' tool, I could improve my research" and are enthusiastic about prototyping solutions over 2 days. Then I will solicit calls for participation from the local engineering / software / art / inventor / maker community via a variety of channels.

The goal is to provide local makers with the opportunity to significantly collaborate with local scientists in a deep way, and to help local scientists quickly prototype tools to help them accelerate their research.

By precedent, all work over the 48-hour weekend will be documented and released online by default with a CC-BY-SA license. The goal of FLC is to foster collaboration and innovation between scientists and inventors. Prototypes assembled over the 48 hours that result in good ideas can be pursued with further development by researchers, individuals, or engineering firms, without freedom-to-operate concerns.

I'm in the midst of organizing FLC3 here in Boston w/ Harvard & MIT & Co, for an event sometime in August or mid September. Want to come?

Re: The Pringle as Technology - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic

100ideas — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 21:30:48 -0000

I've heard rumors noted magical realism / sci-fi author Gene Wolfe helped invent some of the pringle-manufacturing systems discussed here, and was hoping to find evidence in this article one way or another.

Re: Hello world!

100ideas — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 20:42:39 -0000

yes, there is another FLC in Boston in May. If you want to run a simultaneous event with either of these, that'd totally rock.

Re: Hello world!

100ideas — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 18:35:07 -0000

We're working on the invited speaker list and agenda of lightning talks for the weekend as I type... stay tuned.

Re: Hello world!

100ideas — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 23:23:15 -0000

It's on, Baby! Can't wait to hack on some biorobots!

Re: bit.ly Bundles

100ideas — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 12:52:21 -0000

Because the kits are shipped on dry ice or with ice packs overnight, note that shipping alone for the three required kits will total about $90.

Some of these suppliers are not set up to sell their products to individuals, only to companies and schools. If you have trouble sourcing something, try teaming up with a local teacher or professor.

Re: Keynote UX - Free stencils to make interactive prototypes and website wireframes in Apple Keynote

100ideas — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 18:07:17 -0000

Nice work Colin! I came here excited to use this for a site I'm designing and was pleasantly surprised to find you were behind it! Nice!

Re: DIYbio » h+beer meetup

100ideas — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 01:02:40 -0000

that was fun!

Re: DIYbio » h+beer meetup

100ideas — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 02:50:30 -0000

looking forward to this meeting of the minds.