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Re:Tim Draper defends Theranos and its disgraced founder and... by dnautics on Sunday May 13, 2018 @01:50PM (#17060053)
> There is no reason the underlying idea of nanotainers being used for blood analysis is fundamentally impossible but it is a hard problem because the volume of blood is so small there can easily be statistical fluctuations that affect the classifier.

Do you not see how the second half of this statement strictly contradicts the first?

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Re:Tim Draper defends Theranos and its disgraced founder and... by dekhn on Monday May 14, 2018 @08:03AM (#17064708)
Hey, um, I've got a PhD in Biophysics, I've worked with biology, and I've got 20+ years experience in the field. The VC I advise declined to fund theranos for this very reason. That said, everything I know about biophysics and building classifiers (something I do for a large company known for machine learning) says that it's still technically possible to provide actionable medical data from tiny volumes of blood.

It does not "strictly contradict".

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Re:Tim Draper defends Theranos and its disgraced founder and... by meowface on Tuesday May 15, 2018 @11:07AM (#17074472)
Difficult doesn't mean impossible.
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