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Re:Stanford Student Claims to Run Bootleg Covid-19 Testing Lab by lordnacho on Friday March 20, 2020 @05:46AM (#22636303)
My thoughts exactly. This is like saying it's trivial to do face recognition. All you have to do is load some libs, train the NN on them, and use the trained network on new data.

In practice everything from software versioning to knowing what might go wrong in NN training is gonna be a roadblock for someone who hasn't been shown.

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Re:Stanford Student Claims to Run Bootleg Covid-19 Testing Lab by kolinko on Friday March 20, 2020 @08:54AM (#22637156)
As someone who had experience in both - PCR is similar, if not simpler to setting up NN. You just need equipment.
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Re:Stanford Student Claims to Run Bootleg Covid-19 Testing Lab by omar_a1 on Friday March 20, 2020 @05:29PM (#22641853)
And setting up a NN is easy, you just need a laptop.

In general, if you find yourself using the phrase "you just need (to)..." Then you should probably take a step back and consider the actual work that goes into "just" doing the work.

Or, in the case you've outlined, not even doing the work, but just ordering the PCR equipment, since apparently the kit will just run itself? (I'm also assuming here that you realize that this isn't PCR + gel electrophoresis, but qPCR.)

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