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A comment on Ask HN: What equipment measures mold, dust, tree, grass and ragweed levels?.

Re:Ask HN: What equipment measures mold, dust, tree, grass a... by pasbesoin on Thursday July 02, 2015 @02:51PM (#9820816)
This is the source of the often reported allergen counts in the Chicagoland area:

http://www.gottliebhospital.org/allergycount

I don't have time right now to dig further, myself, but I know people who know Dr. Leija and this leaves me with the impression he is a... "good egg", I guess I'll say.

Meteorologist Tom Skilling is probably the most frequent reporter of Dr. Leija's / Gottlieb's values. He has an "Ask Tom" feature; this is the type of question he might enjoy digging into and reporting.

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Re:Ask HN: What equipment measures mold, dust, tree, grass a... by dsthode on Thursday July 02, 2015 @04:44PM (#9821510)
Correct me if I'm wrong but if the procedure is counting spores under the microscope, couldn't a computer vision system be trained with machine learning techniques to count an air sample under the microscope too?
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Re:Ask HN: What equipment measures mold, dust, tree, grass a... by dalke on Thursday July 02, 2015 @06:30PM (#9822159)
See http://xkcd.com/1425/ , or my second sentence at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9818893 . ;)
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