ben-ray

hacker/engineer | ONSITE Redwood City, CA | full-time | https://www.retro.bio/

lab automation is typically seen as a dead industry without significant software engineering opportunities

we are building a programmatic approach to automated wetlab R&D to develop drugs across 5 of Retro's scientific programs

this is a fast paced job that requires a highly self-motivated individual. Retro is highly collaborative and low bureaucracy. You will have access to whatever resources and scientific expertise you need to build tooling that will shift the trajectory of scientific progress.

check out our JD here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1phQBYUgzFYEN9TKEMl6oi03i...

we already have hackable, $26k solutions for single cell library prep: https://labautomation.io/t/10x-scrna-seq-library-prep-26k/30

what i am curious about is techniques to scale biological data generation & scientific progress via large-scale single-cell biological profiling

> Say one can send the exact cryptographic fingerprint and impersonate me. How is this anything better than me just sending password to authenticate?

The message can be signed with a private key to ensure you are not being impersonated. In cases where you'd also like anonymity, it is possible to add some salt as an input to the 'cryptographic fingerprint,' obfuscating the unsalted proof.

This video is good material for learning to reason about ZK proofs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3UlqJk3Kl0

Network states can fire their ‘clear leader,’ which is not true for all democracies.

Centralizing the database introduces key trust vulnerabilities that can be eliminated in a decentralized trust-less system.

Medicare coverage is massive.

Can't wait to see what Psyonic does with v2 and v3. Aadeel - you're the real deal, keep it up!