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Re:Hillary Clinton Is Wrong About Edward Snowden on Sunday October 18, 2015 @01:53PM (#10409034)
Also he wasn't "with stolen information". He did not keep a copy with him on his way.
Re:Artificial Neural Networks for Beginners on Thursday September 17, 2015 @03:31PM (#10235539)
I think the best introductory resources are Nielsen's book [http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/] and Hinton's online course [https://www.coursera.org/course/neuralnets]. If you need something specifically for Theano, they have their own tutorial [http://deeplearning.net/tutorial/].
Re:We Built a Hacker News for Biotech on Friday March 28, 2014 @02:28PM (#7489055)
I argue mostly but there are still some exceptions:

http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/27680/...

http://www.xconomy.com/seattle/2009/02/06/sticking-it-to-the...

Also nowadays there are biotech incubators with all the basic equipment where you can rent a bench for around $2k/month.

http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/v19/n12/full/nm1213-1556.ht... [Paywall]