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  • Premium price

    Byscientist

    What is the premium that a new product can charge to that of a conventional product that is already in the market. Parts of it depend on marketing…. Sometimes, the market demands that if there is a lot of competition in the market, then the company try’s to undercut the competition for market entrance and…

  • Specialization

    Byscientist

    Many countries try to get specialized in all their special secret sauces. China is into manufacturing since they can get efficiency where others cannot, but other countries may not have so many special characteristics. Only a question: what is the specific character of differentiation at a country level? For example: a high cost of living…

  • DeepSpot

    Byscientist

    Kalin Klonchev – the winner of a competition for AI based data analysis from Broad in 2024 had also created a tool called DeepSpot. Worth looking at for spot analysis of H&E sections by converting a full H&E slide pictures to “spots” which are analyzed. Some good links: DeepSpot paper: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.09.25321567v1 DeepSpot GitHub repository: https://github.com/ratschlab/DeepSpot…

  • Museums

    Byscientist

    A human instinct seems to support collection. It may have originated from collection of food and collecting for the hard times…but… the collection seems to progress into other objects. A visit to the beach implies collection of shells. Why? It is not clear why any individual collects. Some of it has to do with shiny…

  • Chromosome transfer

    Byscientist

    It is possible to transfer DNA from one cell to another but usually this is done by transfer of small regions of DNA and their transfer. However, larger pieces can be transferred as whole chromosomes that would add significant amount of DNA material. There are several steps involved such as creation of large sequences and…

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    Novel Catalyst

    Byscientist

    There are many reactions in biology that are catalyzed by enzymes but there are other reactions in industrial chemistry that use industrial catalysts which have primarily been platinum based. A paper in Nature https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-68432-1 promises a unique shaped catalyst that can split H-H bond and other reactions. It is a unique structure and promises to…

  • AI Automations

    Byscientist

    The AI automations have only increased. There is one interesting one that has been receiving publicity. Check it out: https://knowledgework.ai It takes notes while the person is working and becomes the second brain. Privacy and access may be of concern but capability is available with AI tools.

  • Observability

    Byscientist

    Observability is important for AI and AI tools. It is the ability to monitor them for token usage, response quality and model drift. Typically, an AI system is monitored through logs, traces and metrics but an AI system on AI agent may need other metrics. Troubleshooting a complex AI system that produces its output probabilistically…