There have been many instances where we believe what we see or taste or hear. That belief forms our existence on what is “real”. Sometimes, when that distorts, it can change our perception. This is not about psychedelic substances but in fact a small protein called miraculin. It is 24.6 kDa protein that is a…
Impossible burger is made by a company that has used soy bean leghemoglobin found in root nodules of soybean plan to add to their burger and enhance taste. Now, this leghemoglobin in similar to animal hemoglobin and releases iron just like a real hemoglobin molecule and perhaps that extra something adds to the taste of…
There are new applications of LLM (Large language models) everyday. The LLM will manage many aspects of your language – that is a given. It will also modify the tone and words so that they are understood by the target audience. A new company called Articifical Societies is connecting the benefits of LLM language manipulation…
Heart rate monitors have been used to measure the heart rate during sports and other activity. They have also been used to measure serious medical conditions. Smart watches these days make it very easy to measure heart rate and almost all of them perform the measurement. However, they require contact with the skin or body….
Perceptions or assessments of behavior can be difficult to quantify. When attempt is made to quantify specific actions that are perceptions then a scale is used to measure the behavior on a scale such as a Likert scale with values on a 1-5 scale. One such assessment could be an assessment of pain in which…
This is a short post. There are so many so sources of information in biology. It just amazed me that now Venture Capitalists were starting their own podcast and discussing detailed biology. I guess it helps to know the field that you are investing. Check out Andressen Horowitz podcast link here: https://a16z.com/podcasts
A statistics concept that has been used for a specific purpose. This has been used to interpret how well the scales, surveys (or test items) function for determining a factor under consideration. It is used to determine reliability or the internal consistency of the test item. The surveys are used to measure things that are…
For anything Artificial Intelligence or Machine Learning, datasets are important and sometimes to tune the algorithms requires a dataset that is useful and valid.One search tool that many use is called “GOOGLE” but there is a specific link to search for datasets. https://datasetsearch.research.google.com/ Another site talks about the background of google search engine and other…
One technique that is used to compare two groups in statistics is to measure whether they are correlated or not – for example, if you are trying to correlate whether food consumption and weight gain are related to each other. There are several tests to tell you whether that is true or not. However, it…
It is incredible to see the number of resources that are available for visualizing data. For most people it is a spreadsheet and the graphs it provides. Then there are dedicated programs that do all the data plotting in multiple styles for the user. These are complicated and involved programs that take the data from…
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