Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Quantifying subjective data
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…
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Gathering information
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:
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Cronbach’s alpha
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…
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Searching for datasets
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…
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Intraclass coefficient and Clinical Trials
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…
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Data visualization: Rawgraphs
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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3D Anatomy
There are so many ways to visualize complex data AND understand it at the same time. However, this has been done for many years for complex data using diagrams.A typical place this has done many times has been anatomy. These diagrams present the views from different viewpoints and these then create the understanding of the…
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Mutanome
Proteins mutate. This happens due to various circumstances but the consequences can be significant. One of the major effects is cancer. The mutated proteins build up properties that are oncogenic and can be a problem.This has been investigated through publications wherein a few mutations were highlighted. Currently, many of the proteins have been cataloged and…
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Synthetic biology dyes
A synthetic biology company called Huue is going forward to create dye’s from bacteria. The cool part is that they are taking machinery that is in plants and introducing them into bacteria.An advantage is that you could manipulate and then come up with new dyes. The dye Huue has started with is called Indigo and…
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Now see molecules
Try moving molecules now! Isn’t this beautiful? It shows the structure of the mechanosensitive Piezo1 channel with display from NIH system – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Structure/icn3d/full.html
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