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Would You Rather Own The Unicorns, or Facebook?

Back in 2000 I was a biomedical engineering student at Virginia (who happens to be in the College baseball World Series, go Hoos!). I was in love with genetics and all things biotech, but also spent plenty of time reading annual reports and buying and selling (often shorting) stocks. One of the classes I enrolled in outside of engineering (if you are […]

June 17, 2015 ByMeb Faber college, count, environment, facebook, genome, private, security, series, world Comments Off read more

How Big Data Is Changing Science (and Society) – Pacific Standard …

If a world that relies on cause and effect gets rid of the cause, what happens?One day in high school science class, our teacher handed out black plastic boxes that were completely sealed. As we lifted, rotated, and shook the boxes, we could hear a heavy object rattling around inside, bumping into the barriers of an internal maze we couldn’t […]

November 8, 2013 ByMichael White biology, cancer, data, dna, genome, king, models, project, research Comments Off read more