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I am preparing a blog post: What is the most impressive technological breakthrough in 2015? Thoughts?

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Roaring bitmaps. A better compressed bitset. Bitsets, also called bitmaps, are commonly used as fast data structures. Unfortunately, they can use too much memory. To compensate, we often use compressed bitmaps. Roaring bitmaps are compressed bitmaps which tend to outperform conventional ...

Roaring bitmaps have now been implemented in Java, Go, Python, Cython, Rust, C#, Haskell, C, C++...

Roaring Bitmaps

roaringbitmap.org

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Are we really testing an anti-aging pill? And what does it mean?

My commentary on the TAME clinical trials.

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Daniel Lemire: +Pam Adger We have no reason to believe that metformin is the only or best anti-aging therapy, but they needed to start with something safe, and they probably wanted something cheap... if this trial goes well, we will see more of them...

sue rexrode: Thanks for the info very interesting

Mohamed Awed: How I wish reaching a final drug for diabetes deases. Good luck, Mar, Daniel

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Google and Facebook Race to Solve the Ancient Game of Go With AI

Google and Facebook are trying to beat Yoda. No. I kid you not. This is true.

+WIRED

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The mysterious aging of astronauts

Why do astronauts age at such an accelerated pace? They do not get a lot of cancers and they work out regularly.

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Sergey Ten: Weightlessness is likely culprit (space station is not much different from submarine, so it's not closed envioment), the real questioner is exact mechanism how it causing all those effects. Some effects in the blood flow may be...

Patrick Smith: +Sergey Ten people aren't weightless on submarines.

Sergey Ten: +Patrick Smith that's exactly what I mean. The significant difference between submarine and space station is weightlesness

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When can Quantum Annealing win?

Apache Kylin: Open Source petabyte-scale Big Data Distributed Analytics Engine in use at eBay

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We have entered the era of industrial-strength quantum computing (e.g., 100,000x faster than electronic computing)...

googleresearch.blogspot.ca

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A chief scientist at Microsoft says we're less than five years away from computers understanding us perfectly

"In the next four to five years, computers will be as good as humans at understanding the words that come out of your mouth" says the Chief Scientist of Speech at Microsoft.

c.c. +Leonid Boytsov

+Business Insider

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First trial of gene-editing treatment for haemophilia

Human trials where we shall edit people's genes to cure their haemophilia...

Scientists will edit genes directly inside the human body for the first time – helping people with haemophilia B make the enzyme necessary for blood to clot

+New Scientist

Dominic Amann: I get that we have selection mechanisms already. The moratorium will probably leak anyway.

For my opinion, personally I think there is nothing wrong with eradicating debilitating diseases, but there is an ethical debate to be had, for sure. It will of course become yet another line where Americans get it first, and then we can spot third worlders by their genetic defects, much like you can spot us now by our bad teeth.

As it stands, as these things go, it will probably be easier to get someone to edit for blond hair than it will be for a normal mother to cure her child of haemophilia.

Daniel Lemire: +Dominic Amann There is no reason to believe that gene therapy has to be expensive, and the potential savings from not having to continuously care for chronically ill patients is enormous. It is much more expensive to be sick than to be in good health.

sue rexrode: In this day and time. I believe that we can do about anything UR right about this

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