dcdanko

You have the right idea. In some cases the Dead Sea Scrolls were literally shredded- ripped up into small pieces that were sold individually to tourists.

The goal here was to identify parchment fragments that came from the same animal so the original (unshredded) document could be reconstructed.

While we were able to link a lot of parchment fragments we didn't go so far as to actually reconstruct the text on those fragments. While we constrained that task somewhat it's still nontrivial since we don't know what order the fragments should go in, if there are still missing pieces, etc.

Most of the fragments (sorry don't have a %) could be mapped to a genome. In cases where a fragment could not be mapped it's more likely because of degradation than novel biology.

That said we did identify some novel microbial genomes. Not clear if they are actually ancient though vs contamination in the last 100 years or so.

You should be able to get all the supplies online

The standards for authorship in this study were pretty strict. Something like ~2 supplementary figures just for a co-authorship.

Source: I'm in one of the labs on this paper (but not one of the authors)

Still not applicable to Trump because the U.S. Congress has power of the purse, not the President.

> His compound rate of wealth increase, post paying taxes on the sale, is around ~7.5%. That beats the S&P 500 over that time, which very few professional money managers can do.

Very few money managers that are accessible to people with less than 10^8 USD can beat the S&P after fees.

Bridgewater, (Ray Dalio's fund mentioned above) regularly gets 12.5% annual returns and they are most notable for being consistent, not high. Pre-2008 some investment banks were getting up to 20%.

A billionaire making 7.5% annually is fairly unimpressive if their goal was to make money (which it might not have been for Cuban).

NASA is only trying to keep Mars sterile for 100 years or so, probably doesn't matter much on the scale of terraforming

Both would be illegal* since your keys are info that could deanonymize patient data. However, you would be allowed to store them on your own PC if you follow proper procedures.

This is more important than it might seem from a purely tech perspective. HIPAA is partly designed to guard against 1) improper use of encryption 2) downstream contractors who are malicious or careless

The one-time pad is probably fine but it's easy to imagine lesser encryption being broken (especially by bugs). This problem gets much worse once PHI is stored on a medium, like a blockchain, where it can never be taken down. After all you probably wouldn't be happy if your health data was on the internet protected only by SHA1.

There are probably better solutions to all of these issues but HIPAA is intentionally conservative. In many respects HIPAA is a financial, not a technical, law.

* HIPAA doesn't make improper storage illegal in the sense that you go to jail if you do it wrong. It exposes people who handle data improperly to massive fines, usually when actual breaches occur. This is part of why BAAs are so important.

mood, circadian rhythm, ancestry, region of the world, diet type, infection, sex, certain diseases, and probably more!

Why? 32 is a big for a human study.

They recruited 32 people that didn't exercise, they didn't choose them after they already had the data.

Even the composition of your microbiome itself can alter your brain chemistry (actually, it's usually called the gut brain axis).

The study here used fecal transplant from lean to obese mice as well as a less invasive test; so it really does seems like a meaningful distinction.