inglondon
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Building something new in Europe. Former founder & CEO of VitroLabs (YC S17)
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Comment · 7 years ago
I can't verify the quality of these studies but it seems that injury rates per 1000 active hours of crossfit at 0.27 - 0.74 [1] are significantly lower than more common sports such as running at 2.9 - 4.4 and basketball at 6.3 - 12.9 [2]
[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6201188/ [2] http://bionics.seas.ucla.edu/education/Rowing/Injury_2004_01...
Comment · 7 years ago
Reminds me of when I attended an event in Paris, France and they had a robot bartender. I was there during the day when they were setting up and it took a team of 3 engineers ~8 hours to set up vs just paying a bartender for the 3 hours + an hour's setup time that the evening cocktail reception lasted.
I understand they organisers wanted something cool, but it was comical to observe nonetheless.
[Edit: punctuation]
Comment · 8 years ago
They’re members of a notorious family of multidrug-resistant pathogens, called carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE), which collectively have mortality rates as high as 50 percent and have spread rapidly around the globe in recent years. A 2013 report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that there were more than 9,300 CRE infections in the US each year, leading to 600 deaths.
Is it correct to assume that while CREs have up to 50% mortality rate worldwide, the US mortality rate of CRE infections is around 6.5%?
Edit: I applaud efforts to increase access to healthcare worldwide. We really need to do more to combat the spread of such bacteria through better management of antibiotic use, mainly in agriculture.
Comment · 9 years ago
There is also no derivatives market for diamonds
Comment · 10 years ago
Apart from the usecases mentioned in the article, this could have interesting applications in sterile environments such as operating theatres and clean-rooms. Another fairly obvious application is virtual and augmented reality. For more traditional computer set-ups I see it falling more into the Leap Motion camp where it might not add a lot of value.
Comment · 10 years ago
What about the 3rd option, getting two tasks done?
- Grind for 1 hour and assuming 90% success rate, finish the task 9 out of 10 times
- Sleep
- Finish another task in 15 min with, again based on your assumption, a success rate of 100%
In start-ups there is usually a near endless list of tasks to solve so this would be the most productive approach. Again, based on a lot of assumptions.
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