Topcoder

2 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Andrew McAfee (Andy) · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2019 · across every show →

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Jan 2, 2019
Assertion Supported
McAfee: Top performers in an NIH genomics challenge lacked biology backgrounds
“They interviewed the best performers that, who submitted the top performing algorithms None of them had a life sciences background. There was not a geneticist. There was not a biologist among them.”
Andrew McAfee (Andy) Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 22:55 a16z Podcast | Companies, Networks, Crowds
Jan 2, 2019
Assertion Partly supported
McAfee: A Topcoder challenge cut genome sequencing time to 10 seconds
“They had an algorithm that could do a run in about four hours with about 70% accuracy. There was a faculty member at Harvard Med School who made a big improvement to that algorithm. He developed one that got them up to about 75% accuracy. Kareem then worked wi…”
Andrew McAfee (Andy) Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 22:22 a16z Podcast | Companies, Networks, Crowds
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