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ajblast Friday at 11:22 PM1 replyview on HN

I am not proposing injecting chips.


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rscholast Friday at 11:34 PM

Apart from the likely technical infeasibility of your idea in today's society, this would require a humongous and diversified population sample to be meaningful (your 'heterogeneous bits'). This follows directly from the complexity of metabolic pathways you wish to analyze. Socially, you'll only be able to achieve that by not asking your sample for consent. Otherwise you'll have a highly biased sample, which could still be useful but for severely restricted research questions.

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