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That plot half way down the page where they fit a straight line through 2 points and predict to be able to map human brains by 2084 made me laugh.


The y-axis is logarithmic so it’s actually representing exponential improvements which is a fair upper-bound assumption given the rate of improvement in cost to map a human genome was better than exponential.


I get that. It's just that for an excel-trapolation 2x outside the observed range based on only 2 data points, 2084 is a strangely precise estimate. I find it hard to take this seriously.


Pull requests welcome. :)




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