Posts for November, 2009
Dr Shock MD PhD
Dating sites as well as social networking sites have search options. In the case of dating sites were people can look for interpersonal romantic relationships these search options deliver more options to search and more possible partners. More options with searching often are accompanied by excessive searching and decreasing the quality of [...]
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
The “Livestock based Geographical Indication chains as an entry point to maintain agrobiodiversity” Expert Meeting will be the third in the serious of events that FAO have recently organized in order to raise awareness about the importance of traditional products and their role in agriculture and rural development and agro-biodiversity preservation. The Budapest [...]
Daniel Lemire
We have extended the deadline of our call for papers on Learning and the Social Web (http://socialwebjetwi.info/). It is a special issue for the Journal of Emerging Technologies in Web Intelligence (JETWI). You now have until December 20th to submit your papers.
Suggested topics:
Web 3.0
Ambient and Ubiquitous Learning
Telepresence
Web 2.0 and Social intelligence
Web Mining
Web Services and Semantic [...]
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Björn Brembs
Put all scientists in jail! – http://bjoern.brembs.net/news…
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You think 'Open Access' means changing the way we do science? You think "Open Notebook Science" is the ultimate way to do modern science? Let me show you some people [...]
Scienceroll
Information can really be beautiful if it is presented and referenced properly. There is a huge dataset of H1N1 related information visualized in a perfect way on one of my favourite blogs. An excerpt:
Check the whole image here and also the resources of the data.
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Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
The World Bank’s Development Marketplace 2009 is continuing to feature stories from the winners on its web site. And that’s good because we can scan them as they come up and draw attention to those that involve agricultural biodiversity. Today’s pick, a project from Samoa to build traditional houses “as models of ’safer, [...]
Dr Shock MD PhD
This is a movie used for the presentation of symptoms of Schizophrenia in some medical schools. I also use a lot of fragments from Hollywood movies to teach psychiatric symptoms and diseases to medical students. Since recent there’s Symptom Media. It’s a non-profit organization created in the spring of 2009 for the [...]
Dr Shock MD PhD
A mashup of babies dancing to Beyoncé’s hit song “All The Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)” from YouTube.
And the other one:
Robots dancing synchronized to Christmas music.
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Thanks Geekology
Related posts:
The Best Robots of 2008 In a recent post on Singularity Hub they have…
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Against Monopoly
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Against Monopoly
One of the problems is that science has become politicized. Industries hire hacks (including scientists) to attack any science that does not meet their needs. Think of the Chamber of Commerce’s recent call for economists to write a paper that will attack health care.
Under constant attack, scientists may feel the need to [...]
Daniel Lemire
(This is a follow-up to my previous blog post.)
Any run-length encoding requires you to store the number of repetitions. In my example, AAABBBBBZWWK becomes 3A-5B-1Z-2W-1K, we must store 5 counters (3,5,1,2,1) and 5 characters.
Storing counters using a fixed number of bits
Most programming languages represent integers using a fixed number of bits in binary format. [...]
Dr Shock MD PhD
BioMedSearch.com wants to provide free access to documents relating to the biomedical field. They want to make these important works available to the community in a way that is fast and easy, while still offering the advanced features demanded by power users such as portfolios, collaboration features, bibliographical citation export, alerts, and [...]
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Purple sweet potato fries? Riiiiiiiiiiiiight. Anyway, let Ted Carey try to convince you.
“The CIP breeder sent me about 2000 seeds from crosses between purple parent plants that looked promising for regions like ours. In 2007, we planted those seeds at K-State’s John C. Pair Horticulture Center near Wichita. Each seed had the potential [...]
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Björn Brembs
Functional connectivity of default mode network components: correlation, anticorrelation, and causality. – http://www.citeulike.org/user…
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Human brain mapping, Vol. 30, No. 2. (24 February 2009), pp. 625-637. The default mode network (DMN), based in ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) and posterior cingulate …
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Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
If you were intrigued by the source of the packet of germplasm I illustrated a few days ago, here it is:
It is the Nordic Genetic Resources Centre, or NordGen. It’s on the grounds of the Swedish Agricultural University at Alnarp near Malmo. As coincidence would have it I was up there in Alnarp [...]