Posts for November, 2009
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
In a recent post about genetic erosion I asked one of the commenters, Andre, two questions:
1: What is the justification for a single set of seed regulations designed for and with large commercial farmers, which does not meet other growers’ needs?
2: Why, in your view, is Europe’s position preferable?
He was kind enough to [...]
Daniel Lemire
Current practical database compression techniques stress speed over compression:
Vectorwise is using Super-scalar RAM-CPU cache compression which includes a carefully implemented dictionary coder.
C-store—and presumably Vertica—is using similar compression techniques as well as simple run-length encoding of projection indexes.
Oracle is compressing its bitmaps using Byte-aligned bitmap compression—a variation on run-length encoding.
Wu et al.’s Fastbit as well [...]
Chris Pietschmann
I’ve decided to expand a little on using OpenStreetMap imagery with the new Bing Maps Silverlight Control in response to the following comment posted by John O’Brien on my previous “Display OpenStreetMap Imagery using Bing Maps Silverlight Control v1” post:
“Very close Chris but you will still need to enter a Bing Maps AppID. [...]
Dr Shock MD PhD
The MedLib’s Round, the monthly blog carnival that highlights some of the best writing on medical librarianship, encompassing all stages in the publication and dissemination of medical information: writing, publishing, searching, citing, managing and social networking is up at Highlight Health.
I especially liked:
MedlinePlus vs. healthfinder: Must We Choose?
why there are two major [...]
Against Monopoly
I have been waiting for more articles, but they seem to have stopped coming. So now it is time to post a suggestion that you read what there are, listed on the right of the link here. It is a pretty strong case against Goldman Sachs totally profit oriented, self-regarding behavior put together by [...]
Against Monopoly
Intel Will Pay $1.25 Billion to Settle Disputes With Rival reports: “Ending the computer industry’s most bitter legal war, the chip maker Intel agreed on Thursday to pay a rival, Advanced Micro Devices, $1.25 billion to settle antitrust and patent disputes.”
$1.25 billion in wealth transferred, and untold hundreds of millions spent on litigation, [...]
Mystery Rays from Outer Space
Persons who were born before 1957 had a reduced risk of infection … Persons who were born between 1957 and 1975 were at intermediate risk for infection. 1
In Ontario, people over 53 years old had about 1/6 the chance2 of getting the new H1N1; the those between about 33 [...]
Chris Pietschmann
The Bing Maps Silverlight SDK documentation on MSDN contains an article on Adding Tile Overlays to the Map, that demonstrates how to overlay your own map imagery over top of the Bing Maps Imagery. However, what if you want to completely replace the Bing Maps Imagery with some other Imagery like the OpenStreeMap [...]
Daniel Lemire
Procrastination can be a serious problem leading to job loss, high anxiety and even significant psychological disability and dysfunction (according to wikipedia). To avoid excessive procrastination, most researchers grow a sense of professional urgency.
Most people rely on extrinsic pressures. In Computer Science—for example—we often organize our work around a few conferences with fixed submission deadlines. [...]
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
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Björn Brembs
Open Access petition to German parliament: https://epetitionen.bundestag.de/index…
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Against Monopoly
My article Intellectual Property and Libertarianism was published last month in Liberty magazine (December 2009 issue). This article is based in part on a speech at Mises University 2009 (July 30, 2009; audio; video) and also on my What Libertarianism Is, which contains references not present in the Liberty paper (as does The Case [...]
Against Monopoly
This subject will appear off-topic initially but bear with me. The Economist magazine has a long article, “Japan’s technology champions,” about the mid-sized highly specialized companies which dominate several manufacturing fields link here. The prime example is the world’s sole maker of the huge forged pressure vessels for nuclear power plants. But there [...]
Dr Shock MD PhD
Two of my favorite blog colleagues wrote posts about twitter lists. Not the new feature of twitter to make your own lists and exchange them but a collection of medical and other scientific journals on twitter and a list of scientists on twitter.
These lists are an excellent starting point if your interested [...]
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Cinderella fruits hit the limelight.
Deconstructing rainforest shamanism.
The assisted migration debate rages on.
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