Posts for December, 2009
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Björn Brembs
The new year's party you wish the DJ had set his iPod on shuffle…” (at PLAY Berlin – Bar-Lounge, Spiele und Veranstaltungslocation)
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Scienceroll
In October of 2008, I launched Webicina.com, the world’s first medical free web 2.0 guidance service, in order to help empowered patients and their doctors find quality medical information and medical web tools easily. 2009 was a fantastic year with many new features and international conferences where I presented our work. Here are the milestones.
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It's been a long time since I ran an SDS PAGE Ugly, but we can see what we needed to see: IgY! – http://brightkite.com/objects…
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Scienceroll
I’m now back in action and going to share some reviews and new applications with you today. First, here is VisualDx:
VisualDx Mobile, that is scheduled for release on January 19th, is the fastest way for physicians to visually validate a patient’s diagnosis. It serves as a decision support tool for physicians, allowing them to either [...]
Dr Shock MD PhD
The regular collection of modern painters, from 1905-1960 in the Centre Pompidou in Paris holds some beautiful paintings by Wassily Kandinsky. This picture is just one out of five or six nice paintings, colorful. Enjoyed them very much while visiting Paris, so check them out when you have the opportunity.
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The subtle differences between various Computer related majors are confusing, especially at the age when one makes their University choices. 6 Degrees of Computer Science is a good place to start, but the choice is not always clear. Some delegate the choice of their program to luck — apply to all, and see which one [...]
Nested Universe
Michael Anissimov, Steve Rayhawk, Anna Salamon, Tom McCabe, and Rolf Nelson have released the beta version of an application created from a Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence research project. The Uncertain Future predicts when human-level Artificial Intelligence will arrive based upon a rigorous mathematical model.
The application allows users to provide their own estimates as to [...]
Science For SEO Partial
This is the last post of the entire year. I wanted to thank you all for reading along, contributing, helping me out and generally making SFS not only worthwhile but a pleasure to run. Thank you for all of your support and I genuinely hope that I have given you useful and [...]
Against Monopoly
The Christian Science Monitor published this response to David and Michele’s op-ed (sorry if it’s already been posted):
Reform, but don’t destroy, patent law
In their commentary, “The patent system: End it, don’t mend it,” David K. Levine and Michael Boldrin propose wiping out centuries of Anglo-American legal heritage in intellectual property (IP) rights because they [...]
Dr Shock MD PhD
Oxford mathematician Peter Donnelly reveals the common mistakes humans make in interpreting statistics — and the devastating impact these errors can have on the outcome of clinical trials.
British and very funny besides being very informative
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Recommended reading: From Statistics to Fort Hood Recommended reading is a weekly summary of interesting posts…
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Björn Brembs
Intrinsic plasticity: the 'other' learning mechanism – http://bjoern.brembs.net/news…
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Silliman University Physics Blog
The Silliman University Physics Department engaged in the department’s 1st Christmas-Costume party held last Dec 17, Thursday at SC 346. The Physics students and faculty dressed up in their Christmas attires as they began the party.Rosette as Lady Gaga/Daughter of Santa ClausDr. Hope Bandal as a Christmas clownSir Nelvs as King HerodMa’am [...]
Against Monopoly
It is clear to anyone who pays attention that IP is under assault–both institutionally, as digital copying, encryption, distributed information, the Internet, and the inherent impotence of IP policing make attempts to monopolize information patterns increasingly futile; and intellectually, as more and more people, especially libertarians–and especially younger libertarians–see the injustice of IP made [...]
Against Monopoly
I previously posted “On J. Neil Schulman’s Logorights“; Schulman and I recently had an interesting exchange in the comments section of the cross-post on my blog. The original post and the exchange are appended below.
On GMO patent infestation, Kent Hastings comments on my IP views and those of J. Neil Schulman. Schulman responded:
My [...]
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Björn Brembs
@carlzimmer Would like to use your article "Speed of Thought" in my undergraduate course on conduction velocity measurement. PDF anywhere?
8 hours ago
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