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GRETCHEN MORGENSON and LOUISE STORY add more detail to the story of the collapse of our financial system and how it was brought down by the gang of financial innovators at such respectable financiers at Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank and Morgan Stanley, as well as smaller firms like Tricadia Inc. link here
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Mystery Rays from Outer Space
It’s been a busy couple weeks, and tomorrow we’re heading out for a week’s vacation. I don’t know what my internet access will be like, but probably not too good, so this might be the last Mystery Rays post for 2009.
Quick notes from a series of articles in New England Journal [...]
Against Monopoly
From BBC News:
Hacker cracks Kindle’s copyright
An Israeli hacker claims to have broken the copyright protection on Amazon’s Kindle e-reader, reports say.
The hack will allow the ebooks stored on the reader to be transferred as pdf files to any other device.
The hacker, known as Labba, responded to a challenge posted on Israeli hacking forum, [...]
Dr Shock MD PhD
Ommwriter from Herraiz Soto on Vimeo.
A new minimalistic full screen text writer: Ommwriter. Simple, adaptable (fonts, font size, keyboard sounds, background, sounds although a bit new age, and size) and a pleasure to use. Besides only available for Mac. Until now used Scrivener but this one is cool. You’ll have to register [...]
Against Monopoly
Open Access publishers charge author fees in order to make their work freely available to the public. While I think most of these author fees are much too high given the low cost of publishing online, Sciyo appears to go even further and distribute royalties for article downloads to authors. The economic motivation seems [...]
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Such a great sense of humour.
As those of us in the northern hemisphere celebrate the imminent arrival of spring, and commiserate with our brethren and sistern in the south, and as those of us lolling around on or about the equator prepare to suck up another Tusker, baridi sana, The Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog [...]
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Via my WUSTL student Dirk Doebler, news of a video by an unknown Uruguayan producer Fede Alvarez. All $300 worth. Modern technology empowers the creative. If not for the dead-hand of the copyright lobby trying to keep everything ever made in the past under lock and key (think “sound track” or “mashup” or “sampling”) [...]
Dr Shock MD PhD
In short, a recent article proposed to do deep brain stimulation for schizophenia. Schizophrenia has positive-, negative- and cognitive symptoms (see the figure above). The authors propose the DBS for positive symptoms. Their approach is based on current models of the neurocircuitry of psychosis .
They hypothesize:
that chronic, high frequency electrical [...]
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Stilton cheese from Stilton village? Illegal. h/t CAS-IP
Is Indian agriculture heading for disaster?
“If you read any economic, financial, or political analysis for 2010 that doesn’t mention the food shortage looming next year, throw it in the trash, as it is worthless“. Riiiiiight.
Banana genome to be discussed.
Uganda’s National Genebank online.
GM crops to free third-world [...]
Dr Shock MD PhD
Snow is causing a lot of troubles on roads, train, and airports these days in The Netherlands. Even heard a spokesman compare these problems with the problems of Chicago in the winter as an excuse. “In Chicago these problems also exists in the winter”. No one objects but comparing the weather of [...]
Daniel Lemire
As year 2009 comes to an end, I selected a few of my best blog posts.
Database, compression and column stores:
More database compression means more speed? Right?
Trading compression for speed with vectorization
Column stores and row stores: should you care?
Changing your perspective: horizontal, vertical and hybrid data models
Run-length encoding part 1, part 2 and part 3.
Hashing [...]
Scienceroll
PeRSSonalized Medicine is an easy-to-use, free aggregator of quality medical information that lets you select your favourite resources and read the latest news and articles about a medical specialty or a medical condition in one personalized place.
Now here is the newest category, PeRSSonalized Pediatrics with all the quality news sites, blogs, peer-reviewed journals and web [...]
Against Monopoly
Binyamin Appelbaum and David Cho return to the problem of fixing America’s credit system and of reforming the broken complex of supervisory authorities link here. The context is the reappointment of Ben Benanke to chair the FED and the push for regulatory reform which redefines the role of the FED, given the running failure [...]