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by aheilbut 14y ago
And perhaps it was also a little bit Aaron Swartz's fault.
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Bipartisan group of senators to unveil framework for immigration overhaul(washingtonpost.com)
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Curiously, information printed on paper remains the key to enabling academic learning anywhere.
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It works just fine. And iterating through files is not rocket science, anyway; it's not hard to follow what is going on.
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The smoking gun was an error, but there were something like 9 Potti papers that ended up getting retracted. There's no way that someone could have accidentally made that many mistakes...
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The Duke situation to which you refer was fraud, not just a result of programmer error or poor engineering practice.
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I sympathize with the author, but this piece fails because many of the specific criticisms are off-base, and he's not trying to be at all constructive. For example, it isn't true at all that microarray data is worthless. The early data was
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Everyone is jumping on that, but (while I had to look it up too) 'ept' actually is a real word: from the OED: ept, adj. Pronunciation: /ɛpt/ Etymology: Back-formation < inept adj. Used as a deliberate antonym of ‘inept’: adroit, a
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Actually, MIT (and similar institutions) do not assert ownership of IP based on use of basic resources like office space and an internet connection. See: http://web.mit.edu/tlo/www/community/guide2.html#2.1 M.I.T. OWNED (a) Patents, copy
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Rightly or wrongly, Elsevier makes a pretty decent business out of it.
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It's actually using the second person.
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McMaster University (in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada) has had a well-regarded 3-year MD program for a very long time.
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They're going to pivot to an on-demand shoe shine service.
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There's a Museum of Mathematics that just opened: http://momath.org/
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anyone qualified to seriously comment on this is too baffled to say anything
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Richard Branson (of Virgin Group) got his start by publishing a magazine targeted at students, called The Student.
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and sixdegrees - 1996
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I really like the Pilot G-TEC-C4 - ultra fine (0.4mm) and don't smudge/bleed much
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While we're at it, why don't we first not make a giant mess of the habitable and productive parts of the earth that we depend on?
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His link to Aaron Sorkin's recycled dialogue is hilarious. (Fortunately Sorkin writes fiction.)
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Whether it's purely emotional or a subconscious economic calculation, there's a big difference between work on something that you own and care about and work done because it's your job.
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floppy disks
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I'm hearing a tiny, sad violin.
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Do you mean the system behind the google images search?
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Which paradoxically, seems to be an advantage, because it puts people in a feedback loop where they stay on the site, and every new search provides a tiny bit of reinforcement that builds the habit.
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Actually, we had 1600x1200 laptops ten years ago.
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There wasn't any allegation of criminal acts. People might behave boorishly and be jerks, but that isn't a crime.
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Leap Motion: hand and finger motion controller(leapmotion.com)
26 points by aheilbut 14y ago|4 comments
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or C.
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There seems to be quite a lot of interest right now in companies trying to build platforms for cloud-based 'genetic-analysis-as-a-service', such as DNAnexus. The data management/storage and scaling problems in genomics are very real, but t

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