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by aheilbut 14y ago
I'd never heard of Miso before this; everybody is a winner here.
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by aheilbut 14y ago
I wonder what happens to access to archives of electronic journals when subscriptions are cancelled -- with paper journals, at least they're still in the library.
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The Rise of Fractional Scholarship and the Ronin Institute(wired.com)
1 points by aheilbut 14y ago|0 comments
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by aheilbut 14y ago
coming soon -- Compound interest: the maths formula linked to the financial crash
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by aheilbut 15y ago
This way, they could use a patent covering A as a weapon against another party that is attacking based on an unrelated patent B.
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by aheilbut 15y ago
"Biological Sequence Analysis: Probabilistic Models of Proteins and Nucleic Acids" by Durbin, Eddy, Krogh, and Mitchison is a classic, very readable intro to sequence analysis algorithms (dynamic programming, HMMs) that would be interesting
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by aheilbut 15y ago
The horror! Attacking NGOs by writing reports on their activities. Unlike, say, firing rockets, or kidnapping and decapitating people.
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by aheilbut 15y ago
I don't think Michael Lewis changed his name to Peter.
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by aheilbut 15y ago
RazorSQL is excellent too, and connects to lots of different databases through jdbc.
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by aheilbut 15y ago
AngelList (angel.co)
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by aheilbut 15y ago
Super long reads also going to be incredibly useful for looking at structural variation (deletions, inversions, translocations).
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Library.nu Targeted In Injunctions Requested By 17 Publishers(huffingtonpost.com)
2 points by aheilbut 15y ago|0 comments
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by aheilbut 15y ago
I'm looking forward to when this hits high school.
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Rice Uiversity Announces Open Source Textbooks(insidehighered.com)
109 points by aheilbut 15y ago|13 comments
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by aheilbut 15y ago
Unless you actually want to use a computer to do work.
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by aheilbut 15y ago
To be clear, ~$400B was the US defense budget, not that of General Dynamics.
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by aheilbut 15y ago
I recently started using Checkvist, and like it better than anything else I've tried so far, because - it supports hierarchies; - tasks can be assigned due dates, and can then be viewed in chronological order; - tasks can be tagged; - it's
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by aheilbut 15y ago
It may also be that The Economist is more interesting to read than Esquire. Esquire is better if you focus on the pictures.
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by aheilbut 15y ago
No, it is pretty surprising.
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by aheilbut 15y ago
Hopefully she doesn't cure ageing before she grows up a bit.
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by aheilbut 15y ago
How about Medecins Sans Frontieres?
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by aheilbut 15y ago
Gauss and Maxwell say.
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by aheilbut 15y ago
Surely whatever this is tracking is covered under the contracts with the carriers. Someone must have read them...
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by aheilbut 15y ago
Google Scholar last week (soft?)-launched personal pages that seem have much more comprehensive coverage of the literature and accurate automatic attribution of authorship. I'm not sure what to think yet, but this general space (including
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by aheilbut 15y ago
People understand when you start talking about the unemployment rate.
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by aheilbut 15y ago
This would be much more immediately interesting and useful if you included charts of price and volume right above the sentiment chart.
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Police officer pepper-sprays seated, non-violent students at UC Davis(boingboing.net)
10 points by aheilbut 15y ago|1 comments
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by aheilbut 15y ago
Most of the textbooks on machine learning present things in that way (it's really the only way). For example, check out Elements of Statistical Learning ( http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn/ ).
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by aheilbut 15y ago
Nesson?
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by aheilbut 15y ago
It's amazing that it's still only 5%.

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