July 16, 2007 at 2:25 am · Filed under Go see this
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Matthew Berryman is citing some of what we should see.
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Thom LaBean and Erik Schultes start a science thing the three of us know lots about: directed combinatorial molecular design. Looking forward to seeing how they monetize expertise.
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“Charlie calls this not the end of history, but the dawn of history. The idea being that history to this point is an incomplete, imperfect process full of guesswork and implication. We’re now at a point where we can record everything.”
July 14, 2007 at 2:29 am · Filed under Go see this
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July 9, 2007 at 2:25 am · Filed under Go see this
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“Don’t become a well-rounded person. Well rounded people are smooth and dull. Become a thoroughly spiky person. Grow spikes from every angle. Stick in their throats like a pufferfish.”
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“Both information seekers and publishers bear the responsibility of remembering that the Lens of Google through which we increasingly seek the world is only one lens, albeit one with further and further vision.”
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“So, as a rule, there seem to be no rules for when picking which class of forecasters to pick from.”
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“When the mind fixates on absolute discontinuities, mischief is often in the offing…”
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“Successful open source projects combine meritocratic leadership, “doing” more than “talking”, and breadth…”
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“Nor in this was he mistaken, / As the picture failed completely.”
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“The main advantage of an un-conference is that it helps build social capital among participants. In addition to the participatory sessions and collaborative / anarchic scheduling, there were places for people to do things together.”
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Copy editing might help utility of scientific results. Or not.
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Important
July 8, 2007 at 2:22 am · Filed under Go see this
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“His model is the most viable model for building a model.”
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“Perhaps you could try harder next time out. Pay a little more attention to the procedural questions, maybe.”
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via Open Reading Frame
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Another live thesis editing experiment.
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Wiki-editing a Masters Thesis, live.
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Free ≠ Open
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Free ≠ Open
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This may or may not be true each discipline; depends on their folkways.
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lolDirt: “i made you a volcano, but i breaked it.”
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Catching up on old posts of new-discoverd blog: Open-access peer reviewers’ comments. Good idea.
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“OSAHS is an important risk factor for the development of insulin resistance. It shows that OSAHS may develop IR of the patients and the treatment of MUPPP and CPAP can improve insulin sensitivity.”
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“It is possible that OSAS may predispose even nonobese patients to the development of metabolic syndrome.”
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read the comments for advice on life-changing decisions, young folks
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“The real killer is ego: what if someone else gets there first?”
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Discovery is the addiction that drives research — it’s the crackpipe hit, the rush, the thrill, that keeps us going through the down times and the plodding; but one of the best ways to alleviate the boredom and despondency that sets in between fixes is t
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Absolutely frackin’ brilliant
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“Give a damn. Your students are not fungible data-production units…”
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July 7, 2007 at 2:27 am · Filed under Go see this
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It may have an effect on the underlying dynamics of market prices… but it seems like a rule of decreasing importance as the tick resolution of trading increases.
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Paper explaining results of SEC’s pilot test of limited SHO short-sale price-test removal.