Archive for November, 2012

The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to review a major genetic-privacy case on whether authorities may take DNA samples from anybody arrested for serious crimes.

Sunday, November 11th, 2012

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/11/scotus-grants-dna-case

Duly Noted: The Past, Present, and Future of Note-Taking – Sebastian Stockman – The Atlantic

Sunday, November 11th, 2012

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/11/duly-noted-the-past-present-and-future-of-note-taking/264533/

Sick of Impact Factors | Reciprocal Space

Sunday, November 11th, 2012

http://occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2012/08/13/sick-of-impact-factors/

Inside the Secret World of the Data Crunchers Who Helped Obama Win

Sunday, November 11th, 2012

http://swampland.time.com/2012/11/07/inside-the-secret-world-of-quants-and-data-crunchers-who-helped-obama-win/

exact rsync commands to sync the my data directory

Sunday, November 11th, 2012

cd directory-where-DATADIR-is
rsync -av –delete /Volumes/mbg/DATADIR .

Competing on Analytics – Harvard Business Review

Sunday, November 11th, 2012

http://www2.mccombs.utexas.edu/faculty/Maytal.Saar-Tsechansky/Teaching/Documents/Harvard%20Business%20Review%20Online%20%20Competing%20on%20Analytics.htm http://hbr.org/2006/01/competing-on-analytics/ar/1

An early paper on big data analytics

The Innovator’s Dilemma: Clayton M. Christensen, Don Leslie: 9781565114159: Amazon.com: Books

Sunday, November 11th, 2012

http://www.amazon.com/The-Innovators-Dilemma-Clayton-Christensen/dp/1565114159

Direct-to-consumer genomics reinvents itself : Nature Biotechnology : Nature Publishing Group

Sunday, November 11th, 2012

http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v30/n11/full/nbt.2409.html

Protecting New York City, Before Next Time – NYTimes.com

Sunday, November 11th, 2012

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/04/nyregion/protecting-new-york-city-before-next-time.html?pagewanted=all

Hidden Treasures in Junk DNA: Scientific American

Sunday, November 11th, 2012

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=hidden-treasures-in-junk-dna