Archive for August, 2013
PLOS Collections: A Primer on Regression Methods for Decoding cis-Regulatory Logic
Sunday, August 4th, 2013#Regression Methods for Decoding cis-Regulatory Logic, incl. interaction terms & non-linear sigmoidal relationships
http://www.ploscollections.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pcbi.1000269
NYer: The Order of Things… & illustrations of how it changes with different weightings
Saturday, August 3rd, 2013What College Rankings Really Tell Us : The New Yorker
THE ORDER OF THINGS
BY MALCOLM GLADWELL
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/02/14/110214fa_fact_gladwell
This is a very interesting article that illustrates the importance of considering the weighting various of features. It gives some very concrete examples of how one can get very different rankings by picking weights. All of this is in a sense obvious but it is nice to see spelled out with regard to school rankings.
Microsoft forced to rename SkyDrive
Saturday, August 3rd, 2013DO.com
Saturday, August 3rd, 2013Here are some links to the do app. The links are for their page and then a video demo and then the link to the app in the chrome webstore.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7myUgmtFPkc
Here are the extra apps within the do app
such as fancy hands
Security Now 256 | TWiT.TV – LastPass
Saturday, August 3rd, 2013Great eval of @LastPass on old @SecurityNow episode, highlighting total #encryption approach & plan if company tanks
Also, login grids, 1-time passwords
Steve thoroughly evaluates LastPass, explains why high-security passwords are necessary, and tells us how LastPass makes storing those passwords secure.
http://twit.tv/show/security-now/256
downloaded, synched, listened & posted
Gary Shteyngart: Confessions of a Google Glass Explorer : The New Yorker
Friday, August 2nd, 2013@Shteyngart on what to do #ifihadglass: wear it during a your wedding, hangout, be a “Glasshole,” &c http://nyr.kr/18BKgHg via @ivanoransky
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/08/05/130805fa_fact_shteyngart