Archive for August, 2013

Here’s What Happens When You Light a Fire in Space – Megan Garber – The Atlantic

Sunday, August 4th, 2013

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/06/heres-what-happens-when-you-light-a-fire-in-space/276950/

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, 2013

What 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, 2013

http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/31/4574878/microsoft-skydrive-name-change-bskyb

DO.com

Saturday, August 3rd, 2013

Here 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://do.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7myUgmtFPkc

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/do-by-salesforce/jabappaiigabnkfjcjpclkdbneipbjjh?utm_source=chrome-ntp-icon

Here are the extra apps within the do app

https://do.com/more

such as fancy hands

https://www.fancyhands.com/do

Security Now 256 | TWiT.TV – LastPass

Saturday, August 3rd, 2013

Great 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