Archive for August, 2013

Cancer’s origins revealed – Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute

Sunday, August 25th, 2013

http://www.sanger.ac.uk/about/press/2013/130814.html

Government Employee Salaries in WA & TX

Sunday, August 25th, 2013

Includes University Salaries

http://data.spokesman.com/salaries/state/2012/
http://www.texastribune.org/library/data/government-employee-salaries also
http://linkstream2.gerstein.info/2012/12/05/state-worker-salary-search-the-sacramento-bee-sacramento-california-2/

Do Things that Don’t Scale

Sunday, August 25th, 2013

Do things that don’t scale: Biz #startUp lessons (eg recruiting users) applicable to any project bit.ly/14Gcvk2 via @jaytheson

Also, init. fragility, importance of manual process, &c.
Useful for bioinformatics software dev.

http://paulgraham.com/ds.html

Outpaced by Innovation: Canceling an XPRIZE | Peter Diamandis

Sunday, August 25th, 2013

Outpaced by Innovation: Canceling an #XPRIZE – A unique achievement for nextgen #sequencing tech http://huff.to/1f5jA2s via @theraltweet
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-diamandis/outpaced-by-innovation-ca_b_3795710.html

MOOC URLs

Saturday, August 24th, 2013

URLs for a couple of courses recommended on Coursera:

Parallel Programming – especially with GPUs (Wenmei Hwu, UIUC): https://class.coursera.org/hetero-2012-001/class

Machine Learning (Andrew Ng, Stanford):
https://class.coursera.org/ml-003/class

‘The Sports Gene’ Considers the Root of Athletic Success – NYTimes.com

Saturday, August 24th, 2013

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/13/science/the-sports-gene-considers-the-root-of-athletic-success.html

Affording Care: A Medical Student’s Story

Saturday, August 24th, 2013

http://www.medpagetoday.com/Washington-Watch/Reform/41167

10 Advanced Tips & Tricks For Google Forms

Friday, August 23rd, 2013

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/10-advanced-tips-tricks-for-google-forms/#twitter

Flying high-altitude spy planes tied to brain lesions | Reuters

Friday, August 23rd, 2013

http://in.reuters.com/article/2013/08/23/us-health-highflying-brain-lesion-idINBRE97M0RT20130823?feedType=RSS&feedName=health&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&dlvrit=309303

Chemistry On The End of DNA. In the Pipeline:

Friday, August 23rd, 2013

http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2013/08/23/chemistry_on_the_end_of_dna.php