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#Infographic Shows You What… to Shred, #Scan, or Store: Still need to keep car/house title, loan docs, SS card…
http://lifehacker.com/this-infographic-shows-you-what-documents-to-shred-sca-1503243277

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/03/opinion/give-the-data-to-the-people.html?ref=opinion&_r=0

What is a support vector machine? A nice overview w/o equations, just pictures. Great for #teaching!
http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v24/n12/abs/nbt1206-1565.html #SVM .@GenomeNathan YES, but see
http://noble.gs.washington.edu/papers/noble_what.html …, which has an expanded, “free” version.
http://noble.gs.washington.edu/papers/noble_what.html
http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v24/n12/abs/nbt1206-1565.html

https://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6154/60.full

Simply the Most Astonishing #Math You’ll Ever See: 1+2+3+4+… = -1/12
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/01/17/infinite_series_when_the_sum_of_all_positive_integers_is_a_small_negative.html & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_%2B_2_%2B_3_%2B_4_%2B_%E2%8B%AF HT @Tomorrow_Lab

http://nyti.ms/1ehVcxC

A campaign to nurture French language studies in New York City seems to resonate with a certain existential urgency for France, whose vast empire once stretched around the globe.

Matthew D. Brennan, Raymond Cheong, and Andre Levchenko

Science. 2012 October 19; 338(6105): 10.1126/science.1227946. doi: 10.1126/science.1227946
PMCID: PMC3820285
NIHMSID: NIHMS512743

How Information Theory Handles #Cell Signaling & Uncertainty… really well since it’s ideal for noisy communication
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3820285/?report=classic

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/01/opinion/sunday/are-you-my-cousin.html?_r=1

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/22/science/a-conversation-with-robert-karen-to-err-may-be-human-to-forgive-is-good-for-you.html

http://nyti.ms/1eqJUHE

Twitter and 300, a new company started by Lyor Cohen, one of music’s biggest power brokers, announced a partnership that hopes to analyze users’ tweets to identify promising young talent.