Archive for October, 2014

Go From Google Drive To MS Office By Converting Your Files with Takeout

Friday, October 17th, 2014

http://fieldguide.gizmodo.com/go-from-google-drive-to-ms-office-by-converting-your-fi-1641164077/+ericlimer?utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_twitter&utm_source=gizmodo_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

Where Will Healthcare’s Data Scientists Find The Rich Phenotypic Data They Need?

Friday, October 17th, 2014

http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidshaywitz/2014/10/10/where-will-healthcares-data-scientists-find-the-rich-phenotypic-data-they-need/

Isp-fellows Frank Pasquale’s brilliant NYT Op Ed

Friday, October 17th, 2014

A must read is Frank’s NYT op ed:
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/10/17/opinion/the-dark-market-for-personal-data.html?ref=opinion&_r=0&referrer= Laying bare the way data miners score and blacklist consumers and laying out a plan to curb it.

Dynamics Personal Omics Profiles During Periods of Health, Disease, Weight Gain and Loss.

Friday, October 17th, 2014

Dynamics Personal #Omics Profiles http://www.ashg.org/2014meeting/abstracts/fulltext/f140121470.htm
Interesting abstract, containing a humorous author duplication event #ASHG14

Apple Unveils iPad Air 2, iMac With Retina, More – Recap – Digits – WSJ

Thursday, October 16th, 2014

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/10/16/apples-second-fall-event-ipads-and-more-live-blog/?mod=e2tw

Delving into Deep Learning » American Scientist

Thursday, October 16th, 2014

Delving into Deep Learning http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/2014/3/delving-into-deep-learning History of #NeuralNets from perceptrons to today’s complex nets with many hidden layers

A Wake-Up Call for Better Sleep | MIT Technology Review

Wednesday, October 15th, 2014

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/531221/a-wake-up-call-for-better-sleep/

Dropbox Denies 7M Password Leak, Says Stolen Logins Are From Other Sites – ReadWrite

Tuesday, October 14th, 2014

http://readwrite.com/2014/10/13/dropbox-leaks-7-million-logins-reddit

Giant gene banks take on disease : Nature News & Comment

Tuesday, October 14th, 2014

http://www.nature.com/news/giant-gene-banks-take-on-disease-1.16142

Bloom Filters

Tuesday, October 14th, 2014

http://www.jasondavies.com/bloomfilter/