An Empirical Analysis of Topic Modeling for Mining Cancer Clinical Notes http://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings/icdmw/2013/3142/00/3143a056-abs.html
Shimizu cites: Efficient haplotype matching and storage using the positional Burrows–Wheeler transform (PBWT)
http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/30/9/1266.long
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John William Mauchly (August 30, 1907 – January 8, 1980) was an American physicist who, along with J. Presper Eckert, designed ENIAC, the first general purpose electronic digital computer, as well as EDVAC, BINAC and UNIVAC I, the first commercial computer made in the United States.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mauchly
– ENIAC was v. big & fast
– funded for helping to calibrate artillery traj. in MD proving ground – played the scientist to Eckert, the engineer, & Goldstine, the funder
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Vincent_Atanasoff
– early computer had mechanical rotating drums to keep capacitors charged – patent dispute w/ Mauchly over his visit – when is collaboration theft ?
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In 1939… Konrad Zuse finishes the Z3 computer. The Z3 was an early computer built by German engineer Konrad Zuse working in complete isolation from developments elsewhere. Using 2,300 relays, the Z3 used floating point binary arithmetic and had a 22-bit word length. “}}
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Zuse
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vannevar_Bush
– developed an influential analog computer
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Stibitz
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Breaking the Plastic Bag Habit http://cen.acs.org/articles/92/i37/Breaking-Plastic-Bag-Habit.html It’s not #plastic v paper but v reusables, which may, however, have a "bacteria issue"
Remembering, as an Extreme Sport http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/19/remembering-as-an-extreme-sport Pharma sponsored competition emphasizes use of "memory palaces" for organizing facts
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The technique the competitors use is no mystery.
People have been performing feats of memory for ages, scrolling out pi
to hundreds of digits, or phenomenally long verses, or word pairs.
Most store the studied material in a so-called memory palace,
associating the numbers, words or cards with specific images they have
already memorized; then they mentally place the associated pairs in a
familiar location, like the rooms of a childhood home or the stops on
a subway line.
The Greek poet Simonides of Ceos is credited with first describing the
method, in the fifth century B.C., and it has been vividly described
in popular books, most recently “Moonwalking With Einstein,” by Joshua
Foer.
Each competitor has his or her own variation. “When I see the eight of
diamonds and the queen of spades, I picture a toilet, and my friend
Guy Plowman,” said Ben Pridmore, 37, an accountant in Derby, England,
and a former champion. “Then I put those pictures on High Street in
Cambridge, which is a street I know very well.”
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