Archive for March, 2015

The Secret Life of Passwords – NYTimes.com

Sunday, March 8th, 2015

Secret life of passwords http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/19/magazine/the-secret-life-of-passwords.html Our habit to use one secret to encode another & how this was helpful in the aftermath of 911

Memcomputers: Faster, More Energy-Efficient Devices That Work Like a Human Brain – Scientific American

Sunday, March 8th, 2015

Memcomputers: Faster, More Energy-Efficient Devices That Work Like a Human Brain

Just add memory http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/memcomputers-faster-more-energy-efficient-devices-that-work-like-a-human-brain/ Great illustration of how #memcomputers work in solving a maze: Completed circuit remembers itself!

New types of electronic components, closer to neurons than to
transistors, are leading to tremendously efficient and faster
“memcomputing”

By Massimiliano Di Ventra and Yuriy V. Pershin

Might be applicable to loregic !

About Us at Cafe George by Paula

Sunday, March 8th, 2015

http://www.cafegeorgebypaula.com/
7a-3p daily, w/ Yale sec. wifi
300 George St.

Sign in to read: Brain boosting: It’s not just grey matter that matters – life – 18 February 2015 – Control – New Scientist

Sunday, March 8th, 2015

Brain boosting: It’s not just grey matter that matters http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22530090.600-brain-boosting-its-not-just-grey-matter-that-matters.html Learning involves changes to myelin sheaths, not just synapses

Pay Phones in New York City Will Become Free Wi-Fi Hot Spots – NYTimes.com

Saturday, March 7th, 2015

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/18/nyregion/pay-phones-in-new-york-city-will-become-free-wi-fi-hot-spots.html?_r=0

Recent Gerstein Lab tools related to ENCODE

Saturday, March 7th, 2015

http://lectures.gersteinlab.org/summary/Framework-to-prioritize-Regulatory-variants-Progressive-summarization-of-large-scale-data–20141108-i0biods14/

MUSIC : slides 4-7
FunSeq2 : 17,21 & 22

http://lectures.gersteinlab.org/summary/Overview_of_data_n_models_in_ENCODE_Annotation–20140908-i0samsi/

TARs : slides 31-33
Stat. Models : 84-97

Also, see:

http://info.gersteinlab.org/Resources

Dissertation regulations

Saturday, March 7th, 2015

The Yale graduate school regulations governing dissertations includes a paragraph that indicates that only two dissertation committee members need Yale appointments:

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“Registered doctoral candidates must have a principal adviser with an appointment on the Graduate School faculty. The Graduate School requires that each dissertation be read by at least three persons but not more than five, at least two of whom are ladder or ladder-track faculty members at Yale. All readers must hold the Ph.D. degree as well as a faculty position or be considered otherwise qualified to evaluate the dissertation…”
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http://www.yale.edu/printer/bulletin/htmlfiles/grad/policies-and-regulations.html#dissertation

Identification of an iridium-containing compound with a formal oxidation state of IX : Nature : Nature Publishing Group

Saturday, March 7th, 2015

Is this tetrahedral?

Ir-containing compound w/ a formal #oxidation state of IX http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v514/n7523/full/nature13795.html
Surpassing OsO4, removing d electron gives [IrO4]+ cation

"Removal of the remaining d electron from IrO4 would lead to the iridium tetroxide cation ([IrO4]+)"

Pocketable Pro Cameras: Canon Takes On Sony

Saturday, March 7th, 2015

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/pants-pocketable-pro-cameras-canon-takes-on-sony-112758307009.html

money.cnn.com/2015/01/03/investing/downton-abbey-season-5-great-money-lessons/index.html?iid=EL

Friday, March 6th, 2015

http://money.cnn.com/2015/01/03/investing/downton-abbey-season-5-great-money-lessons/index.html?iid=EL