Archive for December, 2015

Panasonic DMC-TS25D – LUMIX TS25: Active Lifestyle Tough Camera

Saturday, December 26th, 2015

http://shop.panasonic.com/support-only/DMC-TS25D.html
also
ftp://ftp.panasonic.com/camera/dmcts25/dmc-ts25_en_advanced_om.pdf

Bemelmans Bar | Best Bars NYC | The Carlyle

Friday, December 25th, 2015

’till 1 am
http://www.rosewoodhotels.com/en/the-carlyle-new-york/dining/bemelmans-bar connecting to
http://www.rosewoodhotels.com/en/the-carlyle-new-york/dining/the-gallery

Bias from removing read duplication in ultra-deep sequencing experiments

Friday, December 25th, 2015

Bias from removing read duplication [eg from PCR amplification] in ultra-deep #sequencing
http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2014/01/02/bioinformatics.btt771 pot. overcorrection issues

Zhou et al.

Bias from removing read duplication in ultra-deep sequencing experiments

Estimating variant allele frequency and copy number variations can be approached by counting reads. In practice, read counting is
complicated by bias from PCR amplification and from sampling coincidence. This paper assessed the overcorrection introduced while removing read duplicates. The overcorrection is a particular concern when the sequencing is ultra-deep and the insert size is short and non-variant.

A lively biography of Jonas Salk – The Washington Post

Friday, December 25th, 2015

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/a-lively-biography-of-jonas-salk/2015/05/11/f907fdbc-ee92-11e4-8666-a1d756d0218e_story.html

Joan Abrahamson – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Friday, December 25th, 2015

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Abrahamson

Optical illusion: The bulging checkerboard illusion.

Thursday, December 24th, 2015

An #Illusion That’ll Make Your Eyes
Bulgehttp://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2015/01/08/optical_illusion_the_bulging_checkboard_illusion.html Describes how dots on a checkerboard appear to distort its parallel lines

How to use a passcode to lock folders on iPad – How-To – PC Advisor

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2015

http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/how-to/tablets/how-use-passcode-lock-folders-on-ipad-3502303/

Here’s Why Public Wifi is a Public Health Hazard — Matter — Medium

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2015

https://medium.com/matter/heres-why-public-wifi-is-a-public-health-hazard-dd5b8dcb55e6#.fsi4scuhr

Tiny Hardware Firewall VPN Client

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2015

Looks like an interesting security idea…
http://tinyhardwarefirewall.com/

The Doomsday Invention – The New Yorker

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2015

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/11/23/doomsday-invention-artificial-intelligence-nick-bostrom