Archive for July, 2016

for those cold, lonely winter evenings…

Sunday, July 24th, 2016

Guess the correlation http://guessthecorrelation.com/ Perhaps a useful sanity check for data from published papers. It’s so easy to fool oneself.

Microsoft Wins Appeals Ruling on Data Searches – WSJ

Sunday, July 24th, 2016

$MSFT Wins Appeals Ruling on Data Searches
http://www.wsj.com/articles/microsoft-wins-appeals-ruling-on-data-searches-1468511551 Does this mean US citizens storing data offshore escape gov. oversight?

Alvin Toffler, Author of ‘Future Shock,’ Dies at 87

Sunday, July 24th, 2016

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“He advised readers to “concern themselves more and more with general theme, rather than detail.” That theme, he emphasized, was that “the rate of change has implications quite apart from, and sometimes more important than, the directions of change.””
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#AlvinToffler, Author of Future Shock, Dies
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/30/books/alvin-toffler-author-of-future-shock-dies-at-87.html Emphasized rate of change is as important to people as its direction

How to Breathe – The New York Times

Sunday, July 24th, 2016

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/24/magazine/how-to-breathe.html?_r=0

Slow motion video – 350,000 frames per second!

Saturday, July 23rd, 2016

5 second of footage turns into 19 hours!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pudhhUEtnCI

GERV: a statis,tical method for generative evaluation of regulatory variants for transcription factor binding

Saturday, July 23rd, 2016

GERV: stats method for generative evaluation of regulatory variants
for TF binding http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2015/11/05/bioinformatics.btv565 Predicts effect of #allelic SNPs

GERV: a statistical method for generative evaluation of regulatory ariants for transcription factor binding

> Haoyang Zeng
> Tatsunori Hashimoto
> Daniel D. Kang
> David K. Gifford

Journal Club

Saturday, July 23rd, 2016

Basset: #DeepLearning the regulatory code w/…NNs by @noncodarnia lab http://genome.cshlp.org/content/early/2016/05/03/gr.200535.115 Has score for all possible SNVs in the genome

“Basset: learning the regulatory code of the accessible genome with deep convolutional neural networks”

Tick season is here, and it’s time to learn how to stop the suckers – The Washington Post

Saturday, July 23rd, 2016

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/2016/07/22/a392067c-4f79-11e6-aa14-e0c1087f7583_story.html?postshare=6301469315657848&tid=ss_tw

Capture One Express Imaging Software for Sony | Phase One

Saturday, July 23rd, 2016

also sonyupgrade

https://www.phaseone.com/en/Products/Software/Capture-One-for-Sony/Sony-Express.aspx

Review: ‘Mad Men’ says goodbye

Saturday, July 23rd, 2016

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/columnist/2015/05/17/mad-men-finale-review/27483903/