Archive for February, 2017

Why America’s Essentials Are Getting More Expensive While Its Toys Are Getting Cheap

Saturday, February 11th, 2017

[US] Essentials Are…More Expensive While…Toys…Cheap
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/05/its-expensive-to-be-poor/361533/ … #InfoGraphic comparing prices of new cars v repairing them

College & health care up & TVs, down

Why Is Bullet Journaling Popular? It Makes You Feel Productive for Doing Just About Anything.

Saturday, February 11th, 2017

Why Is Bullet Journaling Popular? It Makes You Feel Productive for…About Anything
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2017/01/13/why_is_bullet_journaling_popular_it_makes_you_feel_productive_for_doing.html @GTDguy’s approach w/o computers

QT:{{”
“To summarize: You should write down the things you need to do, the places you have to go, and ideas that occur to you. Then, at the beginning of every month, you should look at your list, jettison the items that are no longer relevant, and start afresh. In essence, it’s Getting Things Done for people who like old-fashioned pens and paper.” “}}

Cash No Longer King: Europe Accelerates Move To Begin Elimination Of Paper Money | Zero Hedge

Friday, February 10th, 2017

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-02-10/cash-no-longer-king-europe-accelerates-move-begin-elimination-paper-money

My Column on AI in the Yale Daily News

Thursday, February 9th, 2017

http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2017/02/06/mohsen-the-agitating-sprawl-of-ai/

The Genomics Landscape: A monthly update from the NHGRI Director – February 2017

Tuesday, February 7th, 2017

https://www.genome.gov/pages/about/od/director‘s_message/nhgri_genomic_landscape_january_2017.pdf

Article: Ping takes the Bluetooth tracker and gives it cellular and GPS smarts

Tuesday, February 7th, 2017

Why it matters to you Ensuring a valuable item — or pet — can be located anywhere in the world is now possible with this device. Bluetooth trackers are a godsend for forgetful people, but they have …

http://flip.it/CNVI4Z

Brad Troemel, the Troll of Internet Art – The New Yorker

Monday, February 6th, 2017

https://www.google.com/amp/www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/30/brad-troemel-the-troll-of-internet-art/amp

Unbeatable Medical Transcription

Monday, February 6th, 2017

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Timeline | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Monday, February 6th, 2017

http://thebulletin.org/timeline

currently 2.5′ to midnight

Best Practices for Scientific Computing

Sunday, February 5th, 2017

also from ’14:
https://plus.google.com/+MarkGerstein/posts/D8kYoqiWL1P

Best Practices for Sci Computing
http://journals.PLOS.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1001745 Usual stuff (GitHub, profilers, assertions) + some gems (turn bugs into test cases)