Archive for March, 2018

Do People Get Sick When the Seasons Change? | Time

Wednesday, March 21st, 2018

http://time.com/5198318/seasons-changing-sick-cold/

Fast, scalable prediction of deleterious noncoding variants from functional and population genomic data | Nature Genetics

Monday, March 19th, 2018

Fast, scalable prediction of deleterious #noncoding variants from functional & population genomic data
https://www.Nature.com/articles/ng.3810 LINSIGHT, by @ASiepel et al., combines DNAse & conservation information

Yi-Fei Huang, Brad Gulko & Adam Siepel
Nature Genetics 49, 618–624 (2017)
doi:10.1038/ng.3810
Published online:
13 March 2017

Stephen Hawking, Force of Nature – The New York Times

Monday, March 19th, 2018

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/14/opinion/stephen-hawking-death-.html

Libertarian paternalism – Wikipedia

Monday, March 19th, 2018

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

Rotisserie Georgette

Monday, March 19th, 2018

wifi v link, big chairs at front
http://www.rotisserieg.com/

Luxury Hotels Midtown NYC | The London NYC

Monday, March 19th, 2018

6.5 Ave access from 57, quiet!
http://www.thelondonnyc.com

New algorithm can create movies from just a few snippets of text | Science | AAAS

Monday, March 19th, 2018

Interesting paper by alumnus Renqiang Min on “Video Generation from Text,” using a generative #MachineLearning model.
http://www.AAAI.org/GuideBook2018/16152-72279-GB.pdf (Press report by @SilverJacket: New algorithm can create movies from just a few snippets of text
http://www.ScienceMag.org/news/2018/02/new-algorithm-can-create-movies-just-few-snippets-text )

Video Generation from Text Yitong Li†∗, Martin Renqiang Min‡ , Dinghan Shen† , David Carlson† , Lawrence Carin† †

Are research papers less accurate and truthful than in the past? – Scientific publishing

Sunday, March 18th, 2018

https://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21738872-myth-according-latest-investigation-are-research-papers-less?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ed/areresearchpaperslessaccurateandtruthfulthaninthepastscientificpublishing

Scott Kelly’s DNA did change in space—but not the way you think.

Sunday, March 18th, 2018

https://slate.com/technology/2018/03/scott-kellys-dna-did-change-in-spacebut-not-the-way-you-think.html

EdTech is having a renaissance, powered by the emerging world | TechCrunch

Sunday, March 18th, 2018

https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/18/edtech-is-having-a-renaissance-powered-by-the-emerging-world/