AWS Announces $AMZN #MachineLearning
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/amazon-web-services-announces-amazon-machine-learning-2015-04-09 Will it be useful for genomics? http://aws.amazon.com/machine-learning
Also, redshift
How [to] Build a Safer Car?
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/05/04/the-engineers-lament QT: Pessimist sees glass as 1/2 empty; optimist, 1/2 full; engineer, 2X what it should be
Dept. of Transportation MAY 4, 2015 ISSUE
The Engineer’s Lament
Two ways of thinking about automotive safety.
BY MALCOLM GLADWELL
QT:{{”
There is an old joke about an engineer, a priest, and a doctor enjoying a round of golf. Ahead of them is a group playing so slowly and inexpertly that in frustration the three ask the greenkeeper for an explanation. “That’s a group of blind firefighters,” they are told. “They lost their sight saving our clubhouse last year, so we let them play for free.”
The priest says, “I will say a prayer for them tonight.”
The doctor says, “Let me ask my ophthalmologist colleagues if anything can be done for them.”
And the engineer says, “Why can’t they play at night?”
The greenkeeper explains the behavior of the firefighters. The priest empathizes; the doctor offers care. All three address the social context of the situation: the fact that the firefighters’ disability has inadvertently created conflict on the golf course. Only the engineer tries to solve the problem.
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Almost all engineering jokes—and there are many—are versions of this belief: that the habits of mind formed by the profession enable engineers to see things differently from the rest of us. “A pessimist sees the glass as half empty. An optimist sees the glass as half full. The engineer sees the glass as twice the size it needs to be.” “}}
#NSA Snooping Was Only the Beginning
http://www.wired.com/2013/06/general-keith-alexander-cyberwar/ Overview of the activities of Alexander the Geek, spy master behind #stuxnet
QT:{{”
Andreessen laughed and continued, “They were doomed from the start, because Apple in Cupertino”—in Silicon Valley—“had spent three years building that. I’ve been totally determined to be on the other side of that dynamic by being here, because success in software follows a power-law distribution. It’s not Coke and Pepsi and a bunch of others; it’s winner take all. Second prize is a set of steak knives, and third prize is you’re fired.”
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http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/05/18/tomorrows-advance-man
TOMORROW’S ADVANCE MAN
by Joe Pugliese
Special Report: 50 Years of Moore’s Law
http://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/design/the-death-of-moores-law-will-spur-innovation Its glorious history & some benefits from its death (eg more open hardware)
The Man Who Broke the #Music Business http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/04/27/the-man-who-broke-the-music-business An original conduit for the #MP3 & Napster boom, the dawn of digital piracy
Annals of Technology APRIL 27, 2015 ISSUE
The Man Who Broke the Music Business
The dawn of online piracy.
BY STEPHEN WITT
Moving to Mars http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/04/20/moving-to-mars Simulating multi-year space flights on Mauna Loa. Morphing astronauts from test pilots to sea voyagers
Annals of Exploration APRIL 20, 2015 ISSUE
Moving to Mars
Preparing for the longest, loneliest voyage ever.
BY TOM KIZZIA
Banjo Raises $100 Million to Detect World Events in Real Time http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/05/06/banjo-raises-100-million-to-detect-world-events-in-real-time Will their global "crystal ball" notice this tweet?
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25477383
also
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25477383
Nucleic Acids Res. 2015 Feb 27;43(4):e23. doi: 10.1093/nar/gku1252. Epub 2014 Dec 3.
Allele-specific copy number profiling by next-generation DNA sequencing. Chen H1, Bell JM2, Zavala NA2, Ji HP2, Zhang NR3.
perhaps related?