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importing events to google calendar using csv

1. download csv attachment
2. edit contents
3. gcal > setting > “Calendars” tab > Import calendar

https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/37118?hl=en

A solution to a perennial problem: Co-first “author ordering determined by coin flip” – eg
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1002/anie.201604431/full & https://arxiv.org/pdf/1412.6980v8.pdf

similar
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1412.6980v8.pdf
∗Equal contribution. Author ordering determined by coin flip over a Google Hangout.

What’s the EM #algorithm?
http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v26/n8/full/nbt1406.html Description of its essence in simple contexts (ie coin toss) & as soft version of kmeans

What is the expectation maximization algorithm? : Article : Nature Biotechnology

Primer
Nature Biotechnology 26, 897 – 899 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nbt1406

Chuong B Do & Serafim Batzoglou

Abstract
The expectation maximization algorithm arises in many computational biology applications that involve probabilistic models. What is it good for, and how does it work?

without too much math

Your coffee maker is a #bacterial breeding ground http://qz.com/564102/your-coffee-maker-is-a-bacterial-breeding-ground/ Bugs love the warm water but it appears cleaning is effective

QT:{{"
“The researchers only counted the number of different bacteria types in their samples, not the total cells. A CBS investigation earlier this year found bacteria including staphylococcus and E. coli on the Keurig machines it swabbed. More than half were harboring millions of bacteria cells.

Bacteria appear to thrive in the high temperatures and chemical makeup of the coffee making process itself. Neither user behavior, the type of coffee brewed, nor frequency of the machine’s use seemed to affect the composition of the bacteria present.”

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#Chromatin…shapes the mutational landscape of cancer
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v518/n7539/full/nature14221.html Low DNase correlates w/ high SNVs in melanoma. True generally?