Posts Tagged ‘from’

Statistics and the hot hand

Saturday, March 29th, 2014

The hot hand might be real after all: But streaking shooters only 1-2% more likely than #random to make next basket
http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2014/02/09/the-hot-hand-might-real-after-all/N8V34bGLWhPqk0Sx9yoHWI/story.html

Predicting Social Security numbers from public data

Thursday, March 27th, 2014

QT:{{”
Such findings highlight the hidden privacy costs of widespread information dissemination and the complex interactions among multiple data sources in modern information economies (11), underscoring the role of public records as breeder documents (12) of more sensitive data.
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http://www.pnas.org/content/106/27/10975.full

The Parable of Google Flu: Traps in Big Data Analysis

Thursday, March 27th, 2014

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/343/6176/1203.summary

2 new FANTOM papers

Thursday, March 27th, 2014

QT:{{”
The atlas is used to compare regulatory programs between different cells at unprecedented depth, to identify disease-associated regulatory single nucleotide polymorphisms, and to classify
cell-type-specific and ubiquitous enhancers.
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A promoter-level mammalian expression atlas
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v507/n7493/full/nature13182.html

An atlas of active enhancers across human cell types and tissues http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v507/n7493/full/nature12787.html

only in India… do signs like this make sense…

Tuesday, March 25th, 2014

http://imgur.com/EEo5X

Erascan

Monday, March 24th, 2014

http://www.yankodesign.com/2012/02/01/erascan-can-scan/

whiteboard eraser & scanner

het/hom

Monday, March 24th, 2014

het/hom ratio = ~1.5
in the sequencing of many Asian individuals (Table 1)

http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v43/n8/fig_tab/ng.872_T1.html

From
Extensive genomic and transcriptional diversity identified through massively parallel DNA and RNA sequencing of eighteen Korean individuals
Nature Genetics 43, 745-752 (2011) doi:10.1038/ng.872

age distribution of repeats

Monday, March 24th, 2014

From the following article:
Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium
Nature 409, 860-921(15 February 2001)
doi:10.1038/35057062

Alu age distribution

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v409/n6822/fig_tab/409860a0_F18.html

What makes art popular?

Monday, March 10th, 2014

http://www.fastcocreate.com/3027193/what-makes-art-popular-science-says-its-luck-and-the-opinion-of-others?partner=rss

Alternatives to Adobe Products

Monday, March 3rd, 2014

Pixelmator (photoshop Mac alternative): http://www.pixelmator.com Has a vector mode:
http://www.pixelmator.com/blog/2013/05/14/introducing-vectormator/

Latest version of GIMP for Mac OS X does not require X11:
http://www.gimp.org/downloads/

Dreamweaver & Illustrator alternatives:
http://www.onextrapixel.com/2013/06/18/10-best-alternatives-to-adobe-dreamweaver/ http://www.onextrapixel.com/2011/03/15/10-best-alternatives-to-adobe-illustrator

http://pikimal.com/html-editor

It’s sort of like Dreamweaver for $130
http://www.artisteer.com/