Archive for the '–' Category

Quantum Algorithm Zoo

March 31, 2018

https://math.nist.gov/quantum/zoo/

Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet | The New Yorker

March 31, 2018

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/03/19/reddit-and-the-struggle-to-detoxify-the-internet

For the Love of ‘George and Martha’

March 31, 2018

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/29/books/george-and-martha-james-marshall.html

Canada 150 research chairs draw scientists fleeing Trump, guns and Brexit – The Globe and Mail

March 31, 2018

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-canada-150-research-chairs-draw-scientists-fleeing-trump-guns-and/

How Synthetic Biology Will Help Me Live Forever | WIRED

March 31, 2018

https://www.wired.com/story/live-forever-synthetic-human-genome/

gwas catalog

March 31, 2018

nih GWAS catalog has moved to ebi
http://www.ebi.ac.uk/gwas/

The digital phenotype | Nature Biotechnology

March 29, 2018

https://www.nature.com/articles/nbt.3223

qcsupp

Apple to Launch Revamped Apple ID Website That Lets Users Download All Their Data – Mac Rumors

March 29, 2018

https://www.macrumors.com/2018/03/29/apple-launching-revamped-apple-id-website/

The reckoning at Theranos – Bloodbath

March 25, 2018

https://www.economist.com/news/business/21738946-silicon-valley-darling-accused-misleading-investors-reckoning-theranos?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ed/thereckoningattheranosbloodbath

Opinion | Stephen Hawking, Force of Nature

March 25, 2018

Stephen Hawking, Force of Nature
https://www.NYTimes.com/2018/03/14/opinion/stephen-hawking-death-.html Interesting obit, for a most noteable passing on #piday2018. How to learn from conversing with someone at 6 words per min.

QT:{{”
“Stephen could compose his sentences at a rate of only about six words a minute. At first I would sit impatiently, daydreaming on and off as I waited for him to finish his composition. But then one day I was looking over his shoulder at his computer screen, where the sentence he was constructing was visible, and I started thinking about his evolving reply. By the time he had completed it, I had had several minutes to ponder the ideas he was expressing.

This was a great help. It allowed me to more profoundly consider his remarks, and it enabled my own ideas, and my reactions to his, to percolate as they never could have in an ordinary conversation.” “}}