What Is Up With Those Pentagon UFO Videos? | WIRED

March 3, 2018

https://www.wired.com/story/what-is-up-with-those-pentagon-ufo-videos/


Google’s new app lets users conduct scientific research on their phones | The Verge

March 3, 2018

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.forscience.whistlepunk&hl=en

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/science-journal-by-google/id1251205555?mt=8

http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/22/11735532/google-science-journal-app-research-android

perhaps collect your own mhealth data


Points of significance: Machine learning: supervised methods

March 3, 2018

Points of significance – #MachineLearning: supervised methods https://www.Nature.com/articles/nmeth.4551 Nice discussion of the k in k-NN & the slack parm. C, penalizing misclassified points in SVM — both which act somewhat analogously as regularizers. Good for #teaching


printer link

March 3, 2018

to change toner, 1st power down using the switch on the side, then:

QT:{{"
1. Press the cover release and open the printer’s top cover fully.
WARNING
If the printer has been powered on, the fuser may be hot. This area is clearly labelled. Do not touch.
2. Note the positions of the four cartridges. It is essential that they go back in the same order.
(a) Slide the colored release collar (1) on the cartridge to be replaced fully towards the right hand side of the printer.

…
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Useful for a test print:

QT:{{"
How to Print the Menu Map __________
The Menu Map provides a listing of the current printer menu settings. To print one out:
1. Press the OK button.
2. Press the down arrow key to go to the Information Menu.
3. Press OK.
4. Press OK to select Print Menu Map.
The Menu Map prints and the printer goes back on line.
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http://www.oki.com/us/printing/download/C330%20C530%20User%20Guide_31170.pdf?id=59321301

http://www.okidata.com/printers/color/c530dn


It feels colder in parts of Canada than on Mars

March 3, 2018

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/12/29/its-feels-colder-in-parts-of-canada-than-on-mars/ QT:{{”
“For comparison: It’s about 1 degree at Antartica’s Amundsen-Scott weather station. (NB: It’s “summer” down there.) On Thursday, the Mars Gale Crater reached -9.4 degrees, making it feel warmer than Saskatoon, Montreal and Calgary. (At night, NASA’s Curiosity rover recorded lows of -112 degrees. So, take heart, Canadians! It’s warmer in Canada than Mars in the dead of night.)”
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Why Mack Weldon’s Ace Sweats Are The Best Sweatpants You Can Wear This Season – Popdust

March 2, 2018

https://www.popdust.com/before-after-why-businessinsider-calls-mack-weldon-the-best-sweatpants-you-can-wear-this-fall-2495302839.html?utm_campaign=TW_A_BnA_Popdust&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=Fit_Everywhere1x1GQQ&shortname=MW


Yale PhD stats broken down by program

March 1, 2018

this public view of Yale PhD stats broken down by program:
https://public.tableau.com/profile/ecf5839#!/vizhome/shared/26RTFY27Q


Morgan’s Story – FDNA

February 28, 2018

https://www.fdna.com/blog/morgans-story/


Deep learning for biology | Nature Technology Feature

February 26, 2018

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-02174-z


Suzanne Corkin, who studied the mind of a man with no memory, dies at 79 – The Washington Post

February 25, 2018

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/suzanne-corkin-who-studied-the-mind-of-a-man-with-no-memory-dies-at-79/2016/06/04/010b267a-29ab-11e6-ae4a-3cdd5fe74204_story.html?utm_term=.4a05f1294a73
QT:{{"
In fact, they grew up a few miles apart, and Dr. Corkin lived on the same street as Scoville, the doctor who performed the operation on H.M. in 1953. Scoville later renounced experimental brain surgery and suggested H.M. as a possible research subject to Brenda Milner, a neuroscientist who became Dr. Corkin’s mentor at McGill.
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