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Three ‘Godfathers of Deep Learning’ Selected for Turing Award

September 28, 2019

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“Geoff Hinton, an emeritus professor at the University of Toronto and a senior researcher at Alphabet Inc.’s Google Brain, Yann LeCun, a professor at New York University and the chief AI scientist at Facebook Inc., and Yoshua Bengio, a professor at the University of Montreal as well as co-founder of AI company Element AI Inc., will share this year’s award, which is given annually by the Association for Computing Machinery.

The three winners will split a $1 million prize that comes with the award, which is currently underwritten by Google. Hinton said he will donate a portion of his share to the University of Toronto’s humanities department. “They are much less well-funded and I think the humanities are very important to the future,” he said in an interview. Bengio said he may use his share to help fight climate change.” “}}

Three ‘Godfathers of Deep Learning’ Selected for Turing Award
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-27/three-godfathers-of-deep-learning-selected-for-turing-award

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The Kallikak Family – Wikipedia

September 28, 2019

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kallikak_Family

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The Kallikak Family: A Study in the Heredity of Feeble-Mindedness was a 1912 book by the American psychologist and eugenicist Henry H. Goddard. The work was an extended case study of Goddard’s for the inheritance of “feeble-mindedness,” a general category referring to a variety of mental disabilities including intellectual disability, learning disabilities, and mental illness. Goddard concluded that a variety of mental traits were hereditary and that society should limit reproduction by people possessing these traits.
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The book begins by discussing the case of “Deborah Kallikak” (real name Emma Wolverton, 1889–1978),[2] a woman in Goddard’s institution, the New Jersey Home for the Education and Care of Feebleminded Children (now Vineland Training School). In the course of
investigating her genealogy, Goddard claims to have discovered that her family tree bore a curious and surprising moral tale.
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On the Origin of Certain Quotable ‘African Proverbs’

September 10, 2019

“If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”

https://jezebel.com/on-the-origin-of-certain-quotable-african-proverbs-1766664089

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Cc2d2a Chemically induced Allele Detail MGI Mouse (MGI:5311382)

August 19, 2019

http://www.informatics.jax.org/allele/MGI:5311382

b2b1035Clo = Blue meanie mutation

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Cc2d2ab2 ^ b1035Clo
Name:coiled-coil and C2 domain containing 2A; Bench to Bassinet Program (B2B/CVDC), mutation 1035 Cecilia Lo
MGI ID:MGI:5311382
Synonyms:Blue meanie
Gene:Cc2d2a Location: Chr5:43662373-43740975 bp, + strand Genetic Position: Chr5, 23.78 cM
Heterotaxy indicated by left lung isomerism with left sided IVC and TGA (observed by EFIC imaging)

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Mutation details: This ENU-induced mutation was isolated in a screen at the University of Pittsburgh. The molecular lesion is a C to T substitution at coding nucleotide 2845 in exon 23 of the cDNA (c.2845C>T, NM_172274). This changes the arginine residue to a translation stop at position 949 of the encoded protein (p.R949*). (J:175213) Additional incidental mutations were detected in sequencing for the causative mutation, Cc2d2ab2b1035Clo, and may be present in stocks carrying this mutation.
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Desperately seeking scientists | Nature Index

August 12, 2019

Reunion coverage + Useful suggestion for ORCID that can be done with a secondary email

https://www.natureindex.com/news-blog/one-in-five-email-addresses-researcher-journal-articles-invalid-problem

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Mark Gerstein, the Albert Williams Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, lists over 200 members on his lab’s alumni page, about half of whom were PhD students and postdocs. Recently, he invited many of them to a lab reunion. But first, he had to find them.
“It’s a nontrivial thing keeping track of peoples’ emails,” he says. The lab maintains a database of past members, but he’s now established a LinkedIn group, which has been particularly useful, he says. Former lab members who are on the social network can associate themselves with the lab, thus providing a mechanism for staying in touch. If nothing else, Gerstein notes, he likes to be able to contact lab expats in case there’s ever a question about an old project – for instance, to clarify a protocol or locate a file.
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A third solution would be for a third-party ‘scientific directory’ service such as ORCID to add a mechanism for contacting authors, such as a button or form to send a message.
Laure Haak, Executive Director of ORCID, says, “At the current time, ORCID does not have these features on our roadmap.”
In the meantime, it is possible to make the email addresses in an ORCID profile public; go to Account Settings > Email and Notification Preferences, and change “who can see this” from “only me” to “everyone”.
Of course, even were the organization to add a messaging feature, overtaxed researchers may not read them.
“People get so much email,” Gerstein says. “I suspect people would ignore the messages.”
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The Books of College Libraries Are Turning Into Wallpaper

August 11, 2019

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“But there is another future that these statistics and our nostalgic reaction to them might produce: the research library as a Disneyland of books, with banker’s lamps and never-cracked spines providing the suggestion of, but not the true interaction with, knowledge old and new. As beautiful as those libraries appear—and I, too, find myself unconsciously responding to such surroundings, having grown up studying in them—we should beware the peril of books as glorified wallpaper. The value of books, after all, is what lies beneath their covers, as lovely as those covers may be.
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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/05/college-students-arent-checking-out-books/590305/

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Low-level password protection

August 4, 2019

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You set up two pages (e.g., page.html and protectpage.html). page.html has the javascript code snippet within the tags. protectpage.html has the protected information. If someone enters the correct password — ‘letmein’ in the example — the protected page opens in a new browser window.

Of course, the password is identifiable by viewing page source. Also, a webcrawling bot will probably index or scrape protectpage.html at some point.

Anything more sophisticated is challenging.
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http://www.javascriptkit.com/script/cut10.shtml

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Theranos Whistleblower Shook the Company—and His Family – WSJ

August 3, 2019

https://www.wsj.com/articles/theranos-whistleblower-shook-the-companyand-his-family-1479335963
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Tyler Shultz says he wanted to shield reputation of former Secretary of State George Shultz, a Theranos director and his grandfather; $400,000 in legal fees
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A Decade Ago, a Scientist Promised a Brain Simulation in a Decade

August 3, 2019

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“In a recent paper titled “The Scientific Case for Brain Simulations,” several HBP scientists argue that big simulations “will likely be indispensable for bridging the scales between the neuron and system levels in the brain.” In other words: Scientists can look at the nuts and bolts of how neurons work, and they can study the behavior of entire organisms, but they need simulations to show how the former creates the latter. The paper’s authors draw a comparison to weather forecasts, in which an understanding of physics and chemistry at the scale of neighborhoods allows us to accurately predict temperature, rainfall, and wind across the whole globe.”
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https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/07/ten-years-human-brain-project-simulation-markram-ted-talk/594493/

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Bluetooth was named after a Danish King (but just bad tooth?)

August 2, 2019

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald_Bluetooth

“The first documented appearance of Harald’s nickname “Bluetooth” (as blatan; Old Norse *blátǫnn) is in the Chronicon Roskildense (written ca. 1140), alongside the alternative nickname Clac Harald.[5] Clac Harald appears to be a confusion of Harald Bluetooth with the legendary or semi-legendary Harald Klak, son of Halfdan. The byname is given as Blachtent and explicitly glossed as “bluish or black tooth” (dens lividus vel niger) in a chronicle of the late 12th century, Wilhelmi abbatis regum Danorum genealogia.[6] The traditional explanation is that Harald must have had a conspicuous bad tooth that appeared “blue” (i.e. “black”, as blár “blue” meant “blue-black”, or “dark-coloured”). Another explanation, proposed by Scocozza (1997) is that he was called “blue thane” (or “dark thane”) in England (with Anglo-Saxon thegn corrupted to tan when the name came back into Old Norse).[7]”

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