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The history of science – The periodic table is 150 years old this week | Science and technology | The Economist
November 17, 2019Protection of confidential data is essential, groups tell U.S. EPA
November 17, 2019The stockmarket is now run by computers, algorithms and passive managers
November 10, 2019QT:{{”
“Jump to 2017, when Google unveiled AlphaZero, a computer that had been given the rules of chess and then taught itself how to play. It took four hours of training to be able to beat Stockfish, the best chess machine programmed with human tactics. Intriguingly, AlphaZero made what looked like blunders to human eyes. For example, in the middlegame it sacrificed a bishop for a strategic advantage that became clear only much later.
Quant funds can be divided into two groups: those like Stockfish, which use machines to mimic human strategies; and those like AlphaZero, which create strategies themselves. For 30 years
quantitative investing started with a hypothesis, says a quant investor. Investors would test it against historical data and make a judgment as to whether it would continue to be useful. Now the order has been reversed. “We start with the data and look for a hypothesis,” he says.”
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Building a Career, One Academic Step at a Time
October 6, 2019QT:{{”
““The four-year undergraduate experience is often out of reach for large segments of our population,” said Kemi Jona, associate dean for digital innovation and enterprise learning at Northeastern University in Boston. Moreover, he said, “the idea of getting that one degree and you’re set for life doesn’t really hold water anymore. Then the question becomes, ‘how do we make it easier for working adults and people who need to pick up new kinds of tools and technologies?’”
The answer: stackable credits, which Cassandra Horii, director of Caltech’s center for teaching, learning and outreach, defined as “a more bite-sized piece of education that stands on its own and has value in the workplace.” But “if you continue on your educational trajectory, that piece fully counts towards your next educational step.”
The stackable term itself, noted Jimmie Williamson and Matthew Pittinsky in an article in “Inside Higher Education,” is “clever, invoking the image of Lego blocks and the metaphor of assembly.”” “}}
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/22/education/learning/stackable-degree-continuing-education.html
Diabetes and RACE A Historical Perspective
October 5, 2019ethnicity & diabetes
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3000712/
Biological composites—complex structures for functional diversity | Science
September 30, 2019http://science.sciencemag.org/content/362/6414/543
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An example is the combination of rigidity and flexibility in protein-based teeth of the squid sucker ring. Other examples are time-delayed actuation in plant seed pods triggered by environmental signals, such as fire and water, and surface nanostructures that combine light manipulation with mechanical protection or water repellency. Bioinspired engineering transfers some of these structural principles into technically more relevant base materials to obtain new, often unexpected combinations of material properties. Less appreciated is the huge potential of using bioinspired structural complexity to avoid unnecessary chemical diversity, enabling easier recycling and, thus, a more sustainable materials economy.
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Genome-wide analysis of polymerase III-transcribed Alu elements suggests cell-type-specific enhancer function.
August 18, 2019His dark materials | 1843
July 22, 2019https://www.1843magazine.com/design/his-dark-materials
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The material he’s describing is Vantablack – the blackest black ever created. It was developed by a company called Surrey NanoSystems (SNS), whose laboratory is housed in a single-storey, pre-fab block in a dreary business park near the port at Newhaven, on Britain’s south coast. Vantablack is made from carbon nanotubes (“Vanta” stands for “vertically aligned nanotube array”). Each tube is just a few nanometres thick and a few hundred nanometres tall – that is, just a few billionths of a metre.
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2019 redefinition of the SI base units – Wikipedia
June 22, 2019https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_redefinition_of_the_SI_base_units Kg in terms of photon energy and time
The Internet of disposable things: Throwaway paper and plastic sensors will connect everyday items – IEEE Journals & Magazine
May 6, 2019plastic packaging that determines if a hot dog is bad using a sensor. perhaps possible for T & P too.
