OMG, that is awesome.

I have to re-find this video every few years -- Mikhail Baryshnikov and Patrick Bissell in the dance-off at the end of Don Quixote.

If I had a million free hours, I'd be thinking of spending some of them on applying this to MBTA buses ("Inferring bus fullness using GPS trajectories.") Maybe someday.

"Abstract exceeds arXiv space limitations -- see PDF." -- nice.

I like the "TOMB Counter" name -- this is a reasonably important technique, and this is the first place I've found it referenced in the literature.

RT @pmphlt: New post: Open letter on the Access2Research White House petition

Sign it. Then pass it along to your friends to sign. Seriously. (This is a petition, created by John Wilbanks, formerly of Creative Commons, and all-around dynamo or pro-open-access energy.)

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"Avoid temporary variables"??? (A lot of the rest is reasonable, but could be subsumed into a reasonable version of 'lint' for whatever language you're working in. Is there an R lint?)

Someone on twitter posted a link to this as an example of actual "data integration." Mmm... color me skeptical (here "data integration" reads to me as a synonym for "ad hoc systems biology,") but I need to read it more closely.

What's a "concept" again? (Is this what they meant, when they were writing about "the end of Models?")

Touch-event polyfill for mobile browsers.

@DrMathochist McSweeney's beat you to it, unforch:

"Ceres Solver is a portable C++ library that allows for modeling and solving large complicated nonlinear least squares problems."

Bonus points for the Seventh Seal reference in the photo at the beginning. Awesome.

Also reading this morning -- unforch, the refs in their PDF are messed up, and their source-code is missing some import, so I can't recompile it (from .tex source) unaided. GRrrrr.

Like kickstarter, but for buying CC-licensed e-versions of law books from their original publishers. I wonder how many other kinds of publications this would work for?

Creep-tastic.

"Algorithmic Differentiation Through Automatic Graph Elimination Ordering (ADTAGEO) is based on the principle of Instant Elimination: At runtime we dynamically maintain a DAG representing only active variables that are alive at any time. Whenever an active variable is deallocated or its value is overwritten the corresponding vertex in the Live-DAG will be eliminated immediately by the well known vertex elimination rule [1]. Consequently, the total memory requirement is equal to that of the sparse forward mode."

Kinda want.

Baez on Shalizi -- it's like worlds colliding. (In an awesome way.)

I'd via:chl this, if I didn't already have it open in my tabs. :-)

I'll be honest, I still shudder when I see the name "Saeed Tavazoie". (cf. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15084257 )

From cool prototype to working commercial camera in just a few short years. Makes me want to buy one right now.

"Liston operated so fast that he once accidentally amputated an assistant's fingers along with a patient's leg, according to Hollingham. The patient and the assistant both died of sepsis, and a spectator reportedly died of shock, resulting in the only known procedure with a 300% mortality." -- Atul Gawande writing about the history of surgery, and its transformation by anesthesia and antiseptic techniques, in the NEJM. Awesome throughout.

"This specification introduces an interface that provides Web applications with timing-related information. This specification does not cover how Web applications leverage these interfaces to collect, store and report the provided information."

"The other" Dan Spiewak, writes up a long description of OT and his inferences about "how Google does it." Note the date (2010) though, and s/is/was/ as necessary.

"This study provides evidence that next-generation sequencing can have high success rates in a clinical setting, but also highlights key challenges. It further suggests that the presentation of known Mendelian conditions may be considerably broader than currently recognised." -- Looks like the authors are from Duke Medical School...

Schadenfreudesque.

"Nothing ever happens to America that has not previously taken place in Boston. This is why every true Bostonian sniffs complacently when someone else tells him “news.” He knows where the impulse first originated." -- Hail Boston, hail infernal world, and though profoundest Hell, receive thy new possessor...

"URIs for people entities from the Smith biography adhere to the following syntax: http://data.perseus.org/people/smith:<name>-<number>, and include support for Content-Type negotiation based on the HTTP Accept header."

So... can we do this automatically?

The trick of making the javascript directly editable as well, shown at the bottom, is quite nice.

Better tools for better ontologies.

Liberman debunks the "10% of financial workers on Wall St. are psychopaths" meme. But I *want* to believe!

"Other causes include inflammatory bowel disease, infections, paraneoplastic hormones, celiac disease, malabsorption syndromes, and bacterial overgrowth in the small intestine. In addition to organic causes, psychological factors have an important effect on bowel function."

"Our results are consistent with simulated genetic models in which hundreds of associated loci harbor common causal variants and a smaller number of loci harbor multiple rare causal variants. These analyses suggest that GWAS will continue to be highly productive for the discovery of additional susceptibility loci for common diseases."

Sorta feel like this is a misinterpretation of Occam's Razor, but it's still an interesting article.

David Blei surveys topic models for the Communications of the ACM.

"Hackthons?" Are those like "Marthons?"

Another multi-part Errol Morris essay. (He should probably collect these essays into a short book, hm?) This one induced me to download Mill's "A System of Logic" to my iPad over the weekend.

Via Jonathan Eisen's blog

PDF book. Chapters:
1. Climate Dynamics
2. River Flow
3. Dunes
4. Glaciers and Ice Sheets

"We present a new method to measure and correct for these influences using a simple graphical model. Our model does not rely on existing gene annotations, and model selection is performed automatically making it applicable with few assumptions."

"As soon as people decided it's OK to publish LSIDs that don't work, LSIDs were doomed. The most immediate way for me to determine whether you are providing useful information (resolving the identifier) is gone. And with that goes any sense that I can trust LSIDs."

polyfill for overflow in older mobile browsers.

"A custom 'tap' event JavaScript plugin for mobile browsers."

float and clear properties in CSS.

Yeah, that's pretty amazing.

Declarative Pythonic parser-generator for binary file formats. *Interesting*.

Sampling event-times from non-homogeous Poisson processes, given a representation of the intensity function...

More "comparison of genome assemblers" stuff. Related to the "comparison of genome annotations" linked to earlier.

The discussion of errors in annotation being propagated by basing one annotation on an earlier, erroneous or hypothetical annotation is excellent.

"P.P.S. Did you know there is an RSS feed for Treasury auction results? It is quite possibly the most boring RSS feed in the world. Pray you are not around should that ever change."

A great example of crappy Slate contrarianism. I love how Manjoo goes from "two spaces are unequivocally wrong," to "I actually think aesthetics are the best argument" within the space of a single page. And of course, the fact that (with modern word processing and type-layout software, even in the browser) that there is a difference between "what is typed" (by the writer) and "what is shown" (on the printed page or screen)-- like the difference between source code and a working application-- is never even *mentioned*. Why is he even having this argument, when all he wants to do is knock down straw men?

<sigh> (cf. http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/cmb.2010.0267 -- which is, fwiw, a nearly-identical model, evaluated in an identical way. )

Latanya Sweeney's Indivo-based data repo system?

LIKE.

"Don't be that guy." Someone should append this kind of post to some of Larry Masinter's emails in the TAG mailing list (e.g. here: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2012Apr/0010.html ). I wonder if he'd get the point.