Archive for March, 2008
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
For the few who might be interested: OpenDMAP: An open source, ontology-driven concept analysis engine, with applications to capturing knowledge regarding protein transport, protein interactions and cell-type-specific gene expression (PDF).
OpenDMAP advances the performance standards for extracting protein-protein interaction predications from the full texts of biomedical research articles. Furthermore, this ...
Posted in Artificial Intelligence, Language, Science and Tech | 1 Comment »
Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
So, friends, every day do something
that won't compute. Love the Lord.
Love the world.
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
From 'In pursuit of the G-d shot':
Millions of people probably get great coffee every morning with a standard home machine and ground coffee from a supermarket. I was starting to worry that, with a process that has as many variables as pulling an espresso, once you're daft enough to go ...
Posted in Language, Whim | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
More stuff worth reading: Joseph Stiglitz's testimony before Congress on the cost of the Iraqi War (pdf):
I have, so far, emphasized the direct economic costs as well as the opportunity costs—the diversion of funds that could have been used in so many other and better ways. I would be ...
Posted in Economics, Politics and News | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Obama's speech is well worth watching.
For we have a choice in this country. We can accept a politics that breeds division, and conflict, and cynicism. We can tackle race only as spectacle – as we did in the OJ trial – or in the wake of tragedy, as ...
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Thursday, March 13th, 2008
A nice Wired Science video on UAVs (unmanned autonomous vehicles), including some video of the UAV helicopter I worked on at NASA. I miss doing that cool stuff. Of course, I like doing the cool stuff I'm working on now. Autonomous flying search engines! Yes, that's the ticket!
(via lemondor, who's ...
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Sunday, March 9th, 2008
Update: Good comments by Fred Clark at slacktivist.
From the New York Times:
Senator John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, has been an outspoken opponent of torture, often referring to his own experience as a prisoner of war in Vietnam. In this case he supported the administration’s position, arguing as Mr. ...
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
Should Michigan redo its Democratic primary for president?
I think it was shameful, scandalous and grossly stupid that our Governor Granholm, Senator Levin, and the state Democratic and Republican committees disenfranchised Michigan voters.
Millions of dollars were spent holding a sham election in which the only Democratic front-runner on the ticket ...
Posted in Politics and News | 1 Comment »
Monday, March 3rd, 2008
I actually needed to use a powerset function (set of all subsets of a set) today in some Ruby testing code I was writing. So I share it with you:
class Array
def powerset
if empty?
[[]]
else
...
Posted in Science and Tech | 3 Comments »