This week in the blogs
Sunday, February 22nd, 2009Here’s my weekly list of interesting blog posts in the past week. I don’t know, I found this week a bit of a slim picking, maybe because I didn’t pay good enough attention… anyway, at least there were a few posts I enjoyed.
Science
- Small delays due to Big Genetics (Genetic future)
- Bioinformatics & computational biology = same? no! (Building confidence)
- Lost in translation: the disconnect between scientists and the public (The decision tree)
- How single-cell organisms evolve into multicellular ones (Adaptive complexity)
- Laws, theories and models (Evolving thoughts)
Programming
- More on function decorators (ProgrammingBits)
- Git is it (tech guy in midtown)
- Abstract vs concrete syntax trees (Eli Bendersky)
Math and the web
- How Google and Facebook are using R (Revolutions)
- How we (don’t) write mathematics on the Web (Science after sunclipse)
Neandertals
- Neandertal: The resurrection (John Hawks)
- The Neandertal genome FAQ (John Hawks)
Next gen sequencing
- The bioinformatics bottleneck (Finchtalk)
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