Mailund on the Internet

Another week is gone by.  I didn’t post so much myself, but luckily a lot of other people did, and here is my list of favorites.

Biology

• How does salt melt snails? (Adventures in Ethics and Science)
• There is no missing link (Evolving Thoughts)
• Swine flu: estimating pandemic potential with a computer model using early data (Effect Measure)
• Origin of life: building an RNA world from simple chemicals (Ars Technica)

Computing/programming

• The web browser address bar is the new command line (Coding Horror)
• The basics of SWIG (Programming for Scientists)
• Google: 15,000 searches = 1 cheeseburger (Ars Technica)
• Canonical aims for the cloud with new Ubuntu One (Ars Technica)
• Why do computers suck at math? (Coding Horror) … please ignore the nonsense that addition and subtraction is not equally problematic, that is a truth with modifications…
• A year with Python (Eli Bendersky)
• Copy, load, redirect and tee using C++ streambufs (Word Aligned)
• You can’t write that number; in fact you can’t write most numbers (Good Math, Bad Math)

Copyright and patent rights

• Big Content’s “theater of the absurd” at DMAC hearings (Ars Technica)
• ACLU wants patents on gene tests declared unconstitutional (Ars Technica)

Genetics

• Who can “pass” as white? (Gene Expression)
• More on the X variation conundrum (John Hawks)

Physics

• How massive is the Milky Way? (Starts with a Bang)
• What are the strings in String Theory made of? (The Scientific Indian) … I don’t really see how the Incompleteness Theorem applies, but hey…

Statistics

• Not all causal relationships are created equal (Gene Expression)
• Advice on statistical model building (Statistical Modeling)

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Tags: computing, copyrights, genetics, physics, statistics

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