http://www.businessinsider.com/the-biggest-biotech-discovery-of-the-century-is-about-to-change-medicine-forever-2015-2 a rather long but interesting article about the DNA editing tool CRISPR. This tool was not created, rather it was found. Microbes (or whatever they are called) have been using this to defend against invasion for a long time. The way the article makes it out to be that there exists a war at the… Continue reading Cells
Category: thoughts
AI conspiracy
I know this sounds all conspiracy theory like, but it seems possible that people like Bill Gates and Elon Musk, who have recently made comments about the potential threat of an artificial intelligence take over, were only doing it so that there would be more articles written about AI and how its highly unlikely given… Continue reading AI conspiracy
Datamining Forums
Would be interesting to compare writing styles, format etc of users on forums. Would be interesting if we could identify users with multiple accounts. Also, would be interesting to look at the change in style over time per person to see if it was hacked or something out of the ordinary. Plot emotions over time.… Continue reading Datamining Forums
Robins and cryptochrome
I was sitting in my chair and I saw a robin out the window and I wondered whether it could see me (as in how far can robin’s see). I of course googled it. But, I got sidetracked and found a Discovery article explaining that robins can see the earth’s EM field. According to the… Continue reading Robins and cryptochrome
Comparison Continued
I took a look at the R source code for the tukey test (HSD test) from the agricolae library http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/agricolae/index.html. The interesting thing is that they purposefully call round: round(1-ptukey(abs(dif[k])*sqrt(2)/sdtdif,ntr,DFerror),6) Also, they assume lm or aov. So, we know that they don’t like big numbers. However, the nice thing is that the R file shows how… Continue reading Comparison Continued
New computer, is it worth it?
OR I could just ask for a computer with more ram then I could just use slow mathematica or R or whatever and not care. Of course it might not be that slow for R since its not that slow it just takes lots of ram. Which makes sense since it is very memory inefficient.… Continue reading New computer, is it worth it?
Touchscreen for touchpads
Would be neat to have a color touch screen that acted as the touchpad for a laptop. It could make gestures easier, allow you to maybe see your clipboard, show your password here instead of on your monitor (less easy for someone to observe this way). I’m sure there would be a lot of superficial… Continue reading Touchscreen for touchpads
Man vs Machine
Some people (not me) believe that we are the result of random chemical interactions. I wonder what the probability is that they assign to us existing. Because it has to be less than the probability of machine men existing. The existence of such machines would fit more into the notion of evolving randomly by fitness… Continue reading Man vs Machine
Thoughts on Humor
I wonder if humor is universal? If all languages have a form of humor. I know some languages only have rudimentary term for quantity or numbers. So, do they have humor? Humor doesn’t seem like something that would need to be present in a language. Programming languages certainly don’t. However, you can’t have a conversation… Continue reading Thoughts on Humor
Unix commands
Need to read this website http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/index.html.