“Holy Toledo! Either that bird hit a land mine or you just shot down a kamikaze pigeon!” — Klinger (M*A*S*H Season 8 Episode 12). LOL Hilarious!! “The pentagon. The weird looking building. Four walls and a spare. Monument to Murphy’s law.” — Cornel Potter (S8E13)
Cells
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
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
Botball 2015
I’m going to be a mentor again for Botball. This time I’m partnering with David, Kevin and Stephen and we are mentors for the middle school that David helped at last year. So, hopefully that means we will have more success than I had last year with Kramer middle school. This weekend is the intro/get… Continue reading Botball 2015
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
JUnit and TestNG
I just got finished some code refactoring and a major rearchitecturing of bounties to be more ammenable to unit tests. Which I, for lack of time, unfortunately didn’t do. But, now that I have a bit of time and its for a class I’m going to start adding them. Junit has always been my goto… Continue reading JUnit and TestNG
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?
Handcoded Tukey
So, it seems that if I want a fast tukey test I need a fast ANOVA. Which seems to be where the bottle neck is. If I had time I would code ANOVA and borrow a Tukey implementation in C. I think that all of these programming languages are doing it wrong for what I… Continue reading Handcoded Tukey