Today, April 15 2013, Supreme Court will hold oral arguments on the following question: can one get a patent to gain the exclusive right to do research on specific genes that have been taken out of the body? Myriad Genetics, Inc., has obtained several federal patents on “isolated” forms of two genes. On the one hand,… Continue reading Gene Patenting
xkcd: Lisp
http://xkcd.com/224/
Voting scheme
Voting scheme where you bid for votes. Very bad method…
AAMAS 2012
I think I am going to start reading all of the articles in http://jmvidal.cse.sc.edu/library/aamas2012/resources/fullpapers.html#s-1A there are a lot of interesting ideas.
MATSim
Really cool multiagent transportation simulator. Maybe I will be able to use this in the future. I want to scale multiagent learning to large number of agents. I also want to have autonomous vehicles. So, maybe I can simulate scenarios like finding a parking spot to meet someone, driving in traffic, cooperation between traffic signals and cars, the elimination… Continue reading MATSim
The Edge of Chaos
The point of maximal complexity. The system is extremely unstable. They have the ability to exhibit emergent computation. http://vserver1.cscs.lsa.umich.edu/~spage/ONLINECOURSE/R3CA2.pdf Seems related to older ideas.
Tracking Zombie Worms
I just read an article about whale falls. They say the only way to find them so far is basically by accident. They describe these zombie worms that have been so far found at the sites of these falls. Why don’t they inject something into the worms that is traceable and transferable to its offspring.… Continue reading Tracking Zombie Worms
Geotagging and Twitter
At Rochester http://www.cs.rochester.edu/~sadilek/research/ they have a cool web app that overlays tweets on google maps.
Determining Gender
In the paper Gender, Genre, and Writing Style in Formal Written Texts the authors determined the gender based on text. Looks like we are still interested in doing this sort of thing because it was done using twitter info http://www.fastcompany.com/1769217/you-cant-keep-your-secrets-twitter.
another book idea
Sci-fi book about people in vegetative state sharing consciousness.