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At Stanford's Li Ka Shing Center for Big Data in Biomedicine http://bigdata.stanford.edu Power & wifi willing, will liveblog here: https://plus.google.com/1046417...
Writer of New York Times article accused of falsification http://www.dailytech.com/Checkma...
Happy 2013 to everyone! May your year shine with joy, good fortune, fulfillment, good health, good work, and good times. May your journey to your best and highest self be garnished with laughter and wonder.
Happy New Year! - Afonso Xavier
Halloween 2012: Dr. Ruchira Datta, Specialist in Surgery
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My surgical kit contains: Blade - Highest quality by X-Acto. For opening the patient up. Duct Tape - For surgical repairs. WD-40 - For clearing up adhesions, gastrointestinal obstructions, and whatnot. Pliers - For performing extraction. Binder Clip - For clamping, e.g., bleeders. Drinking Straw - For suction. Stapler - For closing the patient up. Pencil - For planning out my operative course. Eraser - Staedtler Mars Plastic erases everything completely! For fixing mistakes. Calculator - If the patient is bleeding out 20ml/min, how long do I have before she bleeds to death? Dice - Random number generator. When making decisions, I need to game out possible scenarios. With my calculator, pencil, and dice, I have everything I need to run Monte Carlo simulations! A writing surface, you ask? Did you know an adult human has 16 square feet of skin? In case the pencil lead doesn't adhere, you may notice my blade has a nice pen-like form factor. - Ruchira S. Datta
You need to market that kit! :) - Anne Bouey
Anne, a fine idea for a sideline! - Ruchira S. Datta
Hahaha! - Anne Bouey
East Coast friends, may you and yours stay safe, warm, and dry!
"Cui bono", "Follow the money", and "Follow the status" - http://ruchiradatta.blogspot.com/2012...
"...the human body turns out to be a vast, highly mutable ecosystem--each of us seems more like a farm than like an individual assembled from a rulebook of genetic instructions. Medicine becomes a matter of cultivation, as if our bacterial cells were crops in a field." http://www.newyorker.com/reporti...
http://www.forbes.com/sites... "Pigs Fly As Open Science Comes To Big Pharma"
"[Glaxo-Smith-Kline] is making its trial database available to researchers in an attempt to steer the use toward scientific purposes. It is not merely providing summary data, but is sharing patient-level data, which will support a broader array of research and is a higher level of transparency...this step alone is remarkable...I think we will look back on today as a watershed moment." Hope this pans out. - Ruchira S. Datta
Happy Sri Krishna Janmashtami! http://api.ning.com/files...
The synaptic web technology behind Bottlenose sounds super-cool. Bottlenose computes the interest graph of social media, in real time, through distributed computing on its client's browsers. http://www.novaspivack.com/uncateg...
""Under the hood we built a new engine for computing on streams, called the StreamOS, and we wrote it completely in javascript and HTML5. The StreamOS does a lot of things, like real-time natural language processing and semantic classification, topic detection, analytics, sentiment analysis, trend detection, personalization, visualization, profiling, computation, storage, networking, messaging, and much more… ... But what’s most interesting about the StreamOS is that, after years of optimization, we have gotten the StreamOS engine down to the size of a photo. And it runs in a distributed fashion, in your browser, when you are at Bottlenose." - Ruchira S. Datta
At UCSF: What Now? Health Reform in Aftermath of the Supreme Court Decision room overflowing! Will try to liveblog: https://plus.google.com/1046417...
Liveblogged ASM Live livestream When Good Bugs Go Bad: Microbiome Dynamics and Disease #asm2012 on Google+: https://plus.google.com/1046417...
‎'What we can know is neither objective nor subjective, but (to coin a word) “conjective.” It is what we know together in our talk, such as our talk about our happiness. Con-jective: together thrown. No science can be about the purely objective or the purely subjective, which are both unattainable.' --Deirdre McCloskey
Great word. See also _The Metaphysical Club_ http://amzn.to/MYCc9K - Ruchira S. Datta
Would CA Prop 29 need 50% + 1 vote to win, or would it need 2/3?
I don't know, but I voted for it! - Laura Norvig from iPhone
Me too! - Ruchira S. Datta
The state of California needs a reboot. - Ruchira S. Datta
Severe campaign finance reform would take care of most of it. Props are a good idea. PACs, SuperPACs, etc. aren't. - Spidra Webster
50% + 1. - Walt Crawford
Eliminating the super majority requirement in state government would go a long way towards making the state governable again - Piaw Na
Thanks Walt. - Ruchira S. Datta
My Personal Thank You To Facebook https://www.facebook.com/photo... To all of my friends who have worked, are working, and will continue to work to build Facebook: My mother hesitated for a long time before joining Facebook. When she did, though, several months ago,... - http://ruchiradatta.blogspot.com/2012...
My personal thank you to Facebook https://www.facebook.com/photo... To all of my friends who have worked, are working, and will continue to work to build Facebook: My mother hesitated for a long time before joining Facebook. When she did, though, several months ago,...
While liveblogging the IHMC 2012 scientific conference on Google+, Thomas Sharpton and I quickly discovered that comments on a post do not update in realtime there like they do on FriendFeed. Kudos to the FriendFeed engineering team for the solid and groundbreaking innovations they made!
This particular feature is useful during collaborative liveblogging so we can see each other's comments and reduce redundancy while composing our own. - Ruchira S. Datta
On the plus side for Google+, conference liveblogging bangs on the commenting system really hard, and I've seen nary a glitch so far. - Ruchira S. Datta
We'll be covering the International Human Microbiome Congress 2012 live from Paris on Google+ https://plus.google.com/1046417... #IHMC2012
Please sign this petition opposing the Research Works Act, which would reverse progress toward making scientific information which the public paid for, available to the public. http://wh.gov/K25
A few special interests, namely certain commercial publishers, have spearheaded this act by making claims about open access publishing that fly in the face of reality, e.g., the success of the Public Library of Science (PLoS), and the fact that the peer review process is alive and well in math and physics despite the extensive use of the arXiv.org preprint server ahead of publication. - Ruchira S. Datta
See more about the Research Works Act here: http://scienceblogs.com/confess... - Ruchira S. Datta
The typo in this ad is rather astounding. See p. 127 of the Dec. 19 & 26, 2011 issue of the New Yorker.
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Maybe they were typing with a Boston accent? - Kristin
I was thinking the same thing, Kristin; but I suspect there should be an "h" where the "r" is missing if that was the case. - DAMMIT, MR. NOODLE
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kind of cute aren't you chickmunk? - NoahDavidSimon
Now work at Center for Evolution and Cancer http://cancer.ucsf.edu/evoluti...
I'm really excited to join Prof. Carlo Maley's lab http://maleylab.surgery.ucsf.edu/ in the Center for Evolution and Cancer http://cancer.ucsf.edu/evoluti... in the UCSF Medical Center at Mt. Zion http://mountzion.ucsfmedicalcenter.org/ as a research specialist on Monday.
Congratulations! - imabonehead
We'll be researching how precancerous cells progress to cancer, and how cancer develops resistance to chemotherapy, leading to difficult-to-treat relapses. - Ruchira S. Datta
imabonehead, thanks so much! :-) - Ruchira S. Datta
Wow, you guys are quick. I posted on Google+ first, but still haven't gotten any response, whereas here I have 4 likes and 1 comment. FriendFeed lives! :-) - Ruchira S. Datta
Congrats, Ruchira. - Gimminy
Thanks, Jimminy! :-) - Ruchira S. Datta
Ruchira, well that definitely tells you something about FriendFeed versus Google+ :D - imabonehead
Congrats! - Anne Bouey
Very cool; congratulations! - Jenny H from Android
Thanks, Anne and Jenny! - Ruchira S. Datta
Congrats! - Spidra Webster
Congratulations, Ruchira! - Victor Ganata
Thanks, Spidra and Victor! imabonehead, at this point I have 9 likes here, and still the only response I have on Google+ is a +1 from Anne. - Ruchira S. Datta
That +1 actually came before I saw it here. - Anne Bouey
Thanks, Anne! Now chaz2b has +1ed it there too (thanks!), and I have another +1 from my friend Monica Anderson--the first response on Google+ that isn't also here. Interesting and somewhat surprising. - Ruchira S. Datta
thank you for sharing this great news with us, :) - chaz2b
Why do I see several "404 Not Found" links to delicious in my feed from different people?
Because the guys didn't approve the new delicious TOS. - Napolux
Napoulx, thanks. - Ruchira S. Datta
Clinton's executive order 12862 required customer service plans from federal agencies. Search for this to see how the government serves you. http://www.archives.gov/federal...
Has anyone else found that the new Facebook message/chat integration is a bit broken this morning?
I'm not sure how I'll feel about it once it's fixed -- sometimes it's nice to have transient chats. - Ruchira S. Datta
Facebook chat and messaging were always broken, even separately and not for technical reasons... - Jean-Marc Liotier
Harvard Business Review: "The Unselfish Gene" http://hbr.org/2011...
"Ross and his collaborators told half the players in their experiments that they were playing the Community Game and the other half that they were playing the Wall Street Game. The two groups were identical in all other respects. Yet, in the Community Game group, 70% started out playing cooperatively and continued to do so throughout the experiment. In the Wall Street Game group, the proportions were reversed: 70% of the players didn’t cooperate with one another. Thirty percent started out playing cooperatively but stopped when the others didn’t respond." ! - Ruchira S. Datta
@GOOD _Diet for a Small Planet_ http://www.amazon.com/gp... (timely sequel: _Diet for a Hot Planet_ http://www.amazon.com/gp...) #GOODasks #30DaysofGOOD
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