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Noel O'Boyle
stackoverflow for science - Noel O'Boyle
that some serious white noise there :) - Egon Willighagen
Graeme Mathieson
I don't use "LOL" lightly; for me it means, "I may wet myself from laughing so hard." I LOL'd at http://i.imgur.com/LZBup.jpg
I don't use "LOL" lightly; for me it means, "I may wet myself from laughing so hard." I LOL'd at http://i.imgur.com/LZBup.jpg
Geoffrey Bilder
Google Code Blog: Introducing Closure Tools - http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2009...
Google open-source a bunch of Java Script tooling - Cameron Neylon
Pierre Lindenbaum
RT @pansapiens Nodalpoint is dead !! http://www.nodalpoint.org/ ... Long live NodalPoint !! http://archive.nodalpoint.org/
but what is the "something new" :-) - Neil Saunders
I am glad it was archived :) ahh the good old days - Pedro Beltrao
Where many of us started, really. And then to personal blogs and now, microblogs ;-) - Neil Saunders
Eben
Thanks for the seemingly expensive set of steak knives. They're going to make cutting all the meat I don't eat very easy. Really thoughtful.
Dan Brickley
Drag and Drop in Firefox 3.5 - http://decafbad.com/2009...
Pierre Lindenbaum
dear lazy web, does anyone knows if it is possible to get a URL to a PDF from a digital object identifier #doi ?
This might be a decent starting point: http://bio-geeks.com/?p=749 - Chris Miller
Thanks very much Chris !! This is the kind of information I was looking for ! - Pierre Lindenbaum
Glad it was useful - I bookmarked it after seeing it on someone's feed just a few days ago. Be sure to let us know if you hack something together - I love having tools like this in my arsenal. - Chris Miller
Deepak Singh
Pedro Beltrao
Seventh graders describe scientists before and after a visit to Fermilab. - http://ed.fnal.gov/project...
Seventh graders describe scientists before and after a visit to Fermilab.
Seventh graders describe scientists before and after a visit to Fermilab.
This one is lovely: "Their jobs sound very interesting because they can do whatever they want and they still get paid for it." ;-)) - Yaroslav Nikolaev
Pierre Lindenbaum
Not so bad: I've created 153 new articles in en.wikipedia.org. Most articles are biographies of scientists.
Let me take the opportunity to say: thank you! - Laurent
What Laurent said. Bravo! - Bill Hooker
Damn you wikipedia, so addictive! Well done Pierre, very impressive. - Dave Lunt
very impressed about the number of new articles on #wikipedia by Pierre too! - Egon Willighagen
Thank you, Pierre! - directeur
@Pierre so which ones are they? :-) - Duncan Hull
@Pierre you've been busy! - Duncan Hull
Roderic Page
Dropping files onto @dropbox feels and easier and faster than native file sharing, even though it involves a trip to the cloud and back!
Hilary
"Comparisons of Citations in Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar for Articles Published in General Medical Journals" (JAMA 2009): http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi...
Neil Saunders
Realised why I never finish web apps. I don't plan them properly at the outset. Leap in, start coding, get a few bits working then get lost.
Scifoo '09
Liked "*new* film no.1 from Nature Video - a sneak peek into the SciFoo unconference http://bit.ly/olCcF" http://ff.im/75ms7 - http://twitter.com/mfenner...
Roderic Page
Being driven slowly mad by all the different citation styles in Wikipedia
Richard Akerman
dlq: Ok, the Avatar trailer looks great - http://bit.ly/16dGh0 - But it also looks CG-ish. CG shouldn't look CG anymore - see District 9. - http://twitter.com/dlq...
dlq: Ok, the Avatar trailer looks great - http://bit.ly/16dGh0 - But it also looks CG-ish. CG shouldn't look CG anymore - see District 9. - Richard Akerman
Christopher Mims
@xjparker did the promo screencast for NPR's new iPhone app – both are awesome http://mashable.com/2009...
Shirley Wu
The evolution of scientific impact - http://shirleywho.wordpress.com/2009...
The clearest, most nicely written post on the entire issue. Well done! - Bora Zivkovic
submitted to Open Lab 09 - Bora Zivkovic
Shirley - this is an excellent essay on this topic, which is very close to my heart. Well done! - Peter Binfield
Shirley, excellent (LONG) post. Can't wait to read your books ;) - Ricardo Vidal
Thanks! This took me a couple days pretty much full-time to write (the luxury of not working a job right now); how do people with jobs do this?? - Shirley Wu
Tom Roud (?) writes an interesting rebuttal against article-level metrics - or at least cautions against some of the metrics that might be used (such as blog and media coverage). It's in French but I used Google translator to read it. My memory of high school French classes only allowed me to decipher the first paragraph, and get the gist that it was an argument against. http://tomroud.com/2009... - Shirley Wu
The post on tomroud.com is interesting. Both your response on his post and the comment by Mitch on your post address most of his concerns, methinks. Popularity contests are no good, but there are ways around them (Mitch), they are just one of many metrics to be used with caution (PLoS), and GlamourMagz are also popularity contests where quirky papers have no chance (you). But his thesis... more... - Bora Zivkovic
@shirley: how do we do it? In pieces over many days... - Björn Brembs
or get a job where writing this stuff is what you are supposed to be doing ;-) - Bora Zivkovic
Having read the piece, I actually have some less vacuous comments: 1. To my knowledge, Garfield introduced the IF to help librarians cut subscriptions, not for scientists to help them chose publishing venues? 2. As you point out, journal level metrics are mathematically inadequate for what they are used for now. However, Thomson's IF specifically is worthless because it is negotiable... more... - Björn Brembs
I think recent interview with Pete Binfield is a good addition to this thread at this point: http://network.nature.com/people... - Bora Zivkovic
Neil Saunders
getting my head around schema-free, document-oriented DBs; not easy after so many years with mysql
Neil, I've been doing the same -- using MongoDB after a lot of time with MySQL. In terms of development it's really nice to have the flexibility to adjust what you are storing without a lot of hassle. This really makes it easier to iteratively improve projects. The downside is that you can forget what you are storing and what the model was through a number of revisions. An object model on top of document stores is probably the right balance. - Brad Chapman
Thanks for the tips Brad. Still a new way of thinking for me, but I do see a lot of exciting possibilities for it. - Neil Saunders
we're considering couchdb for jbrowse. still seems a bit unclear which document store will "win" - Ian Holmes
I was thinking that a document store module for GBrowse (and now you mention it, jbrowse) would be a nice project. - Neil Saunders
Can you explain what you'll be using a document-oriented DB for? I haven't yet figured out what situations cause one to say, "I know, I'll use CouchDB/MongoDB/a favorite key-value store". - Chris Lasher
Probably need more space for this, but a few thoughts. (1) I'm tired of designing MySQL schema that are basically 'lite' local versions of existing schema. (2) Code to bulk-update MySQL is frequently ugly, as you're always worried about foreign keys. "if record exists get id, otherwise create, then get id" - sound familiar? (3) A lot of biological data has a hierarchical, tree-like... more... - Neil Saunders
see also the NoSQL movement: http://news.ycombinator.com/item... - Ian Holmes
Thanks for the follow-up, Neil. - Chris Lasher
Noah Gray
Steven Pinker on the myth of violence | Video on TED.com - http://www.ted.com/talks...
Psychologist Steven Pinker is a great speaker, and is most famous for his work on language development in children, at times in collaboration with Noam Chomsky. But in this TED talk, he charts the trajectory of violence in our society (it is on the downward slope) and argues that despite Darfur, Afghanistan or Iraq, we are living in the most peaceful time of our species' existence... - Noah Gray
Simon Cockell
playing with jquery... about time I got to grips with javascript, and ajax particularly
Matt Wood
"Shipping quality is a longer, tougher road than just shipping whatever to be first to market", @buzz: http://log.scifihifi.com/post...
Richard Akerman
This is awesome (choice of spokesman may offend) via @mandahill via @sheilmcn: reaction to friendfeed/facebook buyout: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
This is awesome (choice of spokesman may offend) via @mandahill via @sheilmcn: reaction to friendfeed/facebook buyout: http://bit.ly/3c5zr
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IMHO these videos based on that Downfall scene are getting old. Just sayin' - Paulo Nuin
Richard Akerman
so... how do I export my data from FriendFeed?
Out of curiosity, what do you see as alternate options? What will you export your Friendfeed data to? In addition, in lieu of Friendfeed, will you use Twitter more extensively or return to blogging more extensively? - Jill O'Neill
I don't know, but I'm gonna look into this myself, but for analysis purposes. I'm not too afraid I'll lose access to it. - Meryn Stol
Christina Pikas
W00t!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! passed my comps - all areas - yeeeeehawwwww
Congratulations, Christina!! Well-deserved, I'm sure. - Jill O'Neill
thanks Jill - Christina Pikas
Well, of course you did! :D Congratulations!!! - Laura H.
many congrats (we knew you would) - suelibrarian
great news! - Stephanie_GoBigBlue!
congrats! - Sir Shuping
Outstanding. - Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
Congratulations! - Betsy (bentley) Vera
Thanks all! - Christina Pikas
Congrats! - Mr. Gunn
A big congrats! - Stephen Francoeur
Congratulations! - Martin Fenner
congarats! - Björn Brembs
Congratulations! - Kubke
Of course you did!!! Congratulations!!!! - Jill Hurst-Wahl
Wonderful! - Michael Nielsen
Deepak Singh
MultipleTesting in Genome-Wide Association Studies via Hidden Markov Models. - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez...
Neil Saunders
CiteULike RSS as a Dipity timeline. Can "web 2.0 for science" sites learn a few UI lessons from elsewhere?
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I was trying to use my FF RSS feed on Dipity but am getting an error - anyone been able to do this? - Jean-Claude Bradley
I've been seeing errors too, since posting this. Items come and go, view count random. - Neil Saunders from fftogo
I found I could do it by adding a source but not by adding the RSS feed itself - Jean-Claude Bradley
Chris Miller
Lessons for article recommendation services - http://www.chrisamiller.com/blog...
People as filters, yes. The trick is finding the people who are your optimal filters. It'd be interesting to throw Netflix-like recommender algorithms at the problem; Netflix doesn't just recommend movies, it recommends *people* by means of taste-similarity judgments. - D0r0th34
I was just chatting in e-mail with a guy at work - he asked me what alerts would be best for his stated research interests. After doing the standard librarian thing with the research databases - I threw in -or find some people who are interested in the same thing, subscribe to their blogs, and let them filter for you. If you're in a hot topic with people who like to share, that really works well. He is, but yeah, something like Mendeley that can go off what you read is probably the next best thing. - Christina Pikas
Mendeley with activity feeds would certainly fill much of this gap. Another place worth looking at is http://pubfeed.cs.toronto.edu/ . - Daniel Mietchen
Starting with the people on friendfeed you're subscribed to wouldn't be a bad start! As you know, recommender systems work much better with large and diverse datasets, so everybody go sign up and start using Mendeley right now and maybe they'll get on the recommender thing already! ;-) - Mr. Gunn
Deepak Singh
Ian Foster: What's faster--a supercomputer or EC2? - http://ianfoster.typepad.com/blog...
That old (NCSA) benchmark is getting a lot of mileage! I appreciate the definition of 'fast' in this post - time from job submission to job completion. QBETS predictions are cool but I read it as the time it takes to complete your job on a (free) shared public resource. If I sit in my machine room at a terminal and no queue the big iron will win every time. However it's no secret that I... more... - Adam Kraut
Pierre Lindenbaum
The life scientists on FriendFeed. A treemap of the contributors. - http://lindenb.tumblr.com/post...
The life scientists on FriendFeed. A treemap of the contributors.
How is that made? That is, what defines a contributor? Do I have to start sharing more stuff in that room^Wgroup^Wsomething? - Egon Willighagen
Pierre, you definitely have too much time on your hands :-) - Jan Aerts
@Egon, this is an old treemap algorithm, I described it 3 years ago see http://plindenbaum.blogspot.com/2006... . I'll blog about it. contributor= someone who post something in the room. - Pierre Lindenbaum
@egon, hum, sorrry the link to my personal website at Integragen, my former company, is now broken. - Pierre Lindenbaum
@Jan I'm in holidays now :-) ! - Pierre Lindenbaum
@Pierre... I was more thinking about how you set up the data input... - Egon Willighagen
@Egon, I just used the FF API to fetch all the entries of the group. Was this your question ? - Pierre Lindenbaum
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