Following the example of Geeking with Greg and the O’Reilly Radar, I thought I would start periodically posting a round-up of links to things I found interesting.
Nature has a poster on CRISPR-Cas
The University of California has announced a new journal Collabraoa, which will have several nice features: open access, optional Open Peer Review, payments for reviewers and editors.
Video of session from SB6 on Assessing Risk and Managing Biocontainment At 1.13 “Hi, I’m with the FBI and I guess I would be the higher authority”
A good example of building a better interface around publicly released data - the Handsome Atlas (via Dr. Bunsen)
Similarly, online tools provide a better interface for working out how to use Unix tools: .bashrc calculator, file permissions calculator, regex builder and tester, crontab calculator
Devising efficient representations for things makes them easier to remember - Hacking Scrabble (Related - the Mnemonic Encoder)
The Facebook Demetricator is “a web browser extension that hides all the metrics on Facebook”
To fulfil it’s aim of Making Wrong Code Look Wrong Hungarian notation needs to indicate the kind of value a variable stores, not its type
Distributed chat is possible using an RC airplane to relay messages between two computers that it can’t simultaneously see
Forecast.io cleans up weather radar by segmenting images, then classifying each blob as either signal or noise with a 25-neuron neural network.
Cirqoid described itself as ‘your PCB lab on your desk’ - “Cirqoid can do insulation milling of your PCB (aka mechanical etching), drill holes, dispense solder paste and even populate the board with SMD components. That’s right - complete production cycle of a printed circuit board”