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WolframAlphaSucks
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26 May 2009 - 19:38 - r1.2
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// Reposted from a Boing Boing comment on a Main.RudyRucker post: // Why do technology evangelizers give Wolfram Alpha a free pass? It is quite clearly orders of magnitude less useful than Google. I have not yet seen the problem it solves. Everyone I know personally who's used it says it sucks. For even the simple computations it boasts that it can do well, it sucks awfully because its knowledge model is just not up to the job, and never will be. (I typed "murders ...
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PrimordialSoup
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14 May 2009 - 17:21 - NEW
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IanHolmes
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// More evidence supporting the RNA World hypothesis: // "Synthesis of activated pyrimidine ribonucleotides in prebiotically plausible conditions." Powner, Gerland Sutherland, Nature 2009 // http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v459/n7244/full/nature08013.html // http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/14/science/14rna.html? r 1 em // Main.IanHolmes 15 May 2009 //
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NumbersStations
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14 May 2009 - 13:50 - NEW
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IanHolmes
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// Wikipedia:Numbers stations robot voices reading cryptic numbers over shortwave radio may be good fodder for bioinformatics Teaching.CryptanalysisExercises. // The Atención station played a central role in the federal case against the Wikipedia:Wasp Network, aka the Wikipedia:Cuban Five. // "prioritize and continue to strengthen friendship with Joe and Dennis" 68 characters // "Under no circumstances should agents German nor Castor fly with BTTR or another ...
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WikipediaRNA
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01 May 2009 - 15:41 - NEW
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IanHolmes
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// Wikipedia and RFAM // The first Wikipedia paper in RNA Biology, from the Eddy lab's "secret agent man", Tom Jones. // // http://www.nature.com/news/2008/081216/full/news.2008.1312.html // http://selab.janelia.org/people/eddys/blog/?p 24 // Main.IanHolmes 01 May 2009 //
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MissionToEarthsCore
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16 Apr 2009 - 00:09 - r1.4
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// Stevenson, David J. Mission to Earth’s Core A Modest Proposal. Nature , 423 , 239-240, 2003. // ... // Earth’s interior is // opaque to electromagnetic signals with // periods less than the mission timescale, // and neutrinos are difficult to use, so // acoustic communication is best. // ... //
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EvolutionOfMalware
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31 Mar 2009 - 22:48 - r1.3
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// Evolution of viruses and worms // On the eve of Conficker's new payload activation period, I found this article from 2004, detailing four main "waves" in the evolution of viruses and worms: // http://vx.netlux.org/lib/atc01.html // From the book "Statistical Methods in Computer Security" // (ISBN:0824759397, Google search) // A bit out-of-date now, since it's pre-Storm and pre-Conficker, but interesting historically. // Here's a little sumpn-sumpn on Conficker ...
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01 Sep 2010 - 14:36 - r1.768
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// Statistics for Web // Month: Topic views: Topic saves: File uploads: Most popular topic views: Top contributors for topic save and uploads: // // Sep 2010 317 0 0 64 60 WebHome 14 12 WebCriticLinks 11 8 TeachingVirusProgramming 8 7 WebCriticHistory 5 5 SyntheticBioFiction 5 CyberpunkRealism // Aug 2010 18095 0 0 2593 2324 WebHome 1416 702 WebCritic 405 224 WebIndex 220 200 WebCritic020540053005 183 172 GeneImagery 170 GeneDesignSoftware // Jul 2010 14926 ...
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GeneDesignSoftware
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08 Jun 2010 - 12:47 - r1.9
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// Clotho // http://2008.igem.org/Team:UC Berkeley Tools // http://blogs.coe.berkeley.edu/igem/tag/clotho/ // APE: A Plasmid Editor. // http://www.biology.utah.edu/jorgensen/wayned/ape/ // Code Monkey video on the youtubes // Gene Designer. // // https: //www.dna20.com/tools/genedesigner.php // Main.IanHolmes 14 Mar 2008 // See also // OpenWetWare:Computational Tools //
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WebHome
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15 Feb 2010 - 13:04 - r1.27
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Main.guest
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// For a more comprehensive and frequently-update feed please go to !FriendFeed: // http://friendfeed.com/ianholmes // URLPARAM{"search" default ". " } " web "INCLUDINGWEB " } " regex "on" nosearch "on" order "created" reverse "on" limit "" } // // OK, I've stopped trying to bend the wiki into being a blog and am now using this subweb as, uh, a wiki for random one-off observations. // Images are often reposted at biowiki.org home. // Here are the 25 most recent ...
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WolframAlphaSucks
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26 May 2009 - 19:38 - r1.2
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IanHolmes
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// Reposted from a Boing Boing comment on a Main.RudyRucker post: // Why do technology evangelizers give Wolfram Alpha a free pass? It is quite clearly orders of magnitude less useful than Google. I have not yet seen the problem it solves. Everyone I know personally who's used it says it sucks. For even the simple computations it boasts that it can do well, it sucks awfully because its knowledge model is just not up to the job, and never will be. (I typed "murders ...
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PrimordialSoup
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14 May 2009 - 17:21 - NEW
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IanHolmes
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// More evidence supporting the RNA World hypothesis: // "Synthesis of activated pyrimidine ribonucleotides in prebiotically plausible conditions." Powner, Gerland Sutherland, Nature 2009 // http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v459/n7244/full/nature08013.html // http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/14/science/14rna.html? r 1 em // Main.IanHolmes 15 May 2009 //
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NumbersStations
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14 May 2009 - 13:50 - NEW
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IanHolmes
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// Wikipedia:Numbers stations robot voices reading cryptic numbers over shortwave radio may be good fodder for bioinformatics Teaching.CryptanalysisExercises. // The Atención station played a central role in the federal case against the Wikipedia:Wasp Network, aka the Wikipedia:Cuban Five. // "prioritize and continue to strengthen friendship with Joe and Dennis" 68 characters // "Under no circumstances should agents German nor Castor fly with BTTR or another ...
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