Jan Wessnitzer

this list also mentions which books use R - Jan Wessnitzer

"So how do we disrupt the academic-research business the same way that Amazon and the web have disrupted book publishing, or blogs and The Huffington Post have disrupted newspapers? Nielsen doesn’t have any silver bullets, but he does suggest that government agencies funding research should require that those submitting papers must provide their research free of charge (the National Institute of Health has started doing this with research it funds or supports)." - Jan Wessnitzer

McCarthy's proposal for the event put forward the idea that "every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it". http://www.bbc.co.uk/news... - Jan Wessnitzer

“I think Stephen [Curry] is right to highlight the plight of senior postdocs. It can’t really be argued that these are not competent and productive scientists since they have been hired and rehired on successive short-term contracts in a highly competitive market. These people are evidently playing a pretty important role, albeit not as research leaders. They will typically have accrued very specialised skills which really will be wasted if not put to use in one of the few labs (at widely scattered geographical locations) which use the same techniques. As the Science is Vital submissions showed, PIs are often very sorry to lose these people.When I talk about waste here I am not arguing that the individuals careers have been wasted, but that the scientific establishment, and the absence of an effective career structure is wasting their talents by forcing them out of science while training and retraining newcomers to try to fill their shoes.” - Jan Wessnitzer

"The sad news of the death of another tech great has come. Dennis Ritchie, the creator of the C programming language and a key developer of the Unix operating system, has passed away. For those of us running Mac OS X, iOS, Android and many other non-Windows OS, we have him to thank. Many of those running Windows do too, as many of the applications you're using were written in C." - Jan Wessnitzer

Google are not eating their own dogfood! - Jan Wessnitzer

https://plus.google.com/1126787... - Jan Wessnitzer

Let's all opt-in together ;) - Jan Wessnitzer

not a very intelligent design... - Jan Wessnitzer

I'd like to know the microanatomy. Are there really now connections on the way? Neurons are ridiculously expensive, so if you can save some, you would. As much I like evidence for 'unintelligent' design, I'd be very skeptical that this particular nerve isn't doing anything along the way. However, this could be easily tested and if there really isn't anything going on, this is a nice case for 'unintelligent design'. - Björn Brembs

yes, I agree and would love to hear from the "giraffe geeks" out there! A quick Google frenzy hasn't shed any light on whether or not the nerve is fulfilling some other function. - Jan Wessnitzer

"The School of Ants project is a citizen-scientist driven study of the ants that live in urban areas, particularly around homes and schools. Participation is open to anyone interested in contributing. Teachers, students, parents, kids, junior-scientists, senior citizens and enthusiasts of all stripes are involved in collecting ants in schoolyards and backyards using a standardized protocol so that we can make detailed maps of the wild life that lives just outside (or even inside) our doorsteps. The maps we create with these data are telling us quite a lot about native and introduced ants in cities, not just here in North Carolina, but across the United States and, as this project grows, the world! " - Jan Wessnitzer