QR code decoding

QR codes are useful in some way if the user has a smart phone. But what if there is no smart phone around? I have been frustrated on occasion because there was a QR code but I wanted to to open the link on my Mac… Yesterday I saw this very useful that works on… Read More »

Check shortened links for safety

Source: Five ways to check shortened links for safety Before you visit a shortened URL, be sure the destination website is secure and appropriate. Shortening a URL has its utilities, especially if it needs to be typed on the keyboard. However, the short link obscures the final destination which might compromise safety. Here is a… Read More »

Big Book of R

www.bigbookofr.com by Oscar Baruffa This online book is a compendium list of ~300 books using R for data analysis. Fro example, one useful example contained within is Computational Genomics with R by Altuna Akalin (2020-09-30.) The big book is available on GitHub as BigBookofR. If you take time to check the site and file 020-book_list.Rmd… Read More »

When We Met Other Human Species

In the light of the new Nobel Prize nomination of Svante Pääbo it is nice to watch these youtube titles. The first one is from PBS, and offers a nice summary without too much scientific jargon or baggage. The next title is presented by Svante Pääbo that was the presentation that I saw at the… Read More »

Chateaubriand Fellowship for PhD students

Chateaubriand Fellowship The Chateaubriand Fellowship allows PhD students registered in an American university the opportunity to spend 4–9 months in France. The fellowship aims to initiate or reinforce collaborations or join projects between French and American research teams. US citizenship is not required (see eligibility and guidelines.) Summary French Government funded Chateaubriand STEM Fellowship available… Read More »

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Making Science More Engaging

A webinar from “The Scientist“ Announcement and recording of event: A-Picture-is-Worth-a-Thousand-Words-Making-Science-More-Engaging About this webinar: Given that humans are by nature visual animals, most people are familiar with the concept of visual communication. However, while writing their articles and giving presentations, scientists frequently overlook aesthetic appeal because they believe it to be irrelevant or because they… Read More »

Where is VirusWorld?

Virusworld was started as an anonymous FTP site in 1993 to distribute virus images I created from X-ray crystallography data, primarily for teaching. After 29 years the site has been retired, in part due to change of web server. I wrote a page about this elsewhere, but here is the summary below: Summary VirusWorld was… Read More »

DataChat: Guided English Language© Ai and ML data analysis

A new spin-off company from the University of Wisconsin-Madison proposes a new interface for data analysis based on Guided English Language© (GEL) to command Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning methods via “utterances” i.e. English-like phrases easier to write than code whether R, python, SQL, or other traditional tools. The web site is at datachat.ai The… Read More »