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The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery - Microsoft Research
Free book (PDF) "In The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery, the collection of essays expands on the vision of pioneering computer scientist Jim Gray for a new, fourth paradigm of discovery based on data-intensive science and offers insights into how it can be fully realized."
Software Carpentry: July 2009 Guest Speakers
What Every Scientist Needs to Know About
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Michael Nielsen » Is scientific publishing about to be disrupted?
I’ve presented a pessimistic view of the future of current scientific publishers. Yet I hope it’s also clear that there are enormous opportunities to innovate, for those willing to master new techonologies, and to experiment boldly with new ways of doing things. The result will be a great wave of innovation that changes not just how scientific discoveries are communicated, but also accelerates the way scientific discoveries are made.
More Evidence That Girls Kick Ass at Math, Just Like Boys | 80beats | Discover Magazine
Even if girls and boys perform equally well in math on average, is it true that more math geniuses are male? That was the idea expressed by then-Harvard president Larry Summers in 2005 when he raised an uproar by talking about males’ “intrinsic aptitude” for math. The researchers looked for evidence of such an imbalance, but found that in countries with the greatest gender equality, as many girls as boys scored above the 99th percentile–and in a few countries, there were more girls in that elite rank than boys.
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Even if girls and boys perform equally well in math on average, is it true that more math geniuses are male? That was the idea expressed by then-Harvard president Larry Summers in 2005 when he raised an uproar by talking about males’ “intrinsic aptitude” for math. The researchers looked for evidence of such an imbalance, but found that in countries with the greatest gender equality, as many girls as boys scored above the 99th percentile–and in a few countries, there were more girls in that elite rank than boys. The “scarcity of top-scoring females in many, but not all countries .. . must be largely due to changeable sociocultural factors,” the scientists write, “not immutable, innate biological differences between the sexes.” If the differences were innate, they should show up in every culture
http://compgen.blogspot.com/2009/06/failure-to-replicate-genetic.html
These results suggest that failure to replicate an independent genetic effect may provide important clues about the complexity of the underlying genetic architecture. We recommend that polymorphisms that fail to replicate be checked for interactions with other polymorphisms, particularly when samples are collected from groups with distinct ethnic backgrounds or different geographic regions.
How to write a good research paper and give a good research talk
I have a feeling it is too late for trying this...
Earning My Turns: Diversity in scientific data
Highly curated, single-source data is useful only in those areas where how the data is collected and curated is not a central part of the scientific debate. I can't think of a single area of science that I follow in which the core data are settled, from biology to linguistics. Diverse sources, openly exchanged, contrasted, and combined, are the lifeblood of data-driven science.
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Highly curated, single-source data is useful only in those areas where how the data is collected and curated is not a central part of the scientific debate. I can't think of a single area of science that I follow in which the core data are settled, from biology to linguistics. Diverse sources, openly exchanged, contrasted, and combined, are the lifeblood of data-driven science.
How to initiate collaboration in science… with anyone!
You have to structure your email properly, it must be short, and it must be researched. The object of your email, and the first few sentences should include:
* The title of at least one of their research papers.
* Specific reasons why you are interested in this work.
* A brief description of who you are.
* What you want. Be specific.
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- The title of at least one of their research papers.
- Specific reasons why you are interested in this work.
- A brief description of who you are.
- What you want. Be specific.
You have to structure your email properly, it must be short, and it must be researched. The object of your email, and the first few sentences should include:
spdproject - Google Code
A python distribution based on Sage but with finer control of which packages get installed. Apparently, everything is compiled from source. I guess Enthought tools could be a better solution than this, If only I could get Enthought to install properly... Well, the Sage notebook in itself is enough to make SPD interesting.
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a Python distribution and many optional (mainly scientific) packages. Everything fully builds from source on any platform (any linux, Mac OS X, clusters and soon windows
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based on Sage, but the standard download has only 2MB and then you only install packages that you really need.
SEED: Software Engineering Evidence Database
Welcome to SEED: Software Engineering Evidence Database
Select a topic on the left to see summaries of evidence-based software engineering studies.
I Can Name Three Hundred Hypotheses, I Just Can’t Choose « Quantum of Wantum
On two papers about automation of scientific discovery. Maybe in the future we will be able to make the Popperian robots compete against Kuhnian ones and find out who performs better.
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There are two fascinating new papers out in this week’s Science
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They’re both about a similar topic – building a computational system for automatically discovering “scientific knowledge” (which is to say, “a Robot Scientist”) – but they differ in their approach and subject-matter.
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