{"id":2211,"date":"2009-02-09T12:01:26","date_gmt":"2009-02-09T19:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=2211"},"modified":"2009-02-09T12:01:26","modified_gmt":"2009-02-09T19:01:26","slug":"links-for-2009-02-09","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2009\/02\/09\/links-for-2009-02-09\/","title":{"rendered":"links for 2009-02-09"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/seattle\/blog\/techflash\/\">Watch Bill Gates unleash that &#039;swarm&#039; of mosquitoes on crowd &#8211; TechFlash: Seattle&#039;s Technology News Source<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Earlier this week, Bill Gates got a lot of attention for releasing some mosquitoes into a crowd while talking about malaria. The video is now available for viewing, and you can watch it below. The incident comes about 5 minutes into the speech, but the entire presentation is worth watching if you have time.<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"https:\/\/delicious.com\/dabacon\/malaria\">malaria<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/delicious.com\/dabacon\/bill\">bill<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/delicious.com\/dabacon\/gates\">gates<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/delicious.com\/dabacon\/stunts\">stunts<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\">Predictive Bet \u00ab Masteroftheuniverse&#8217;s Weblog<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">A good friend of mine and I have been discussing the predictive nature of the markets, or as I contend the lack of. Since he&#8217;s a follower of the pseudoscience of TA, he says he can predict the markets. He doesn&#8217;t trade, but is very interested in the markets and eats, sleeps, and breathes markets. He&#8217;s been trying to confuse me with all his mumbo jumbo and I finally said no mas. I proposed a small wager and he accepted. We&#8217;re both opening up two small accounts(I&#8217;m just segregating an account of mine) and he&#8217;s going to use TA to determine his trades. Instead of using my regular methods for finding trades, I&#8217;ve decided to use the device pictured below to give me trading guidance.<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"https:\/\/delicious.com\/dabacon\/finance\">finance<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/delicious.com\/dabacon\/magic\">magic<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/delicious.com\/dabacon\/eight\">eight<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/delicious.com\/dabacon\/ball\">ball<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/delicious.com\/dabacon\/prediction\">prediction<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amanwithaphd.wordpress.com\/2009\/02\/08\/super-sequencing\/\">Super sequencing \u00ab A Man With A Ph.D.<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">A meeting about new approaches to sequencing the human (or any other species) genome. Some of these sound pretty fantastic. One company claims to be able to sequence human genomes for $5000. In 8 days around Christmas, they assembled 254 billion bases of DNA data to create a draft sequence covering 92% of the genome. y June the cost will be $1000 and that they expect to sequence 20,000 by next year. Since little data, it is probably good to be a little skeptical.<br \/>\nAnother group presented data on a method they claim will be able to produce entire human genome sequences in 3 minutes. Lets see about 3 billion bases in 180 seconds is 17 million bases a second. Wow.<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"https:\/\/delicious.com\/dabacon\/dna\">dna<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/delicious.com\/dabacon\/sequencing\">sequencing<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/delicious.com\/dabacon\/human\">human<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/delicious.com\/dabacon\/genome\">genome<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/delicious.com\/dabacon\/wow\">wow<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/business\/technology\/article\/Rice-professor-s-discovery-may-save-your-iPhone-1749030.php\">Rice professor sees method revolutionizing computing | Houston &amp; Texas News | Chron.com &#8211; Houston Chronicle<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Nearly a decade age, a Houston computer scientist posed this heretical question. Today, it&#8217;s led to a movement dubbed &#8220;probabilistic computing,&#8221; which he believes will revolutionize the future of computing.<br \/>\nThis afternoon, Krishna Palem, speaking at a computer science meeting in San Francisco, will announce results of the first real-world test of his probabilistic computer chip: The chip, which thrives on random errors, ran seven times faster than today&#8217;s best technology while using just 1\/30th the electricity<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"https:\/\/delicious.com\/dabacon\/computing\">computing<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/delicious.com\/dabacon\/probability\">probability<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/delicious.com\/dabacon\/stochastic\">stochastic<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/delicious.com\/dabacon\/future\">future<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch Bill Gates unleash that &#039;swarm&#039; of mosquitoes on crowd &#8211; TechFlash: Seattle&#039;s Technology News Source Earlier this week, Bill Gates got a lot of attention for releasing some mosquitoes into a crowd while talking about malaria. The video is now available for viewing, and you can watch it below. The incident comes about 5 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2009\/02\/09\/links-for-2009-02-09\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;links for 2009-02-09&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-go-ahead-waste-your-time"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}