Archive for March, 2009
New Python Licence
CRITICAL COMMENTARY. You agree that you will not create, read, provide comments for, post, publish, or otherwise propagate, or encourage others to create, read, publish, or otherwise propagate any unauthorized critical commentary on the contents quality, or coding style of [...]
Python is moving to Mercurial
According to latest email from Guido van Rossum in Python developer mailing list, Python will be adopting Distributed Revision Control System (DVCS) based on Mercurial (Hg). Rossum suggests To me, the advantages of using *some* DVCS are obvious. At PyCon, [...]
Lie, Cheat and Steal
Surprised with title of the post ! Well not exactly, this post is summarizing three commandments for biological modelers: Lie, Cheat and Steal.Lie A good model includes incorrect assumptions. Practical models have to be simple enough that the number of [...]
Moving Towards Open Cloud?
Cloud Computing Interoperability Forum (CCIF) is drafting an Open Cloud Manifesto. Idea is to embrace the fundamental principles of an open cloud with the help of worldwide cloud community. Open Cloud Manifesto will describe principles and guidelines for interoperability in [...]
Sweden, we're waiting
Latest edition of Science highlights Jorge Cham, creator of Piled Higher and Deeper comic strip, and here is the fun
TED Video Nathan Wolfe on Hunting for the next AIDS
Virus hunter Nathan Wolfe is outwitting the next pandemic by staying two steps ahead: discovering new, deadly viruses where they first emerge — passing from animals to humans among poor subsistence hunters in Africa — before they claim millions of [...]
Why do you believe what you believe
An interesting post by Benjamin Wiederkehr at datavisualization blog about flash based application My Evidence. My Evidence is hosted by Exploratorium, Museum of science art and human perception examines the source of our knowledge and understanding about different ideas. For [...]
This week R in the News
Few interesting articles What is R? Inference for R SAS to offer R integration to support analytical innovation CRANberries What is R?An introductory discussion about R by David M Smith at SmartData Collective, By “official R” I mean the R [...]
Importance of Color Palettes in Data Visualization
Here is an interesting post by Michael E. Driscoll at Data Evolution blog about importance of color in data visualization and how it has been ignored most of the time. Michael writes Color is one of the most abused and [...]
