Month: October 2007

Age of Speed

a moronic book for soccer moms, but still, the accelerando meme is taking hold.

Greater Los Angeles

L.A. is the apocalypse, it’s you and a bunch of parking lots. No one’s going to save you; no one’s looking out for you. It’s the only city I know where that’s the explicit premise of living there – that’s the deal you make when you move to L.A. The city, ironically, is emotionally authentic. No one loves you; you’re the least important person in the room; get over it. What matters is what you do there.

he makes LA sound attractive. maybe i’ll go visit now.

Citing Blogs

The general format for a reference to a blog on the Internet, including punctuation:

place of publication??? and a generic link to the blog instead of a permalink to the post??

Love and Sex with Robots

ha. that already happened. sarah often claims she married a robot 🙂

The case for Google

It may be true that Google, a company whose core business is very highly automated, may be massively overstaffed. Google may be a far more profitable business than its current results indicate.

indeed. why do we need all these MBAs, again?

The Office Convention

The Office Convention, October 26-28 in Scranton, PA awesome

Parchment of Chinon

the vatican secret archives are using a google maps like pan/zoom UI to show some historically important documents. i wish it zoomed in more though (and there was a translation / annotation layer on top)

CS past, present and future

there are now the same amount of chips fabricated each year (10^19) as rice grains harvested, and automated driving could save $500B/year.

RNA de novo prediction

Blind, accurate structure prediction for small RNAs, relying solely on the minimization of free energy, seems feasible. Once this challenge is met, modeling efforts become tantalizing possibilities for large ribozymes and protein/RNA complexes.

Rotamer Rally

Androgen receptor is out of control, causing a cancerous tumor! You have to design another protein to block it and stop the cancer. Your protein needs to fit tightly up against androgen receptor. Find the side chain that plugs the hole!