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Reflecting on Bayesian methods

I had discovered Cam Davidson-Pilon’s book, “Probabilistic Programming and Bayesian Methods for Hackers” a year ago, but never got around to finishing it until today. If you’ve been holding out for a third party opinion, hopefully this blog post will scratch that

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Synthetic biology and artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence and synthetic biology: a tri-temporal contribution http://sci-hub.cc/10.1016/j.biosystems.2016.01.001 What can synthetic biology offer to artificial intelligence (and vice versa)? http://sci-hub.cc/10.1016/j.biosystems.2016.09.005 * cybernetics * autopoietic biology Synthetic biology

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Next generation tools to accelerate the synthetic biology process

Steve C. C. Shih and Christopher Moraes http://users.encs.concordia.ca/~sshih/doc/Shih_NextGenToolsSynBio_IntBiol_2016.pdf Process for realizing new biological systems follows: * design - selecting biological parts and pathways * built - using genomic modification tools to generate a library of