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[notes] Ray Dalio's "Principles"

Principles by Ray Dalio is a book that I received as a gift Christmas 2017 from a friend, but I hadn't gotten around to reading it until a year later. I'm glad I did. For context, Ray Dalio is the founder of the world's

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[notes] Cal Newport - "Deep Work"

I recently finished Cal Newport's bestseller book, Deep Work. Below are some notes on the book that I took along the way. They're points that I found particularly interesting or useful to remember. Cal's more likely to hire new machines than new people; we

data science

[note] Tutorial on Maximum Likelihood Estimation

http://times.cs.uiuc.edu/course/410/note/mle.pdfSearching across a space of models Structure and inner working of processes of interest are given by models, or "parametric families of probability distributions" Once you get a model want to know how well it

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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

data science

[note] Tensorflow Tutorial: Vector Representations of Words

word2vec comes in two flavours: the Continuous Bag-of-Words (CBOW) model predicts target words (e.g. ‘mat’) from source context words (‘the cat sits on the’) smooths over much of the distributional information by treating entire context as one observation (better for smaller datasets) the

synthetic biology

[note] A Droplet Microfluidic Platform for Automating Genetic Engineering

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acssynbio.6b00011Creating a computer for synthetic biology needs. What is the water-in-oil droplet microfluidic platform? * can do transformation, culture and expression of recombinant proteins * can use bacteria, yeast, fungi * Hybrid digital microfluidic/channel-based droplet chip * has

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[links] 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

synthetic biology

[note] 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

cryptocurrency

[note] The Blockchain Application Stack

http://joel.mn/post/103546215249/the-blockchain-application-stack“This is what I think the architecture of internet applications is going to look like in 10 years." Overlay network: devs build networks that work in parallel to Bitcoin blockchain —> performing tasks that Bitcoin network can’t