Monthly Archives: April 2007
All in a few letters?
An interesting piece in Omics! Omics! on the limitations of degrees. The relevance of a degree has been something that has been the subject of many a discussion that I have been party to over the years. There are people who tend to put way to much weight into someone’s abilities purely on [...]
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The life science hype cycle
Pedro has a cool take on the Gartner hype cycle. He has projected where certain life science technologies lie onto the Gartner hype cycle chart (reproduced below)
Figure by Pedro Beltrao
I’ve been involved in a few of these over th years (bioinformatics, structural biology, nanobiology, expression profiling). I might disagree on some of [...]
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Mainframes vs. The Grid
Nick Carr has an interesting post on his blog about some new iron from IBM and Sun. What I found interesting was the comment towards the end about specialized machines of the kind IBM and Sun excel at and the large global grid of the kind Google has built. Through most of the [...]
When a publisher loses perspective
Wiley certainly seems to have (via Pedro) and sent a cease & desist letter to Shelley Batts for using a table and graphs from a recent paper (used in support of a blog post). Shelley did comply, regenerating the graphics in excel.
I don’t have to tell you where I stand on this issue. [...]
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Splashcast and the bbgm podcast