In Episode 17, we have a very spirited discussion on the role of libraries in research, about Summer of Code and data-driven analytics
Show notes
Nescent has the list of the bioinformatics project proposals for the Google Summer of Code 2009
Donnie Berkholz
Libraries of the Future debate on FriendFeed
Libraries of the Future debate
Peter Murray-Rust on Libraries of the Future
Christina Pikas responds
The unreasonable effectiveness of data: Alon Halevy, Peter Norvig, and Fernando Pereira at google discuss natural language processing vs more complex models that harness huge pools of data.
Are your coding skills current ? Whats hot in the coding language world ? TIOBE has the list.
Exciting news in the Python world after Pycon 2009, Unladen swallow: A team of five engineers announces a project to increase the speed of Cpython five fold using LLVM
On the Ruby front, we have ActiveResearch, a gathering of science geeks at RailsConf and Paulo Nuin has a Ruby in Bioinformatics Blog
Links of the week
Deepak likes the concept behing the news stories site: http://thesciencebehindit.net/
Hari was checking out Jessenollers blog for some pythonic wisdom
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