(Cross posted to Bench Press) We’ve blogged before about applying gaming technology to science, but much of that has been about using games or gaming system chips. A recent Wired magazine article reveals another interesting use case: taking the capabilities of something like Microsoft’s Xbox360 Kinect system and applying it directly to science research! Apparently, [...]
(Cross posted to Bench Press) A few years ago, I blogged about an ingenious crowdsourced game called Fold.It. The concept was pretty simple: Use human intuition to help solve complicated three-dimensional protein folding challenges which is oftentimes as effective but significantly faster & cheaper than computational algorithms Pool together lots of human volunteers Turn the [...]
(Cross posted to Bench Press) Singapore is a fascinating country – despite the lack of what most in the West would recognize as democratic freedom, it consistently ranks well in terms of lack of corruption and high and growing standard of living for its people. It is also one of the boldest when it comes [...]
(Cross-posted to Bench Press blog) I’ve posted on plush particles, plush organs, knitted dissections, and even plush microbes. It seems in the math/science world, there’s always some creative soul who wants to cute-ify subjects of study. Well, that set is joined by the latest plush craze… plush… statistical distributions? (HT: Flowing Data). Less stuffed-animal-like per [...]
Over at Bench Press, my buddy Anthony posted about the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s collaboration with the White House and Expert Labs to help identify “which scientific and technological challenges should be the focus of policy initiatives in the coming years.” The collaboration is unique in that, to my knowledge, it is [...]
I don’t usually do the New Year’s resolutions thing. But this year, since I’m now publishing everything to benjamintseng.com, I think the perceived public scrutiny associated with having a public list of goals for the coming year on my own personal domain name might end up being a good motivator to achieve them. So, without [...]
As I did with 2008 and 2007, a couple of highlights from this blog for the past year: I made quite a few changes to my blog, including updating my Feedburner feed, installing Disqus and ShareThis, and moving the blog over to my own hosted site and making the jump from Blogger to WordPress Ended [...]