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
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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Good point on Libraries as a service versus Libraries as warehouses. For example, over here at The Rock, the Library does a cool thing: weeks in advance for seminars they will send a list of recommended readings to give those interested the chance to get a decent background before the talk. For example (http://librarynews.rockefeller.edu/?p=910). This is simple but specialized librarian work (the readings are not just a listing of the speaker’s last five papers, they sometimes are not even past papers from the speaker but include reviews of the subject). Granted this is only a minor time-saver and it can be superceded by say, a reasonably clever Google Scholar search. But i think it points to the direction of future roles of university librarians.
Found my name from Google. Is there a transcript anywhere?
Donnie,
No transcript. Your name came up in a conversation we were having about the Google Summer of Code (it’s early in the podcast)
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