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Some more on the M3 meeting held on 27th of june 2009 in Stockholm, where I gave a presentation on my current project on Pathway Signatures. The meeting itself was very informative and interesting, with both presentations on new developments in metagenomics and on how the field is reorganizing itself in the light of metadata [...] Tell me, when was the last time you discovered a new astronomical phenonemon? Helped curing AIDS? Caught a British Member of Parliament red-handed in claiming money for his new duck house? Most likely, your answer is ‘never’ and you feel that these jobs are reserved for persons more suitable for the job, like clever scientists [...] Before I was using iTunes, organizing my music had to be done by hand. I created folders and subfolders that felt superficial and inaccurate: should that new Franz Ferdinand album go to /Alternative/Britpop, or was /Rock/2000s a better place? I created and maintained playlists manually in Winamp. Needless to say, this took a lot of [...] |
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