Work as a deckhand on a superyacht. The responsibilities of a deckhand include cleaning, varnishing and painting, polishing, tender operations (small-boat handling skills required) and working the lines/ropes. This is a hard work position with long hours, but can have the added benefit of substantial tips on the larger and busier charter vessels.
The health department of the stae of New York considers 23andMe’s genome scan to be a medical test that must be approved by regulators and ordered by a doctor.
A competing company, Navigenics, successfully applied to have its test licensed in New York. It has essentially put aside marketing to consumers, aiming instead at doctors. It is also courting corporations that might use the test as part of their employee wellness programs.
Nice work. However, given that the Christian Bible has been translated into English (probabaly many times over during the last thousand+ years), wouldn't it make more sense to diff the original Hebrew version?
I'm assuming there's a website where you can retrieve this ...
and split it (more or less) into one word per line.
You'll notice that, in some cases, even when lines or sections are technically different (characters do not exactly match), there is a similarity of words (same roots).
Ben Fry (of Processing fame)'s PhD thesis: "Computational Information Design".
Abstract:
The ability to collect, store, and manage data is increasing quickly, but
our ability to understand it remains constant. In an attempt to gain
better understanding of data, fields such as information visualization,
data mining and graphic design are employed, each solving an isolated
part of the specifi c problem, but failing in a broader sense: there are
too many unsolved problems in the visualization of complex data. As a
solution, this dissertation proposes that the individual fi elds be brought
together as part of a singular process titled Computational Information
Design.
This dissertation first examines the individual pedagogies of design,
information, and computation with a focus on how they support one
another as parts of a combined methodology for the exploration,
analysis, and representation of complex data. Next, in order to make the
process accessible to a wider audience, a tool is introduced to simplify
the computational process for beginners, and can be used as a sketching
platform by more advanced users. Finally, a series of examples show
how the methodology and tool can be used to address a range of data
problems, in particular, the human genome.
This is good advice, but in practice I find it very difficult to translate these tips if you don't have to sell a product/service.
Case in point, recently I was asked for a job interview to "prepare about 10 slides as a short training session on the use of the Ensembl Genome browser by wet bench lab scientists".
The problem I ran into is that I had to use lots of screenshots of the Ensembl Genome browser to tell how it worked. I tried to make those screenshots as pretty as possible (maybe even too cliché with the fading mirror effect) but I din't find much room to show my passion for bioinformatics. Any advice on what I could have changed?
I'm no expert on presenting. (Far far far far.... from it.) I also can't view your slides without downloading Open Office (which I'm too lazy to do). So... take this with a huge grain of salt. :)
My first thought is that, you're right, these techniques are most obviously applicable when selling something. But even in the case of training, I think it might be possible to "sell" what you are trying to train if you focus on the "what I'm doing" aspect.
What I mean is that I've sat through a few lame corporate training presentations in my time and they always consist of loads of processes. Things like, "do this, then this, then this, and poof - you're done!" But what they utterly fail to actually tell you is WHAT you are doing and WHAT was accomplished! Perhaps a lame example might help...
Imagine being taught how to cook a burger like this: First you are told how and where to find the meat (perhaps in the freezer in the kitchen on the 3rd shelf). Then you are told or shown that you must place the meat into a special tray. Then this tray is inserted into the microwave oven and a very specific numerical sequence is entered. Wait for exactly 3 minutes. Now you remove the container from the microwave.... etc..
What's lost here is the end goal and the WHY. What are you really trying to make and why do these steps even exist in this order? Is there really only one single right sequence of steps?
So.. how does this help? Well, I imagine Steve would first give you the motivation for wanted to make your burger. Perhaps he lets you taste one. Touch it. Smell it. Study it. Compare with the "the competition." Now you know what your goal is. Then the process is to not follow steps, but to understand what needs to be done. You must understand that the meat must be thawed and why you can't just cook it first, then form it into a burger shape. This kind of thing.
So in your case, I imagine the presentation would first include real examples and problems that need to be solved and that you will learn how to solve with the program. Maybe work through one of them. Or study it so that it becomes clear as to what variables are involved and why. The second act, then, is where you connect the dots of the first part with the software. X is represented in the software here... (do a demo) Etc. The 3rd act is to tie ti all together. A complete example of a single event or something that you'd use the software for and how to get the results and what they mean and how to translate those results into real world meaning. (If it just spits out some pretty graphs - why do I even care? What does it MEAN?)
You can also just use namebench (http://code.google.com/p/namebench/): It hunts down the fastest DNS servers available for your computer by running a thorough benchmark using your web browser history, tcpdump output, or standardized datasets in order to provide an individualized recommendation.
Namebench is completely free and does not modify your system in any way. This project began as a 20% project at Google and runs on Mac OS X, Windows, and UNIX, and is available with a graphical user interface as well as a command-line interface.
How do I turn off Location-Aware Browsing permanently?
Location-Aware Browsing is always opt-in in Firefox 3.5. No location information is ever sent without your permission. If you wish to disable the feature completely, please follow this set of steps:
* In the URL bar, type about:config
* Type geo.enabled
* Double click on the geo.enabled preference
* Location-Aware Browsing is now disabled
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