Tag Archives: research

Ars Technica – Google drops the axe on its internal renewable energy work

Ars answers my ear­lier question.

November 24, 2011 – 2:53 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off

Vivek Haldar – Size is the best predictor of code quality

Essen­tially length of code tied with code met­rics becomes a rea­son­able pre­dic­tor of bugs.

September 27, 2011 – 2:10 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Programming, Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments Off

NYTimes.com – Its Gene Patents Upheld, Myriad Genetics Moves to Protect Its Secrets

Regard­less of whether or not you agree with the idea of patents on genes, the fact that these patents are forc­ing patients to undergo a more expen­sive and less effec­tive pro­ce­dure should give any­one concern.

August 24, 2011 – 9:51 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, Quick Posts, Science, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

The Atlantic – Crazy: 90 Percent of People Don’t Know How to Use CTRL+F

It always aston­ishes how many peo­ple who use the com­puter every day for a large part of their daily lives know almost zero shortcuts.

August 20, 2011 – 3:49 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

Messy Matters – This Post Won’t Go Viral

Per­haps the more inter­est­ing aspect is that most adop­tions occur with­out a peer-to-peer influ­ence or within one step of the orig­i­nal peer.

August 1, 2011 – 10:52 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Communication, Quick Posts, Science, Social Media | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

Freedom to Tinker – New Research Result: Bubble Forms Not So Anonymous

Even some­thing as sim­ple and low tech as bub­ble forms can’t be totally anonymous.

July 13, 2011 – 10:12 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Quick Posts, Security | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

NYTimes.com – Next-Generation Scientists

Impres­sive work.

March 26, 2011 – 6:53 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Quick Posts, Science, Technology | Tagged , , , | Comments Off