For a while ago a read about the Nokia phone microscope that saved tens of thousand dollars. Now this open hardware is useful to study molecules and can save universities for hundreds of thousand dollars:
http://www.biophysik.physik.uni-muenchen.de/projects/plastic-afm
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Saturday, May 08, 2010
Why use R statistical program?
Here are some good points:
"The quants at financial services companies have taken a particular shining to R, and not just because they are cheap."
"Jeff Erhardt, who was a heavy R user when he worked at chip makers Advanced Micro Devices and Spansion and who is chief operating officer at Revolution, says that universities are not teaching SAS and SPSS any more. They are using R, just like proprietary and Unix operating systems have been displaced by Linux in computer science programs."
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/06/revolution_commercial_r/
"The quants at financial services companies have taken a particular shining to R, and not just because they are cheap."
"Jeff Erhardt, who was a heavy R user when he worked at chip makers Advanced Micro Devices and Spansion and who is chief operating officer at Revolution, says that universities are not teaching SAS and SPSS any more. They are using R, just like proprietary and Unix operating systems have been displaced by Linux in computer science programs."
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/06/revolution_commercial_r/
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