Pretty nuggets of math, CS, bio

I read quite a bit about math, computer science, and biology. Here's my online memory of pretty ideas, mechanisms and connections that I encounter.

Friday, March 26, 2010

Rabbit proofing a wild vegetable patch

Nothing to do with Science. More related to common sense. I went for a walk with a kind soul today who thought it wise to plant vegetable se...

Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Not mine... but glycosylation anyway!

Instead of writing myself, I'm forwarding a link to another nice blog entry about glycosylation.

Friday, May 9, 2008

Buckyballs and footballs

Before the English invented football, there was the buckyball. Named after the American architect R. Buckminster Fuller who designed the geo...

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Vesicle coats

On to next chapter in Alberts et al.. Adidas clearly stole their 'Fevernova' logo from the clathrin triskelion And football players ...

Friday, May 2, 2008

Model selection - Information criteria, part II

Now for the hardcore information criteria part :) The goal is still the same - pick a model to maximize the log-likelihood of the data. Th...

Thursday, May 1, 2008

The Geometry of Nature and Chaos

Long before Benoit Mandelbrot defined fractals, Dutch artist MC Escher geometrical tessellations inspired connections between mathematici...

Monday, April 28, 2008

Misfolded proteins

There are nice sentences in high school text books along the lines of 'misfolded proteins are recognized and degraded'. But in reali...

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