Code That Protects Most Cellphone Calls Is Divulged

A German computer engineer said Monday that he had cracked the secret code used to encrypt most of the world's mobile phone calls:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/29/technology/29hack.html?_r=1

Statistical plots on-line

http://yeroon.net/ggplot2/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_haIgb4nFFY&hd=1

The great Baby Einstein scam

Remember the articles I mentioned in this Post.
I receive more information about this subject related with a big company:
Baby Einstein and what they say.

Prevalence of Mental Illness in Immigrant and Non-Immigrant U.S. Latino Groups

From The American Journal of Psychiatry:
Although widely reported among Latino populations, contradictory evidence exists regarding the generalizability of the immigrant paradox, i.e., that foreign nativity protects against psychiatric disorders. The authors examined whether this paradox applies to all Latino groups by comparing estimates of lifetime psychiatric disorders among immigrant Latino subjects, U.S-born Latino subjects, and non-Latino white subjects.
http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/165/3/359

The making of Flashbeagle (1985)

I remember when I watched the original Charlie Brown chapter again and again (one of my favorites).

International Mathematica User Conference 2009

This year's conference has presentations on an exciting variety of topics, with separate programming tracks offering something for everyone. Renan Cabrera, my brother has an interesting presentation about Magnus expansions:
http://www.wolfram.com/news/events/userconf2009/presentations.html
http://rcabreral.blogspot.com/2009/09/international-mathematica-user.html

Statistics into a video clip

From vimeo, check this out:
Remind Me

Mathematical Proof of the United Nations Cover-up of the Afghan Election Fraud

From Kathy Dopp's Blog:
Here you can find a mathematical proof that former UN Envoy Peter Galbraith was correct that the UN covered up Afghan vote fraud:
http://kathydopp.com/serendipity/index.php?/archives/45-Mathematical-Proof-of-the-United-Nations-Cover-up-of-the-Afghan-Election-Fraud.html

Placebos Have Side Effects Too

From Neuroskeptic:
Everyone's heard of the "placebo effect", by which pills containing no drugs at all, just chalk and sugar, often seem to make people feel better. But if the mere expectation of improvement can produce improvement, then the expectation of unpleasant consequences, such as side effects, should make people feel worse. This is sometimes called the "nocebo" effect.
Read More: http://neuroskeptic.blogspot.com/2009/10/placebos-have-side-effects-too.html

New paper about quantum systems

Renán Cabrera (Princeton University) published another paper:
Journal of Physics: Calculation of the unitary part of the Bures measure for N-level quantum systems.
... Good work !!

My R Research

This is the first note of my research looking for implementing R to analyze data of many many rows and looking for the best way to implement it like a data mining tool.

First of all, it's clear R is not very suitable for many rows when you don't have enough RAM memory (http://datamining.togaware.com/). So the immediate solution is the incrementation to 32GB (best 64 bits). But I'm looking for another solutions....

Talking about a Data Mining suit, I'm trying to investigate the best possible solutions about this:
- Weka
- Rapid Miner
- KNIME
- Rattle

Maybe I need to consider standards like PMML (sourceforge) (I found an integration within Pentaho)

I'm looking for something like WebFOCUS RStat but open source.

R, the open source platform featured in a series of articles in the New York Times

From The New York Times:

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/08/r-you-ready-for-r/?scp=1&sq=Robert%20Gentleman&st=cse
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/technology/business-computing/07program.html?_r=2&scp=1&sq=robert%20gentleman&st=cse

Fish Oil and Weight Loss Research

From BellaOnline:
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art48266.asp

Bayesian vs. Classical Statistics

From Andrew Gelman:
http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/2009/09/whats_the_diffe.html

Medical Search Engine

Culling through 10 million health articles and sorting search results on two types of data, "conditions" and "treatments," into manageable subsets, HealthBase includes "causes of," "treatments for," "complications of," and "pros and cons of treatment." Content sources are also provided and ranked.
http://healthbase.netbase.com/

Tetris is good for the brain, study claims

From cnet:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-10322773-71.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5

How Different Groups Spend Their Day

The New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/07/31/business/20080801-metrics-graphic.html

Google Book Search? Try Google Library

From cnet:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-10318843-265.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5

Tools to keep your kids safe online

From cnet:
That's why it's so important to safeguard your children while they're surfing the Web. The Internet can be a scary place, but these resources will help keep the bad stuff away
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10318322-2.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5

Do cell phones cause brain tumors?

From cnet:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-27083_3-10318075-247.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5

Rifa en favor de un niño con cancer

Amigos, tengo conocimiento por parte de Karina Joselina Lopez (klopez@grupobisa.com) de una Rifa Solidaria.
Karina Escribe:

El hijo de nuestro mensajero Marco Yumo (YOSSY YUMO) tiene un tumor de Wilms (Riñón), el tiene 4 añitos.
A Yossy se le detecto hace ya mas de 2 años, se lo ha operado 2 veces para extraer el tumor que reiteradas veces vuelve a salir.........
en una de las ocasiones se le extrajo un riñón, las quimioterapias en este ultimo año han sido demasiado fuertes, en ocasiones se le ha hecho transfusión de sangre, y bueno todo lo humana mente posible por estabilizarlo, desgraciadamente le ha vuelto a salir y esta vez esta obstruyendo una vena , es de aprox. 9*7 cm. y en nuestro medio no cuentan con todo lo que se necesita para salvarlo.
La Dra. Yolanda Ernst la jefe de pediatría en el Oncológico lo esta tratando, ha conseguido que en Santiago de Chile lo ayuden y que los Dres.,y el hospital sean gratis, pero el tiene que correr con los gastos de remedios,pasajes, comida, estadia, transporte,etc.....
y en solo medicamento estiman un aproximado de 5.000 $us. ,los pasajes unos 800 $us.
sin gastos de comida.
le adjunto una foto del bebe:
Conocedores del gran espíritu de colaboración que caracteriza a toda la familia y amigos del Grupo Financiero Bisa, la oficina Santa Cruz está organizando una rifa a la cual hemos denominado Bisa Solidaria para recaudar fondos destinados a la curación de Yossi.
El día Jueves 20 les haremos llegar la lista de los premios y el costo de cada número.
Seguros de contar con su ayuda y colaboración, los saludamos muy atentamente.
Karina Lopez Mendivil
Asistente de Gerencia
BISA SEGUROS Y REASEGUROS S.A.
Av. El Trompillo, 2do Anilo Sur Nº 632
Central Piloto: (591-3) 371 0707 Int. 209
Fax: (591-3) 352 2216
Santa CRuz - Bolivia
Email: klopez@grupobisa.com

What Were They Thinking?

From Jeet Heer:
Everyone should have a hobby. Jeet Heer collects names of businesses that don’t make sense. Below are some real examples:
1. Icarus air Travel. Icarus only had one flight and it ended badly.
2. The Abelard School, a private academy. Abelard was best known for sleeping with a student.
3. Gandhi’s Fine Indian Cuisine. Gandhi was not a known to be a hearty eater or gourmand.
4. Mecca Jeans. Is it good idea to wear jeans at Mecca?
5. Ponce De Leon Federal Bank. Ponce De Leon supposedly went searching for the fountain of youth. Even though the story is not true, still that’s what his name means to most people. Would you trust him with your life savings?

How 10 digits will end privacy as we know it

Internet denizens and urban dwellers alike need to recognize that an era of anonymity is ending.
The population of the world stands at about 7 billion. So it takes only 10 digits to label each human being on the planet uniquely. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10310446-83.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5

I need this !!

New e-book with a lot of expectations:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10309091-1.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5
http://www.plasticlogic.com/ereader/index.php

I will always eat spicy foods

Yes. Not only for the flavor but also for my health.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6244715.stm
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-365281/Eat-chilli-help-sleep.html
http://astronutrition.com/blog/5_benefits_spicy_foods
http://www.slashfood.com/2006/06/16/why-spicy-foods-are-good-for-you/

A propósito de los conflictos del deporte

Una muy graciosa caricatura que cada vez se acerca más a la realidad, a propósito de los conflictos que vive el deporte no solamente en Bolivia. Fuente La Razón (http://www.la-razon.com/fotobig.asp?f=/Versiones/20090731_006805/img/Abecor090731_g.jpg)

Advice on writing research articles

Advice on writing research articles (of Statistics). By Andrew Gelman:

http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/2009/07/advice_on_writi.html

http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/blog/

Se viene el Congreso Boliviano de Estadística 2009

Fui comunicado oficialmente acerca de la llegada del Congreso Boliviano de Estadísica 2009. El mismo se llevará a cabo en La Paz, del 18 al 20 de Noviembre de la presente gestión.
Me llegó la siguiente publicación de parte de Luis Zapata, organizador del evento, para que puedan participar como expositores:

Aviso Nº 1
Invitación
6º CONGRESO DE ESTADÍSTICA
18 Y 20 DE NOVIEMBRE, 2009

Objetivo.
Reunir en La Paz a profesionales Estadísticos para compartir amistad, experiencias, disertaciones, y aprobación del Proyecto de Estatuto del Colegio de Estadísticos

Cronograma
Julio
28. Despacho del proyecto a todos los colegas que tienen
correo registrado y comuniquen a otros de su distrito.

Agosto
1º a 14 Comunicar a la comisión su participación en el
Congreso con/sin disertación

20 Confección de nómina de expositores, confirmación
de lugar de conferencia, Banco de aportes

Octubre
30 Recepción de observaciones del Proyecto (vía mail)
a fin de organizar la comisión de compatibilización
y estilo para preparar el final a ser aprobado.

Noviembre
7 y 8 Reunión de la Comisión
10 Recepción de disertaciones, tema y tiempo estimado
de exposición. (enviar por mail.)

Comisión: Jaime Pinto titojaime_pinto@hotmail.com
Luis Zapata luchozapatx@hotmail.com
Hoja de Inscripción
Nombre:___________________

Correo _____________________________

Disertación Posible _____________________

Diseasome: Human Disease Network

Here we have a very interesting tool to explore the human disease network:
http://diseasome.eu/map.html

Scientists Worry Machines May Outsmart Man

The New York Times published an article about this issue:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/26/science/26robot.html?_r=1&hpw

World Population Prospects

The Population Division of the United Nations has statistics since 1950 and forecast to 2050 (The 2008 Revision).
http://esa.un.org/unpp/index.asp?panel=2
The estimation of the 2009 world population is 6 829 360 000, male: 3 442 851 000 and female 3 386 510 000. The estimation for Bolivia is 9 863 000, male: 4 918 000 and female: 4 945 000. As you can see, the world ratio is bigger for men but in Bolivia is bigger for women.

An extreme case I think is Russia:
http://www.ensilicio.com/2009/07/%C2%BFcuatro-mujeres-por-cada-hombre-en-rusia.html

How much is a life worth? (Despite its controversy and callousness)

A graphical user interface to calculate the human worth in US$ based on their location.
You can personalize it with your annual income and your age.
http://www.findmyworth.com/index.php

The world’s most valuable brands - Who’s most engaged?

Want to know not just what companies are doing on the social web but how well they're doing it? Here you can find a tool to measure and monitor brand engagement. ENGAGEMENTdb ranks the world's most valuable brands based on how they leverage social media to interact with customers.
http://www.engagementdb.com/Report
http://www.engagementdb.com/downloads/ENGAGEMENTdb_Report_2009.pdf
And here a survey to rank yourself:
http://www.engagementdb.com/Rank-Yourself

For people who want to teach physics to everyone

http://dogphysics.com/

Very interesting site for Mathematica fans

http://blog.wolfram.com/

Smile at work -or the happiness detector will ding you

Companies with departments of customer assistance should implement technologies like this, especially in Bolivia:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10285578-1.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5

North Americans see science as lagging in the US

Both the American public and researchers have a high regard for scientific advancement. But they disagree over the standing of science in the U.S.
http://people-press.org/report/528/
http://people-press.org/reports/pdf/528.pdf

Now you can backup your thousands emails

Archive your e-mail from almost any account:
I have thousands of e-mail messages in my Yahoo in-box, and thousands more in Gmail and in my ancient Hotmail account. MailStore Home is a free program that can archive them all locally, and display those archives in an interface that reads like your Outlook in-box.
http://download.cnet.com/8301-2007_4-10282688-12.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5

100 Open Source Apps for Windows

A very good list of open-source software for windows (if you didn't move to Ubuntu yet).
http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-07-08-020-35-OS-BZ-SW

MJ Memorial: This must be a record on a live broadcast on internet

(Credit: Akamai)

MJ Memorial: This must be a record on a live broadcast on internet as you can see: http://www.akamai.com/html/technology/dataviz3.html

Social Security numbers can be predicted

It is possible to use publicly available data on state and date of birth to predict someone's Social Security number:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10280614-83.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5

Cities Where They're Hiring

Dear US (and Canada) residents, look where they are hiring:
http://www.businessinsider.com/where-businesses-are-hiring-for-tech-jobs-2009-7

Visualizing correlations circularly

Theses are new ways to visualize tables http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/2009/06/visualizing_tab.html

Viz Whiz

How artists are mining data sets to make you see the unseen
http://www.slate.com/id/2197749/

Google Analytics

Google Analytics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKsBTqqhVTs

Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/06/25/arts/0625-jackson-graphic.html
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10274137-2.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5

Tests

http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21598,22492511-5005375,00.html
http://www.newscientist.com/blog/shortsharpscience/2007/10/bring-on-dancing-girl.html

Genius

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,311952,00.html

Alzheimer

http://www.jneuroinflammation.com/content/5/1/2
http://www.jneuroinflammation.com/content/5/1/3
http://www.la-razon.com/versiones/20080130_006167/nota_245_541128.htm

New Virus

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13731-new-kind-of-killer-virus-discovered-in-bolivia.html?DCMP=ILC-hmts&nsref=news9_head_dn13731

Oil and energy crissis

http://youtube.com/watch?v=rpAa0eWHJG0

Statistical Methods

Optimization methods:
http://www.cs.umsl.edu/~pelikan/boa.html

Fraude

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/12/17/business/17exposure.php?page=1

World Economy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3zZ6qNWeGw
World Economy
http://www.businesspundit.com/sub-prime
George Friedman:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIwZsbBXpNQ

Babies and TV

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/tvcauseslearninglagininfants
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17227-tvwatching-tots-miss-out-on-vital-chat.html
Babies and TV

Software

Risk Simulator:
http://www.software-shop.com/in.php?mod=ver_productos&prdID=322&tab=6
http://www.blogger.com/www.realoptionsvaluation.com/attachments/rs51.exe

R:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/technology/business-computing/07program.html?_r=1

Root, SQL and Oracle:
http://root.cern.ch/root/R2000/Html/newfeatures/img0.htm http://www.spectralcore.com/order.php#FullConvert

Health

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/04/20/hm.fish.mercury/index.html
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14767-pregnancy-supplements-may-trigger-asthma-in-kids.html?DCMP=ILC-hmts&nsref=specrt10_head_Asthma%20risk?
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17108-vitamin-supplements-may-cut-benefits-of-exercise.html
http://www.coconutresearchcenter.org/article%20red%20palm%20oil.htm
http://www.soldentalclinic.com/espanol/lechemala.htm
http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn14310-party-laser-blinds-russian-ravers.html?DCMP=ILC-hmts&nsref=news4_head_dn14310
Radiacion Solar en Bolivia:
http://www.laprensa.com.bo/noticias/04-02-09/04_02_09_socd3.php

Freedom

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227046.400-choice-blindness-you-dont-know-what-you-want.html?page=2
Freedom

Well paid jobs

http://education.yahoo.net/degrees/articles/featured_fifty_dollar_an_hour_earning_power.html
Well paid jobs

Intel in Costa Rica

http://insidecostarica.com/dailynews/2008/november/19/nac07.htm
Intel in Costa Rica

Academics

MBA:
http://business.clayton.edu/arjomand/
Tests:
http://www.cpa-exam.org/

Visual Illusions

http://www.newscientist.com/movie/best-new-visual-illusions-curveball
Visual Illusions

Sociedad Boliviana de Estadistica

www.soboe.org.bo
This is the web page for the Bolivian Society of Statistics

Human random generator in practice

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/20/AR2009062000004.html
This is an example of the human random generator

The secret of happiness

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1894410_1893209_1893472,00.html
This is it !!!
Don't say I didn't tell you.

One of the best presentations of Statistics

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_you_ve_ever_seen.html
This is one of the best presentation of Statistics ever! A must see for every statisticians.