Python machine learning resources

Elefant - Python OSS machine learning library

Pyrex - a Language for Writing Python Extension Modules

OSS for machine learning

Randomised trials

A simple explanation about the need for randomized trials in testing medicine, critical of the exemption homeopathic medicine seems to expect from this. Also, how some homeopaths have reacted to criticism.

Has mainstream Western society lost a belief in the objective to try and gain back the romantic?

(PS. This is not say that "big pharma" are not capable of running their own scams, but that fairly conducted randomized trials are the way to test medicinal claims, regardless of who is making the claims.)

Quote on integers

Leopold Kronecker

God created the integers, all else is the work of man.

Teaching by passwords

Overcoming Bias's Eliezer Yudkowsky has a painfully accurate description of how science can quickly become a game of passwords with no true understanding. This should be required reading for all school teachers.

My computer's thoughts on neuroscience

How to write consistently boring scientific literature

This was funny (and sad).

HT: Michael Nielson

SciVee a PLoS initiative

It will be interesting to see if PLoS's newest initiative, SciVee, will be a success. It allows researchers to upload a 10 minute video presentation about their publications (although at the moment it only allows open-access publications to be described, hopefully that will change soon).

I was pleasantly surprised to find my university has already gotten in on the act.