Humanity+ Conference Caltech Decenber 4th-5th
Posted 4:36 PM

If you're in California, please try to attend Humanity+ @ Caltech: Redefining Humanity in the Era of Radical Technological Change on December 4-5th at the Beckman Institute at Caltech Los Angeles, California.

Check out the conference Facebook page here: you can invite your friends to the conference on Facebook.

The Humanity+ @ Caltech conference will be divided into four main sessions:

• Session 1, Re-Imagining Humans: Mind, Media and Methods
• Session 2, Radically Increasing the Human Healthspan
• Session 3, Redefining Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence, Intelligence Enhancement and Substrate-Independent Minds
• Session 4, Business and Economy in the Era of Radical Technomorphosis

You can also check out the conference program here, and get details on the conference venue, transportation, and lodging.

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RSS to ICAL Converter
Posted 10:49 AM

Had to run a modified version of RSS to iCal to parse the Duke Events feed for import into Google Calendar.

You can use this as a "service" for your own RSS feeds:

http://www.documentroot.com/cgi-bin/rss-ics.php?url=

Here's the Duke feed:

http://www.documentroot.com/cgi-bin/rss-ics.php?url=http://feeds.feedburner.com/DukeEvents

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Bioperl example
Posted 11:06 PM

Program using BioPerl that takes a DNA sequence, and a list of proposed exons, and writes out the MRNA and the protein. exonify. My first program using BioPerl, helps avoid copy-pasting stuff for class.
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