written french is so much easier compared to spoken french. ugh. all o'them french words sound the same, at least to my untrained ears.
me thinks spanish is straightforward and easier to understand, whether it is written or spoken.
i will learn you both, in due time.
for now, good vibes muna! ;)
snowflakes, ferns & dragons
from snowflake, to fern, to dragon:
The interpolation here is made from Koch snowflake to Barnsley's fern, from Barnsley's fern to Heighway's dragon and finally from Heighway's dragon to Koch snowflake (made by jfrusciantetube).
how to make the dragon fractal:
The interpolation here is made from Koch snowflake to Barnsley's fern, from Barnsley's fern to Heighway's dragon and finally from Heighway's dragon to Koch snowflake (made by jfrusciantetube).
how to make the dragon fractal:
why i translate
TED & Global Voices have starkly different themes: TED is generally a global venue for sharing cutting-edge ideas across scientific & artistic disciplines (it can pass off as elitist, truth be told), while Global Voices is a dynamic online citizen media outlet about current events & news stories that traditional media sometimes ignore (a grassroots community with a grassroots orientation).
At the end of the day, however, their missions are one and the same: to spread worthy ideas across borders, including the barrier that is language, in which people are inherently varied.
coke, pop or soda
Edwin Chen posted this interesting post in his blog. Edwin Chen is a data scientist at Twitter.
It shows which parts of the world use the word "coke", "soda", or "pop".
I think I'd like to suggest a corollary to this neat piece of geographical data. How about putting this data alongside a map of the prevalence of diabetes mellitus type 2 per country? Notice how Malaysia, Indonesia, and Philippines are filled up with red dots? While most of Africa and China are spared? Would the prevalence of both disease and soft drink actually have a correlation? That'd be something awesome!
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| Coke, soda, or pop? copyright Edwin Chen 2012 |
It shows which parts of the world use the word "coke", "soda", or "pop".
I think I'd like to suggest a corollary to this neat piece of geographical data. How about putting this data alongside a map of the prevalence of diabetes mellitus type 2 per country? Notice how Malaysia, Indonesia, and Philippines are filled up with red dots? While most of Africa and China are spared? Would the prevalence of both disease and soft drink actually have a correlation? That'd be something awesome!
florence nightingale's pies
While researching about anesthesiology, I found out that Florence Nightingale was probably the pioneer in critical care medicine, having served as nurse in military camps in the Crimean War in the 1850's.
I also found out that Nightingale was an astute statistician! She was the first woman to be elected into the Royal Statistical Society (in UK) and she later became an honorary member of the American Statistical Association.
If anything, she could very well be called the mother of graphical representation of data. One of her works is this pie chart known as the polar area diagram, the Nightingale rose diagram, or what we now call as the circular histogram.
An intensivist and a statistician at the same time! Wow.
I also found out that Nightingale was an astute statistician! She was the first woman to be elected into the Royal Statistical Society (in UK) and she later became an honorary member of the American Statistical Association.
If anything, she could very well be called the mother of graphical representation of data. One of her works is this pie chart known as the polar area diagram, the Nightingale rose diagram, or what we now call as the circular histogram.
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| florence nightingale's report on the causes of army morbidity circa 1854-1856 (source: Wikipedia) |
An intensivist and a statistician at the same time! Wow.
lost and found
Marco Bagni's short 1-minute videographic on Getting Lost elegantly sums up the philosophy behind a purpose-driven life:
"Getting lost is the only way to find your own path".
I hope you like it as much as I do.
"Getting lost is the only way to find your own path".
I hope you like it as much as I do.
CERN finds Higgs boson
CERN has finally figured it out: the Higgs boson is real.
Higgs bos-whut? PhDComics lays it down.
This is consistent with models predicting the so-called 'God particle', which gives some, but not all, of the mass of other elementary particles in the cosmos.
Two teams of scientists at CERN have confirmed the discovery of a new subatomic particle, which may well be the elusive Higgs boson.
"I can confirm that a particle has been discovered that is consistent with the Higgs boson theory," said John Womersley, chief executive of the UK's Science & Technology Facilities Council. The result is still preliminary, but "it's very strong and very solid," according to Joe Incandela, spokesman for one of the two teams hunting for the Higgs particle (from Russia Today on YouTube).
Higgs bos-whut? PhDComics lays it down.
The Higgs Boson Explained from PHD Comics on Vimeo.
Okay, let me quantify that a bit: with a certainty approaching almost 100% that it's not a fluke, CERN researchers have isolated a new particle with a mass of 125.3 ± 0.6 GeV at 4.9 σ significance.This is consistent with models predicting the so-called 'God particle', which gives some, but not all, of the mass of other elementary particles in the cosmos.
Two teams of scientists at CERN have confirmed the discovery of a new subatomic particle, which may well be the elusive Higgs boson.
"I can confirm that a particle has been discovered that is consistent with the Higgs boson theory," said John Womersley, chief executive of the UK's Science & Technology Facilities Council. The result is still preliminary, but "it's very strong and very solid," according to Joe Incandela, spokesman for one of the two teams hunting for the Higgs particle (from Russia Today on YouTube).
ten-thousandth at one
My sincerest thanks to a certain Google searcher from the town of Evanston, Illinois, where the main campus of the globally-ranked Northwestern University is located, who landed on this lowly weblog as my ten-thousandth visitor.
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| downtown Evanston, from wikipedia |
Thanks to you, my lowly med school chronicle has recently reached the five-digit audience mark, just four days shy from the first anniversary since my first blogpost on this domain. What a spectacular year it has been! 34% of visitors come from the Philippines, 29% from the United States, and 37% from the rest of the world. 85% of all viewers use Windows OS.
That certain awesome person used Chrome on a Mac while browsing through Google Images and presumably found the comic below interesting enough. He or she then presumably clicked the thumbnail, which lead to the July 2011 blog archive that contained the xkcd comic pertaining to this particularly difficult patient.
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| from xkcd.com |
In that case, I should really thank xkcd for allowing the syndication.
Pati na rin sa lahat ng napapadpad sa aking website nang walang malamang dahilan. Kahit hindi ko mawari ang inyong pakay kung bakit kayo napadaan dito, hindi naman ako magsasawang magpapasalamat sa inyong lahat!
TEDGlobal 2012
Wow, TED just gave me a free pass for the webcast of TEDGlobal 2012 to be streamed live from Edinburgh! Thank you TED! Pure awesomeness.
TEDGlobal's theme for this year is Radical Openness, and I bet that there should be at least a couple of radical talks worth my time, which will be spent away from the medical texts that I have study for a written examination next week which is on infectious and systemic diseases. That means, it'd better be good.
Among the roster of speakers, I am keen on what Mr. Malte Spitz has got to say about data science. I am quite frustrated with data visualization techniques, and I've got to see his talk firsthand! Off the program teaser, it says that he has been tracking 5-months worth of mobile phone usage, twitter feeds, and blog entries tagged with geolocational vectors which he then made into a longitudinal infographic. It sounds really exciting, right?! I know...
The last time I had a free webcast from the awesome TED team was for the entire TED2012: Full Spectrum conference at Long Beach, California.
I was less busy during that time, since the Long Beach event was neatly sandwiched during the modules for ophthalmology and otorhinolaryngology, which almost all students would say are the most benign subjects, in our school at least.
I can still remember a few stand-out speeches from the sessions. Indubitably the most memorable monologues from TED2012, at least in my mind, were done by the following people:
and this has got to be the funniest intermission to have been inserted in a very serious conference like TED:
So there! If anyone wants to watch this live, and you don't want to pay $$$, you can go to my house! Okay?
TEDGlobal's theme for this year is Radical Openness, and I bet that there should be at least a couple of radical talks worth my time, which will be spent away from the medical texts that I have study for a written examination next week which is on infectious and systemic diseases. That means, it'd better be good.
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| the city of edinburgh. from wikipedia |
The last time I had a free webcast from the awesome TED team was for the entire TED2012: Full Spectrum conference at Long Beach, California.
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| the city of long beach. from wikipedia |
I can still remember a few stand-out speeches from the sessions. Indubitably the most memorable monologues from TED2012, at least in my mind, were done by the following people:
and this has got to be the funniest intermission to have been inserted in a very serious conference like TED:
So there! If anyone wants to watch this live, and you don't want to pay $$$, you can go to my house! Okay?
forty-first TED translation
Mga kamangha-manghang bagay sa ilalim ng dagat, hatid ni David Gallo
TED2007, filmed march 2007, posted january 2008
Translated into Filipino by Schubert Malbas
Reviewed by Polimar Balatbat
fortieth TED translation
Marco Tempest: Usa ka sugilanon nga katingalahan (nga naay augmented realty)
TED2012, filmed march 2012, posted march 2012
Translated into Cebuano by Aries Erioles
Reviewed by Schubert Malbas
thirty-ninth TED translation
Marco Tempest: Ang salamangka ng mga katotohanan at kasinungalingan (at mga iPod)
TEDGlobal2011, filmed july 2011, posted august 2011
Translated into Filipino by Schubert Malbas
Reviewed by Polimar Balatbat
thirty-eighth TED translation
Marco Tempest: Pinagyamang realidad, salamangka sa teknolohiya
TEDGlobal2011, filmed july 2011, posted november 2011
Translated into Filipino by Schubert Malbas
Reviewed by Polimar Balatbat
thirty-seventh TED translation
Arianna Huffington: Paano ba magtagumpay? Damihan ang tulog
TEDWomen, filmed december 2010, posted january 2011
Translated into Filipino by Schubert Malbas
Reviewed by Polimar Balatbat
thank you captain obvious
contrary to claims of this country's president, avoiding china as trading partner is almost impossible.
top importers 2011
china $1.326 trillion
united states $1.212 trillion
japan $752 billion
taiwan $510 billion
south korea $478 billion
top exporters 2011
china $1.639 trillion
japan $759 billion
saudi arabia $604 billion
united states $576 billion
south korea $461 billion
in the eyes of the global economy, china is more important than the philippines. duh.
to view the full six-page graphic made by nicolas rapp for fortune magazine, go here.
top importers 2011
china $1.326 trillion
united states $1.212 trillion
japan $752 billion
taiwan $510 billion
south korea $478 billion
top exporters 2011
china $1.639 trillion
japan $759 billion
saudi arabia $604 billion
united states $576 billion
south korea $461 billion
in the eyes of the global economy, china is more important than the philippines. duh.
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| global shipping network, fortune magazine, may 21, 2012 page 41 |
to view the full six-page graphic made by nicolas rapp for fortune magazine, go here.
hans rosling's 53-second talk
this was taken from the tedxsummit 2012 in the city of doha, qatar, attended by many tedx organizers from all over the planet. i've always wanted to be like him - a medical doctor and a statistician - and i still do, but this is wishful thinking from a man with so many numbers swimming inside his brilliant head.
at some point i want to disagree with him, because in my 2 and a half decades of existence the poorest in my province hasn't made much progress. they're still stuck beneath that thing you call the poverty line. multiply their numbers by 70x for the other provinces in this developing nation and by 100x for all other third world countries. easily that's more than 1 billion in the world who are not moving up the social ladder.
that's just something to think about. positive predictions are pretty and all, but when it comes down to facts needed in policy-making, scientists and politicians alike should get a grip at reality, because the truth will set us free.
la melodía de mayo
top five:
and i am telling you - jennifer holliday & jessica sanchez
*catapulted jessica sanchez to a level higher than all other american idol artists can only dream of
starships - alex newell and vocal adrenaline of glee
*hands down, alex newell could have, and should have, won the glee project
fantastic baby - big bang
*personally rediscovered big bang only now; 거짓말 or lies from 2007 still one of their best songs
payphone - maroon 5
*introduced last april on the voice, but only had an official live-action music video this may
back in time - pitbull
*embraced every ridiculous and fun thing about mib3
runners-up:
whistle - flo rida
*some kids actually get the subliminal message
gotta be you - one direction
*released in UK late 2011, but why only now in ph, i have no idea
dance again - jennifer lopez
*uh-oh, jlo is becoming more and more n-s-f-c, sayang lang dahil okay naman ang song na'to
and i am telling you - jennifer holliday & jessica sanchez
*catapulted jessica sanchez to a level higher than all other american idol artists can only dream of
starships - alex newell and vocal adrenaline of glee
*hands down, alex newell could have, and should have, won the glee project
fantastic baby - big bang
*personally rediscovered big bang only now; 거짓말 or lies from 2007 still one of their best songs
payphone - maroon 5
*introduced last april on the voice, but only had an official live-action music video this may
back in time - pitbull
*embraced every ridiculous and fun thing about mib3
runners-up:
whistle - flo rida
*some kids actually get the subliminal message
gotta be you - one direction
*released in UK late 2011, but why only now in ph, i have no idea
dance again - jennifer lopez
*uh-oh, jlo is becoming more and more n-s-f-c, sayang lang dahil okay naman ang song na'to
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