/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ en-us derekb.lowe@gmail.com 2008-08-22T07:40:23-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2008/08/22/open_source_science.php The Boston Globe has a piece on the open-source science movement. Many readers here will have come across the idea before, but it’s interesting to see it make a large newspaper. (Admittedly, the Globe is more likely to cover this... 73511@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Who Discovers and Why 2008-08-22T07:40:23-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2007/10/23/vial_thirtythree_and_more.php My apologies for no post today - home events kept me away from the computer for a while, but everything's settled back down now. I've had several e-mails the last couple of months asking about "Vial Thirty-Three", the saga of... 72797@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Birth of an Idea 2007-10-23T21:45:44-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2007/01/24/back_on_the_air.php I just wanted everyone to know that things have been quiet here because of some Movable Type maintenance behind the Corante scenes. Things seem to be working now, though, and rather more zippily than before. There seem to be a... 71934@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Blog Housekeeping 2007-01-24T15:16:25-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2006/11/15/vial_thirtythree_warp_drive.php As I mentioned the other day, I'm sprinting to finish some last experiments on my side project. These are all on the "vial thirty-three" system that I first described here and finally got to work reproducibly here. Looking back, I... 69198@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Birth of an Idea 2006-11-15T20:49:25-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2006/11/13/the_race_is_on.php Friday afternoon was quite strange. There had been another meeting to explain to people what the timetable would be to close down the site, but I left during its question-and-answer period. . .to go and set up an experiment. A... 69047@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Birth of an Idea 2006-11-13T05:44:15-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2006/11/10/publish_then_perish.php It's not my intention to turn the site into a Saga of the Job Hunt, although that will be a recurring subject for a while. (I'd like to thank everyone for their expressions of support in yesterday's post, by the... 68944@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Birth of an Idea 2006-11-10T02:28:56-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2006/09/28/the_horse_latitudes.php I haven't given any updates on my side project recently because, well, there hasn't been much to update. Progress has stalled, for several reasons - instrument difficulties, power outages, people (including me) being out of town, resources being shifted around.... 66351@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Birth of an Idea 2006-09-28T21:16:37-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2006/07/27/good_news_now_that_i_think_about_it.php I have the results of my latest experiment. A thing of beauty it isn't - two of the four control arms showed false-positive effects in their blank runs, which makes interpreting them impossible. Those of you who've been following this... 62634@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Birth of an Idea 2006-07-27T20:56:56-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2006/07/25/back_to_life.php It's been a little while since I updated everyone on my long-running series of experiments, but I do have some news. At last report, I'd set up a large crucial experiment, and actually seemed to get it to work in... 62407@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Birth of an Idea 2006-07-25T06:14:34-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2006/06/11/vial_thirtythree_the_third_run.php Friday afternoon I got my results for the repeated experiment I spoke about here. Unfortunately, it matches the second run (the one that looks like garbage) rather than the first one (which looked like something wonderful). Unless I can think... 59894@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Birth of an Idea 2006-06-11T18:17:28-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2006/06/06/vial_thirtythree_rides_again.php Well, I got my repeat experiment set up before leaving work today. I could think of one variable I hadn't controlled for head-to-head yet, so I set up an extra couple of vials for that one. I'll try to get... 59583@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Birth of an Idea 2006-06-06T20:13:29-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2006/06/06/vial_thirtythree_one_up_one_down.php I finally have some more news about the experiments I spoke about here. The instrument used to analyze them broke down completely - not my fault, they tell me, but perhaps they're being kind - and came back on line... 59538@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Birth of an Idea 2006-06-06T10:05:34-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2006/05/22/midday_update.php I know I have some people stopping by to see how the experiments I described on Saturday have turned out. Well, the runs that I did late last week were not kind to the instrument they ran through, so one... 58396@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Birth of an Idea 2006-05-22T10:54:36-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2006/05/20/minute_by_minute.php Well, it's about two in the afternoon here on Saturday. I don't blog from work, but this isn't exactly a workday, is it? I'm here to set up my control experiments that I spoke about, and let me tell you,... 58321@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Birth of an Idea 2006-05-20T12:57:13-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2006/05/18/vial_number_thirtythree.php This morning I got the results in from the first experiments that I spoke about here. Most of them did nothing at all. Nothing in the blank controls, nothing in the experimental wells. There were forty vials to examine, and... 58186@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Birth of an Idea 2006-05-18T20:00:13-05:00