An excitingly predictable 'omic future

An excitingly predictable 'omic future.

Chaos for a Fast, Secure, and Predictable Future

Violating a program’s semantics for fun and profit is a time honored hacker tradition. Compilers defend against such fiends by inserting run-time checks to enforce semantic safety properties. Safe language compilers insert type checks for down-casts, information flow compilers [11] add run-time checks to prevent information leakage, and tools like SAFECode [8], WIT [1], and DFI [6] insert run-t...

Discounting Future Gains and Future Losses: Predictable Differences and Appropriate Measures

This paper extends the common inclination for people to value losses more than gains to the measurement of time preferences. This extension provides testable predictions of a pattern of discount rates that includes use of higher rates to discount the value of future gains than future losses. Two empirical tests, one for differing valuations of future outcomes and the other for varied discount r...

Omic Space and Totalomics

Omic research in termites: an overview and a roadmap

Many recent breakthroughs in our understanding of termite biology have been facilitated by "omics" research. Omic science seeks to collectively catalog, quantify, and characterize pools of biological molecules that translate into structure, function, and life processes of an organism. Biological molecules in this context include genomic DNA, messenger RNA, proteins, and other biochemicals. Othe...