With the recent discussion about (successful?) profiling of voters, I do not want anymore anyone analyzing my reading habits. Feedly’s “Terms and Conditions” is a dead link by today while I remember them to run also detailed user analysis. Unfortunately, the next cloud news aggregator is buggy after all these years with updates occuring only sporadically. I therefore moved to Miniflux that works right out of the box. The only thing I wanted to change in templates/item.php is the following line from

<a href="<?= $item['enclosure'] ?>" class="image-enclosure" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank"><?= t('attachment') ?></a>

to display the thumbnails

<img src="<?= $item['enclosure'] ?>" class="image-enclosure" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank"><?= t('') ?>

But even that’ si not possible as there is an excellent stand-alone news reader with Readkit on OS X.

I can’t get rid of Altmetric Spam Emails while I see this company now also appearing on journal websites from Wiley and Taylor & Francis.

The only thing Altmetric is reporting here, is an activity of a Twitter Bot. Maybe it is their own bot?

As our attention span is so limited, Wiley and Taylor & Francis journals should avoid spamming the scientific community. Greetings to London whoever you are.

Lesenswert https://www.dasmagazin.ch/2016/12/03/ich-habe-nur-gezeigt-dass-es-die-bombe-gibt/

Zwei Psychologen war in den 1980ern der Nachweis gelungen, dass jeder Charakterzug eines Menschen sich anhand von fünf Persönlichkeitsdimensionen messen lässt, den Big Five: Offenheit (Wie aufgeschlossen sind Sie gegenüber Neuem?), Gewissenhaftigkeit (Wie perfektionistisch sind Sie?), Extraversion (Wie gesellig sind Sie?), Verträglichkeit (Wie rücksichtsvoll und kooperativ sind Sie?) und Neurotizismus (Sind Sie leicht verletzlich?).
… Bald kann sein Modell anhand von zehn Facebooks-Likes eine Person besser einschätzen als ein durchschnittlicher Arbeitskollege. 70 Likes reichen, um die Menschenkenntnis eines Freundes zu überbieten, 150 um die der Eltern, mit 300 Likes kann die Maschine das Verhalten einer Person eindeutiger vorhersagen als deren Partner.

Backlink to http://www.michalkosinski.com and his seminal 2013 PNAS paper. Plus the online prediction.

Based on a tutorialzine.com article, I wrote an own URL shortener. Put everything in directory /s

.htaccess

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /s/index.php?$1 [last]

index.php

$links = parse_ini_file('links.ini');
$l=filter_var( $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING);
$l=preg_replace ('/\/s\//','',$l);
if($l!='' && array_key_exists($l, $links)){
  header('Location: ' . $links[$l]);
}
elseif (substr($l,0,4)=="http") {
  $sl = sprintf( '%04x%04X', mt_rand( 0, 0xffff ), mt_rand( 0,, 0xffff) );
  echo $_SERVER[HTTP_HOST]  . '/s/' . $sl;
  $out = $sl.' = '.$l;
  file_put_contents('links.ini', $out."\n", FILE_APPEND);
}

links.ini

Gel = "https://www.google.com/"

Bookmarklet ShortenURL

javascript: document.location = 'https://www.www.wjst.de/s/' + document.location.href

Here is a quick summary on probiotics and allergy as reported by two meta-analysis. The first one is Cuello-Garcia 2015 in JACI

Probiotics used by pregnant women or breast-feeding mothers and/or given to infants reduced the risk of eczema in infants; however, the certainty in the evidence is low.

the second by Zuccoti 2015 in Allergy Continue reading Probiotics and allergy →

so good: gastonsanchez.com Continue reading The best dataRtists →

I will have a paper in the next issue of the  MMW describing a case report of Ciguatera in Cienfuegos / Cuba. Seems to be a common phenomenon there but unfortunately there is nothing in the Cuba guide books so far.
The pathology is extremely interesting  – sodium channel activation by P-CTX. I only wonder why there are no therapeutic attempts with long-lasting class Ia aNa channel blockers  Chinidin, Procainamid, Ajmalin, Disopyramid, Propafenon, Prajmalin. Or valproate for CNS activity.

When working for an exhibition in 2017, I found a new R library that allows nearly every image modification you could think of.

install.packages("magick")
library(magick)
magick_config()

gives you

image_read(path, density = NULL, depth = NULL)
image_write(image, path = NULL, format = NULL, quality = NULL, flatten = FALSE)
image_display(image, animate = TRUE)
image_browse(image, browser = getOption("browser"))
image_append(image, stack = FALSE)
image_average(image)
image_coalesce(image)
image_flatten(image, operator = NULL)
image_fft(image)
image_map(image, map, dither = FALSE)
image_montage(image)
image_morph(image, frames)
image_mosaic(image, operator = NULL)
image_join(...)
image_info(image)
image_animate(image, fps = 10, loop = 0, dispose = c("background","previous", "none"))

It’s always difficult if you can’t see all calendar entries on the road. So I am setting up new dates at wjst.de/dudel, cut + paste the subscription link to the Nextcloud/Owncloud calendar web frontend.

“Doodle” dates will then magically appear on all other devices.