Show Notes for June 5, 2014

"also called infantile amnesia, is the inability of adults to retrieve episodic memories before the age of 2–4 years, as well as the period before age 10 of which adults retain fewer memories than might otherwise be expected given the passage of time"
Birth of new brain cells might erase babies’ memories (information about the original paper)

Les dieux sont tombés sur la tête ("The Gods Must Be Crazy") "est un film botswanais et sud-africain écrit et réalisé par le sud-africain Jamie Uys, sorti en 1980"
Facebook uses 10,000 Blu-ray Discs to create petabytes of “cold storage”

Multiple patterning "is a class of technologies for manufacturing integrated circuits (ICs), developed for photolithography to enhance the feature density. The simplest case of multiple patterning is double patterning, where a conventional lithography process is enhanced to produce double the expected number of features. The resolution of a photoresist pattern begins to blur at around 45 nm half-pitch. For the semiconductor industry, therefore, double patterning was introduced for the 32 nm half-pitch node and below, mainly using state-of-the-art 193 nm immersion lithography tools"
From previous week

"How large are the effects from changes in family environment? a study of Korean american adoptees" (2006 paper)

sample size: "We sent a pilot survey to 1,000 of the families. We then sent a main mailing to an additional 2,500 families. We then sent surveys to a subset of 653 of the children (both adoptees and nonadoptees) to measure the degree to which parents and children gave the same answer when asked about the child's outcome. Finally we sent 400 follow up surveys to a random subset of the parents who did not respond in the main mailing. The purpose of the follow-up was to allow us to ask whether non-response is correlated with either child outcomes or family background."

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