Biweekly links for 05/30/2008

• Stewart Brand interview Freeman Dyson
  • Fantastic interview. 10 years old, but still provocative.
• Nomic – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  • “Nomic is a game in which changing the rules is a move…The primary activity … is proposing changes in the rules, debating the wisdom of changing them in that way, voting on the changes, deciding what can and cannot be done afterwards, and doing it.”
• Bayesianism and Causality, or, Why I am only a Half-Bayesian (Judea Pearl)
  • “The bulk of human knowledge is organized around causal, not probabilistic relationships, and the grammar of probability calculus is insufficient for capturing those relationships.”
• Marginal Revolution: The Education Transformation of China
  • A more than five-fold increase in freshman numbers between 1996 and 2006.
• Coding Horror: Designing For Evil
  • Websites that fail to design against evil are failing their users.
• Bibwiki – Bibliographic Management – Extend Mediawiki to manage BibTeX bibliographies
  • Useful wiki tool to manage BibTex bibliographies. An example use is at bibwiki.com.
• Half of world’s population has a mobile phone
• Calling on a million minds for community annotation in WikiProteins
• spreadingscience
  • Blog from a company that helps scientists get into Web 2.0.
• Freeman Dyson: The Question of Global Warming – The New York Review of Books
  • A long and thoughtful piece by Freeman Dyson.
• Genius, Sustained Effort, and Passion « Apperceptual
  • “If you care very deeply about a certain thing … you will be motivated to work hard at it for decades, …I deally, teachers would focus on one single thing: getting their students really, deeply excited about the subject of the course.”

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