- Visual Wikipedia
- This works surprisingly well, showing visually what different Wikipedia articles are linked to. The example I’ve chosen is the open notebook science article; many others work very well also.
- the physics arXiv blog » How Google’s PageRank predicts Nobel Prize winners
- The title is over the top, but the results from the paper are very interesting.
- A New Kind of Big Science – Olivia Judson Blog – NYTimes.com
- Thoughtful piece on big science, citizen science, and the relationship between them, from Aaron Hirsh.
- The Inner Ring, by C.S. Lewis
- “When you invite a middle-aged moralist to address you, I suppose I must conclude, however unlikely the conclusion seems, that you have a taste for middle-aged moralizing. I shall do my best to gratify it.” The essay is entertaining throughout; confused in a couple of places, and enlightening in others. Well worth the read.
- Evaluating MapReduce for Multi-core and Multiprocessor Systems
- Machine Learning (Theory) » Adversarial Academia
- Nice discussion of the idea that academia is a zero-sum game.
- Controversial Tell-All Book Reveals Wrestling Fans Are Fake | The Onion
- Who knew?
- European Commission » Report on the Copyright Law for Protection of Databases
- In the late 90s, the EU introduced a copyright law intended to protect some kinds of databases. This report is an evaluation of the impact of that law on innovation in the EU.
- MediaWiki database schema
- Lovely visualization.
- ISIS Biolab
- FriendFeed room aggregating some (all?) of Cameron Neylon’s open notebook activities
- The Semantic Web in Action: Scientific American
- Virtual conferences in Second Life « Buried Treasure
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It seems to me John Langford’s analysis of “Adversarial Academia” is nicely confluent with Aaron Hirsh’s vision of “Citizen Science” … which is in-turn largely consonant with Olivia Judson’s biology-guided views on sex!
Every morning, Mother Nature reminds me of these issues, as I while walking to work I observe the immensely busy and sophisticated activities of a local pair of nesting eagles.
An eagle’s nature is neither altruistic nor romantic, and yet this eagle pair succeeded last year in fledging two fine young eaglets, and so far in 209, they are showing every intention of doing so again.
Watching these collaborating eagles has helped focus my attention on post-modern strategies for large-scale system engineering—especially quantum system engineering—which for purposes of catalyzing creative and cooperative activities among eagle-minded academic individuals, is proving to be even better than sex! 🙂
John – sounds like a great recruitment strategy, although you may have some problems making this case credibly 🙂
Michael says: “… sounds like a great recruitment strategy …”
LOL … it’s mighty tempting to envision a talk in the style of Olivia Judson or Frans de Waal, titled “Open Science and Engineering: Is it Better than Sex?”
If the talk was about large-scale federative enterprises, then the answer would have to be “Yes, absolutely!” 🙂