- Joshua Gans and George Shepherd: “How Are the Mighty Fallen: Rejected Classic Articles by Leading Economists”
- Via Joshua Gans: “We asked over 140 leading economists, including all living winners of the Nobel Prize and John Bates Clark Medal, to describe instances in which journals rejected their papers. We hit a nerve. More than 60 percent responded, many with several blistering pages. Paul Krugman expressed the tone of many letters: ‘Thanks for the opportunity to let off a bit of steam.'”
- MapReduce with JavaScript
- A port of my toy implementation of MapReduce to JavaScript. I like the suggestion of running MapReduce jobs using the JavaScript interpreter built into web browsers. Maybe that’s the real purpose of gmail – to act as a trojan horse for MapReduce jobs 🙂
- Christina Pikas: “Peer Review: The View from Social Studies of Science” (PDF)
- Daily Routines: How writers, artists, and other interesting people organize their days
- Flaubert, Kafka, Darwin, and many others. Fascinating.
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