- davinci’s notebook
- New blog from “davinci”, who is going to try some open notebook science in the area of quantum computing. Best of luck!
- The Things He Carried – The Atlantic (November 2008)
- “Airport security in America is a sham—“security theater†designed to make travelers feel better and catch stupid terrorists. Smart ones can get through security with fake boarding passes and all manner of prohibited items—as our correspondent did with ease.”
- Marginal Revolution: Manipulation of Prediction Markets
- About some recent manipulation taking place at Intrade, where someone tried to manipulate McCain’s price.
- Kentucky vs. 141 Domain Names | Freedom to Tinker
- Kentucky is suing for the right to take over 141 domain names related to gambling, in part because of the revenue lost to out-of-state gambling sites. Fascinating example of how geographically-based lawmaking can break down in a networked age.
- Turing Trade
- Appears to be a betting market for lodging bets on whether a given “target” is human or computer. Can’t say I’ve actually used it.
- …My heart’s in Accra » Innovating from constraint
- “innovation often comes from unusual and difficult circumstances – constraints – and that it’s often wiser to look for innovation in places where people are trying to solve difficult, concrete problems rather than where smart people are sketching ideas on blank canvases.”
- …My heart’s in Accra » Crowdsourcing, humor, participation
- Superstruct: The world’s first massively multiplayer forecasting game
- The forthcoming launch of the Tricki « Gowers’s Weblog
- A fantastic initiative with the support of many excellent mathematicians, including Tim Gowers and Terry Tao. The basic idea is a wiki for mathematical tricks – the rules of thumb and bits of folklore that really good mathematicians often know. There are some excellent examples already linked to in the post, e.g., Gowers’ post on the use of Zorn’s Lemma, or Terry Tao’s post on the tensor power trick.
- The fallibility of scientific journals | Publish and be wrong | The Economist
- “Dr Ioannidis and his colleagues argue that the reputations of the journals are pumped up by an artificial scarcity of the kind that keeps diamonds expensive. And such a scarcity, they suggest, can make it more likely that the leading journals will publish dramatic, but what may ultimately turn out to be incorrect, research.”
- a canadian startup » Development without Dictatorship
- Excellent post from Ali Asaria about building creative teams without a micromanaging control freak boss.
- Ananova – Rabbit wins half marathon
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