{"id":414,"date":"2008-05-30T06:53:06","date_gmt":"2008-05-30T10:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/?p=414"},"modified":"2008-05-30T06:53:06","modified_gmt":"2008-05-30T10:53:06","slug":"biweekly-links-for-05302008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/biweekly-links-for-05302008\/","title":{"rendered":"Biweekly links for 05\/30\/2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wired\/archive\/6.02\/dyson.html?topic=&#038;topic_set=\">Stewart Brand interview Freeman Dyson<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Fantastic interview.  10 years old, but still provocative.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nomic\">Nomic &#8211; Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Nomic is a game in which changing the rules is a move&#8230;The primary activity &#8230; 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.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ftp.cs.ucla.edu\/pub\/stat_ser\/r284-reprint.pdf\">Bayesianism and Causality, or, Why I am only a Half-Bayesian (Judea Pearl)<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;The bulk of human knowledge is organized around causal, not probabilistic relationships, and the grammar of probability calculus is insuf\u00ef\u00ac\u0081cient for capturing those relationships.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2008\/05\/the-education-e.html\">Marginal Revolution: The Education Transformation of China<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>A more than five-fold increase in freshman numbers between 1996 and 2006.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.codinghorror.com\/blog\/archives\/001123.html\">Coding Horror: Designing For Evil<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Websites that fail to design against evil are failing their users.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.plaschg.net\/bibwiki\/\">Bibwiki &#8211; Bibliographic Management &#8211; Extend Mediawiki to manage BibTeX bibliographies<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Useful wiki tool to manage BibTex bibliographies.  An example use is at bibwiki.com.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/dailytelegraph\/story\/0,22049,23755088-5001028,00.html\">Half of world&#8217;s population has a mobile phone<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/genomebiology.com\/2008\/9\/5\/R89\">Calling on a million minds for community annotation in WikiProteins<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spreadingscience.com\/blog\/\">spreadingscience<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Blog from a company that helps scientists get into Web 2.0.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/21494\">Freeman Dyson: The Question of Global Warming &#8211; The New York Review of Books<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>A long and thoughtful piece by Freeman Dyson.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/apperceptual.wordpress.com\/2008\/05\/27\/genius-sustained-effort-and-passion\/\">Genius, Sustained Effort, and Passion \u00c2\u00ab Apperceptual<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;If you care very deeply about a certain thing &#8230; you will be motivated to work hard at it for decades, &#8230;I deally, teachers would focus on one single thing: getting their students really, deeply excited about the subject of the course.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/nielsen\/\">here<\/a> for all of my del.icio.us bookmarks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stewart Brand interview Freeman Dyson Fantastic interview. 10 years old, but still provocative. 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