{"id":515,"date":"2008-12-12T06:53:05","date_gmt":"2008-12-12T10:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/?p=515"},"modified":"2008-12-12T06:53:05","modified_gmt":"2008-12-12T10:53:05","slug":"biweekly-links-for-12122008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/biweekly-links-for-12122008\/","title":{"rendered":"Biweekly links for 12\/12\/2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/boinc.berkeley.edu\/\">BOINC: Open-source software for volunteer computing and grid computing<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Used in some of the big volunteer distributed computing projects, including Rosetta@home, the volunteer distributed protein folding project.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chemspider.com\/blog\/a-scivee-version-of-the-talk-given-at-the-library-of-congress.html\">ChemSpider Blog \u00c2\u00bb A SciVee Version of the Talk Given at the Library of Congress<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Antony Williams&#8217; excellent talk about science and the web.   Definitely recommended if you&#8217;re interested in the intersection of these areas!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/radar.oreilly.com\/2008\/11\/the-commoditization-of-massive.html\">The Commoditization of Massive Data Analysis &#8211; O&#8217;Reilly Radar<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;The lines between SQL and MapReduce have already begun to blur with the announcement from two database startup companies &#8212; Greenplum and Aster Data &#8212; that each released a massively parallel system integrating a full-featured SQL engine with MapReduce.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5Eib_H_zCEY&#038;feature=related\">The Google File System &#8211; Cluster Computing and MapReduce Lecture 3<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Good overview of the Google File System.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2008\/12\/10\/steven-chu-nominated-to-be-secretary-of-energy\/\">Steven Chu Nominated to be Secretary of Energy | Cosmic Variance | Discover Magazine<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/friendfeed.com\/neilfws?service=blog\">Neil Saunders: What I learned from Clay Shirky about science online<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/programforthefuture.org\/\">Program for the Future Conference \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Program for the Future<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Held yesterday and today, in the Bay Area.  Presentations from Alan Kay, Peter Norvig, Douglas Engelbart, and many others.  Livecasting is still going on.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gregmankiw.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/life-in-left-tail.html\">Greg Mankiw&#8217;s Blog: Life in the Left Tail<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Nice graph of market returns, by year, for all time.  Shows vividly how bad a year 2008 has been.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencecommons.org\/\">Science Commons Video<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/nielsen\/\">here<\/a> for all of my del.icio.us bookmarks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOINC: Open-source software for volunteer computing and grid computing Used in some of the big volunteer distributed computing projects, including Rosetta@home, the volunteer distributed protein folding project. ChemSpider Blog \u00c2\u00bb A SciVee Version of the Talk Given at the Library of Congress Antony Williams&#8217; excellent talk about science and the web. 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