{"id":544,"date":"2009-01-23T06:53:06","date_gmt":"2009-01-23T10:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/?p=544"},"modified":"2009-01-23T06:53:06","modified_gmt":"2009-01-23T10:53:06","slug":"biweekly-links-for-01232009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/biweekly-links-for-01232009\/","title":{"rendered":"Biweekly links for 01\/23\/2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/visualwikipedia.com\/en\/Open_Notebook_Science\">Visual Wikipedia<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>This works surprisingly well, showing visually what different Wikipedia articles are linked to.  The example I&#8217;ve chosen is the open notebook science article; many others work very well also.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/?p=1123\">the physics arXiv blog \u00c2\u00bb How Google\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s PageRank predicts Nobel Prize winners<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>The title is over the top, but the results from the paper are very interesting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/judson.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/01\/13\/guest-column-a-new-kind-of-big-science\/\">A New Kind of Big Science &#8211; Olivia Judson Blog &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Thoughtful piece on big science, citizen science, and the relationship between them, from Aaron Hirsh.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geocities.com\/bigcslewisfan\/\">The Inner Ring, by C.S. Lewis<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;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.&#8221;   The essay is entertaining throughout; confused in a couple of places, and enlightening in others.  Well worth the read.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UWUbRXO3T5I&#038;feature=related\">Evaluating MapReduce for Multi-core and Multiprocessor Systems<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/hunch.net\/?p=499\">Machine Learning (Theory) \u00c2\u00bb Adversarial Academia<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Nice discussion of the idea that academia is a zero-sum game.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/video\/controversial_tell_all_book\">Controversial Tell-All Book Reveals Wrestling Fans Are Fake | The Onion<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Who knew?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/internal_market\/copyright\/prot-databases\/prot-databases_en.htm\">European Commission \u00c2\u00bb Report on the Copyright Law for Protection of Databases<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/4\/41\/Mediawiki-database-schema.png\">MediaWiki database schema<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Lovely visualization.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/friendfeed.com\/rooms\/isisbio\">ISIS Biolab<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>FriendFeed room aggregating some (all?) of Cameron Neylon&#8217;s open notebook activities<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciam.com\/article.cfm?id=semantic-web-in-actio\">The Semantic Web in Action: Scientific American<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/larsjuhljensen.wordpress.com\/2009\/01\/18\/editorial-virtual-conferences-in-second-life\/\">Virtual conferences in Second Life \u00c2\u00ab Buried Treasure<\/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>Visual Wikipedia This works surprisingly well, showing visually what different Wikipedia articles are linked to. The example I&#8217;ve chosen is the open notebook science article; many others work very well also. the physics arXiv blog \u00c2\u00bb How Google\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s PageRank predicts Nobel Prize winners The title is over the top, but the results from the paper&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/biweekly-links-for-01232009\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Biweekly links for 01\/23\/2009<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}