{"id":549,"date":"2009-01-30T06:53:06","date_gmt":"2009-01-30T10:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/?p=549"},"modified":"2009-01-30T06:53:06","modified_gmt":"2009-01-30T10:53:06","slug":"biweekly-links-for-01302009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/biweekly-links-for-01302009\/","title":{"rendered":"Biweekly links for 01\/30\/2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/anand.typepad.com\/datawocky\/2008\/03\/more-data-usual.html\">Datawocky: More data usually beats better algorithms<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.riehle.org\/2008\/09\/23\/the-dominance-of-small-code-contributions\/\">The Dominance of Small Code Contributions<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Links to a study of a big open-source corpus, showing that small code contributions dominate by number (though not by total volume).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/academicearth.org\/\">Academic Earth &#8211; Video lectures from the world&#8217;s top scholars<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Thousands of video lectures from the world&#8217;s top scholars.&#8221; &#8211; Very interesting.  Found a few problems, but this has potential.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/technology\/7841486.stm\">BBC NEWS | Calls for open source government<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>The new White House has asked Scott McNealy (Sun) to prepare a paper on open source.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/2979844?pg=embed&#038;sec=2979844\">Ruby on Rails on Vimeo<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>A beautiful and informative visualization of Ruby on Rails commit history.  Make sure to watch it in HD, in full-screen mode.  After you&#8217;ve watched it for a bit, it&#8217;s worth skipping forward to 4:45 and watching the unbelievable explosion of activity that takes place when they moved to GitHub.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/CameronNeylon\/open-access-open-data-open-research-presentation\">Open Access, Open Data. Open Research?<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Great summary talk about open science, from Cameron Neylon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gowers.wordpress.com\/2009\/01\/27\/is-massively-collaborative-mathematics-possible\/\">Is massively collaborative mathematics possible? \u00c2\u00ab Gowers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Weblog<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>A fascinating post from Tim Gowers, with a plan for some action.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalnerdy.com\/2009\/01\/26\/winning-the-gnu\/\">Winning the Gnu<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Microsoftie Joey deVilla buys a gnu from Richard Stallman.  No animals were harmed in the making of this presentation&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/diveintopython3.org\/\">Dive into Python 3<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>New version of a classic introduction to Python, by Mark Pilgrim, adapted for Python 3.  Just the table of contents at present, with the content to be gradually filled in.<\/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>Datawocky: More data usually beats better algorithms The Dominance of Small Code Contributions Links to a study of a big open-source corpus, showing that small code contributions dominate by number (though not by total volume). Academic Earth &#8211; Video lectures from the world&#8217;s top scholars &#8220;Thousands of video lectures from the world&#8217;s top scholars.&#8221; &#8211;&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/biweekly-links-for-01302009\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Biweekly links for 01\/30\/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-549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549","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=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}