{"id":565,"date":"2009-03-06T06:53:06","date_gmt":"2009-03-06T10:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/?p=565"},"modified":"2009-03-06T06:53:06","modified_gmt":"2009-03-06T10:53:06","slug":"biweekly-links-for-03062009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/biweekly-links-for-03062009\/","title":{"rendered":"Biweekly links for 03\/06\/2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/kevin-drum\/2009\/03\/ban-laptop\">Ban the Laptop! | Kevin Drum<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;At the beginning of his Criminal Law class last semester, Eugene Volokh decided to ban laptops as an experiment.  So how did it go?  As the post-class survey summarized below shows, pretty well.  Unsurprisingly, the ban was a net negative for note taking, but it turned out to be a pretty strong net positive on every other scale.  This is mostly of interest to students and professors, but even outside academia it&#8217;s an intriguing data point for anyone who thinks that the increasing device-driven ADD in modern America might deserve a little more pushback than it usually gets and would like some evidence to back up their instinct.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/rjlipton.wordpress.com\/\">G\u00c3\u00b6del\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Lost Letter and P=NP<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Excellent blog about theoretical computer science from Richard Lipton.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/norvig.com\/fact-check.html\">All we want are the facts, ma&#8217;am<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Peter Norvig on Chris Anderson&#8217;s article &#8220;The End of Theory&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pistachioconsulting.com\/twitter-presentations\/\">How to Present While People are Twittering | Pistachio<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ask.metafilter.com\/71101\/What-single-book-is-the-best-introduction-to-your-field-or-specialization-within-your-field-for-laypeople\">What single book is the best introduction to your field (or specialization within your field) for laypeople? | Ask Metafilter<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>This thread is a goldmine of great reading.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/0902.3439\">[0902.3439] wikiFactor: a measure of the importance of a wiki site<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;A new metric is introduced, inspired by the Hirsch {&#92;it h-index}, to measure the impact of a wiki site. A table of wikiFactors is presented for a number of wikis, in particular those oriented towards scientific topics. The wikiFactor is defined as the number of web pages, wF, that have had $&#92;ge 1000$wF visits. &#8220;<\/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>Ban the Laptop! | Kevin Drum &#8220;At the beginning of his Criminal Law class last semester, Eugene Volokh decided to ban laptops as an experiment. So how did it go? As the post-class survey summarized below shows, pretty well. Unsurprisingly, the ban was a net negative for note taking, but it turned out to be&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/biweekly-links-for-03062009\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Biweekly links for 03\/06\/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-565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565","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=565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}