{"id":611,"date":"2009-06-01T06:53:06","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T10:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/?p=611"},"modified":"2009-06-01T06:53:06","modified_gmt":"2009-06-01T10:53:06","slug":"biweekly-links-for-06012009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/biweekly-links-for-06012009\/","title":{"rendered":"Biweekly links for 06\/01\/2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/condensedconcepts.blogspot.com\/\">Condensed concepts<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Ross McKenzie&#8217;s excellent blog on condensed matter physics.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gmarceau.qc.ca\/blog\/2009\/05\/speed-size-and-dependability-of.html\">Square root of x divided by zero: The speed, size and dependability of programming languages<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Terrrific visualizations comparing the performance and expressivity of different programming languages.  Python (with Psyco) does extremely well: extremely expressive, and decent performance.  OCAML is faster, and nearly as expressive.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reed-elsevier.com\/annualreport08\/Pages\/Home.aspx\">Reed Elsevier Annual Report 2008<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Revenue for their science-technology-medicine publishing division, Elsevier, was 1700 mill (up 4% at constant currencies), with a profit of 568 mil (up 11% at constant currencies).  Elsevier makes up 32% of Reed-Elsevier&#8217;s revenue, and 41% of their profit.  Amounts appear to be in pounds sterling(?)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kalenjin_people\">Kalenjin people &#8211; Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;The Kalenjin have been called by some &#8220;the running tribe.&#8221;&#8230; From 1980 on, about 40% of the top honors available to men in international athletics at these distances (Olympic medals, World Championships medals, and World Cross Country Championships honors) have been earned by Kalenjin.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/apis\/wave\/\">Google Wave API &#8211; Google Code<\/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>Condensed concepts Ross McKenzie&#8217;s excellent blog on condensed matter physics. Square root of x divided by zero: The speed, size and dependability of programming languages Terrrific visualizations comparing the performance and expressivity of different programming languages. Python (with Psyco) does extremely well: extremely expressive, and decent performance. OCAML is faster, and nearly as expressive. Reed&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/biweekly-links-for-06012009\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Biweekly links for 06\/01\/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-611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611","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=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}