{"id":670,"date":"2009-09-11T06:53:06","date_gmt":"2009-09-11T10:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/biweekly-links-for-09112009\/"},"modified":"2009-09-11T06:53:06","modified_gmt":"2009-09-11T10:53:06","slug":"biweekly-links-for-09112009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/biweekly-links-for-09112009\/","title":{"rendered":"Biweekly links for 09\/11\/2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethanzuckerman.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/09\/steven-downes-anders-sandberg-on-cloud-intelligence\/\">\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6My heart\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s in Accra \u00c2\u00bb Steven Downes, Anders Sandberg on Cloud Intelligence<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nada.kth.se\/~asa\/mad.html\">Anders&#8217; Mad Scientist Page<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Awesome set of links (many gone, but the titles still amuse): &#8220;This page is dedicated to all Seekers of Truth, regardless of how warped the truth may be.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aipuniphy.org\/Portal\/Portal.aspx\">AIP UniPHY<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Social networking site, aimed at physical scientists.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cathemeralthinking.blogspot.com\/2009\/09\/what-is-magazine.html\">Cathemeral Thinking: What is a magazine?<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Discussion of what a magazine is from David Harris, the founder of Symmetry magazine.  I think the post makes a mistake in conceiving of &#8220;the magazine&#8221; as some sort of platonic ideal &#8211; it&#8217;s just a tiny little corner of the enormous space of possible ways of connecting readers and writers.  But thought-provoking nonetheless.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/oonwoye.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/08\/how-all-nigerians-became-scammers\/\">How all Nigerians Became Scammers. | OoTheNigerian<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>A thoughtful post on modern stereotypes and the damage they can cause.  The tune may change but the song remains the same.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/oli.web.cmu.edu\/openlearning\/\">Open Learning Initiative<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mkbergman.com\/sweetpedia\/\">Semantic Web-related Research using Wikipedia<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Very little of this actually uses the semantic web in any serious way, but it&#8217;s still an interesting list of papers.  Lots of articles on automated extraction of information, clustering, topic extraction, recommendation systems, and so on.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/25\/science\/25prof.html\">Eric Schadt &#8211; Enlisting Computers to Unravel the True Complexity of Disease &#8211; Biography &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>New York Times profile of Eric Schadt, and open approaches to innovation in biology.  Interesting, although it would have been a lot better with more concrete detail about open innovation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/09\/06\/magazine\/06Economic-t.html?_r=2&#038;hp=&#038;pagewanted=all\">Paul Krugman: How Did Economists Get It So Wrong?<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Krugman&#8217;s version of economic history.  I found it informative and stimulating, even if oversimplified in places.  Lurking in the background is the question of what it means to understand a phenomenon.  The most obvious candidate is the ability to make predictions, but this seems to me to be neither necessary nor sufficient.  It&#8217;s bothersome that sometimes knowing more actually leads one to make worse predictions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/opendino.wordpress.com\/\">The Open Dinosaur Project<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>An open invitation for people to help construct a database of skeletal measurements for ornithischian dinosaurs.  Anyone can help out &#8211; they&#8217;re trying to do a comprehensive literature survey.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/marketdesigner.blogspot.com\/2009\/09\/federal-judges-law-clerk-hiring.html\">Market Design: Federal Judges Law Clerk Hiring<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Fascinating summary of work on &#8220;cheating&#8221; (i.e., not obeying prevailing norms) in a market, in this case the hiring of clerks for Federal Judges in the US, as well as many interesting links to other work on the functioning of that market.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/wp\/nascent\/2009\/09\/andrew_savikas_visits_nature_1.html\">Nascent: Andrew Savikas visits Nature<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Timo Hannay&#8217;s (head of Nature.com) notes on Andrew Savikas&#8217; (O&#8217;Reilly media) talk at Nature.  Many fascinating facts: O&#8217;Reilly ebooks outsell print by 2:1; ebook sales doubling every 18 months for last 5 years; &#8220;free&#8221; is much more complicated than you might think; price discrimination as a useful strategy (technically, this is illegal in the US, for reasons I don&#8217;t quite get, although there are easy ways around it); nice analogy to the first TV programs being just like radio.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaronsw.com\/weblog\/measurenonprofit\">The Trouble with Nonprofits (Aaron Swartz&#8217;s Raw Thought)<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>I thought this was interesting, and probably contained a kernel of truth: &#8220;What distinguishes people who are great at what they do from those who are just mediocre? The answer, it seems, is feedback.&#8221;  Swartz gives as examples playing chess (rapid incontrovertible feedback) versus making political predictions (slow, vague feedback, easy to discount or ignore).  I suspect that what&#8217;s going on in the political pundit case is a different kind of feedback, one not based on how correct the pundit is, but rather based on more superficial traits which make a person seem impressive.  I wonder to what extent it&#8217;s possible to manufacture (and stick to) feedback methods for one&#8217;s work?<\/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>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6My heart\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s in Accra \u00c2\u00bb Steven Downes, Anders Sandberg on Cloud Intelligence Anders&#8217; Mad Scientist Page Awesome set of links (many gone, but the titles still amuse): &#8220;This page is dedicated to all Seekers of Truth, regardless of how warped the truth may be.&#8221; AIP UniPHY Social networking site, aimed at physical scientists. 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