{"id":688,"date":"2009-10-23T06:53:07","date_gmt":"2009-10-23T10:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/biweekly-links-for-10232009\/"},"modified":"2009-10-23T06:53:07","modified_gmt":"2009-10-23T10:53:07","slug":"biweekly-links-for-10232009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/biweekly-links-for-10232009\/","title":{"rendered":"Biweekly links for 10\/23\/2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pan-STARRS\">Pan-STARRS<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>A detection system for near-Earth objects, including objects that might impact.  Will survey the entire sky once every week or so, and generate ~ 10 terabytes of data per day.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/econlog.econlib.org\/archives\/2009\/10\/worthy_books.html\">Seven Guidelines for Writing Worthy Works of Non-Fiction, Bryan Caplan<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Good guidelines, surprisingly orthogonal to many existing lists.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mindhacks.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/hallucinations_in_se.html\">Mind Hacks: Hallucinations in sensory deprivation after 15 minutes<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Simply being given a panic button may apparently make people more likely to experience hallucinations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/0910.3926\">A new proof of the density Hales-Jewett theorem<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>The first paper directly from the Polymath Project.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.galaxyzooblog.org\/2009\/04\/01\/the-latest-paper-from-the-zoo\/\">Galaxy Zoo Blog \u00c2\u00bb A startling discovery in the latest paper from the Zoo<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Truly startling.  The image on page 2 and the first reference pretty much tell the story.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.happiness-project.com\/happiness_project\/2009\/10\/whos-in-a-starring-role-whos-in-a-walkon-role-all-of-us.html\">The Happiness Project: Who&#8217;s in a Starring Role, Who&#8217;s in a Walk-On Role? All of Us.<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a very unsettling and interesting exercise to think about the people in my life and to imagine myself in a minor, supporting role. How do I fit into their fates? Am I helping? &#8220;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/diveintomark.org\/archives\/2009\/10\/19\/the-point\">Thank you for giving me the opportunity to explain this to you [dive into mark]<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Mark Pilgrim&#8217;s excellent book &#8220;Dive Into Python&#8221; was republished on Amazon.com, under the terms of his GNU Free Documentation License.  This is driving his publisher nuts.  I&#8217;m surprised it doesn&#8217;t happen more &#8211; why aren&#8217;t books by Doctorow, Lessig et al immediately republished by other publishers?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chrislintott.net\/2008\/08\/08\/voorwerpen-and-more-science-in-the-public-eye-2\/\">Chris Lintott\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Universe \u00c2\u00bb Voorwerpen and more : Science in the public eye 2<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Chris Lintott of Galaxy Zoo discusses some of the problems that can arise from doing science in the open.  He points out examples where there is  a tension between the reliability of results, the need for participants to communicate with one another, and media coverage.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/techbiz\/people\/magazine\/17-09\/st_thompson\">The New Literacy<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Andrea Lunsford&#8217;s work suggesting that students today write a lot more than ever before, for a wider variety of audiences, and as a result are writing better than before.<\/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>Pan-STARRS A detection system for near-Earth objects, including objects that might impact. Will survey the entire sky once every week or so, and generate ~ 10 terabytes of data per day. Seven Guidelines for Writing Worthy Works of Non-Fiction, Bryan Caplan Good guidelines, surprisingly orthogonal to many existing lists. 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