{"id":689,"date":"2009-10-26T06:53:06","date_gmt":"2009-10-26T10:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/biweekly-links-for-10262009\/"},"modified":"2009-10-26T06:53:06","modified_gmt":"2009-10-26T10:53:06","slug":"biweekly-links-for-10262009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/biweekly-links-for-10262009\/","title":{"rendered":"Biweekly links for 10\/26\/2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethanzuckerman.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/24\/jonah-lehrer-outsider-intelligence\/\">\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6My heart\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s in Accra \u00c2\u00bb Jonah Lehrer: Outsider Intelligence<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;An experiment at Indiana University brought in a group students and gave them insight puzzles, which measure divergent thinking and creativity. One was the compound remote associate test. If I give you the words \u00e2\u20ac\u0153mile\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153sand\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153age\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201c what word can be added to all of them to make a valid word or a phrase?\n<p>One group was told that the problem came from researchers down the hall. Another was told that it came from a team in Greece. The people told that the problem came from Greece solved 40% more of the puzzles. &#8220;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kerneltrap.org\/node\/11\">Linus Says, Linux Not Designed; It Never Was | KernelTrap<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Fascinating discussion by Linus Torvalds about the pitfalls of design: &#8220;And I know better than most that what I envisioned 10 years ago has _nothing_ in common with what Linux is today. There was certainly no premeditated design there. And I will claim that nobody else &#8220;designed&#8221; Linux any more than I did, and I doubt I&#8217;ll have many people disagreeing. It grew. It grew with a lot of mutations &#8211; and because the mutations were less than random, they were faster and more directed than alpha-particles in DNA. &#8220;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanleadership.org\/programs-and-partnerships\/ocean-observing\/ooi\/\">Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI)<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>A network of undersea sensors connected by 1200 kilometers of multi-gigabit cable.  The data is, I believe, going to be open.  Estimated cost is $600 million, and it&#8217;s supposed to come online in 2014.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.swarthmore.edu\/burke\/2009\/10\/22\/the-skilled-presentation-of-self-in-everyday-life\/\">The (Skilled) Presentation of Self in Everyday Life<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Timothy Burke on teaching students about the presentation of self.<\/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 Jonah Lehrer: Outsider Intelligence &#8220;An experiment at Indiana University brought in a group students and gave them insight puzzles, which measure divergent thinking and creativity. One was the compound remote associate test. If I give you the words \u00e2\u20ac\u0153mile\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153sand\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153age\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201c what word can be added to all of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/biweekly-links-for-10262009\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Biweekly links for 10\/26\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689","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=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}