{"id":690,"date":"2009-10-30T06:53:06","date_gmt":"2009-10-30T10:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/biweekly-links-for-10302009\/"},"modified":"2009-10-30T06:53:06","modified_gmt":"2009-10-30T10:53:06","slug":"biweekly-links-for-10302009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/biweekly-links-for-10302009\/","title":{"rendered":"Biweekly links for 10\/30\/2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cacm.acm.org\/magazines\/2009\/11\/48443-deep-data-dives-discover-natural-laws\/fulltext\">Deep Data Dives Discover Natural Laws | Communications of the ACM<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;[researchers Lipson and Schmidt] recently mined a large quantity of metabolic data provided by Gurol Suel, assistant professor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. The algorithm came up with two &#8220;very simple, very elegant&#8221; invariants\u00e2\u20ac\u201dso far unpublished\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthat are able to accurately predict new data. But neither they nor Suel has any idea what the invariants mean, Lipson says. &#8220;So what we are doing now is trying to automate the interpretation stage, by saying, &#8216;Here&#8217;s what we know about the system, here&#8217;s the textbook biology; can you explain the new equations in terms of the old equations?'&#8221;\n<p>Lipson says the ultimate challenge may lie in dealing with laws so complicated they defy human understanding. Then, automation of the interpretation phase would be extremely difficult. &#8220;What if it&#8217;s like trying to explain Shakespeare to a dog?&#8221; he asks.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/metamodern.com\/2008\/10\/25\/the-data-explosion-and-the-scientific-method\/\">The Data Explosion and the Scientific Method<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Eric Drexler reminds us that the shift from hypothesis-driven to data-driven science in fact _is_ a shift, and likely one with surprising effects.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/openresearch.sebpaquet.net\/2009\/10\/fate-of-incompetent-teacher-in-youtube.html\">Seb&#8217;s Open Research: The Fate of the Incompetent Teacher in the YouTube Era<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Good teachers have always had some measure of fame at the local level. Let&#8217;s not kid ourselves: within a school, the students know who is a good teacher and who is no more illuminating than a wet pack of matches.\n<p>The net takes that to a whole different level. Eventually everyone will know who the good teachers are, and will be able to tune into them. They will be rock stars.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.danah.org\/TwitterResearch.html\">Research on Twitter and Microblogging<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>danah boyd&#8217;s bibliography of research on twitter and microblogging.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smartmobs.com\/2009\/10\/27\/just-one-degree-of-separation\/\">Smart Mobs \u00c2\u00bb Blog Archive \u00c2\u00bb Just one degree of separation<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;An Australian intel analyst blogger, Leah Farrall, and an insurgent strategist blogger, Abu Walid, are now holding a debate in public across the blogs&#8230;. [Abu Walid is ] one of the leading figures in the interwoven tales of Al Q and the Taliban, a veteran muj from the Afghan fight against the Soviets with \u00e2\u20ac\u0153a reputation as a skilled and pragmatic strategist and battlefield tactician\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.  He was an early member of Mullah Omar\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s circle, has served as a correspondent for Al-Jazeera, and has penned a dozen books.&#8221;<\/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>Deep Data Dives Discover Natural Laws | Communications of the ACM &#8220;[researchers Lipson and Schmidt] recently mined a large quantity of metabolic data provided by Gurol Suel, assistant professor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. The algorithm came up with two &#8220;very simple, very elegant&#8221; invariants\u00e2\u20ac\u201dso far unpublished\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthat are able to accurately predict&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/biweekly-links-for-10302009\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Biweekly links for 10\/30\/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-690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690","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=690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}