{"id":691,"date":"2009-11-02T06:53:07","date_gmt":"2009-11-02T10:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/biweekly-links-for-11022009\/"},"modified":"2009-11-02T06:53:07","modified_gmt":"2009-11-02T10:53:07","slug":"biweekly-links-for-11022009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/biweekly-links-for-11022009\/","title":{"rendered":"Biweekly links for 11\/02\/2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.antipope.org\/charlie\/blog-static\/2009\/10\/how_habitable_is_the_earth.html\">Charlie&#8217;s Diary: How habitable is the Earth?<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Not very, according to this very interesting article by Charlie Stross.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/the_thread\/techbeat\/archives\/2009\/10\/google_search_g.html\">Google Search Guru Singhal: We Will Try Outlandish Ideas &#8211; BusinessWeek<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Informative interview with the head of Google&#8217;s search ranking team.  They run 6000 experiments per year, make about 500 changes per year to how search ranking works.  Academic stemming algorithms don&#8217;t really work for Google.    They have a very low-friction system for running tests, making it very easy to deploy the large amounts of infrastructure needed to run the tests.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/primes.utm.edu\/notes\/words.html\">The Prime lexicon<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>English words that are prime when interpreted as base 36 numbers &#8211; &#8220;Animation&#8221; is prime, for example. Sentences made up with primes would be fun, or even a book.<\/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>Charlie&#8217;s Diary: How habitable is the Earth? Not very, according to this very interesting article by Charlie Stross. Google Search Guru Singhal: We Will Try Outlandish Ideas &#8211; BusinessWeek Informative interview with the head of Google&#8217;s search ranking team. They run 6000 experiments per year, make about 500 changes per year to how search ranking&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/biweekly-links-for-11022009\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Biweekly links for 11\/02\/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-691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691","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=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}