{"id":719,"date":"2009-12-07T06:51:33","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T10:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/biweekly-links-for-12072009\/"},"modified":"2009-12-07T14:53:30","modified_gmt":"2009-12-07T18:53:30","slug":"biweekly-links-for-12072009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/biweekly-links-for-12072009\/","title":{"rendered":"Biweekly links for 12\/07\/2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.cornell.edu\/home\/kleinber\/networks-book\/\">Networks, Crowds, and Markets: A Book by David Easley and Jon Kleinberg<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Continuous_Partial_Attention\">Continuous Partial Attention &#8211; Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Is_Google_Making_Us_Stupid%3F\">Is Google Making Us Stupid? &#8211; Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>The Wikipedia article on Nicholas Carr&#8217;s well-known article.  Something I find fascinating is how good the Wikipedia article is &#8211; maybe Google is making us stupid, but Wikipedia certainly isn&#8217;t.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chromoscope.net\/#\">Chromoscope<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Chromoscope is amazing &#8211; view the Milky Way at many different wavelengths.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/12\/06\/opinion\/06diamond.html?_r=1&#038;hp\">Jared Diamond: Will Big Business Save the Earth?<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Interesting article by Diamond.  Not quantitatively convincing, of course &#8211; it&#8217;s an NYT op-ed &#8211; but does challenge much conventional wisdom in the green movement.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2009\/12\/05\/fact-checkers-and-ce.html\">Fact-Checkers and Certified Public Logicians Boing Boing<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;I have wondered for years, as magazines, newspapers, and other news organizations have been hemorrhaging money and employees, why someone hasn&#8217;t gone into the contract fact-checking business. Like, it could be an extension of Snopes.com. There&#8217;s a huge redundancy in every publication having their own research desks, so they could lay off all of their fact-checkers and then outsource the job to the new, independent company that the best of them then all go to work for. Meanwhile, the company could also be hired by anyone else. Then, when the public sees the &#8220;Fact-Checked by MiniTrue (SM)&#8221; seal on someone&#8217;s independent blog, they know the information there has the same credibility as the big boys.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/lesswrong.com\/lw\/1ib\/parapsychology_the_control_group_for_science\/\">Less Wrong: Parapsychology: the control group for science<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>I don&#8217;t buy this &#8211; parapsychologists who consistently get negative results (&#8220;still no telepathy&#8221;) are thrown out of the tribe &#8211; but it&#8217;s intriguing nonetheless:  &#8220;Imagine if, way back at the start of the scientific enterprise, someone had said, &#8220;What we really need is a control group for science &#8211; people who will behave exactly like scientists, doing experiments, publishing journals, and so on, but whose field of study is completely empty: one in which the null hypothesis is always true.\n<p>&#8220;That way, we&#8217;ll be able to gauge the effect of publication bias, experimental error, misuse of statistics, data fraud, and so on, which will help us understand how serious such problems are in the real scientific literature.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t that a great idea?<\/p>\n<p>By an accident of historical chance, we actually have exactly such a control group, namely parapsychologists: people who study extra-sensory perception, telepathy, precognition, and so on.&#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>Networks, Crowds, and Markets: A Book by David Easley and Jon Kleinberg Continuous Partial Attention &#8211; Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Is Google Making Us Stupid? &#8211; Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Wikipedia article on Nicholas Carr&#8217;s well-known article. Something I find fascinating is how good the Wikipedia article is &#8211; maybe Google is making us&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/biweekly-links-for-12072009\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Biweekly links for 12\/07\/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-719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719","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=719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":720,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions\/720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}