Picks
- 100x better approach to software? from The Endeavour
- Beyond Terrain Generation: Bringing Worlds in DWARF FORTRESS to Life from Game AI for Developers
- Miso: An open source toolkit for data visualisation from FlowingData
- Ongoing lexical fascism from Language Log
- Preview the Ultimate Computation Environment–Now for Finance from Wolfram Blog
- Robots fighting wars could be blamed for mistakes on the battlefield from ScienceDaily: Artificial Intelligence News
- Scientific study of affirmative-response indicators from Language Log
Other News
- Active Learning with a Drifting Distribution from Machined Learnings
- Any old map will do meets God is in every leaf of every tree from Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- App Stats: Elwert on "Endogenous Selection" from Social Science Statistics Blog
- CS in the Sunshine State from Computational Complexity
- Concert Bleg : Chicago Chorale performs Vierne, Bach, and Schoenberg from An Ergodic Walk
- Early bird pricing on European training expiring from JT on EDM
- Finding Real Neighborhoods from Infochimps Blog
- HBase Real-time Analytics & Rollbacks via Append-based Updates from Sematext Blog
- I grade grad AI from Turing's Invisible Hand
- Infographic of the year from Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- Pithy! from Mr. Verb
- Polymath paper published from Gowers's Weblog
- Software Review- BigML.com Machine Learning meets the Cloud from DecisionStats
- Thanks, Yale Daily News! from My Biased Coin
- Turing Celebrations This Side of the Atlantic from my slice of pizza