Picks
- Coolly rational in a second language from Language Log
- Graph Theory and Finance in Mathematica from Wolfram Blog
- Hopefully history from Language Log
- How a Virus Changes the World from FlowingData
- Tasty Tweets makes smoothies based on trending fruits from FlowingData
- War of the 'iptivists from Language Log
- When a good author writes a bad book from The Endeavour
Other News
- Abstract snark from The Information Structuralist
- Because it's Friday: Andromeda, ahoy! from Revolutions
- CAI: How many lightbulbs does it take to locate somebody ? from Nuit Blanche
- Extracurricular events at STOC from The Geomblog
- Halloween/Valentines update from Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- How Close is Close from Messy Matters
- How Does Structured Sparsity Change the Game ? from Nuit Blanche
- Information theory in economics, Part I: Rational inattention from The Information Structuralist
- Minimum language complexity needed to construct exponential time algorithm from The Geomblog
- Question 22 of my final exam for Design and Analysis of Sample Surveys from Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- Sherlock or Watson: Advice for linguists from The Lousy Linguist
- Take a Tour of Our Big Data Platform from Infochimps Blog
- The influences that shaped R: Inferno-ish R from Revolutions
- Workshop on coding theory, complexity and sparsity from The Geomblog
