Picks
- "The last acceptable form of <SomeImmoralAttitude>" from Language Log
- Art using inlaid maps from FlowingData
- Institutional mediocrity from The Endeavour
- Normal Deviate and the UCSC Machine Learning Summer School from Machine Learning (Theory)
- Root-finding with noisy functions from The Endeavour
- Third Market Algorithms and Optimization Workshop at Google NYC from Google Research Blog
- This American Life on Blackjack from FlowingData
- What 3-D pie charts are good for from FlowingData
Other News
- Around the blogs in 80 hours: Compressive Sensing Edition from Nuit Blanche
- Because it's Friday: Battlestar Galactica RPG from Revolutions
- Coaching, teaching, and writing from Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- Guest Post by Oded Goldreich from in theory
- Machine Learning that Matters from Ars Experientia
- More on birthday probabilities from Revolutions
- Probability without Randomness: Generating densities from dynamics from Computational Information Geometry Wonderland
- Updates on the two polymath projects from What's new
- What is the more effective way of writing scientific research articles? from IR Thoughts
