Picks
- Amazon's cloud platform still the largest, but others are closing the gap from O'Reilly Radar Ben Lorica
- Crowdsourcing specific microtasks from O'Reilly Radar Ben Lorica
- Long-exposure fireworks photos from FlowingData
- New radicals in an old writing system from Language Log
- Super-competence from The Endeavour
- Users love simple and familiar designs Why websites need to make a great first impression from Google Research Blog
Other News
- Around the blogs in 80 summer hours from Nuit Blanche
- Early Bird Expiring for Decision Management Summit from JT on EDM
- Explore the Words Spoken at the Republican Convention from information aesthetics
- FOCS 2012 Call for Posters from The Geomblog
- Full LaTeX on iPad with on device compilation and .dvi viewer from Walking Randomly
- Infochimps Culture: New CEO, Bocce, Opa! from Infochimps Big Data Platform Blog
- MCMC in Python: (approximate) derivative-constrained Gaussian Processes with PyMC.gp from Healthy Algorithms
- More on scaled-inverse Wishart and prior independence from Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- New Short Introduction by Research Associate Joshua Fox from Singularity Institute Blog
- Overview of Speech and Spoken Language Processing from Spoken Language Processing
- Postdoc at Cornell in smart grid, learning, optimization and control from An Ergodic Walk
- Predicting the Future: The Steamrollers from Nuit Blanche
- Quick links from Geeking with Greg
- R does CSI: Using R to nail break-in suspects from Revolutions
- Readings from An Ergodic Walk
- The Untouchable Economy: Young People are Thinking Entrepreneurially, Viewing Themselves as Microbusinesses Operating in a Highly Uncertain Economic Environment (via The Atlantic) from Computational Legal Studies
