Picks
- "Any instrument … that looks like a weapon" from Language Log
- A whisker-inspired approach to tactile sensing from ScienceDaily: Artificial Intelligence News
- As ADJ of NP as from Language Log
- Flying to Mars in three days from The Endeavour
- Physics as a geographic map from FlowingData
- Users love simple and familiar designs Why websites need to make a great first impression from Google Research Blog
Other News
- A Stan is Born from Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- Academic Dishonesty Cases from My Biased Coin
- Calls for papers and spam etiquette from Eduardo Valle's Blog
- Decision Management Summit Decision-Centric Business Design from JT on EDM
- Decision time: Automated data integration tools versus manual coding from Data Doghouse - performance management, business intelligence, and data warehousing
- Implementation: BLENDENPIK: Supercharging LAPACK's Least-Squares Solver from Nuit Blanche
- Implementation: Rapid Characterization of FPGAs with Matrix Completion from Nuit Blanche
- John Hunter - the author of matplotlib - has died. from The mloss.org community blog
- Microsonic Landscapes: Visualizing Music in Physical Form from information aesthetics
- Panos Ipeirotis talking at LinkedIn about Crowdsourcing! from The Noisy Channel
- The Net or the Jet from Computational Complexity
- The Toaster-Enhanced Turing Machine from Shtetl-Optimized
- The Varieties of Scientific Experience from ribbonfarm
- Three ways of visualizing the growth of Walmart from Revolutions
- Visualizing Distributions of Covariance Matrices from Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- What Color is this? in 9 languages from The CrowdFlower Blog
- Why you don't want real-time analytics to be exact from Marginally Interesting by Mikio L. Braun
