Picks
- Beautiful interactive tour of the galaxy from FlowingData
- Dual polyhedra for kids from The Endeavour
- In favor of the microlex from Language Log
- The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition from Language Log
- The most interesting logs in the world from The Endeavour
- These mini-bots were made for walking: Cells power biological machines from ScienceDaily: Artificial Intelligence News
- Using skills gleaned from video games, high school and college students outmatch medical residents in surgical simulations from ScienceDaily: Artificial Intelligence News
Other News
- A Simple PSPACE-Complete Problem from Computational Complexity
- Breaking Hadoop out to the Larger Market from Infochimps Big Data Platform Blog
- Five postdoctoral positions in cosmology from Nuit Blanche
- Harvard Financials from My Biased Coin
- Mind Maps of Compressive Sensing / A compressive sensing framework for seismic source parameter estimation from Nuit Blanche
- New article on operationalizing analytics from JT on EDM
- Outta control political incorrectness from Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- Product Manager job at TransUnion from JT on EDM
- UCLA Math Undergraduate Merit Scholarship for 2013 from What's new
- Whiteboards at the Singularity Institute from Singularity Institute Blog
