Picks
- "Chinese" well beyond Mandarin from Language Log
- Asteroids can have moons from The Endeavour
- Cicada insects out to play after 17 years from FlowingData
- Data Points: Sample chapter from FlowingData
- Efficiency vs. Robustness from The Endeavour
- Mutually odd functions from The Endeavour
- Ultraconserved words? Really?? from Language Log
Other News
- A guide to speeding up R code from Revolutions
- Because it's Friday: A visual history of meteorites from Revolutions
- Decision Management and In-Memory Technology from JT on EDM
- Faith, hope, and clarity from Monash Research Integrated Feed
- Ironfan Takes Chef to the Next Level from Infochimps Big Data Platform Blog
- K-SVD/IPR: Learning Incoherent Dictionaries for Sparse Approximation using Iterative Projections and Rotations - implementation - from Nuit Blanche
- Morphology FAIL from Mr. Verb
- On GPU algorithms from The Geomblog
- Randomized Thoughts and Around the Blogs in 78 hours from Nuit Blanche
- Roundup, January-April 2013 from ribbonfarm
- The recursion of pop-econ from Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- Webinar on Data Science, May 14 from Revolutions
