Picks
- "Sadomasochism" in Chinese from Language Log
- Clipping McDonald's from Language Log
- More on Juola's stylometry from Language Log
- Reaching a crescendo? from Language Log
- The most trendy names in US history from FlowingData
Other News
- A huggable, talking intelligent toy robot? Oh yeah! from KurzweilAI Blog
- Ask Ray | Human and robot rights in the future from KurzweilAI Blog
- Certifying primality in a CONSTANT number of operations from Computational Complexity
- How to teach visualization from Healthy Algorithms
- Postdocs in probabilistic modeling! With David Blei! And Stan! from Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- Scikit-learn sprint and 0.14 release candidate (Update: binaries available :) from Peekaboo
- That Old SF Prejudice from Overcoming Bias
- Tips for speeding up R with byte compilation from Revolutions
- Very chilling effects from Monash Research Integrated Feed
- What our legislators should do about privacy (and arent) from Monash Research Integrated Feed
- White Paper of the Week: Responsive Customer Engagement in Banking from JT on EDM
- Writing on APIs for Programmable Web from DECISION STATS
