Picks
- Creating smarter surgical robots from ScienceDaily: Artificial Intelligence News
- Digital attack map from FlowingData
- Dynamic stew from Language Log
- FlowingData Job Board, October 2013 from FlowingData
- Freedom for Q from Language Log
- Monty Hall xkcd from FlowingData
- Speaker-change offsets from Language Log
Other News
- Data Science and the Personal Optimization Problem from Infochimps Big Data Platform Blog
- How to switch from spreadsheets to R for data analysis from Revolutions
- Journal Club: Epidemiology and etiology of childhood pneumonia in 2010 from Healthy Algorithms
- Mortality in Iraq paper out from Healthy Algorithms
- Sparse FFT implementation: FFAST, Fast Fourier Aliasing-based Sparse Transform from Nuit Blanche
- Startup News: GraphLab, InView Corp., Centice from Nuit Blanche
- We agree that everyone deserves a second chance. But we do prefer when those given a second chance acknowledge that they did something wrong. from Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- We need more than spam filters: we need bona fide assistants! from Daniel Lemire's blog