Picks
- Looking Beyond the “Hour of Code” from Wolfram Blog
- Military footprint from FlowingData
- Robotic grasp: Robot picks up castors as fast as blueberries from ScienceDaily: Artificial Intelligence News
- Some fields produce more false results than others from The Endeavour
- Sumimasen! from Language Log
Other News
- 5-minute Logstash: Parsing and Sending a Log File from Sematext Blog
- Catastrophe Modeling for the Insurance Industry from Revolutions
- Happy birthday from Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- If you don't think knowing the future is a great advantage ... from Nuit Blanche
- Limits of Floating Point and the Asymmetry of 0 and 1 from LingPipe Blog
- Linkage from An Ergodic Walk
- Matheon Workshop 2013 on Compressed Sensing and its Applications from Nuit Blanche
- Optimization for Compressed Sensing: the Simplex Method and Kronecker Sparsification - implementation - from Nuit Blanche
- Revised evidence for statistical standards from Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- Scalable Hyperlink Store from Microsoft Research Downloads
- Security Changes from Computational Complexity
- The Age Pattern of Mortality: a challenge for our fancy new MCMC methods from Healthy Algorithms
- The distribution of Twitter follower counts from Revolutions
- Top 7 Business Strategy Models from DECISION STATS
- Tracking down the Harvard Non-Bomber from My Biased Coin
- Understanding Complement Search Modes from IR Thoughts