Picks
- Classical Chinese Dictionary from Language Log
- Dead and alive: metaphors for (dis)obeying the law from Language Log
- Generational punctuation differences again from Language Log
- Homophonia from Language Log
- Learning from the best from no free hunch
- Mathematically correct bagel from FlowingData
- Should we stop people from not doing this? from Language Log
Other News
- A victory in the Nymwars and some Google+ links from 0xDE
- Attack of the homophones! from Mr. Verb
- Because it's Friday: Fireworks Flyby from Revolutions
- David seeks app for fun and exercise logging from David R. MacIver
- ITCS 2015 from in theory
- January-July 2014: Seven Months of Reproducible Research from Nuit Blanche
- Open Thread from Overcoming Bias
- The Economist: Big Data, Little Decisions from JT on EDM
- The insanity of research grant proposals from Daniel Lemire's blog
- The scientific surprise two-step from Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- This is Law School? Socrates Takes a Back Seat to Business and Tech (via New York Times) from Computational Legal Studies
- Webinar recording: Applications in R from Revolutions
- for linguists, by linguists from The Lousy Linguist
