Picks
- Metaphors and the brain: check it out from Language Log
- Segregated schools, still from FlowingData
- Steep learning curves you wish youd climbed sooner from The Endeavour
- Technicality Club from Language Log
- Working Together to Support Computer Science Education from Google Research Blog
Other News
- First Look: WebAction from JT on EDM
- Gesture Viewport: Interacting with Media Content Using Finger Gestures on Any Surface from FXPAL Blog
- Hortonworks Seminar Series: The Modern Data Architecture from Revolutions
- How to Fall Off the Wagon from ribbonfarm
- I disagree with Alan Turing and Daniel Kahneman regarding the strength of statistical evidence from Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- ICM2014 Kollr, Conlon, Katz, Krivelevich, Milnor from Gowers's Weblog
- More quick links from Geeking with Greg
- Prior-Free Analysis of Digital-good Auctions and Beyond. from Turing's Invisible Hand
- Random-Access Vector Graphics from Microsoft Research Downloads
- Resources for the FPP book from Hyndsight
- Some thoughts on invertibility: Signal recovery from Pooling Representations, Determination of Nonlinear Genetic Architecture using Compressed Sensing from Nuit Blanche
- Sparse Generalized Eigenvalue Problem via Smooth Optimization from Nuit Blanche
- State of Trend Following in August from Au.Tra.Sy blog - Automated trading System
- Transemployment: creating jobs out of thin air from Daniel Lemire's blog
