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Tweets
- NYT: "I would advise our readers to be good Bayesian thinkers..." As if we could be otherwise...? http://t.co/rLBUh1ib 1 hr ago
- RT @lizlosh: "If you don't know your state variables you don't know yourself" and calls to "occupy health" #futurehealthsd #quantifiedself 17 hrs ago
- Were I still a student, or pre-tenure, I would so be at the Summer Research Institute for the Science of STS: http://t.co/Vhc2cCi2 17 hrs ago
- Can't be real: http://t.co/98gVZNvA 1 day ago
- Here at Security Concepts, we're predicting the end of crime in Old Detroit within 40 days. There's a new guy in town. http://t.co/7uT6EQCR 1 day ago
- @eknight I have a bad feeling about this. 1 day ago
- If only all car commercials were this good... http://t.co/lGc8HBud #fb 2 days ago
- More updates...
Archives
Monthly Archives: February 2003
Power less
Liz and Thomas Burg’s weblog alerted me to an article by Clay Shirky, and responses by Pilgrim and Delacour. Shirky provides an indication that a blog connections follow a power law, and that this is the natural progression of networked systems. So what? Sorry, but really, so what? Folks seem to forget that the observation [...]
Patriot II
I really hope this is an elaborate joke. No time to read in detail right now, but this includes allowing the creation of a DNA database of suspected terrorists, anyone associated with them, or any foreign national suspected of criminal activity of any sort, makes it illegal to release information about detainees, and allows for [...]
Top 10 lies
Top 10 Lies Told by Grad Students (via Liz): 10. It doesn’t bother me at all that my college roommate is making $80,000 a year on Wall Street. 9. I’d be delighted to proofread your book/chapter/article. 8. My work has a lot of practical importance. 7. I would never date an undergraduate. 6. Your latest [...]
Summer camp
I was going to send this out to my current advisees, but then I realized that they were either graduating or unlikely to be interested. The Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models (EITM) Summer Institutes look like a lot of fun. It looks like they do some fun agent-based and decision modeling.
Taped Bush
In case you missed the State of the Union address this year, someone has been kind enough to assemble the highlights into an mp3 you can download.
Tachi toys
The image at the right, which is making the rounds near the top of Blogdex and Daypop, is cool enough on its own. But some of the other augmented reality projects at Tokyo University’s Tachi Lab are also intriguing. Take, for example, a machine that creates virtual haptic spaces. I can’t imagine this works very [...]
Which Gorey book are you?