These are my links for June 19th through June 21st: Electronic Frontier Foundation | Defending Freedom in the Digital World – From the Internet to the iPod, technologies are transforming our society and empowering us as speakers, citizens, creators, and consumers. When our freedoms in the networked world come under attack, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is the first line of defense. EFF broke new ground when it was founded in 1990 — well before the Internet was on most people's radar — and continues to confront cutting-edge issues defending free speech, privacy, innovation, and consumer rights today. From the […]
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These are my links for June 18th through June 19th: Blind Search – Welcome to BlindSearch, the search engine taste test.Type in a search query above, hit search then vote for the column which you believe best matches your query. The columns are randomised with every query.The goal of this site is simple, we want to see what happens when you remove the branding from search engines. How differently will you perceive the results? Is There Reason to Be Theoretically Rational? (application/pdf Object) – An important advance in normativity research over the last decade is an increased understanding of the […]
“Were they reborn into a modern university, Plato and Aristotle and Leibniz would most suitably take up appointments in the department of computer science.” “Epistemology has traditionally been the study of Human knowledge and rational change of human belief. Android epistemology is the exploration of the space of possible machines and their capacities for knowledge, beliefs, attitudes, desires and for action in accord with their mental states.” -Glymour, C., Hayes, P., and Ford, K. “The Pre-History of Android Epistemology,” in Ford, K., Glymour, C. and Hayes, P. [eds.] 1995. Android Epistemology
These are my links for June 17th through June 18th: Random Walk / Daniel A. Becker – RANDOM WALK asks this question and presents experiments in mathematics and physics, showing the mysterious interaction of chaos and order in randomness. The project RANDOM WALK simulates randomness in visualizations, which are easy to understand. In this way, it delivers insight into a phenomenon, which has so far remained unexplained. Nominal, Ordinal, Interval, and Ratio Typologies are Misleading (application/pdf Object) – In the following sections, we review Stevens’s taxonomy and provide definitions; many have used these terms without clarifying their exact meaning. We […]
These are my links for June 17th from 11:55 to 14:14: Dataspora Blog – Big Data, open source analytics, and data visualization IrfanView – IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows 9x, ME, NT, 2000, XP, 2003 , 2008, Vista, Windows 7. Hunch – At the core of Hunch is a question selection algorithm built by our small gaggle of MIT computer scientists with backgrounds in machine learning. The algorithm is always asking itself, "What can I ask you next which will lead to the best possible result for this […]
Herman Rubin has five commandments that he posted on UseNet from time to time: For the client: 1. Thou shalt know that thou must make assumptions. 2. Thou shalt not believe thy assumptions. For the consultant: 3. Thou shalt not make thy client’s assumptions for him. 4. Thou shalt inform thy client of the consequences of his assumptions. For the person who is both (e. g., a biostatistician or psychometrician): 5. Thou shalt keep thy roles distinct, lest thou violate some of the other commandments. From the comments over at Andrew Gelman’s Blog.