Optimal tic-tac-toe strategy, illustrated:
2011/02/10 01:49 PM Filed in: games
Evolution and Goodness
2011/01/20 11:55 PM Filed in: social phenomena
Books = data.
2011/01/20 01:33 PM Filed in: data
``Quantitative analysis of culture using millions of digitized books'' by Michel et al., Science, 2011.
More here: http://www.culturomics.org/
Data and play here: Google Books ngram viewer
More here: http://www.culturomics.org/
Data and play here: Google Books ngram viewer
The invention of Money.
2011/01/18 09:09 PM Filed in: economics
The mystery of money. This American Life, #423:
A simple model of how physicists behave.
2010/09/24 11:06 PM Filed in: science
Where people take photos
2010/09/20 04:14 PM Filed in: social phenomena
Mapping places of interest based on geotags in Flickr photos (by Eric Fischer).
Excitement is had here by Fast Company and here by FlowingData. A rough effort to break apart the photos of tourists and residents is shown here:
Excitement is had here by Fast Company and here by FlowingData. A rough effort to break apart the photos of tourists and residents is shown here:
A mathematician's explanation
2010/03/02 03:12 PM Filed in: mathematics
Strogatz explains the essentials of mathematics in the New York Times, starting here.
The biologists are evolving!
2010/03/02 12:57 PM Filed in: psychology
What will they become? Memeticists?
The story: culture is becoming recognized as one of the significant evolutionary forces shaping human evolution.
The story: culture is becoming recognized as one of the significant evolutionary forces shaping human evolution.
Movies, editing, attention
2010/03/02 12:36 PM Filed in: patterns | time series
Slime mold and the Tokyo subway system
2010/02/08 02:59 PM Filed in: contagion
``It's all about data''
2010/02/05 06:55 PM Filed in: psychology
NY Times (2010-Feb-05):
U.S. Scientists Given Access to Cloud Computing
The National Science Foundation and the Microsoft Corporation have agreed to offer American scientific researchers free access to the company’s new cloud computing service.
A goal of the three-year project is to give scientists the computing power to cope with exploding amounts of research data. It uses Microsoft’s Windows Azure computing system, which the company recently introduced to compete with cloud computing services from companies like Amazon, Google, I.B.M. and Yahoo. These cloud computing systems allow organizations and individuals to run computing tasks and Internet services remotely in relatively low-cost data centers.
Full article here.
U.S. Scientists Given Access to Cloud Computing
The National Science Foundation and the Microsoft Corporation have agreed to offer American scientific researchers free access to the company’s new cloud computing service.
A goal of the three-year project is to give scientists the computing power to cope with exploding amounts of research data. It uses Microsoft’s Windows Azure computing system, which the company recently introduced to compete with cloud computing services from companies like Amazon, Google, I.B.M. and Yahoo. These cloud computing systems allow organizations and individuals to run computing tasks and Internet services remotely in relatively low-cost data centers.
Full article here.
