taliesinb

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   by taliesinb 15y ago

   My theory is that that review, and Shalizi's, are as popular as they are because nothing is more convenient than learning one doesn't have to actually do the work of considering a (set of) new ideas and perspectives.
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   by taliesinb 15y ago

   I had a group dinner with Albert-László Barabási a few weeks ago and had the opportunity to ask him to what extent modern social network services like Twitter and Facebook were employing network science under the covers. He was pretty skept
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   by taliesinb 15y ago

   One of the thing that we (Wolfram) have noticed is that our NKS summer schools provide a great way to track someone's problem solving ability (and domain expertise) over a long period. A lot of previous hires for Wolfram|Alpha have come fro
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   by taliesinb 16y ago

   I performed the analysis comparing the performance of various search engines on the corpus of past Jeopardy! questions, which is featured in the middle of this blog post -- there is a supplementary Mathematica notebook for those who want to
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   Search Engines, IBM's Watson, and Wolfram Alpha(blog.stephenwolfram.com)

   1 points by taliesinb 16y ago|1 comments
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   by taliesinb 16y ago

   I'm surprised no-one here has mentioned the excellent book "The Limits to Growth" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limits_to_Growth ). It's a book I can't recommend highly enough, even though the first edition was written almost 40 years