Monthly Archives: August 2010

10 Ways Data is Changing How We Live [Via Telegraph]

[HT: Paul Kedrosky & Tim O'Riley ]

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The World’s Best Countries: Interactive Infographic [Newsweek]

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Recorded Future – A Temporal Analytics Engine

The Recorded Future Temporal Analytics Engine relies upon three steps to serve up information: 1. Scour the web: We continually scan thousands of news publications, blogs, niche sources, trade publications, government web sites, financial databases and more. 2. Extract, rank … Continue reading

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Behavioral Dynamics and Influence in Networked Coloring and Consensus [PNAS]

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David McCandless: The Beauty of Data Visualization [TED]

From the talk abstract: “David McCandless turns complex data sets (like worldwide military spending, media buzz, Facebook status updates) into beautiful, simple diagrams that tease out unseen patterns and connections. Good design, he suggests, is the best way to navigate … Continue reading

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Announcing the Beta Prerelease of the New Electronic World Treaty Index

What is the World Treaty Index? The World Treaty Index (WTI), originally compiled by Peter Rohn in the 1960s and 1970s and subsequently maintained and updated at the University of Washington, is a comprehensive list of all known treaties formed during … Continue reading

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Laurie Santos: A Monkey Economy as Irrational as Ours [TED]

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Riders on a Swarm — Might Mimicking the Behavior of Ants, Bees & Birds Be the Key to Artificial Intelligence?

This week’s issue of the Economist has an interesting article entitled Riders on a Swarm. Among other things, the article discusses how attempts to computationally model ant, bee and bird behavior have offered insight into major problems in artificial intelligence. … Continue reading

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An Easy Way to Boost a Paper’s Citations [Via Nature News]

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P ≠ NP Proof — Is there a fatal flaw?

For those who are interested in the current state of the potential P ≠ NP proof, Michael Nielsen is collecting various sources on a wiki. This includes the current version of the paper, a summary of the proof as well … Continue reading

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The Architecture of the Brain — Network or Hierarchy ? [BBC News & PNAS ]

This week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences comes a very important article entitled Hypothesis-driven structural connectivity analysis supports network over hierarchical model of brain architecture by Richard H. Thompson and Larry W. Swanson of the University … Continue reading

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600 Club Gets a New Member – NY Times [Via Flowing Data]

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P ≠ NP ? [ Vinay Deolalikar from HP Labs Publishes His Proof to the Web, $1Million Clay Institute Prize May Very Well Await ]

UPDATED VERSION HAS BEEN PUBLISHED TO THE WEB (August 9, 2010) [Click Here!] After sending his paper to several leading researchers in the field and acquiring support, Vinay Deolalikar from HP Labs has recently published P ≠ NP to the … Continue reading

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