Monthly Archives: March 2011

Oyez @ Chicago Kent Releases Free OyezToday App for IPhone

Kudos to Jerry Goldman, the other folks at the Oyez Project as well as the Chicago-Kent College of Law for making this free resource available to the public! From the description: “OYEZTODAY at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law offers you … Continue reading

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Network Structure of Production [From PNAS]

From the abstract: “Complex social networks have received increasing attention from researchers. Recent work has focused on mechanisms that produce scale-free networks. We theoretically and empirically characterize the buyer–supplier network of the US economy and find that purely scale-free models … Continue reading

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Complex Systems: A Survey

From the abstract: “A complex system is a system composed of many interacting parts, often called agents, which displays collective behavior that does not follow trivially from the behaviors of the individual parts. Examples include condensed matter systems, ecosystems, stock … Continue reading

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Salman Khan: Let’s Use Video to Reinvent Education [ TED 2011 ]

  “In 2004, Salman Khan, a hedge fund analyst, began posting math tutorials on YouTube. Six years later, he has posted more than 2.000 tutorials, which are viewed nearly 100,000 times around the world. In this TED 2011 Talk,  Salman … Continue reading

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Savvy Techies are Finding Ways to Circumvent Politically Motivated Shutdowns of the Internet [The Economist]

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Deb Roy: The Birth of a Word [TED 2011]

This is one of the better TED Talks I have seen to date.  It is definitely worth watching!   From the abstract: MIT researcher Deb Roy wanted to understand how his infant son learned language — so he wired up his … Continue reading

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Scott Galloway: Trends and Impact of Digital Competence [via Fora.tv]

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How to Grow a Mind: Statistics, Structure, and Abstraction [via Science]

From the abstract: “In coming to understand the world—in learning concepts, acquiring language, and grasping causal relations—our minds make inferences that appear to go far beyond the data available. How do we do it? This review describes recent approaches to … Continue reading

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Shameless Family Promotion — Clear Blue @ SXSW 2011

This is some shameless family promotion for Clear Blue  – A Short by Lindsay MacKay which is edited by my sister Rachel Katz.  Check out the preview above.  If you are South by Southwest (SXSW) this week —  be sure to … Continue reading

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Rock / Paper / Scissors – Man v. Machine (as t→∞ you are not likely to win) [via NY Times]

From the site … “A truly random game of Rock-Paper-Scissors would result in a statistical tie with each player winning, tying and losing one-third of the time …  However, people are not truly random and thus can be studied and analyzed. … Continue reading

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Some Papers We Have Been Reading [March 2011 Edition]

Social Structure of Facebook Networks (By Amanda L. Traud, Peter J. Mucha & Mason A. Porter) Practicing Theory: Legal Education for the Twenty-First Century (By Larry Ribstein) How Judges Decide: A Multidimensional Empirical Typology of Judicial Styles in the Federal Courts … Continue reading

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Nassim Taleb “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms” [ from Charlie Rose]

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Armies of Expensive Lawyers, Replaced by Cheaper Software [via NY Times]

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