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Welcome to the 'weisure' lifestyle - CNN.com
(CNN) -- The line dividing work and leisure time is blurring right before our eyes, says one expert, and it's creating a phenomenon called "weisure time." English cricket player Geraint Jones enjoys a "weisure" moment during an Australian fishing trip in 2006.
Followup to Ning’s Viral Loop article
What I’m reading: Viral Loop by Adam Penenberg | Andrew Chen (@a
This morning there was quite a bit of tweeting, back and forth, about this article and exactly how stupid it is.
Why experts are morons: a recipe for academic success « Finite A
When Quants Attack: Why Mathematical Mayhem is for the Birds | A
Totally Flocked “… fear of the unknown and our desire for certainty lead us to throw ourselves into the arms of perceived ‘experts.’ … We trust quantitatively flavored constructs to escort us away from the gloomy reality of unmeasurable uncertainty.” — Pablo Triana, “Lecturing Birds on Flying” That longer, sillier answer is the premise of Pablo Triana’s new book, “Lecturing Birds on Flying: Can Mathematical Theories Destroy the Markets?”
Participation Inequality: Lurkers vs. Contributors in Internet C
In most online communities, 90% of users are lurkers who never contribute, 9% of users contribute a little, and 1% of users account for almost all the action. All large-scale, multi-user communities and online social networks that rely on users to contribute content or build services share one property: most users don't participate very much.
Francisco Gutierrez & Unified Theory of Le
I was recently thinking about the commonalities between all systems that can learn. Neural networks learn by updating the strength of the connections between neurons.
Critticall home page
C ritticall is a new kind of a software tool, dedicated to solving hard problems. From discovering new unknown algorithms, answering some unsettled math questions, to creating school schedules. Critticall harnesses the power of the evolution to search for cunning solutions nobody has thought about before.
This paper offers an account of the perceptions of citizens from the U.K. and Germany on the subject of interoperable electronic identity (eID) systems.
Cooking pot markets: an economic model for the trade in free goo