The 20 most-watched TED Talks to date TEDTalks The 20 most-watched TEDTalks (so far) Today, on the fifth birthday of TEDTalks video, we’re releasing a new list of the 20 most-watched TEDTalks over the past five years — as watched on all the platforms we track: TED.com, YouTube, iTunes, embed and download, Hulu and more … What a great, mixed-up group this is! Talks about education and creativity, sex […] Playlist The 20 most popular TED Talks, as of December 2013 UPDATED: To see all these talks at one click, check out our updated Playlist: The 20 Most Popular Talks of All Time. The Scheme Programming Language Scheme is a statically scoped and properly tail-recursive dialect of the Lisp programming language invented by Guy Lewis Steele Jr. and Gerald Jay Sussman. It was designed to have an exceptionally clear and simple semantics and few different ways to form expressions. A wide variety of programming paradigms, including imperative, functional, and message passing styles, find convenient expression in Scheme. Scheme was one of the first programming languages to incorporate first class procedures as in the lambda calculus, thereby proving the usefulness of static scope rules and block structure in a dynamically typed language. Scheme was the first major dialect of Lisp to distinguish procedures from lambda expressions and symbols, to use a single lexical environment for all variables, and to evaluate the operator position of a procedure call in the same way as an operand position. MIT/GNU Scheme Documentation Other Implementations Etc.
Michael Trick’s Operations Research Blog : Thoughts on the world of operations research As a blogger, I have been a failure in the last six months. I barely have enough time to tweet, let alone sit down for these extensively researched, tightly edited, and deeply insightful missives that characterize my blog. I tell you, 1005 words on finding love through optimization doesn’t just happen! I have my excuses, of course. All this is in addition to my day job that includes a more-than-healthy dose of academic administration. And then something new comes along. Our commitment is to offer the same program as our full-time residential MBA and our part-time in-Pittsburgh MBA. We started this program last September with 29 students, and so far it has gone great. I have just finished my own course in this program. My initial meeting with the students concentrated on an overview of the course and an introduction to the software through some inspiring cases. It would be better if I also had a quiz to check understanding of the topic, along with further pointers to additional readings.
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Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science - Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science BRAINMETA.COM - NEUROSCIENCE, CONSCIOUSNESS, BRAIN, MIND, MIND-BRAIN, NEUROINFORMATICS, BRAIN MAPS, BRAIN ATLASES PHPSimplex The Golden Ratio in Flowers The Golden Ratio in Flowers Posted by ksakz on June 4, 2012 · 8 Comments Leonardo Fibonacci discovered an amazing sequence of numbers that ties nature and mathematics together in fascinating ways. The Fibonacci sequence starts with 1, and each additional number is the sum of the two numbers immediately before it (1+0=1, 1+1=2, 2+1=3, 3+2=5, 5+3=8, 13, 21,34, 89, etc). Check out some more instances of the Golden Ratio in flowers below! Like this: Like Loading...
AEC - COSO COSO (Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway) es una Comisión voluntaria constituida por representantes de cinco organizaciones del sector privado en EEUU, para proporcionar liderazgo intelectual frente a tres temas interrelacionados: la gestión del riesgo empresarial (ERM), el control interno, y la disuasión del fraude. Las organizaciones son: La Asociación Americana de Contabilidad (AAA)El Instituto Americano de Contadores Públicos Certificados (AICPA)Ejecutivos de Finanzas Internacional (FEI), el Instituto de Auditores Internos (IIA)La Asociación Nacional de Contadores (ahora el Instituto de Contadores Administrativos [AMI]). Lo puedes encontrar también como: Modelo COSO . Además... Marco Integrado COSO de Gestión de Riesgos: Los informes COSO I y II Eficacia y eficiencia de las operacionesConfiabilidad de la información financieraCumplimiento de las leyes, reglamentos y normas que sean aplicables La estructura del estándar se dividía en cinco componentes: 1. ¿Para qué... ?
The brain’s silent majority - 2009 FALL When you have no clue, call it glue. “Glia,” the Greek word for glue, was the name the pathologist Rudolph Virchow gave, back in 1856, to the gelatinous substance that forms the bulk of the brain. And it stuck. These days, scientists use it to denote the matter that accounts for 90 percent of the brain’s cells and more than half its volume — but, like the late comic Rodney Dangerfield, “can’t get no respect.” Neurons, the “talented tenth” of the human brain that hog the lion’s share of brain scientists’ attention, are indeed a work of evolutionary art. They’ve got a knack that glia lack: Their aptitude for high-speed, long-distance communication makes them the nervous system’s premier information processors. “When the brain is injured, the neighborhood astrocytes go into a completely altered state.” We now know they’re doing much more. Certainly, it’s no stretch to imagine that knowing what glial cells do, and how they do it, could help explain brain disorders and how to cure them.
Decision, Risk, and Values: The Philosophy of Churchman and Ackoff | Ether Wave Propaganda Posted by Will Thomas in Operations Research. Tags: Alan Richardson, Edgar Singer, Russell Ackoff, West Churchman, William James trackback A couple of months ago, I suggested a possible conflict of interest between STS and the history of science. Effectively, the aspirations of STS to contemporary relevance is at least partially dependent on potential contributions arising from new research results. For these results to have impetus, conclusions should be novel. However, novelty can be augmented by conveniently forgetting the history of the ideas underlying the conclusions on offer. Unfortunately, historians’ bookkeeping methodologies are woefully inadequate to this task. To make this point in a timely fashion I am going to break informal blog policy to present a short extract from my forthcoming book, presently titled In Pursuit of Rationality: Science and the Rise of Policy Analysis. –Will Russell Ackoff [1] C. [3] See, for instance, C. [4] Churchman, Experimental Inference, chapter 1.