"The use of Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) in scientific computing is becoming increasingly common. GPUs are low cost parallel processors that can readily be exploited for many types of general purpose computation. Recently, the computational intelligence community has started to develop for the GPU platform. This web page is primarily dedicated to the use of GPUs as a platform for Genetic Programming. "

"The fourth issue of volume 10 of Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines is now available online. This is the first part of the two-part Special Issue on Parallel and Distributed Evolutionary Algorithms, and it contains the following articles:..." [which I unfortunately cannot read; dammit, Springer]

'...paper read before the club by Calvin Thomas, entitled "The Devil"...'

"This paper describes mechanisms for asynchronous collaboration in the context of information visualization, recasting visualizations as not just analytic tools, but social spaces. We contribute the design and implementation of sense.us, a web site supporting asynchronous collaboration across a variety of visualization types. The site supports view sharing, discussion, graphical annotation, and social navigation and includes novel interaction elements. We report the results of user studies of the system, observing emergent patterns of social data analysis, including cycles of observation and hypothesis, and the complementary roles of social navigation and data-driven exploration."

"When I first started writing, one of the pieces of advice that I heard was that you should always imagine that you are writing to a particular person. It gets your juices going – you’re automatically in an explanatory state of mind and you know what you can expect from your audience. I was doing that, but I noticed that I was drifting. I was losing my sense of audience. I started to explain one thing, and then I realized that I would have to explain something else to help it make sense. I couldn’t imagine that person any more. How could I know what they know and what they don’t?"

aka "Nothing is Miscellaneous"

May be the single coolest academic paper I've seen this year.

API for arXiv

"[A] lot of scholarly writing in the humanities and some social sciences uses citation as a marker of institutional sociology, as a performance of intellectual identity, as an affect of authority rather than the substance of it."