The MCMC Revolution
The Markov Chain Monte Carlo Revolution by Persi Diaconis
mcmc  bayesian  statistics 
11 days ago
Research Blog: From Words to Concepts and Back: Dictionaries for Linking Text, Entities and Ideas
: Google releases a text-to-concept database mined from Wikipedia: 7,5M concepts, 175M strings, with stats...
from twitter_favs
14 days ago
The 100-Year March of Technology in 1 Graph - Derek Thompson - Technology - The Atlantic
on the speed of adoption (tv, cellphone, internet, etc) or via @innovaterisk
26 days ago
The Yelpification Of Foursquare | Fast Company
The Yelpification of Foursquare, or how it's evolving toward discovering places rather than checking in
yelp  foursquare 
26 days ago
Probabilistic Topic Models | April 2012 | Communications of the ACM
9 years after the Latent Dirichlet Allocation paper is published, David Blei reviews LDA and recent developments.
4 weeks ago
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Interesting thoughts by David J. C. MacKay "[...] Eigenvectors and Eigenvalues are meaningless [...]"
gaussian  process  pearl  causal  models 
february 2012
David MacKay: Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms: Home
His information theory+inference book is a slow read but has so many ideas. Exercises are unconventional and very deep
books  information  theory  math  programming  inference 
january 2012
Copyright Protection, Technological Change, and the Quality of New Products: Evidence from Recorded Music since Napster
There is no evidence of a reduction in the quality of music released since Napster, and the two usage-based indices suggest an increase since 1999.
econ  papers  itbs  piracy  napster  music 
january 2012
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