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On Elite Schools, and Soft vs. Hard Skills: too much GOOG not enough AAPL? http://t.co/jn3uy2Qz
Uncovered auctions are never a good sign: Germany failed to place 40% of 10-yr Bunds, yields were above 2% http://t.co/8gEs3l5X
Calif spent $6B on 30K guards & other prison-system employees vs. $4.7B on higher educ (33 campuses w/ 670K students) http://www.vanityfair.com/busines...
Pioneer in probability, stochastic processes, & SDE's: Srinivasa S.R. Varadhan awarded National Medal of Science http://www.nyu.edu/about...
Proposed U.S. Tax Hikes in a few charts: putting the Obama's tax hikes in historical context http://goo.gl/EX7fY
Rick Perry: "I'm comfortable that the science was good." U mean unlike the science behind evolution & climate change? http://t.co/OkvKU9S
Interesting announcement from Google AdWords: option that lets you target Tablets is now available http://adwords.blogspot.com/2011...
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Dan Drezner, on becoming the patron saint of "Tenure Denial" http://chronicle.com/article... #education #politics #academia
RT @bigdata: #viz cat fight: at times should @fathominfo be using simpler charts? perhaps: but i'm glad they're pushing the envelope http://www.perceptualedge.com/blog...
RT @bigdata: Computer Vision & Compressed Sensing: Recovery of signals, images, & video from meager data http://practicalquant.blogspot.com/2011... #denoising #summarization
Hope kababayan @joseiswriting moving NYT piece leads to a compassionate response from anti-immigration types http://www.nytimes.com/2011...
Alternative viz to the overused "word cloud": Word usage in 40 speeches given at graduations this year via @nytgraphics http://www.nytimes.com/interac...
Factoids from Twitter's Engineering Open House: 1.6B searches/day w/ customized open source tools http://practicalquant.blogspot.com/2011... #twittereng
Math in Art => The MÖBIUS SHIP photos http://www.imamuseum.org/art... + @NPR profile of artist Tim Hawkinson http://www.npr.org/templat...
RT @AmstatNews Born on this day, in 1915-the man who coined the term "software" —John Tukey http://www.amstat.org/about...
Payments Trend: Prepaid debit cards from @americanexpress is targeted at everyone, not just the underbanked http://www.bloomberg.com/news... cc @ndwoods
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