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"I'll tell you what really doesn't speak well of our health care system [is] that in those 16 months the hole that they stitched up in Glenn Beck's ass hasn't healed enough for him to stop talking out of it." - April Buchheit from Bookmarklet

Fixed. Thanks, Andrew. - Gabe

Summary of I.J. Good's research: "The Population Frequencies of Species and the Estimation of Population Parameters" - Michelle Fullwood

Awesome. Slides teaching you how to do "AI" in python - puzzle solving, neural networks, etc. - Michelle Fullwood

Harvard course on data visualisation - Michelle Fullwood

How to use guppy/heapy for tracking down Python memory usage - Michelle Fullwood

More understandable piece by the creator of Cyc about exactly what Wolfram Alpha is up to. - Michelle Fullwood from Bookmarklet

...we have looked at individual early Middle English writing systems and explored aspects of multivocal sound/symbol and symbol/sound relationships...Since many early Middle English texts survive as copies, not originals, they may give clues to the orthographic systems of their exemplars too. We investigate the ‘extensibility’ of Litteral and Potestatic Substitution Sets. Writing systems may be economical or prodigal. The ‘ideal’ economical system would map into a broad phonetic or a phonemic transcription: that is, one ‘sound’, one symbol. In early Middle English there is no one standard written norm, so there is potentially less restraint on diversity than in standard systems. Further extensibility is built into the system. We show that much of what tends to be dismissed as ‘scribal error’ rather represents writing praxis no longer familiar to us – flexible matrices of substitution and variation. - Michelle Fullwood

"...a group of dedicated fans of The Economist newsmagazine are translating each weekly issue cover-to-cover, splitting up the work among a team of volunteers, and redistributing the finished translations as complete PDFs for a Chinese audience. It reminds me of the scanlation movement, in which groups of fans scan, translate, and redistribute manga into another language. But I've never seen it applied to a newspaper or magazine, especially one as high-minded as The Economist. It's an impressive example of online collaboration with simple tools, a completely non-commercial effort by volunteers interested in spreading knowledge while improving their English skills..." - Michelle Fullwood from Bookmarklet

To start with, government grants should require that the results of the research (including associated data) must be freely available.' - Amit Patel

For high drama in the world of publishing, there is Dr. Grigori Perelman and the Poincare Conjecture. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Is Academia even worse than a large corporation for political drama? - Tracy

Aviator glasses and aviator 'staches - Bret Taylor

Pilots are pr0n stars? - MVB (Grinch of FF)

I played around with this idea before...but the punchline is hilarious. - Michelle Fullwood from Bookmarklet

in simplified Arabic - Michelle Fullwood

Search engine (like Lucene) written completely in Python - Michelle Fullwood

virtualtourist.com planning; kayak.com booking - Prolific Programmer

+1 to itasoftware.com. It rocks. Oh, and kayak.com for a more user-friendly version of something quite similar - Steve "Daddy do it!" Lacy

list of japanese language learning resources - Michelle Fullwood

Database of linguistics olympiad problems - Michelle Fullwood

Interesting non-linear presentation tool from a Budapest start-up - Michelle Fullwood from Bookmarklet

Historical information on the Shinsengumi - Michelle Fullwood

Web mining papers - Michelle Fullwood

Bayesian estimation, particularly using Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC), is an increasingly relevant approach to statistical estimation. However, few statistical software packages implement MCMC samplers, and they are non-trivial to code by hand. pymc is a python package that implements the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm as a python class, and is extremely flexible and applicable to a large suite of problems. pymc includes methods for summarizing output, plotting, goodness-of-fit and convergence diagnostics. - Michelle Fullwood

Just reading FactCheck on the presidential debate. I wonder whether one day we'll have real-time factchecking (either through technology or crowdsourcing - the latter much more likely). Once they tell a whopper there'll be a big huge LIE popping out on the screen for everyone to see, plus links to the justification. Need to keep the politicians honest. (Some might argue that "keep" is the wrong word...) - Michelle Fullwood from Bookmarklet

Within a day after I post this, I find: (1)NPR crowdsources factchecking to Twitter (http://venturebeat.com/2008...) and (2) Ameritocracy ("Challenge the status quote") - Michelle Fullwood

Articles at the intersection of health/information/stats - Michelle Fullwood

Chinese names including common Latin transliterations for several dialects - Michelle Fullwood

Python bindings for Stuttgart finite state transducer - Michelle Fullwood

Asian sheet music including anime scores - Michelle Fullwood

Saiunkoku Monogatari sheet music available here - Michelle Fullwood

Open source summarization - Michelle Fullwood

Nice hack to fix the usual problems of autocomplete (going back and changing your mind) - Michelle Fullwood

Nice hack to fix the usual problems of autocomplete (going back and changing your mind) - Michelle Fullwood

saiunkoku monogatari - Michelle Fullwood