Of Interest
I’ve been really busy this week preparing for work (at the MIAL), so I’m going to cop out and post a bunch of links that I found interesting:
- A dialogue on Mathematics & Physics by Chaitin and Calude.
- Ultimate physical limits to computation. Physical limits as determined by the speed of light, Planck’s constant and the Gravitation constant.
- Physics of Climate Modeling in Physics Today. Also check out the comments on RealClimate.
- Linux running on the PlayStation3.
- Information Processing: Metric on the space of genomes and scientific basis for race. Plotting genomes of humans leads to easily identifiable clusters of ethnic groups: Europeans, Africans, Asians and Native Americans.
- Comments on Nature’s open peer review experiment and the lack of anonymity by Derek Lowe.
- GigaOm: 2007 is all about monetization of social networks.
- Barclays Ph.D.s Build Hedge Fund Giant Inside Bank. Great article about math, physics and finance.
- rod gets ripped outright. Some strong words, but I understand his feelings. Writing about and pointing to interesting content takes time. On the other hand, I can’t help but paraphrase Zappa: “I should be worried if my music isn’t being copied.”
- Misbehavior of markets by Mandelbrot, the father of fractals. Since I’m taking a non-linear physics course this semester, I went to amazon to check out the reviews — not very appealing. (via rod)
January 7th, 2007 at 7:01 pm
yup, I was pretty mad when I first noticed that I was being plagiarized, and hence the strong words.
I am kind of over it now. In martial arts they teach how to use the enemy’s stength against himself, and that is wise. I can do the same thing… after all, this guy is plagiarizing my posts, BUT he’s also publicizing them, free of charge. It’s NOT all that bad, lol