Around the Infonosphere
Posted on Tue 05 October 2010 in Around the Infonosphere
- Neuroanthropology discusses the Never-Ending Language Learning system, "what is interesting to me is that the computer engineers are combining cognitive linguistics with scaffolded learning."
- Situated Research Blog gives a psychologist's take on user experience design.
- Jeff Atwood discusses the failures of A/B testing
- Back in May Andrew J. Wade produced an oblique spaceship in Conway's Game of Life and announced his accomplishment very humbly on the Conway's Life forum. Adam Goucher writes: "This is truly groundbreaking work, solving the 40-year-old ambition of producing a self-replicating configuration in Life. In fact, this is arguably the single most impressive and important pattern ever devised."
- Wade Tarzia celebrates DIY. "The DIY 'movement' has always been around -- it has merely been given a name in some parts of the developed world. However, you don't name something like that until it is no longer a common inheritance."
- Cranky linguistic anthropologist Ronald Kephart takes the broken out of broken English.
- Lambda the Ultimate discusses Omega, the programming language of the future.
- The Network Thinker's blog discusses the causes of the financial meltdown from a social network perspective.