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Sunday, December 18, 2016

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I don’t give a crap about consilience!

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In the spirit of an old post, I don’t give a crap about science . In his 1998 book, Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge , E. O. Wilson ...
Friday, December 16, 2016

Collective trauma in the USofA

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The NYTimes : Last month’s presidential election has collective trauma written all over it. For working-class white people whose communi...

Friday Fotos: Hoboken winter, December 2010

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Thursday, December 15, 2016

Singing promotes cooperation in a diverse group of children.

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Singing promotes cooperation in a diverse group of children. Good, Arla; Russo, Frank A. Social Psychology , Vol 47(6), 2016, 340-344. ...

Darwin was an exploratory forager: Topic modeling our way through his notebooks and the books he mentions there

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Cognition.  2016 Dec 8;159:117-126. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2016.11.012. [Epub ahead of print] Exploration and exploitation of Victoria...
Wednesday, December 14, 2016

Another hit of the old RGB

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At the core of statistical machine translation, and other things (Google)

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NYTimes Magazine , Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The Great A.I. Awakening : When you summarize images, you can divine a picture of what each stage...

Joseph Henrich on cultural evolution, WEIRD societies, and life among two strange tribes

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Just around the corner, HERE . On collective thinking: COWEN: Now, another feature of your model, if I understand it correctly, is t...

How people move in cities can be investigated by examining geo-tags on photographs

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Uncovering Urban Temporal Patterns from Geo-Tagged Photography Silvia Paldino, Dániel Kondor, Iva Bojic, Stanislav Sobolevsky, Marta C....

Dueling Birches

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Tuesday, December 13, 2016

Tyler Cowen on Trump the Deal-Maker as President

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Writing in Bloomberg View , Cowen explains: One common feature of many real estate deals is that they are based on selling to different...

Cloudy Skies

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King Trump Assembles His Court

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I was struck by a passage in a NYTimes editorial for 12.12.16, “Flawed Choices for the State Department” . It was primarily about the choi...
Monday, December 12, 2016

Nature and Culture in Shades of Gray

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