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    <title>Unemployed Negativity: Its Competition All the Way Down: On the Spontaneous Anthropology of Contemporary Capitalism</title>
    <dc:date>2018-12-24T16:26:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.unemployednegativity.com/2018/12/its-competition-all-way-down-on.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The cooperative dimension of our social life is constantly faced with its own disappearance. It is eclipsed by the ideologies that tell us that we live brutal lives of competition and self interest, and by the technologies that make it so. Social media has made friendship itself quantitative and competitive. However, it does not totally go away, and it cannot. As Peter Fleming has argued, it is precisely this incalculable sociality that is at the basis of contemporary work. Social relations not only sustain the workplace, as our attempts to assist and amuse each other do more for morale than any imposed "team building workshop," but also outside of it as well, networks of care from carpooling to grandparents babysitting kids make possible the world of isolated and competitive workers. Every squeeze, every reduction of wages or increase in working times, may be addressed to us as competitive individuals, compelling us to increase our competitive leverage, but it material affects us as parts of networks of relations that exceed it. Every cut to social services, every reduction in wages, is very often absorbed by increased pressure on relations of cooperation that are invisible to a society that tells itself it functions in and through cooperation. Cooperation functions as the concealed support and buttress for an ideology of competition.

It is not a matter of not only refusing to believe in competition, but to turn the networks of pollination into something other than support for our continued exploitation.  Viewed from the outside and fairly superficially, the "gilet jaunes" in France would seem to be an example of what can happen when social relations contest capital rather than simply absorb its costs. It is necessary to go from worker bees to a swarm.
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    <title>Stability Criteria for Complex Microbial Communities | bioRxiv</title>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Competition and mutualism are inevitable processes in microbial ecology, and a central question is which and how many taxa will persist in the face of these interactions. Ecological theory has demonstrated that when direct, pairwise interactions among a group of species are too numerous, or too strong, then the coexistence of these species will be unstable to any slight perturbation. This instability worsens when mutualistic interactions complement competition. Here, we refine and to some extent overturn that understanding, by considering explicitly the resources that microbes consume and produce. In contrast to more complex organisms, microbial cells consume primarily abiotic resources, and mutualistic interactions are often mediated by these same abiotic resources through the mechanism of cross-feeding. Our model therefore considers the consumption and production of a set of abiotic resources by a group of microbial species. We show that if microbes consume, but do not produce resources, then any positive equilibrium will always be stable to small perturbations. We go on to show that in the presence of crossfeeding, stability is no longer guaranteed. However, stability still holds when mutualistic interations are either symmetric, or sufficiently weak.

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    <title>I Have Big Reservations About Chalkbeat’s Teaching Competition – dy/dan</title>
    <dc:date>2018-02-25T11:36:20+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://blog.mrmeyer.com/2018/i-have-big-reservations-about-chalkbeats-teaching-competition/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Real World a) isn’t a competition, b) allows for characters to develop over time, and crucially, c) isn’t a live event. It is edited. You don’t watch the cast members do anything mundane. In the case of teaching, we’d love for the public to understand that good teachers assess what students know and adjust their instruction in response. But no one wants to watch a class work quietly on a five-minute exit ticket in real time. So the show would edit quickly past students completing the assessment and straight to the teacher trying to make sense of a student’s thinking, involving the audience in that process.

The challenge I’d like to see the folks at Chalkbeat take up is how to make those invisible aspects of teaching – the work that takes place after the bell – visible to the public. The work of presenting is already teaching’s most visible aspect.

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    <title>[1411.5825] Assessment of algorithms for mitosis detection in breast cancer histopathology images</title>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The proliferative activity of breast tumors, which is routinely estimated by counting of mitotic figures in hematoxylin and eosin stained histology sections, is considered to be one of the most important prognostic markers. However, mitosis counting is laborious, subjective and may suffer from low inter-observer agreement. With the wider acceptance of whole slide images in pathology labs, automatic image analysis has been proposed as a potential solution for these issues. In this paper, the results from the Assessment of Mitosis Detection Algorithms 2013 (AMIDA13) challenge are described. The challenge was based on a data set consisting of 12 training and 11 testing subjects, with more than one thousand annotated mitotic figures by multiple observers. Short descriptions and results from the evaluation of eleven methods are presented. The top performing method has an error rate that is comparable to the inter-observer agreement among pathologists.
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    <title>[1312.6321] The virus of my virus is my friend: ecological effects of virophage with alternative modes of coinfection</title>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Virophages are viruses that rely on the replication machinery of other viruses to reproduce within eukaryotic hosts. Two different modes of coinfection have been posited based on experimental observation. In one mode, the virophage and virus enter the host independently. In the other mode, the virophage adheres to the virus so both virophage and virus enter the host together. Here we ask: what are the ecological effects of these different modes of coinfection? In particular, what ecological effects are common to both infection modes, and what are the differences particular to each mode? We develop a pair of biophysically motivated ODE models of viral-host population dynamics, corresponding to dynamics arising from each mode of infection. We find both modes of coinfection allow for the coexistence of the virophage, virus, and host either at a stable fixed point or through cyclical dynamics. In both models, virophage tend to be the most abundant population and their presence always reduces the viral abundance and increases the host abundance. However, we do find qualitative differences between models. For example, via extensive sampling of biologically relevant parameter space, we only observe bistability when the virophage and virus enter the host together. We discuss how such differences may be leveraged to help identify modes of infection in natural environments from population level data.
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    <title>[1407.8474] Voronoi Game on Graphs</title>
    <dc:date>2014-09-28T10:37:35+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1407.8474</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Voronoi game} is a geometric model of competitive facility location problem played between two players. Users are generally modeled as points uniformly distributed on a given underlying space. Each player chooses a set of points in the underlying space to place their facilities. Each user avails service from its nearest facility. Service zone of a facility consists of the set of users which are closer to it than any other facility. Payoff of each player is defined by the quantity of users served by all of its facilities. The objective of each player is to maximize their respective payoff. In this paper we consider the two players {\it Voronoi game} where the underlying space is a road network modeled by a graph. In this framework we consider the problem of finding k optimal facility locations of Player 2 given any placement of m facilities by Player 1. Our main result is a dynamic programming based polynomial time algorithm for this problem on tree network. On the other hand, we show that the problem is strongly -complete for graphs. This proves that finding a winning strategy of P2 is -complete. Consequently, we design an 1−1e factor approximation algorithm, where e≈2.718.
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    <title>Classifying Heart Sounds Challenge</title>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["According to the World Health Organisation, cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the number one cause of death globally: more people die annually from CVDs than from any other cause. An estimated 17.1 million people died from CVDs in 2004, representing 29% of all global deaths. Of these deaths, an estimated 7.2 million were due to coronary heart disease. Any method which can help to detect signs of heart disease could therefore have a significant impact on world health. This challenge is to produce methods to do exactly that. Specifically, we are interested in creating the first level of screening of cardiac pathologies both in a Hospital environment by a doctor (using a digital stethoscope) and at home by the patient (using a mobile device).

The problem is of particular interest to machine learning researchers as it involves classification of audio sample data, where distinguishing between classes of interest is non-trivial. Data is gathered in real-world situations and frequently contains background noise of every conceivable type. The differences between heart sounds corresponding to different heart symptoms can also be extremely subtle and challenging to separate. Success in classifying this form of data requires extremely robust classifiers. Despite its medical significance, to date this is a relatively unexplored application for machine learning."]]></description>
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    <title>Local Motors Competition: Terra Prix 2085 - Core77</title>
    <dc:date>2011-05-16T21:34:48+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Local Motors, a revolutionary crowd-sourced car company, is holding a concept design competition for a transcontinental race vehicle with a support ship."
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    <title>Time Warner Takes a Shot at Netflix - NYTimes.com</title>
    <dc:date>2010-12-13T23:41:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/13/business/media/13bewkes.html?_r=1</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Netflix has been a business partner to the movie and television studios through licensing deals, but increasingly it is seen as a partner with its hands far deeper in the pockets of the media companies than anyone thought. Through its success, the company has positioned itself at the center of the media universe — at the nexus of technology and content — and is now finding it a place increasingly under attack."
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    <title>Rare Sharing of Data Led to Results on Alzheimer’s - NYTimes.com</title>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["At first, the collaboration struck many scientists as worrisome — they would be giving up ownership of data, and anyone could use it, publish papers, maybe even misinterpret it and publish information that was wrong.

But Alzheimer’s researchers and drug companies realized they had little choice.

“Companies were caught in a prisoner’s dilemma,” said Dr. Jason Karlawish, an Alzheimer’s researcher at the University of Pennsylvania. “They all wanted to move the field forward, but no one wanted to take the risks of doing it.”"
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:competition"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:collaboration"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:public-health"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:alzheimer's"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1006.4553">
    <title>[1006.4553] Evolution of Biped Walking Using Neural Oscillators Controller and Harmony Search Algorithm Optimizer</title>
    <dc:date>2010-07-03T22:50:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1006.4553</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In this paper, a simple Neural controller has been used to achieve stable walking in a NAO biped robot, with 22 degrees of freedom that implemented in a virtual physics-based simulation environment of Robocup soccer simulation environment. The algorithm uses a Matsuoka base neural oscillator to generate control signal for the biped robot. To find the best angular trajectory and optimize network parameters, a new population-based search algorithm, called the Harmony Search (HS) algorithm, has been used. The algorithm conceptualized a group of musicians together trying to search for better state of harmony. Simulation results demonstrate that the modification of the step period and the walking motion due to the sensory feedback signals improves the stability of the walking motion."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>nudge-targets musicians?!? neural-networks algorithms competition robotics evolutionary-algorithms musicians!?!</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:4b64f2a1332c/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:nudge-targets"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:musicians?!?"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:neural-networks"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:algorithms"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:competition"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:robotics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:evolutionary-algorithms"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:musicians!?!"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://thomaspmbarnett.com/weblog/2010/04/how_transformative_will_shale.html">
    <title>How transformative will shale gas be? (Thomas P.M. Barnett :: Weblog)</title>
    <dc:date>2010-04-07T12:20:48+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://thomaspmbarnett.com/weblog/2010/04/how_transformative_will_shale.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In the old world, Russia was the King Kong of conventional gas. It was like the U.S. on military spending: basically the equal of the ROW (rest of world).

But when you look at the unconventional gas reserves, it's Asia-Pac first, NorthAm second, and the former USSR a middling third. In short, rising Asia and the U.S. can suddenly cover themselves a whole lot more, making both Russia and the Gulf pretty minor by comparison. Remember that last Nov Obama and Hu announced a "US-China shale gas initiative" that promised a swap of US technology for investment opportunities in China. That's gotta spook the would-be "OPEC of gas.""
]]></description>
<dc:subject>natural-resources oil-and-gas economics nationalism competition future regulation peak-oil</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:dd888bba8083/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:natural-resources"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:oil-and-gas"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:economics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:nationalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:competition"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:future"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:regulation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:peak-oil"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.gale.cengage.com/fairaccess/index.htm">
    <title>An open letter to the library community</title>
    <dc:date>2010-01-23T14:16:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.gale.cengage.com/fairaccess/index.htm</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["What does this mean to you?

If you currently receive Time Inc. or Forbes periodical content electronically from Gale or any provider other than EBSCO, you and your patrons will lose access to that content over the next year. While there will remain alternative, high-quality titles in all information providers' products, there will be an impact on users, especially those who access content through long-term statewide subscriptions."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>intellectual-property license-agreement open-access libraries business-model-failure access competition capital types-of</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:7369f35b129f/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:intellectual-property"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:license-agreement"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:open-access"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:libraries"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:business-model-failure"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:access"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:competition"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:capital"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:types-of"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.thersa.org/fellowship/journal/features/features/how-bad-biology-killed-the-economy">
    <title>RSA - How bad biology killed the economy</title>
    <dc:date>2009-12-27T20:52:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.thersa.org/fellowship/journal/features/features/how-bad-biology-killed-the-economy</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["And for those who keep looking to biology for an answer, the fundamental yet rarely asked question is why natural selection designed our brains so that we’re in tune with our fellow human beings and feel distress at their distress, and pleasure at their pleasure. If the exploitation of others were all that mattered, evolution should never have got into the empathy business. But it did, and the political and economic elites had better grasp that in a hurry."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>sociobiology sociology economics collaboration competition genetic-excuses libertarianism-as-mutation</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:96e004a0afc3/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:sociobiology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:sociology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:economics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:collaboration"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:competition"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:genetic-excuses"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:libertarianism-as-mutation"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/0911.0454">
    <title>[0911.0454] The Financial Bubble Experiment: advanced diagnostics and forecasts of bubble terminations</title>
    <dc:date>2009-12-24T16:03:39+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/0911.0454</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["We continue this protocol until the future date (1 May 2010) at which time we upload our final version of the master document. For this final version, we include the URL of a web site where the .pdf documents of all of our past forecasts can be downloaded and independently checked for consistent MD5 and SHA-2 hashes. For convenience, we will include a summary of all of our forecasts in this final document."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>prediction economics financial-crisis finance science open-science competition public-policy</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:b1d9440d3438/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:prediction"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:economics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:financial-crisis"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:finance"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:science"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:open-science"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:competition"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:public-policy"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/26350.html">
    <title>Sadly, No! » The Virtue Of Cluelessness</title>
    <dc:date>2009-11-08T18:55:47+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/26350.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["What we do know is that the credible competition from AMD certainly seems to have lit a fire of innovation under Intel’s ass in the early to mid-2000s, and Intel later countered AMD with superior Intel products from roughly 2006 to today. That part of the competition played out as it should in organic fashion, but the part where AMD grabbed market share during its own period of superiority obviously never happened … and it’s pretty clear to many people why it didn’t."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>competition economics business-culture fundamentalism Randism</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:b7771daf7803/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:competition"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:economics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:business-culture"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:fundamentalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:Randism"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://ung.igem.org/Results?year=2009">
    <title>Jamboree Results for iGEM 2009 - ung.igem.org</title>
    <dc:date>2009-11-06T20:00:35+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://ung.igem.org/Results?year=2009</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This page reports the result of the iGEM competition for 2009. You can visit the team's wiki by clicking on the team's name. You can see what medal the team won and view the slides from their presentation, a video of their presentation, and their poster using the other icons."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>biological-engineering iGEM competition design engineering engineering-design</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:92400fa41b9a/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:biological-engineering"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:iGEM"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:competition"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:design"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:engineering"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:engineering-design"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.altsearchengines.com/2009/09/10/collecta-releases-its-real-time-api-issues-challenge/">
    <title>Collecta Releases its Real Time API – issues challenge! « AltSearchEngines</title>
    <dc:date>2009-09-16T23:44:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.altsearchengines.com/2009/09/10/collecta-releases-its-real-time-api-issues-challenge/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In conjunction with the API release, Collecta is launching a developer’s challenge with ChallengePost.com.

Dubbed “The AppMaster Challenge,” the contest will help drive the development of creative and powerful applications. From now through October 8th, developers can submit their Collecta-powered plug-in, webapp or application and the Collecta team will select the one that best exemplifies what real-time results can do. The winner will be announced on October 15th, and will receive both a featured spot as AppMaster Champion and a new 15″ MacBook Pro. There will be weekly prizes as well, and developers are encouraged to submit early and often."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>search-engines data data-analysis data-aggregation competition programming</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:7d2f584dafc4/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:search-engines"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:data"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:data-analysis"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:data-aggregation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:competition"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:programming"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.core77.com/blog/news/2009_open_architecture_challenge_awards_14572.asp">
    <title>2009 Open Architecture Challenge Awards - Core77</title>
    <dc:date>2009-09-16T23:29:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.core77.com/blog/news/2009_open_architecture_challenge_awards_14572.asp</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Section Eight Design was selected as the winner for their partnership with Teton Valley Community School, a non-profit, independent school in Victor, Idaho. The proposal, pictured above, focuses on scalability and a connection to the outdoors, taking advantage of the school's location at the base of the Teton Mountain Range. In addition to classrooms and meeting spaces that the school will build incrementally as they raise funds, gardens, farm animals, and local, drought-resistant flora will be integrated into the school's fabric to promote community, environmental responsibility and a "sense of place.""
]]></description>
<dc:subject>architecture design openness competition award-winning sustainability</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:d82eecaf9f56/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:architecture"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:design"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:openness"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:competition"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:award-winning"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:sustainability"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2009/07/the-revolt-of-the-stenographers.html">
    <title>The Revolt of the Stenographers...</title>
    <dc:date>2009-07-27T12:28:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2009/07/the-revolt-of-the-stenographers.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I am 6.5 times as likely to be happy that I have spent my time reading one of the top stories in my RSS reader as I am to be happy that I have spent my time reading one of the top stories printed by the New York Times and the Washington Post."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>journalism new-media MSM disintermediation newspapers competition self-destruction business-model subscription-model</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:ed54dc95b70d/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:journalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:new-media"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:MSM"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:disintermediation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:newspapers"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:competition"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:self-destruction"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:business-model"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:subscription-model"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://venturebeat.com/2009/05/22/another-study-shows-that-craigslist-is-killing-newspapers/">
    <title>Another study shows Craigslist is killing newspapers » VentureBeat</title>
    <dc:date>2009-05-24T11:43:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://venturebeat.com/2009/05/22/another-study-shows-that-craigslist-is-killing-newspapers/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["They love to make it sound like making articles available free online is what killed newspapers. After all, then the problem is freeloading readers, news aggregators, and blogs. But in the case of classifieds, newspapers are getting trounced by a product that’s pretty much better and more efficient in every way, which casts them in a much less sympathetic light. Which just underscores the point that the industry needs to redouble its efforts to find a new model, rather than preserving an old one that was bloated and inefficient in many ways."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>self-definition business-model advertising competition Craig's-List classifieds free-content propaganda</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:fa82ea485925/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:self-definition"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:business-model"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:advertising"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:competition"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:Craig's-List"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:classifieds"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:free-content"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:propaganda"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.design21sdn.com/challenges/15">
    <title>GOING WITH THE GRAIN: design an object using sustainable wood - Challenges - DESIGN 21: Social Design Network</title>
    <dc:date>2009-04-10T10:42:59+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.design21sdn.com/challenges/15</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Entries should be functional designs that reveal the beauty of the wood.

Eligible entries are limited to one sheet of plywood.

Entries must be flat-pack designs, either using no hardware, or with the use of up to 20 pieces of EcoSystems: Alpha hardware. For PDF instructions and 3D files of the Alpha hardware, please visit Design Green Now.

EcoSystems will provide CNC (computer numerically controlled) routing manufacturing of the winning entry. The wood used is 1” Appleply, a 17 ply panel that has a rotary-cut White Maple face. In addition to being FSC wood, the panels are NAUF (No Added Urea Formaldehyde) and come with a no VOC (Volatile Organic Compounds) clear finish."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>industrial-design competition sustainability design wood plywood CNC</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:371dcd813de4/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:industrial-design"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:competition"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:sustainability"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:design"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:wood"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:plywood"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:CNC"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://enthusiasm.cozy.org/archives/2009/03/what-a-mess">
    <title>Ascription is an Anathema to any Enthusiasm › What a mess!</title>
    <dc:date>2009-03-18T11:06:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://enthusiasm.cozy.org/archives/2009/03/what-a-mess</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Standards create opportunities to do stuff.  These opportunities may well be patent worthy.  So if you want to grow out the thicket around the emerging standard you just lock some smart guys in a room and start them brain storming.  Some of what they come up with will be obvious, but that hardly means you won’t be able to capture a patent for it.   Just to add to fire to the shit storm it appears that Redhat’s patent is for the mind bogglingly obvious idea of transfering XML data over AMQP.  Of course any patent worth it’s lawyering starts with some broad claim and then get’s more focused."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>intellectual-property patents openness competition cooperation standard-setting-play</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:b55bcd567fd2/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:intellectual-property"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:patents"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:openness"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:competition"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:cooperation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:standard-setting-play"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://hunch.net/?p=558">
    <title>Machine Learning (Theory) » Decision by Vetocracy</title>
    <dc:date>2009-02-21T19:11:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://hunch.net/?p=558</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This experience has also altered my view of blogging and research. On one hand, I’m very enthusiastic about research in general, and my research in particular, where we are regularly cracking conventionally impossible problems. On the other hand, it seems that some small number of people viewing a discussion silently decide they don’t like it, and veto it given the opportunity. It only takes one to turn strong paper into a years-long odyssey, so public discussion of research directions and topics in a vetocracy is akin to voluntarily wearing a “kick me” sign. While this a problem for me, I expect it to be even worse for the members of a vetocracy in the long term."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>academia cultural-norms machine-learning community peer-review peer-production collaboration competition Arrow's-Theorem (and-the-inevitability-of-being-pissed-off)</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:38460ded48ef/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://pyflix.python-hosting.com/">
    <title>Pyflix - Trac</title>
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    <link>http://pyflix.python-hosting.com/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Pyflix is a small package written in Python that provides an easy entry point for getting up and running in the Netflix Prize competition. It combines an efficient storage scheme with an intuitive high-level API that allows contestants to focus on the real problem, the recommendation system algorithm. To get started with Pyflix, keep reading."
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    <title>GECCO - 2009 Competitions and Awards</title>
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    <title>A Bridge Too Far - Inside iPhone Blog</title>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["...Here, however, Apple has gone too far. Rejecting an application because it might compete with Apple is simply indefensible. There's so much wrong with it that I'm not even sure where to start. There are legal issues to consider, in terms of anti-competitive behavior. There's the fact that Apple isn't actually offering this functionality on the iPhone, so it's not really competing at all. And hey, doesn't Apple already allow plenty of competing functionality, with apps that ship on the iPhone? One need only look at PCalc, WeatherBug, or Big Clock to see obvious examples of duplicated functionality. Yet each was allowed in the App Store without incident."
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<item rdf:about="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080822-bus-company-tries-to-shutter-web-based-ride-share-service.html">
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<item rdf:about="http://www.kddcup2008.com/KDDsite/Challenges.htm">
    <title>Siemens KDD Cup 2008 - Registration</title>
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    <link>http://www.kddcup2008.com/KDDsite/Challenges.htm</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><dc:subject>KDD machine-learning Nudge data-mining feature-detection classification challenge competition contest conferences dataset</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.genetic-programming.org/hc2008/cfe2008.html">
    <title>Genetic Programming IV: Routine Human-Competitive Machine Intelligence</title>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.thepoint.com/">
    <title>The Point</title>
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    <title>open...: Unlocking the Value of Open Innovation</title>
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<item rdf:about="http://science-professor.blogspot.com/2007/07/dtente.html">
    <title>FemaleScienceProfessor: Détente</title>
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