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    <title>Asadi et al. &quot;MIRAGE: The Illusion of Visual Understanding&quot; (arXiv)</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-31T12:19:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.21687</link>
    <dc:creator>arthegall</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Section 2.2 is weirdly funny -- the first sentence is wrong in a way that I think is tantamount to the authors themselves falling victim to a similar phenomenon that they show the models succumbing to.  

In general, I think you can sum up the paper as "you can't run models -- even frontier models, even in 'thinking' mode -- alone, and treat the results as completely trustworthy." 

I sort of think most practitioners know this already, as people build pipelines or networks of interacting models.  For example, one model will extract or summarize conclusions or outcomes along with evidence, and the next will attempt to check the work of the first model.  Followed by other models that check the work of the earlier models -- and so on, turtles all the way down, until you inevitably (in the case of medical applications that *really don't want to miss something*) you have a human who's the expert-of-last-resort.  

The line in their discussion, "At the inference level, architectures that embed
counterfactual probing directly into their reasoning pipeline, for instance, by systematically comparing image-present and image-absent outputs before generating a final response, can provide runtime protection against mirage-affected reasoning," is sort of a big nod.  Yup, I think most people who are building these things know that.  (There are, [cough], still some C-suite types who could probably use to read a paper like this though, sadly.) 

Finally, I get why they focused on "benchmarks," and there are clearly a whole bunch of leaderboard-style effects going on with those dataset (see e.g. the way that some of the model-training companies have started to clearly optimize for Simon Willison's 'draw a pelican on a bicycle' informal test) 

But the bigger issue is that none of the benchmarks actually test the kinds of systems that are actually useful in the real world -- because the benchmarks want to test "just the model," and anyone who deploys *just the model*  is an idiot who is courting disaster.

[end rant] ]]></description>
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    <title>[1910.09707] A Fresh Look at the &quot;Hot Hand&quot; Paradox</title>
    <dc:date>2026-02-23T12:41:37+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>arthegall</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I am genuinely interested whether some of the recurrences outlined here match up with the 'good suffix rule' used in Boyer-Moore and related string matching algorithms (see e.g. Ben Langmead's slides: https://www.cs.jhu.edu/~langmea/resources/lecture_notes/04_boyer_moore_v2.pdf), or with the Z-array or Z algorithm that can be used to compute them (https://cp-algorithms.com/string/z-function.html, but the real reference for me is Gusfield's book https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/algorithms-on-strings-trees-and-sequences/F0B095049C7E6EF5356F0A26686C20D3 which is not really possible to find online, afaict). ]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>arthegall</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This has turned into one of the most fascinating reads of the last year, for me.  (via cshalizi) ]]></description>
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    <title>Small summaries big data | Knowledge management, databases and data mining | Cambridge University Press</title>
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    <link>https://fredrikdeboer.com/2017/07/21/cultural-studies-ironically-is-something-of-a-colonizer/</link>
    <dc:creator>arthegall</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This post was deeply frustrating to me -- the kind of thing that I think, ten years ago, I would have found myself nodding my head vigorously to as I read it, but today I think is mostly naive or short-sighted, and therefore almost totally wrong.]]></description>
<dc:subject>academia cultural-studies via:cshalizi anova history slacked</dc:subject>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:arthegall/b:3521c5cbf51f/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/11/21/challenge-of-defining-consciousness/">
    <title>The Challenge of Consciousness | by Riccardo Manzotti | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books</title>
    <dc:date>2016-12-01T12:02:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/11/21/challenge-of-defining-consciousness/</link>
    <dc:creator>arthegall</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I have such trouble with people who write things like this: 

"Well, a correlate of consciousness is not consciousness. When scientists look for AIDS or DNA, they look for the thing itself, not a mere correlate. This is a problem: how to get from the neural correlate—the fact that there’s neural activity when I experience something—to the thing itself, the experience? As Bertrand Russell almost facetiously put it, when one licks chocolate ice-cream nothing in the brain tastes like chocolate. Of course an experience also has correlates outside the brain: the sensory organs—eyes, ears, nose, skin, tastebuds—not to mention the object itself that we experience, light, soundwaves, that chocolate ice-cream, whatever. Why privilege the correlates in the brain in our attempt to locate consciousness?"

What ... what does that even mean? 
1. Of *course* scientists aren't looking at "the thing itself," when they look for AIDS or DNA -- they're looking for correlates, duh, that's _why it's so hard_ 
2. You might as well say, "when you take a photo of an ice cream cone, nothing inside the camera actually looks like ice cream" 
3. the "it's all just correlates, why privilege one correlate over another" argument was convincingly disposed of, like, 300 years ago

And yet I open up my paper copy of the NYRB -- yes, I said "paper" dammit -- and here is the same old stuff trotted out again and again.  ARRRRRrrrrgggghhhh]]></description>
<dc:subject>consciousness dialogue nyrb via:cshalizi rage-face blogging-on-pinboard-instead-of-twitter</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.jeremiahdittmar.com/files/dittmar_seabold_print_religion.pdf">
    <title>Dittmar and Seabold, &quot;Media, Markets, and Radical Ideas: Evidence from the Protestant Reformation&quot;</title>
    <dc:date>2016-11-16T15:42:31+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.jeremiahdittmar.com/files/dittmar_seabold_print_religion.pdf</link>
    <dc:creator>arthegall</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This is a deeply fascinating paper, the section on how (at a finely-grained geographical detail) they can detect relationships between levels of economic competition and (later, in time series) Protestant reformation laws is amazing / frightening.  ]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:cshalizi printing-press religion social-media competition ideas research-article sociology history</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:arthegall/b:f803dd578947/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://lareviewofbooks.org/review/algorithms-cheaper-humans-hidden-curse-automation">
    <title>When Algorithms Are Cheaper than Humans: The Hidden Curse of Automation - The Los Angeles Review of Books</title>
    <dc:date>2016-01-20T13:51:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://lareviewofbooks.org/review/algorithms-cheaper-humans-hidden-curse-automation</link>
    <dc:creator>arthegall</dc:creator><dc:subject>via:cshalizi algorithms automation review computers</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:arthegall/b:783ff4b547c0/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://lareviewofbooks.org/review/on-algorithmic-communism">
    <title>On Algorithmic Communism - The Los Angeles Review of Books</title>
    <dc:date>2016-01-20T13:51:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://lareviewofbooks.org/review/on-algorithmic-communism</link>
    <dc:creator>arthegall</dc:creator><dc:subject>book-review via:cshalizi computers algorithms</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:arthegall/b:3bd4d516cb87/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://medium.com/@geomblog/when-an-algorithm-isn-t-2b9fe01b9bb5">
    <title>When an algorithm isn’t… — Medium</title>
    <dc:date>2015-10-18T15:53:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://medium.com/@geomblog/when-an-algorithm-isn-t-2b9fe01b9bb5</link>
    <dc:creator>arthegall</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["And that’s how a learning algorithm works. It isn’t a recipe. It’s a procedure for constructing a recipe." 

<yawn> you could just have easily said, "it's a recipe for constructing recipes," a higher-order recipe, and then written a blog with exactly the opposite thesis statement.  

What I find more frustrating are people who write "algorithm" when they mean "formula" or "equation," but honestly even that complaint is a bit self-indulgent -- a recipe is a recipe, even when its steps consist of simple operations like addition and multiplication.

Ultimately, this all has the same evocative *feel* to it as those people who write long rants about how you shouldn't use the word "blog" for what is properly a blog *post*.  "I just wrote a blog!" "No you didn't, you wrote a post on a previously-existing blog." Whatever dude, get with the social-constructive nature of blogs, and posts, and algorithms, and recipes, and procedures, and literally everything else around you.]]></description>
<dc:subject>call-it-whatever-you-want learning algorithms machinelearning via:cshalizi</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1510.02706">
    <title>[1510.02706] Conditional Risk Minimization for Stochastic Processes</title>
    <dc:date>2015-10-18T15:48:02+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1510.02706</link>
    <dc:creator>arthegall</dc:creator><dc:subject>via:cshalizi arxiv research-article statistics prediction probabilistic-methods</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:arthegall/b:3b83205aba30/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:arthegall/t:prediction"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/Other/bo20832370">
    <title>57 Ways to Screw Up in Grad School: Perverse Professional Lessons for Graduate Students, Haggerty, Doyle</title>
    <dc:date>2015-08-05T02:20:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/Other/bo20832370</link>
    <dc:creator>arthegall</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Oh man, I bet I won in several different directions, in the "How To Screw Up Your Own Graduate Career" Bingo game. ]]></description>
<dc:subject>phd academia graduate-school personal-failing via:cshalizi</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:arthegall/b:2ee95adba4b9/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:arthegall/t:graduate-school"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://auai.org/uai2015/proceedings/papers/62.pdf">
    <title>Bauckhage, Kersting, and Hadiji, &quot;Parameterizing the Distance Distribution of Undirected Networks&quot;</title>
    <dc:date>2015-07-15T16:57:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://auai.org/uai2015/proceedings/papers/62.pdf</link>
    <dc:creator>arthegall</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Oh cool! I think there are actually some connections to some genomic privacy stuff here too.]]></description>
<dc:subject>privacy genomics networks statistics via:cshalizi research-article uai distances graphs paths</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:arthegall/b:ba16e2742414/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1504.04595">
    <title>[1504.04595] Random projection ensemble classification</title>
    <dc:date>2015-05-25T19:10:18+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1504.04595</link>
    <dc:creator>arthegall</dc:creator><dc:subject>via:cshalizi random-projections arxiv machinelearning research-article</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:arthegall/b:8454b24501dc/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1409.3821">
    <title>[1409.3821] Computational Implications of Reducing Data to Sufficient Statistics</title>
    <dc:date>2015-01-20T18:50:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1409.3821</link>
    <dc:creator>arthegall</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Given a large dataset and an estimation task, it is common to pre-process the data by reducing them to a set of sufficient statistics. This step is often regarded as straightforward and advantageous (in that it simplifies statistical analysis). I show that -on the contrary- reducing data to sufficient statistics can change a computationally tractable estimation problem into an intractable one. I discuss connections with recent work in theoretical computer science, and implications for some techniques to estimate graphical models."]]></description>
<dc:subject>graphical-models computerscience complexity arxiv machine-learning sufficient-statistics via:cshalizi</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:arthegall/b:7e17eec180b4/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1410.8260">
    <title>[1410.8260] Selecting the number of principal components: estimation of the true rank of a noisy matrix</title>
    <dc:date>2014-12-03T11:21:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1410.8260</link>
    <dc:creator>arthegall</dc:creator><dc:subject>arxiv research-article statistics rank linear-algebra tracy-widom pca robert-tibshirani via:cshalizi</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:arthegall/b:ac03c4658c97/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:arthegall/t:linear-algebra"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.pitt.edu/~pittcntr/Events/All/Conferences/others/other_conf_2014-15/04-10-15_diagrams/diagrams-cfp.html">
    <title>Center for Philosophy of Science ::: other conferences ::: quantum time</title>
    <dc:date>2014-12-01T22:41:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.pitt.edu/~pittcntr/Events/All/Conferences/others/other_conf_2014-15/04-10-15_diagrams/diagrams-cfp.html</link>
    <dc:creator>arthegall</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Oh man, I wish I could attend this.]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:cshalizi conference diagrams science visualization</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:arthegall/b:814fa5343b04/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/recombinatorics">
    <title>ReCombinatorics | The MIT Press</title>
    <dc:date>2014-11-20T15:05:09+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/recombinatorics</link>
    <dc:creator>arthegall</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Dan Gusfield's new book. Waaaaant.]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:cshalizi bioinformatics args phylogenetics book to-buy</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:arthegall/b:91a206c1b6df/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:arthegall/t:args"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:arthegall/t:to-buy"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:7f84dd5ddf85">
    <title>cshalizi's bookmark of &quot;Culture-dependent strategies in coordination games&quot;</title>
    <dc:date>2014-07-29T18:03:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:7f84dd5ddf85</link>
    <dc:creator>arthegall</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Obviously this paper should have been titled "Player(s) of Games"]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:cshalizi games iain-banks</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:arthegall/b:f5471a9b65ec/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=9780745605524">
    <title>Book - Raymond Boudon - The Analysis of Ideology</title>
    <dc:date>2014-06-19T15:45:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=9780745605524</link>
    <dc:creator>arthegall</dc:creator><dc:subject>via:cshalizi boudon sociology theory ideology book to-read</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:arthegall/b:e0a0403667c9/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10013.html">
    <title>Stephen Yablo, &quot;Aboutness&quot;</title>
    <dc:date>2014-06-08T18:06:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10013.html</link>
    <dc:creator>arthegall</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Attn @jar346, I assume you're familiar with this book?  seems up your alley.]]></description>
<dc:subject>book aboutness philosophy via:cshalizi ontology</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://twitter.com/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:arthegall/b:503a7ef8511a/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/REST_a_00368#.U3ezNV7Tjuc">
    <title>Printing and Protestants: An Empirical Test of the Role of Printing in the Reformation</title>
    <dc:date>2014-05-19T15:44:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/REST_a_00368#.U3ezNV7Tjuc</link>
    <dc:creator>arthegall</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The causes of the Protestant Reformation have long been debated. This paper seeks to revive and econometrically test the theory that the spread of the Reformation is linked to the spread of the printing press. I test this theory by analyzing data on the spread of the press and the Reformation at the city level. An econometric analysis that instruments for omitted variable bias with a city's distance from Mainz, the birthplace of printing, suggests that cities with at least one printing press by 1500 were at minimum 29 percentage points more likely to be Protestant by 1600."]]></description>
<dc:subject>history via:cshalizi research-article econometrics to-be-shot-after-a-fair-trial? printing-press elizabeth-eisenstein</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:arthegall/b:2d69d0f5516c/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://global.oup.com/academic/product/shared-agency-9780199339990?cc=us&amp;lang=en#">
    <title>Shared Agency - Paperback - Michael E. Bratman - Oxford University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2014-01-28T16:38:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://global.oup.com/academic/product/shared-agency-9780199339990?cc=us&amp;lang=en#</link>
    <dc:creator>arthegall</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Corporations are people too, my friend.  In all seriousness, looks interesting, would totally buy it, once I've got some free time again (18 years from now?).  ]]></description>
<dc:subject>book via:cshalizi planning agency ontology to-buy to-read</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:arthegall/b:a1842fd7f0c6/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:arthegall/t:planning"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:arthegall/t:to-buy"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://dabacon.org/pontiff/?p=10568">
    <title>Error correcting aliens | The Quantum Pontiff</title>
    <dc:date>2014-01-28T11:01:56+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://dabacon.org/pontiff/?p=10568</link>
    <dc:creator>arthegall</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Honestly, I read this and think, "what are the implications for the way in which we're going about building intelligent machines?" As a species, I mean.]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:cshalizi time consciousness aliens intelligence error-correction quantum-computing</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:arthegall/b:e8a7f90bf665/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:arthegall/t:consciousness"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v501/n7467/full/nature12517.html">
    <title>Cerebral organoids model human brain development and microcephaly : Nature : Nature Publishing Group</title>
    <dc:date>2013-10-21T16:16:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v501/n7467/full/nature12517.html</link>
    <dc:creator>arthegall</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[ZOMG]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:cshalizi neuroscience research-article biology brain-science brain-in-a-vat</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:arthegall/b:b33694e69c06/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://tech.pro/tutorial/1555/10-easy-steps-to-a-complete-understanding-of-sql">
    <title>10 Easy Steps to a Complete Understanding of SQL - Tech.Pro</title>
    <dc:date>2013-09-25T20:27:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://tech.pro/tutorial/1555/10-easy-steps-to-a-complete-understanding-of-sql</link>
    <dc:creator>arthegall</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Item #2 is somewhere between "incoherent" and "wrong." ]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:cshalizi databases sql tutorial</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:arthegall/b:471f01ea6daf/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.jstor.org/stable/1909242">
    <title>Franklin Fisher, &quot;A Correspondence Principle for Simultaneous Equation Models&quot; Econometrica (1972)</title>
    <dc:date>2013-09-08T10:26:25+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.jstor.org/stable/1909242</link>
    <dc:creator>arthegall</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[JSTOR: Econometrica, Vol. 38, No. 1 (Jan., 1970), pp. 73-92]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:cshalizi jstor research-article structural-equation-modeling path-analysis statistics to-read</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:arthegall/b:071a1e45060f/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://bahfest.com/">
    <title>BAH! | The Festival Of Bad Ad Hoc Hypotheses</title>
    <dc:date>2013-09-06T09:46:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://bahfest.com/</link>
    <dc:creator>arthegall</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I want to go to this *so badly*.]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:cshalizi comics humor science mit</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:arthegall/b:bcdcdb4e40a8/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:arthegall/t:humor"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://projecteuclid.org/DPubS?service=UI&amp;version=1.0&amp;verb=Display&amp;handle=euclid.aos/1375362560">
    <title>Miller , Harrison : Exact sampling and counting for fixed-margin matrices</title>
    <dc:date>2013-09-01T21:08:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://projecteuclid.org/DPubS?service=UI&amp;version=1.0&amp;verb=Display&amp;handle=euclid.aos/1375362560</link>
    <dc:creator>arthegall</dc:creator><dc:subject>via:cshalizi matrices sampling counts statistics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:arthegall/b:8c4fd5a71ce0/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1307.7963">
    <title>[1307.7963] Efficient variational inference for generalized linear mixed models with large datasets</title>
    <dc:date>2013-08-20T10:41:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1307.7963</link>
    <dc:creator>arthegall</dc:creator><dc:subject>via:cshalizi variational-methods research-article linear-regression bayesian-methods arxiv</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:arthegall/b:e05a82ab9f5b/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:arthegall/t:variational-methods"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:arthegall/t:research-article"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:arthegall/t:linear-regression"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:arthegall/t:arxiv"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://rationalist.org.uk/articles/4182/iain-m-banks-universe">
    <title>Iain M Banks' Universe | Rationalist Association</title>
    <dc:date>2013-08-04T13:43:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://rationalist.org.uk/articles/4182/iain-m-banks-universe</link>
    <dc:creator>arthegall</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Spufford about M. Banks!! I thank Nikete for (really) clueing me in to Banks, and Cosma for the pointers to Spufford's Red Plenty, so this is a wonderful confluence :-)]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:cshalizi science-fiction iain-m-banks culture review</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:arthegall/b:f11cb696e67c/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:arthegall/t:science-fiction"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:arthegall/t:iain-m-banks"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:arthegall/t:culture"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://thefinchandpea.com/2013/07/17/using-a-null-hypothesis-to-find-function-in-the-genome/">
    <title>Finding function in the genome with a null hypothesis | The Finch and Pea</title>
    <dc:date>2013-08-03T14:17:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://thefinchandpea.com/2013/07/17/using-a-null-hypothesis-to-find-function-in-the-genome/</link>
    <dc:creator>arthegall</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This is cool (generating random genomic sequence and measuring expression/chip-seq binding off it!) -- but there are a couple of huge caveats: "100kb" is several orders of magnitude away from the size of a human genome (four orders, to be specific), and overall size *does* matter in this context, since regulatory function is kind of a competitive thing and doesn't always make much sense to test individually.  Second, and more importantly, from my quick reading of this blog post, this doesn't *appear* to address the issue of tissue-specific expression and binding patterns in ENCODE that, to my reading, are one of the pieces of evidence that they adduce to their determination of "function."  But I need to go read this PNAS paper to be sure, before I went and said anything more determined...]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:cshalizi genomics null-hypothesis function dan-graur encode evolutionary-biology</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:arthegall/b:5c9df75c2900/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:arthegall/t:evolutionary-biology"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/0706.4190">
    <title>[0706.4190] SiZer for time series: A new approach to the analysis of trends</title>
    <dc:date>2013-06-28T11:20:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/0706.4190</link>
    <dc:creator>arthegall</dc:creator><dc:subject>research-article arxiv via:cshalizi saving visualization time-series</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:arthegall/b:0cad85b4c24a/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:arthegall/t:time-series"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.sciencemag.org/content/340/6134/814.full">
    <title>Troubling Trends in Scientific Software Use</title>
    <dc:date>2013-06-04T18:43:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.sciencemag.org/content/340/6134/814.full</link>
    <dc:creator>arthegall</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Peer reviewing code for comments (!!) cannot be the answer -- it probably isn't even anywhere close to the answer.

The only thing that has a hope of succeeding is teaching people about software testing practices, and independently creating test suites for common problems that scientific software is written to solve in the sciences.  This is really the *only* thing that has a hope of succeeding (I'm specifically focusing on things like the "DREAM challenges" in Systems Bio: http://wiki.c2b2.columbia.edu/dream/index.php/The_DREAM_Project ).  Creation of these standards and tests are exactly the kinds of thing that journal editors and "leaders" in a field could (and should) lead.  

Otherwise, all the "Software Carpentry" classes in teh world are not going to do a bit of good.  </rant>]]></description>
<dc:subject>programming science software via:cshalizi rant</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:arthegall/b:009b07f7d249/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.powells.com/biblio?isbn=0199673454">
    <title>Causation: A User's Guide by L. A. Paul - Powell's Books</title>
    <dc:date>2013-06-04T09:10:09+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.powells.com/biblio?isbn=0199673454</link>
    <dc:creator>arthegall</dc:creator><dc:subject>to-buy via:cshalizi via:kjhealy book causality la-paul</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:arthegall/b:dd60ccc80606/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8624.html">
    <title>Bryant, J. and Sangwin, C.: How Round Is Your Circle? Where Engineering and Mathematics Meet.</title>
    <dc:date>2013-05-13T10:11:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8624.html</link>
    <dc:creator>arthegall</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Purchased.]]></description>
<dc:subject>approximation engineering book via:cshalizi via:vaguery</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:arthegall/b:c13ab7cbb4f6/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.3054">
    <title>[1111.3054] Consistency under Sampling of Exponential Random Graph Models</title>
    <dc:date>2013-04-29T14:39:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.3054</link>
    <dc:creator>arthegall</dc:creator><dc:subject>via:cshalizi by:cshalizi graphs arxiv research-article exponential-families statistics random-graphs</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:arthegall/b:d1588c44e99e/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1304.1548">
    <title>Ugander, Backstrom, Kleinberg, &quot;Subgraph Frequencies: Mapping the Empirical and Extremal Geography of Large Graph Collections&quot; (arXiv)</title>
    <dc:date>2013-04-11T12:04:11+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1304.1548</link>
    <dc:creator>arthegall</dc:creator><dc:subject>via:cshalizi jon-kleinberg arxiv research-article graphs social-networks</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:arthegall/b:8b4ef971a718/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://books.nips.cc/papers/files/nips25/NIPS2012_1027.pdf">
    <title>Loh, Wainwright, &quot;Structure estimation for discrete graphical models: Generalized covariance matrices and their inverses&quot;</title>
    <dc:date>2013-04-11T10:47:05+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://books.nips.cc/papers/files/nips25/NIPS2012_1027.pdf</link>
    <dc:creator>arthegall</dc:creator><dc:subject>to-read martin-wainwright graphical-models research-article machinelearning via:cshalizi</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:arthegall/b:8202f49c0b73/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:arthegall/t:graphical-models"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:arthegall/t:research-article"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:arthegall/t:machinelearning"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.interfluidity.com/v2/4218.html">
    <title>interfluidity » K is not capital, L is not labor</title>
    <dc:date>2013-03-19T10:08:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.interfluidity.com/v2/4218.html</link>
    <dc:creator>arthegall</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The Chamley-Judd claim is that it is optimal that one of these factors should be taxed and the other not be. For this to be true, there must be some asymmetry: Factor one, which we’ll call K must be different from factor two, which we’ll call L. What distinguishes these factors and leaves one optimally taxed, the other optimally untaxed? Fundamentally, the difference is that capital accumulates, while labor does not. Judd assumes completely inelastic labor provision, Chamley allows for a labor/leisure trade-off bounded by a fixed number of hours. Each period labor is born anew, while capital stands on the shoulders of its ancestors. This difference is what drives the asymmetry and then the result. Labor is a factor in strictly limited supply, capital is a factor whose quantity can grow indefinitely and which augments labor in production. Under these circumstances, the way to get a big, rich economy — and to maximize the marginal product of labor! — is to encourage the accumulation of capital. Encouraging labor provision directly can’t take you very far, because there is a ceiling. But the sky’s the limit with capital." 

-- that's actually a really beautiful, and well-written, description.]]></description>
<dc:subject>economics via:cshalizi capital labor modeling</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:arthegall/b:c8168198d366/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://crookedtimber.org/2013/03/11/weird-arguments-about-love-and-marriage/">
    <title>Weird Arguments About Love and Marriage — Crooked Timber</title>
    <dc:date>2013-03-13T09:33:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://crookedtimber.org/2013/03/11/weird-arguments-about-love-and-marriage/</link>
    <dc:creator>arthegall</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Suppose your neighbor leans over the fence and says, “Dear neighbor, I notice you tend to sleep in until noon on Saturdays. I wish you would get up by 8 AM. I have a moral view according to which people should get up by 8 AM on Saturday morning.” Your neighbor is free to say this. But he isn’t entitled to you taking him seriously. If you tell him to keep his opinions to himself and he gets indignant – ‘that is a rigid standard for public discourse!’ – the scene has crossed over into comedy. Best of all would be if he developed a mild persecution complex, slinking along your fence of a Saturday morning, a cross between the Underground Man and the Soup Nazi. Imagine a character who is always telling people what to order in restaurants and, when they refuse, rolling his eyes unto heaven: “The early Christians were persecuted, too!” And that’s why I will probably watch that video later, because I enjoy comedy of manners. The light stuff. (Why else would I read First Things?)"]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:cshalizi love marriage andrew-sullivan humor first-things john-holbo religion aweseome epistemology</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:arthegall/b:47c294ac6ed1/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~venkatg/teaching/CStheory-infoage/hopcroft-kannan-feb2012.pdf">
    <title>Hopcroft and Kannan, &quot;Computer Science Theory for the Information Age&quot;</title>
    <dc:date>2013-02-19T13:23:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~venkatg/teaching/CStheory-infoage/hopcroft-kannan-feb2012.pdf</link>
    <dc:creator>arthegall</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[book]]></description>
<dc:subject>pdf book computerscience information via:cshalizi graphical-models ranking clustering learning spectral-methods</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:arthegall/b:1cc238f9ea5b/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.3203">
    <title>Duchi, Jordan, Wainwright &quot;Local Privacy and Statistical Minimax Rates&quot; (arXiv)</title>
    <dc:date>2013-02-18T17:55:14+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.3203</link>
    <dc:creator>arthegall</dc:creator><dc:subject>michael-jordan martin-wainwright via:cshalizi arxiv research-article statistics privacy local-privacy information-theory</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:arthegall/b:7925522222a5/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://books.nips.cc/papers/files/nips25/NIPS2012_0487.pdf">
    <title>Random function priors for exchangeable arrays with applications to graphs and relational data</title>
    <dc:date>2013-02-18T17:40:09+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://books.nips.cc/papers/files/nips25/NIPS2012_0487.pdf</link>
    <dc:creator>arthegall</dc:creator><dc:subject>via:cshalizi daniel-roy research-article machinelearning nonparametric-methods nips</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:arthegall/b:e1f7670fce28/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Knowledge-Innovation-Learning-Classical/dp/0691146241">
    <title>Amazon.com: Democracy and Knowledge: Innovation and Learning in Classical Athens (9780691146249): Josiah Ober: Books</title>
    <dc:date>2013-02-18T12:47:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Knowledge-Innovation-Learning-Classical/dp/0691146241</link>
    <dc:creator>arthegall</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[To Buy.]]></description>
<dc:subject>to-buy book ober via:cshalizi democracy diversity knowledge cultural-ratchet-effect amazon</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:arthegall/b:3ccb49da1a90/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://vserver1.cscs.lsa.umich.edu/~crshalizi/weblog/467.html">
    <title>&quot;Statistical Communication&quot; (Three-Toed Sloth)</title>
    <dc:date>2013-02-18T12:44:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://vserver1.cscs.lsa.umich.edu/~crshalizi/weblog/467.html</link>
    <dc:creator>arthegall</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["If patterns of ones and zeroes were "like" patterns of human lives and deaths, if everything about an individual could be represented in a computer record by a long string of ones and zeroes, then what kind of creature would be represented by a long string of lives and deaths? It would have to be up one level at least—an angel, a minor god, something in a UFO. It would take eight human lives and deaths just to form one character in this being's name—its complete dossier might take up a considerable piece of the history of the world." -- the "one good passage in Thomas Pynchon." 

(Good thing it's only eight lives-or-deaths-- God forbid this minor god or UFO encodes its name in something like UTF-32...) ]]></description>
<dc:subject>thomas-pynchon humor by:cshalizi via:cshalizi communication have-you-seen-my-crossbow xkcd</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:arthegall/b:9fc2eb9f411d/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://ergofabulous.org/luther/?">
    <title>Lutheran Insulter :: List of Insults</title>
    <dc:date>2013-01-17T11:04:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://ergofabulous.org/luther/?</link>
    <dc:creator>arthegall</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Like butter in sunshine." ]]></description>
<dc:subject>humor martin-luther early-printed-word via:cshalizi</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:arthegall/b:32702c9019a3/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:arthegall/t:early-printed-word"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:arthegall/t:via:cshalizi"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://quomodocumque.wordpress.com/2013/01/16/graph-search-skepticism/">
    <title>Graph search skepticism | Quomodocumque</title>
    <dc:date>2013-01-17T10:56:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://quomodocumque.wordpress.com/2013/01/16/graph-search-skepticism/</link>
    <dc:creator>arthegall</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Google can’t tell you which states that entered the Union after 1875 have public universities with animals as their mascots, or which Congressional district ranks 10th by percentage of area covered by water, which is the kind of thing Wolfram Alpha is ace at; but that’s because no one has ever asked those questions, and no one ever will." 

-- Like Cosma says, it *is* well put.  But this is also kind of missing the point: Wolfram Alpha and Google Search are targeting very different audiences.  Google Search is trying to get as many people in the world to use their web application so they can sell ads.  Wolfram Alpha is basically an advertisement -- a working prototype, that members of middle management at (say) a pharma company, or a more generic technology company, can look at an say, "that's what I want for *my* data."  And then Wolfram Alpha basically becomes a product they're buying from a vendor.

I think a lot of people read a question like, "which Congressional district ranks 10th by percentage of area covered by water," and think, "that's *exactly* the kind of question I *want* to ask in my own business, but either we don't have a data warehouse that could answer it, or I really don't have the time to learn SQL." 

I haven't read the Marcus piece in full, and I haven't spent a lot of time thinking about Facebook Graph Search (nor do I plan to).  But I would think that the proper question to ask *first* is, who is Facebook trying to sell this graph searching *to*?  After all, Search isn't just a "public utility" (like some recent critics of Google have claimed), it's also an "enterprise software product."  Other social networks, like, LinkedIn, have (as I understand it) fairly sophisticated systems for searching and filtering user profiles that they sell directly to recruiters.  Someone who's really thinking critically about What Facebook is Up To isn't going to muse about "research engines" -- there's no money in it! -- but rather try to ask the question, "is Facebook building search *for* their users, or are they building a search *of* their users for someone else entirely?" ]]></description>
<dc:subject>wolfram-alpha more-skepticism-is-required google search via:cshalizi</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:arthegall/b:2679c8a6807f/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.0554">
    <title>Francis Bach, Michael Jordan, &quot;Tree-dependent Component Analysis&quot; arXiv (Dec 2012)</title>
    <dc:date>2013-01-08T10:36:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.0554</link>
    <dc:creator>arthegall</dc:creator><dc:subject>via:cshalizi research-article statistics arxiv michael-jordan</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:arthegall/b:706fade00147/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://quomodocumque.wordpress.com/2013/01/05/do-we-really-underestimate-how-much-well-change-or-absolute-value-is-not-linear/">
    <title>Do we really underestimate how much we’ll change? (or: absolute value is not linear!) | Quomodocumque</title>
    <dc:date>2013-01-07T12:55:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://quomodocumque.wordpress.com/2013/01/05/do-we-really-underestimate-how-much-well-change-or-absolute-value-is-not-linear/</link>
    <dc:creator>arthegall</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Episode 1,000,000 in the ongoing series of "Peer Review and Publication in a Journal is Nice, but Is Still a Low Bar." With the sub-title "Publication in a Glossy Journal is a Little Better, but Not Much." All of this explains why "The New York Times: Acting as a Megaphone for Cherry-picked Publications from Glossy Journals since God Knows When" is a bad thing for the culture in general. 

Also, when did Quomodocumque change its Wordpress theme to be identical to A Fine Theorem?  *That* is going to be confusing to me, I can predict with confidence.]]></description>
<dc:subject>prediction psychology bad-statistics quomodocumque journamalism science publication peer-review via:cshalizi</dc:subject>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:arthegall/b:85b39aaa14fe/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~bartlett/talks/201207-MMDS.pdf">
    <title>Model Selection and Computational Oracle Inequalities for Large-Scale Problems</title>
    <dc:date>2012-12-24T10:08:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~bartlett/talks/201207-MMDS.pdf</link>
    <dc:creator>arthegall</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Very interesting, from a superficial scan.]]></description>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:arthegall/b:ad2a25d5c717/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://crookedtimber.org/2012/12/21/the-christmas-sermon-2012-on-not-believing-in-canada">
    <title>The Christmas Sermon 2012 – “On Not Believing In Canada” — Crooked Timber</title>
    <dc:date>2012-12-22T13:04:47+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://crookedtimber.org/2012/12/21/the-christmas-sermon-2012-on-not-believing-in-canada</link>
    <dc:creator>arthegall</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["My holiday reading is going to be “Antifragility” by Nassim Taleb, another author who regularly causes one to fling the book across the room going “he can’t possibly mean that!”. In most cases, as with Canadatheism, it might be the case that a good author doesn’t exactly mean “that”, but does mean something by what they’ve written and was rather hoping that you’d work it out for yourself." <-- I feel like D^'2's been affected, in some deep way, by that Twitter exchange with Taleb.]]></description>
<dc:subject>nicholas-taleb daniel-davies epistemology christmas belief religion theology humor canada via:cshalizi</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:arthegall/b:282f7c6a407a/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2012/dec/15/our-moloch/">
    <title>Our Moloch by Garry Wills | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books</title>
    <dc:date>2012-12-16T11:42:17+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2012/dec/15/our-moloch/</link>
    <dc:creator>arthegall</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Honestly, those lines (that Wills quotes) about Moloch from PL have been in my head almost continuously, since the shooting...

"... Nor content with such 
audacious neighborhood, the wisest heart 
of Solomon he led by fraud to build 
his temple, right against the Temple of God 
on that opprobrious hill, and made his grove 
the pleasant valley of Hinom, Tophet thence, 
and Black Gehenna called, the type of Hell."

]]></description>
<dc:subject>paradise-lost guns america garry-wills poetry personal via:cshalizi</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:arthegall/b:68bccc9875b2/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.mii.ucla.edu/causality/?p=554">
    <title>Causal Analysis in Theory and Practice » Judea Pearl on Potential Outcomes</title>
    <dc:date>2012-12-07T11:22:38+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.mii.ucla.edu/causality/?p=554</link>
    <dc:creator>arthegall</dc:creator><dc:subject>via:cshalizi donald-rubin judea-pearl causality scm potential-outcomes discussion</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:arthegall/b:9c3510e35176/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v491/n7425/full/nature11660.html">
    <title>An early and enduring advanced technology originating 71,000 years ago in South Africa : Nature : Nature Publishing Group</title>
    <dc:date>2012-11-25T10:26:55+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v491/n7425/full/nature11660.html</link>
    <dc:creator>arthegall</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The military-industrial complex is 70,000+ years old... ]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:cshalizi archaeology bladelets microliths history culture military</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:arthegall/b:72700581f74d/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/10/22/071022fa_fact_krystal?currentPage=all&amp;mobify=0">
    <title>Annals of Letters: Age of Reason : The New Yorker</title>
    <dc:date>2012-10-28T13:35:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/10/22/071022fa_fact_krystal?currentPage=all&amp;mobify=0</link>
    <dc:creator>arthegall</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Sooner or later, all of Barzun’s acquaintances experience their own “just Jacques” moment. Two years ago, while working on a piece for this magazine, I called Barzun to find out whether Lord Edward Grey, the British Foreign Secretary during the First World War, had said that the lights were going out all over Europe before hostilities had actually begun. Barzun asked if I was referring to him in my article as “Lord Grey.” I said I was, since the attribution was always the same. Barzun cleared his throat. “Well, you know, he wasn’t a lord when he said it. He didn’t become Viscount of Fallodon until 1916.” For the first time in thirty-odd years of conversation, I exclaimed, “Why would you know that?” He replied, mildly, “It’s my business to know such things.”"

It'd be fun to think about Google as a way of giving us all "just Jacques" moments, or the internet as basically a democratization (in the long-run) of knowledge that was formerly located only in special people like Barzun.]]></description>
<dc:subject>jacques-barzun new-yorker via:cshalizi knowledge expertise culture</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:arthegall/b:8256d450bc40/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:arthegall/t:expertise"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.1086/668006">
    <title>The Joint Account of Mechanistic Explanation</title>
    <dc:date>2012-10-17T18:52:38+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.1086/668006</link>
    <dc:creator>arthegall</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I miss my old JSTOR access.  Where is aaron swartz when you really need him? ]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:cshalizi causality jstor philosophy philosophy-of-science</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:arthegall/b:2d1d19175d7c/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444375104577593543203853710.html">
    <title>Book Review: Liars and Outliers | Against Security | Permanent Emergency - WSJ.com</title>
    <dc:date>2012-09-09T16:41:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444375104577593543203853710.html</link>
    <dc:creator>arthegall</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Mr. Ellenberg, a professor of mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is writing a book called "How Not to Be Wrong."" -- Can I, uh, pre-order that?  ]]></description>
<dc:subject>jordan-ellenberg via:cshalizi security bruce-schneier security-theater tsa</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:arthegall/b:847661512e6e/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.6838">
    <title>[1206.6838] Continuous Time Markov Networks</title>
    <dc:date>2012-09-05T18:34:20+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.6838</link>
    <dc:creator>arthegall</dc:creator><dc:subject>via:cshalizi arxiv research-article daphne-koller nir-friedman machinelearning bayesian-methods graphical-models</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:arthegall/b:a3ae797460c0/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.0547">
    <title>Uhler, Raskutti, Buhlmann, &quot;Geometry of faithfulness assumption in causal inference&quot; (arXiv)</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-15T09:42:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.0547</link>
    <dc:creator>arthegall</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["We study the strong-faithfulness condition from a geometric point of view and give upper and lower bounds on the Lebesgue measure of strong-faithful distributions for various classes of directed acyclic graphs. Our results imply fundamental limitations for algorithms inferring causality based on partial correlations, that is, conditional independence testing in the Gaussian case."]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:cshalizi research-article arxiv bayesian-networks graphical-models faithfulness causality</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:arthegall/b:39383a8def8e/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/07/27/the-usefulness-of-useless-knowledge/">
    <title>The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge | Brain Pickings</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-13T11:31:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/07/27/the-usefulness-of-useless-knowledge/</link>
    <dc:creator>arthegall</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Science, like the Mississippi, begins in a tiny rivulet in a distant forest." ]]></description>
<dc:subject>writing creativity invention cultural-ratchet-effect via:cshalizi network-effects knowledge</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:arthegall/b:dedd4ea6cf2d/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.5862">
    <title>[1206.5862] Clusters and features from combinatorial stochastic processes</title>
    <dc:date>2012-06-28T13:32:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.5862</link>
    <dc:creator>arthegall</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["We not only illustrate the feature allocation representations with the canonical nonparametric Bayesian feature prior---the Indian buffet process or beta process---but also simultaneously discover new connections between the different representations for the Indian buffet process. We thereby bring the same level of completeness to the treatment of the Indian buffet that has previously been developed for the Chinese restaurant."]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:cshalizi machinelearning nonparametric-methods bayesian-methods arxiv research-article michael-jordon chinese-restaurant-process indian-buffet-process</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=2231">
    <title>Dinosaur Comics - June 20th, 2012 - awesome fun times!</title>
    <dc:date>2012-06-20T12:47:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=2231</link>
    <dc:creator>arthegall</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Wow wow wow.  Not only was I whispering "YES" early on (get out of my head, T-Rex!!) but I think this presents a unified theory of 95% of the email responses I get from someone-who-shall-not-be-named.  Laughing, but only to keep from crying.]]></description>
<dc:subject>humor comic dinosaur-comics email inbox-zero-is-but-a-drug-fuelled-fantasy via:cshalizi awesome</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:arthegall/b:c7f52888a2f1/</dc:identifier>
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    <title>Stigler, &quot;The Epic Story of Maximum Likelihood&quot; (arXiv)</title>
    <dc:date>2012-06-19T18:00:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/0804.2996</link>
    <dc:creator>arthegall</dc:creator><dc:subject>via:cshalizi history statistics maximum-likelihood arxiv</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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