Since blogging is hard, but reading is easy, lately I’ve taken to bookmarking interesting articles I’m reading, with the plan of blogging about them later. This follow-through has happened a few times, but not that often. In an amazing moment of thesis procrastination, today I sat down and figured out how to turn my del.icio.us bookmarks into a nice blogpost, with the plan that every week a post will appear with links I’ve recently read, or maybe I’ll use the script to generate a draft for myself that I’ll revise, or something.
But for this first such link post, I put in a whole bunch of them beyond just the last week — why have just a few when you could have *all* of them? Future link posts will be shorter, I promise.
- Ariel Rubinstein: Freak-Freakonomics July 2006
posted 8/19 under economics
sarcastic, critical review of levitt & dubner’s Freakonomics - New Yorker review of Philip Tetlock’s book on political expert judgment
posted 8/19 under judgment, psychology
experts suffer from all the standard JDM biases. very interesting - Arkes and Tetlock: Attributions of Implicit Prejudice, or âWould Jesse Jackson âFailâ the Implicit Association Test?â
posted 8/19 under psychology - G A P M I N D E R: HOME
posted 8/17 under visualization
currently has great visualizations of world development data on the frontpage - Worldmapper: The world as you’ve never seen it before
posted 8/17 under geography, visualization - ariel rubinstein critiquing behavioral economics
posted 8/17 under behavioral.economics - CS 224M: Multi-Agent Systems (Final Paper)
posted 8/17 under AI
multi-agent systems readings — belief revision, update, auctions, knowledge - The New Yorker: Fact (on wikipedia)
posted 8/17 under wikipedia - Words and Other Things
posted 8/17 under blog, philosophy - Barney Pell’s Weblog
posted 8/17 under AI, blog - visualization of lebanon-israel casualties by geography
posted 8/15 under graphic, israel, lebanon, statistics, visualization
another great NYT data visualization — it’s hard to imagine how else you could show this data. - Greg Mankiw’s Blog
posted 8/6 under blog - Nick Bostrom’s home page
posted 8/6 under philosophy - Brad DeLong’s Semi-Daily Journal
posted 8/3 under blog - The Hive
posted 8/3 under wikipedia - Inside Higher Ed :: Crossing a Line
posted 8/1
deborah frisch episode - The Data Game: How Economists Can Learn From Online Video Games
posted 7/31 - Jaron Lanier: hazards of the new online collectivism (digital maoism)
posted 6/4
I love the irony of posting this to del.icio.us - Social Science Statistics Blog: Human irrationality?
posted 5/14 under rationality - 2020 Science
posted 4/3 under science
Argues that computer *science* — algorithms and theory — will be become an essential part of the sciences in general. Points to systems biology and physics as examples. Computers aren’t just about data handling and number crunching. - Berkeley Groks Science Show
posted 3/29 under podcast - EDGE: THE SELFISH GENE: THIRTY YEARS ON
posted 3/28 under podcast - mindless.pdf (application/pdf Object)
posted 1/11 under behavioral.economics, cognitive.science, economics, neuroeconomics, psychology, social.science - A Primer on the Doomsday Argument
posted 1/9 under doomsday.argument, future, philosophy, statistics
Kudos to del.icio.us RSS feeds and Mark Pilgrim’s Universal Feed Parser.
I notice a few of those links I suggested. My del.icio links are at del.icio.us/shawns/ . Also, http://www.crookedtimber.org/ usually has some good discussion of recent events and such.
While this is a recommendation for an old-fashioned, paper book, I would recommend that you read Paul Feyerabend’s Against Method, which is a discussion about the irrational development of scientific theories. Read it with thoughts of belief revision in the background.