Seeing the mind amidst the numbers:
e Netflix prize teams have a bunch of data from customers who have rated films they've already seen and they have been challenged to write software that predicts future ratings. Part of this process is hypothesis testing, essentially an experimental approach to find out what might be important in the decision process. For example, a team might guess that women will rate musicals higher than men. They can then test this prediction out on the data, making further predictions based…
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Your Social Media Strategy Won’t Save You:
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Restructuring the metaphysics of a jazz thing:
love this abstract of a scientific paper on 'Neurological Problems of Jazz Legends'. It's full of medical jargon but if you read it out loud it sounds like a beat poem. Try it with the same rhythm as Ginsberg's poem Howl. Neurological problems of jazz legends J Child Neurol. 2009 Aug;24(8):1037-42. Pearl PL. A variety of neurological problems have affected the lives of giants in the jazz genre. Cole Porter courageously remained prolific after severe leg injuries secondary to…
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Wired – Bust Up Big League Sports:
jor league athletes are rewarded for talent, toughness, and single-minded dedication. Major league team owners, on the other hand, are rewarded for mediocrity. Having bought their way into a league, lackadaisical owners can extort hundreds of millions of dollars from their hometowns (and charge exorbitant ticket prices) under threat of decamping for another city. They can allow wretched teams to languish year after year and pocket the league's revenue-sharing money rather than invest it in talent, knowing that when they're…
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The Economist – Airline Baggage fees and complaints:
R travellers in America face the twin burdens of additional charges to check in hold luggage and the chances that their baggage might go astray. Data released on Monday September 21st show America's airlines are raking in record revenues from baggage fees, which amounted to almost $670m in the quarter ending in June. But one airline stands above all the others for collecting the most from its customers to transport luggage and in complaints that those bags have been mishandled.…
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NYTimes.com – Lack of Sleep Increases the Risk of Catching a Cold:
ose who slept an average of fewer than seven hours a night, it turned out, were three times as likely to get sick as those who averaged at least eight hours. via nytimes.com Join over 320,000 readers. Get a free weekly update via email here. Related posts: New Neuroscience Reveals 4 Rituals That Will Make You Happy New Harvard Research Reveals A Fun Way To Be More Successful How To Get People To Like You: 7 Ways From An FBI Behavior Expert
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Bill Maher/You Can’t Complain About Health Care Reform If You’re Not Willing to Reform Your Own Health:
w Rule: You can't complain about health care reform if you're not willing to reform your own health. Unlike most liberals, I'm glad all those teabaggers marched on Washington last week. Because judging from the photos, it's the first exercise they've gotten in years. Not counting, of course, all the Rascal scooters there, most of which aren't even for the disabled. They're just Americans who turned 60 and said, "Screw it, I'm done walking." These people are furious at the…
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TED.com – The Web as random acts of kindness:
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