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  • If correlation doesn’t imply causation, then what does?
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  • Michael Nielsen and Networked Science | DesignBrilliance on Reinventing Discovery
  • Michael Nielsen on Survey notes on fermi algebras and the Jordan-Wigner transform now on GitHub
  • Alexandre Lopes on Survey notes on fermi algebras and the Jordan-Wigner transform now on GitHub
  • Links | Notes on Disordered Matter on Three myths about scientific peer review
  • axel on Quantum computing for the determined

• Linklog

  • Internet of Dreams - o<
    Good interview with an online troll: "I am lucky to have not had people who liked me for who I was when I was truly awful"
  • Algorithmic Rape Jokes in the Library of Babel | Quiet Babylon
    On the problems caused when you create tshirts using a data mining algorithm. As Kevin Slavin has noted, this is how our culture is increasingly being created. […]
  • Dan Pallotta: The way we think about charity is dead wrong | Video on TED.com
    An extremely insightful talk about the way our society thinks about not-for-profit organizations. He highlights many of the systematic ways we hobble the not-for-profit sector. […]
  • Agnotology: The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance - Edited by Robert N. Proctor and Londa Schiebinger
    Linked mostly for the title, which is the useful term "agnotology" - the study of ignorance.
  • How do I create a book index?
    Fun discussion of the minutiae of creating a book index.

• Documentaries

  • Visual Storytelling: The Digital Video Documentary
    A brief skim suggests that this is a very good basic guide to making documentaries.
  • The Great Ecstasy of the Woodcarver Steiner - Werner Herzog
    Documentary of Wolfgang Steiner, one of the world's top ski-jumpers in the 1970s. The spine of the documentary is a sequence of extraordinary shots of Steiner's jumps, taken with a pair of high-speed cameras. […]
  • Inge Druckrey: Teaching to See
    A reminder of the diversity of life: the passion and learning and insight people pour into calligraphy, font design, and design more generally.
  • Indie Game: The Movie (2012) - IMDb
    Striking for the level of emotional commitment and uncertainty (and turmoil) on the part of the creators!
  • Step Into Liquid (2003)
    Remarkable survey of the cutting edge of surfing. We see the origins of tow-rope surfing (where surfers are pulled by jet skis into waves that are too big to paddle out to), the use of hydrofoil designs that put the board a foot or two _above_ the wave, and even the use of weather stations to monitor conditions out in mid-ocean, looking for giant waves. […]

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