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A Basket of Wonderful Things

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Back to School

I just got back from vacation yesterday. I’m taking physics this term in school, and while I was away I’ve been keeping up-to-date with various websites provided by the instructor. I’ve also been enjoying some lectures put up by Yale. I hear MIT has some good content on the subject too. Over the past few [...]

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Prescience

I’ve been interested in the future for a long while, now. Most of this interest goes into my passion for reading about science and technology, but after reading James Surowiecki’s Wisdom of Crowds I thought to myself: “How well could a crowd predict the future?” In my free time I set up a website which [...]

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Cool New Stuff in May

This post is more or less a random dump of the cool things I’ve seen lately. Web Data: * Huge number of volunteers for genome database

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Raw Data Now

First, a video: I watch just about every TED video that’s released, but this one really struck me. One of the most important things about the web is the way it promotes the increase of wealth by sharing information. The typical lack of fees for most content also means that the wealth generated (as the [...]

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