Rush Hour Sky Map
blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2012/09/a-map-of-every-passenger-plane-in-the-skies-at-this-instant/ I thought this was really cool, and I think it has the potential for use as an economic/social...
View ArticleFederal Budget in Pictures
www.heritage.org/federalbudget/ If you care about your country, you should probably know how your government spends your money.
View ArticlePolitical Event Driven Futures Market
tippie.uiowa.edu/iem/ “The IEM is an online futures market where contract payoffs are based on real-world events such as political outcomes, companies’ earnings per share (EPS), and stock price...
View ArticleOldie But Goodie–Fusion Q/A
hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/04/11/0435231/mit-fusion-researchers-answer-your-questions This was something I read awhile back that is unrelated to LB at the current moment, but not entirely unrelated...
View ArticleEconomic Freedom (this will need to be measured in LB)
www.freetheworld.com/2012/EFW2012-exsum.pdf I found this at zero hedge today. I thought it was cool and relevant so I linked it here. Props to ZH for making me aware....
View ArticleLiving Under Drones
livingunderdrones.org livingunderdrones.org/report-introduction/ Drone warefare counter productive? NYU-Stanford say so…
View ArticleBrain Parts Can Evolve Independently, Shows Analysis of Brains of 10,000 Mice
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120926094544.htm FTA: “ScienceDaily (Sep. 25, 2012) — An evolutionary biologist at The University of Manchester, working with scientists in the United States, has...
View ArticlepyDatalog 0.11.1 check it out
pypi.python.org/pypi/pyDatalog/0.11.1 Wanted to post this here for myself and any readers to check out if they haven’t. FTS: ”pyDatalog embeds logic programming in python. Assert facts and insert logic...
View ArticleLearning Theory
masi.cscs.lsa.umich.edu/~crshalizi/notebooks/learning-theory.html Not Machine Learning–Learning. FTS: “The basic set-up is as follows. We have a bunch of inputs and outputs, and an unknown relationship...
View ArticleElection maps from NYT
elections.nytimes.com/2012/results/president I love looking at these maps. It will be cool to take maps like these and drill down deeper. LB will do this same kind of work but should do a much better...
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