From Twitter in the last few minutes, a chaos of echo’d posts about army moves. Just a few excerpts here by copy/paste, mostly without the all-important timestamps. Without tools to trace reports to their source, to claims about their source from credible intermediaries, or evidence, this isn’t directly useful. Even grassroots journalists needs evidence. I [...]
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Twitter Iran RT chaos
Also posted in Activism, Conspiracy Theory, FOAF, Politics, Project ideas, SKOS, The Web at War, ggg, openid, privacy Tagged identica, iran, iranelection, journalism, tehran, twitter, witness 3 Comments
Changes
“You can spot the Americans in any airport. They like to undress.“
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Inevitable Nipple Analogy
“A genetic theory of homosexuality.” by William Saletan in yesterday’s Slate suggests an inevitable analogy.
The article reports on recent work (pdf) addressing the ‘if homosexuality is genetic, why hasn’t it died out?’ debate, which suggests that the ‘gene for male homosexuality persists because it promotes—and is passed down through—high rates of procreation among gay [...]
Anti-me
I can’t explain how weird this is to read, and only really because my name is obscure enough that I don’t run into other Dan Brickleys very often:
Chimes in Dan Brickley, of TLC’s A Makeover Story: “Although Hillary’s made some major fashion faux pas in the past (anyone remember a certain wedding dress?), we wouldn’t [...]
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Journals of Negative Results
Via the INDUCTIVE mailing list, I learned of the Journal of Interesting Negative Results in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning
It is becoming more and more obvious that the research community in general, and those who work NLP and ML in particular, are biased towards publishing successful ideas and experiments. Insofar as both our research [...]
Obama
I was really very impressed by Obama’s speech this week. And somewhat suprised to hear a major US politician speak on complex, subtle issues in thoughtful, nuanced terms. For non USAmericans, I think it’s often hard to empathise with US-style patriotism; in particular, the seeming impossibility of seeing the US as anything other than a [...]