Archive for February 28th, 2010

Singularity Institute Research Challenge

February 28, 2010, filed under Uncategorized; 1 Comment.

Ends today. Last Chance to Contribute to 2010 Singularity Research Challenge!: Thanks to generous contributions by our donors, we are only $11,840 away from fulfilling our $100,000 goal for the 2010 Singularity Research Challenge. For every dollar you contribute to SIAI, another dollar is contributed by our matching donors, who have pledged to match all [...]

Graphs lack mass appeal?

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Andrew Gelman, Red State, Blue State sales are a factor of 2^100 lower than they should’ve been: In his forthcoming book, Albert-László Barabási writes, “There is a theorem in publishing that each graph halves a book’s audience.” If only someone had told me this two years ago! More seriously, this tongue-in-cheek theorem, if true, defines [...]