{"id":129,"date":"2013-04-04T18:23:41","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T23:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jsylvest.com\/blog\/?p=129"},"modified":"2013-10-02T13:19:38","modified_gmt":"2013-10-02T17:19:38","slug":"reading-list-for-2-apr-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jsylvest.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/reading-list-for-2-apr-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading List for 2 Apr 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rli\"><a href=\"http:\/\/alanwinfield.blogspot.com.br\/2013\/03\/extreme-debugging-tale-of-microcode-and.html\">Alan Winfield's Web Log ::\u00a0Extreme debugging \u2014 a tale of microcode and an oven<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\"Components on the CPU circuit board were <em>melting<\/em>, but still it didn't crash. So that's how I debugged code with an oven.\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If that's not a closing line that gets you to click through, I don't know what is.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rli\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/tomiogeron\/2013\/01\/23\/quantopian-brings-algorithmic-trading-to-masses\/\">Forbes :: Tomio Geron :: Quantopian Brings Algorithmic Trading To The Masses<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Why didn't this exist five years ago? I would have had *so* much fun. But no, it can't get invented until I'm up to my ears in dissertation and have already adopted half a dozen new hobbies in the last two years. (<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lab49.com\/archives\/6166\">Via the Lab49 Blog<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p class=\"rli\"><a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2013\/02\/cognitive-democracy-condorcet-with-competence.html\"> Marginal Revolution :: Alex Tabarrok :: Cognitive Democracy: Condorcet with Competence<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>More generally, if the voter competences levels are <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=%5C%7Bp_1%2C+p_2%2C+p_3%5C%7D&#038;bg=T&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='\\{p_1, p_2, p_3\\}' title='\\{p_1, p_2, p_3\\}' class='latex' \/> then the cognitively most efficient voting scheme gives each voter a weight of <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=%5Clog+%5Cleft%28p_i%2F%281-p_i%29%5Cright%29&#038;bg=T&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='\\log \\left(p_i\/(1-p_i)\\right)' title='\\log \\left(p_i\/(1-p_i)\\right)' class='latex' \/> the result is remarkable for a being such a simple formula of the voter\u2019s own competence level.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There are a ton of links between voting, structured finance, and machine learning ensembles. For example, the logit equation Tabarrok gives is also used to weight members of Bayesian Model Combination ensembles, and is closely related to the weighting scheme used in AdaBoost.<\/p>\n<p>I have every intention of writing about the overlaps between these topics one day, but until that day...<\/p>\n<p class=\"rli\"><a href=\"http:\/\/econlog.econlib.org\/archives\/2013\/03\/thomas_c_leonar.html\">Thomas C. Leonard's review of <em>Nudge<\/em><\/a> [pdf]<\/p>\n<p>Leonard's critique is brilliant in its simplicity. RTWT.<\/p>\n<p>Very briefly: if it is in fact so simple to \"nudge\" people between sets of preferences, how can you even claim they have <em>real<\/em> preferences? If people's preferences for apples or cookies is all an artifact of which comes first in the cafeteria line then central planners aren't allowing people to act on their low discount rate preferences instead of their high discount rate preferences, they're <em>creating<\/em> those preferences. <a href=\"http:\/\/econlog.econlib.org\/archives\/2013\/03\/thomas_c_leonar.html\">David Henderson has a more in depth summary,<\/a> but do read the original.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rli\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GUcX41pokZY\">chrmoe :: LED Cube 8x8x8 running on an Arduino<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GUcX41pokZY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Now that I've got a Raspberry Pi up and running I need to dive into Arduino.<\/p>\n<p>I'm going to build one of these to cut my teeth, then before you know it I'll be giving <a href=\"http:\/\/www.villareal.net\/projects.html\">Leo Villareal<\/a> a run for his money \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Winfield's Web Log ::\u00a0Extreme debugging \u2014 a tale of microcode and an oven \"Components on the CPU circuit board were melting, but still it didn't crash. So that's how I debugged code with an oven.\" If that's not a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsylvest.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/reading-list-for-2-apr-2013\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading-lists","category-uncategorized","wpautop"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3sddF-25","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1335,"url":"https:\/\/www.jsylvest.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/book-list-2019q1\/","url_meta":{"origin":129,"position":0},"title":"Book List: 2019Q1","author":"jsylvest","date":"25 April 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"I think I did less reading this quarter than at any point since I beat dyslexia. Certainly less than any point since I started keeping track in 2011, and that includes the period when I finished my dissertation and had two kids. I'm teaching a course at a local college\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Book List&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Book List","link":"https:\/\/www.jsylvest.com\/blog\/category\/book-list\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Cover of \"The Relaxed Mind\" by Dza Kilung","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jsylvest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/cover-relaxed-mind-194x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":406,"url":"https:\/\/www.jsylvest.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/reading-list-for-28-may-2013\/","url_meta":{"origin":129,"position":1},"title":"Reading List for 28 May 2013","author":"jsylvest","date":"28 May 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"For Science! Patrick Morrison & Emerson Murphy-Hill :: Is Programming Knowledge Related To Age? An Exploration of Stack Overflow [pdf] As a CS guy who's tip-toed into psychology here and there I would offer Morrison & Murphy-Hill this advice: tread very, very lightly when making claims regarding the words \"knowledge\"\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Reading Lists&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Reading Lists","link":"https:\/\/www.jsylvest.com\/blog\/category\/reading-lists\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"busy_sciencing","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jsylvest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/busy_sciencing.jpeg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1262,"url":"https:\/\/www.jsylvest.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/book-list-2018q3\/","url_meta":{"origin":129,"position":2},"title":"Book List: 2018Q3","author":"jsylvest","date":"18 October 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"We Are Legion (We Are Bob), Dennis Taylor For We Are Many, Dennis Taylor All These Worlds, Dennis Taylor A sci-fi series about a cryogenically frozen software engineer thawed out several centuries in the future by a theocratic state and uploaded against his will into a von Neumann probe. 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Simplified analogy: I'm not bidding up the price of quadcopters. That doesn't mean that if we had more of them I wouldn't find cool stuff to do with them. (For other takes on\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Reading Lists&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Reading Lists","link":"https:\/\/www.jsylvest.com\/blog\/category\/reading-lists\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Taschen information graphics book","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jsylvest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/rendgen-information-graphics-201x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":278,"url":"https:\/\/www.jsylvest.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/reading-list-for-26-april-2013\/","url_meta":{"origin":129,"position":5},"title":"Reading List for 26 April 2013","author":"jsylvest","date":"26 April 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Tom Murphy :: learnfun & playfun: A general technique for automating NES games Wow. Here's the conference paper [pdf]. This suggested to me that it may be time to automate the playing of NES games, in order to save time. (Rather, to replace it with time spent programming.) Ha! 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