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  1. RT @KarlSchroeder: 10% of global CO2 emissions come from just 150 coal plants: http://tinyurl.com/ylplrl8. The next 1000 sources emit 30 ... about 4 hours ago from web
  2. Excellent lecture from Google's Peter Norvig on data-driven programming. Via @igrigorik http://icio.us/obd0wb about 7 hours ago from Delicious
  3. RT @zephoria: the spectacle at Web2.0 Expo... from my perspective: http://bit.ly/5Cdbwd (blog rant) about 9 hours ago from web
  4. A useful metaphor: information obesity http://icio.us/inouro about 10 hours ago from Delicious
  5. RT @timoreilly: Hmmm. Microsoft putting together a premium data marketplace as part of Azure. (via Michael Bernstein in comments on htt ... about 17 hours ago from web
  6. RT @timoreilly: Does anyone else wonder whether Wikipedia ought to reverse their more stringent rules for editors? http://bit.ly/5biI9C 7:52 PM Nov 23rd from web
  7. @EricRWeinstein @dabacon History of science funding is described in D. Greenberg's v. blunt and informative "Science, Money and Politics". 6:42 PM Nov 23rd from web in reply to EricRWeinstein
  8. Most incredible beard ever. ("Reality is not only stranger than we suppose, it's stranger than we can suppose.") http://icio.us/y4ni3c 2:07 PM Nov 23rd from Delicious
  9. RT @hecker: Learning innovators take note: MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning competition http://bit.ly/08p0QRV 1:50 PM Nov 23rd from web
  10. RT @noahWG: IBM press office & their simulated cat brain? Henry Markram (Blue Brain project) calls bullshit & tells 'em to STFU http://b ... 12:07 PM Nov 23rd from web
  11. 1952 article in Time magazine about Einstein declining the presidency of Israel. http://icio.us/2ntauy 5:38 AM Nov 23rd from Delicious
  12. @cshirky on the future of bookstores. http://icio.us/143vbk 7:23 AM Nov 22nd from Delicious
  13. A short but interesting tidbit from Charlie Stross on reading and the book business http://icio.us/qra5f0 5:38 AM Nov 22nd from Delicious
  14. Brian Hayes has a teriffic blog on computing and mathematics that I'd somehow never seen before. http://icio.us/rzfsqn 7:46 AM Nov 21st from Delicious
  15. RT @lreyzin: Is information physical? Does it obey the laws of physics? http://bit.ly/3PnBDk 7:37 AM Nov 21st from web
  16. The Nigerian boycott of the polio vaccination campaign http://icio.us/y2nres 7:14 AM Nov 21st from Delicious
  17. Great upheavals in the world of high-stakes online poker http://icio.us/nbelph 4:48 AM Nov 21st from Delicious
  18. World of Warcraft, viral spirals, and epidemiology: the Corrupted Blood incident. http://icio.us/dom5by 12:24 PM Nov 20th from Delicious
  19. An event Wikipedia couldn't possibly cover neutrally: http://tinyurl.com/dbaegc (via @lreyzin) 7:23 PM Nov 19th from web
  20. RT @ahier: Heavy reading http://bit.ly/38IlFW 8:07 AM Nov 19th from web
  • Name michael_nielsen
  • Location Toronto
  • Web http://michaelnie...
  • Bio writer; open scientist; geek; quantum physicist; writing a book about how the internet is changing science
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