A map of racial segregation in the US.
Vi Hart explains serial music (h/t Jim CaJacob).
More adventures in trolling scam journals with bogus papers (h/t my father).
Brighten does some number crunching on his research notebook.
Jerry takes “disruptive innovation” to task.
Vladimir Horowitz plays a concert at the Carter White House. Also Jim Lehrer looks very young. The program (as cribbed from YouTube)
- The Star-Spangled Banner
- Chopin: Sonata in B-flat minor, opus 35, n°2
- Chopin: Waltz in a minor, opus 34, n°2
- Chopin: Waltz in C-sharp minor, opus 64, n° 2
- Chopin: Polonaise in A-flat major, opus 53 ,Héroïque
- Schumann: Träumerei, Kinderszene n°7
- Rachmaninoff: Polka de W.R
- Horowitz: Variations on a theme from Bizet’s Carmen
The Simons Institute is going strong at Berkeley now. Moritz Hardt has some opinions about what CS theory should say about “big data,” and how it might be require some adjustments to ways of thinking. Suresh responds in part by pointing out some of the successes of the past.
John Holbo is reading Appiah and makes me want to read Appiah. My book queue is already a bit long though…
An important thing to realize about performance art that makes a splash is that it can be often exploitative.
An Ergodic Walk 
You might want to consider the possibility that just as the submitted paper was generated by a computer program choosing mathematical terms and phrases at random, the review (which is shown in full in that link about the submission) might also have been generated by a computer program choosing typical reviewer comments at random.
Black sheep