Three-Toed Sloth

Kith and Kin

Plugging the works of relatives, friends, teachers, students, bosses, ex-bosses, potential future bosses, colleagues ...

"Learning Spatio-Temporal Dynamics"

Robins and Wasserman Respond to a Nobel Prize Winner

Problems Worth Solving

If Peer Review Did Not Exist, We Would Have to Invent Something Very Like It to Serve Highly Similar Ends

Just How Quickly Do We Forget?

"Generalization Error Bounds for Time Series"

Milestones

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, October 2011

Global Catastrophic Risks (Bostrom and Cirkovic [eds].); The Nature of Computation (Moore and Mertens)

"I was of three minds, / Like a tree / In which there are three blackbirds"

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, August 2011

Everything Is Obvious, Once You Know the Answer (Watts)

The Engineers of Human Sociality

Harmony of Means and Ends

"Optimal Nonparametric Prediction and Automated Pattern Recognition in Dynamical Space-Time Systems" (or, Our New Filtering Techniques are Unstoppable!, Part II: The Rise of the Austrian Machines)

Durlauf on Social Interactions

ITA 2011: Favorite Talks

The 2011 SFI Complex Systems Summer School (Dept. of Signal Amplification)

Limit Orders and Indirect Inference

Links, Pleading to be Dumped

"Generalization Error Bounds for State Space Models: With an Application to Economic Forecasting"

"Inferring Hierarchical Structure in Networks and Predicting Missing Links" (Next Week at the [Special Summer Bonus] Statistics Seminar)

Special Demi-Issues on Network Data Analysis in Annals of Applied Statistics

More Output

"Analyzing Networks and Learning with Graphs"

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, February 2009

Social Information Processing: Call for Papers

Making a Suitable Match

Too Much Information

The Cartesian Movie Theater

Posthumous Preprints in Emergence

Eigenfactor (Why Oh Why Can't We Have a Better Academic Publishing System? Dept.)

Absolutely Regular

I Taught Him Everything He Knows

Piracy and Peer Production

Zadig, or, The Book of Fate

Corners Bumped

Snowclones in May!

SUMO versus the Dendritic Claws (Sunday Sibling Blogging)

All of Peer Review

Schooled by Selection

Structure and Dynamics (On the Economic Geography of Gilgamesh)

"Every word she says is a lie, including 'and' and 'the'"

Common Notions: Towards a Lattice-Theoretic Turn in Social Epistemology

Further to Heuristic Diversity

Saturday Sibling Blogging

Heuristic Diversity, Your Key to Knowledge, Wealth and Power (Dept. of "Yay Team!")

This Is Your Brain on Statistical Complexity (This Week at the Complex Systems Colloquium)

Yet More Political Data Analysis (or: "There you go, bringing class into it again")

Hidden Connections; or, Flying Saucers, Conspiracies and Prehistoric Tibet

Where Are They?

Nelson Minar

Great-Granduncle Joe

Short Takes

Just Be Afraid, and Everything Will Be OK