{"id":5338,"date":"2011-01-13T06:40:37","date_gmt":"2011-01-13T06:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2011\/01\/13\/links-for-2011-01-13\/"},"modified":"2011-01-13T06:40:37","modified_gmt":"2011-01-13T06:40:37","slug":"links-for-2011-01-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/01\/13\/links-for-2011-01-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2011-01-13"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pimpmynovel.blogspot.com\/2011\/01\/two-households-both-alike-in-dignity.html\">Pimp My Novel: Two Households, Both Alike in Dignity<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;The sample sizes aren&#8217;t quite identical yet, folks (232 votes this round compared to 342 last round), but currently 54% of those of you who responded own an e-reader, as opposed to only 42% in June 2010. Granted, this is an entirely unscientific survey, but it seems to me that e-reading is on the rise. Not that we couldn&#8217;t have guessed this already.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of e-books, I thought I&#8217;d take a moment to rehash the two primary ways they&#8217;re sold: via either the agency model or the wholesale model. How does this affect you?&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/publishing\">publishing<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/business\">business<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/pimp-novel\">pimp-novel<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/what-should-a-reasonable-person-believe-about-the-singularity\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+michaelnielsen%2Fwmna+%28Michael+Nielsen%29\">What should a reasonable person believe about the Singularity? | Michael Nielsen<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;The basic idea is quite well known. Perhaps because the conclusion is so remarkable, almost outrageous, it&#8217;s an idea that evokes a strong emotional response in many people. I&#8217;ve had intelligent people tell me with utter certainty that the Singularity is complete tosh. I&#8217;ve had other intelligent people tell me with similar certainty that it should be one of the central concerns of humanity.<\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s possible to say something interesting about what range of views a reasonable person might have on the likelihood of the Singularity. To be definite, let me stipulate that it should occur in the not-too-distant future &#8211; let&#8217;s say within 100 years, as above. What we&#8217;ll do is figure out what probability someone might reasonably assign to the Singularity happening.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/sf\">sf<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/computing\">computing<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/technology\">technology<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/nielsen\">nielsen<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/statistics\">statistics<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/loom\/2011\/01\/12\/death-to-obfuscation\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Loom+%28The+Loom%29\">Death to Obfuscation! | The Loom | Discover Magazine<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Good science writing is some of the most interesting stuff on Earth to read. Bad science writing is the most painful. There are many things that determine whether a piece of science writing is good or bad, but I can sort them into four rough categories: words, sentences, paragraphs, and stories. Good science writing demands lots of care and inventiveness at all these scales.<br \/>\nAfter a few years of teaching science writing, I&#8217;ve started to ban certain words from my class. I add new words to my list on a regular basis, as they make unwelcome appearances in assignments. I may seem obsessively picky, but I hope through my pickiness, my students learn that every word can make a difference to their story. This lesson is especially crucial for scientists, most of whom are not accustomed to writing for a broad audience.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/writing\">writing<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/zimmer\">zimmer<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/education\">education<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2011\/01\/wii-board-where-are-the-sensors\/\">Wii Board: Where are the sensors? | Wired Science&nbsp;| Wired.com<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;The Wii board is cool and I want to use it for some physics-stuff. If you are not familiar with the Wii board, basically it is a platform you stand on. Four sensors in the board determine your center of mass. By shifting your weight and stuff, you can interact with a game. First thing &#8211; can I use the measurements from the board to find out where the 4 sensors are?&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/physics\">physics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/dot-physics\">dot-physics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/experiment\">experiment<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pimp My Novel: Two Households, Both Alike in Dignity &#8220;The sample sizes aren&#8217;t quite identical yet, folks (232 votes this round compared to 342 last round), but currently 54% of those of you who responded own an e-reader, as opposed to only 42% in June 2010. Granted, this is an entirely unscientific survey, but it&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/01\/13\/links-for-2011-01-13\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Links for 2011-01-13<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}