A big, fun list of links I'm reading

Since blogging is hard, but reading is easy, lately I've taken to bookmarking interesting articles I'm reading, with the plan of blogging about them later. This follow-through has happened a few times, but not that often. In an amazing moment of thesis procrastination, today I sat down and figured out how to turn my del.icio.us bookmarks into a nice blogpost, with the plan that every week a post will appear with links I've recently read, or maybe I'll use the script to generate a draft for myself that I'll revise, or something.

But for this first such link post, I put in a whole bunch of them beyond just the last week -- why have just a few when you could have *all* of them? Future link posts will be shorter, I promise.

• Ariel Rubinstein: Freak-Freakonomics July 2006
  posted 8/19 under economics
  sarcastic, critical review of levitt & dubner's Freakonomics
  
• New Yorker review of Philip Tetlock's book on political expert judgment
  posted 8/19 under judgment, psychology
  experts suffer from all the standard JDM biases. very interesting
  
• Arkes and Tetlock: Attributions of Implicit Prejudice, or “Would Jesse Jackson ‘Fail’ the Implicit Association Test?”
  posted 8/19 under psychology
  
• G A P M I N D E R: HOME
  posted 8/17 under visualization
  currently has great visualizations of world development data on the frontpage
  
• Worldmapper: The world as you've never seen it before
  posted 8/17 under geography, visualization
  
• ariel rubinstein critiquing behavioral economics
  posted 8/17 under behavioral.economics
  
• CS 224M: Multi-Agent Systems (Final Paper)
  posted 8/17 under AI
  multi-agent systems readings -- belief revision, update, auctions, knowledge
  
• The New Yorker: Fact (on wikipedia)
  posted 8/17 under wikipedia
  
• Words and Other Things
  posted 8/17 under blog, philosophy
  
• Barney Pell's Weblog
  posted 8/17 under AI, blog
  
• visualization of lebanon-israel casualties by geography
  posted 8/15 under graphic, israel, lebanon, statistics, visualization
  another great NYT data visualization -- it's hard to imagine how else you could show this data.
  
• Greg Mankiw's Blog
  posted 8/6 under blog
  
• Nick Bostrom's home page
  posted 8/6 under philosophy
  
• Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal
  posted 8/3 under blog
  
• The Hive
  posted 8/3 under wikipedia
  
• Inside Higher Ed :: Crossing a Line
  posted 8/1
  deborah frisch episode
  
• The Data Game: How Economists Can Learn From Online Video Games
  posted 7/31
  
• Jaron Lanier: hazards of the new online collectivism (digital maoism)
  posted 6/4
  I love the irony of posting this to del.icio.us
  
• Social Science Statistics Blog: Human irrationality?
  posted 5/14 under rationality
  
• 2020 Science
  posted 4/3 under science
  Argues that computer *science* -- algorithms and theory -- will be become an essential part of the sciences in general. Points to systems biology and physics as examples. Computers aren't just about data handling and number crunching.
  
• Berkeley Groks Science Show
  posted 3/29 under podcast
  
• EDGE: THE SELFISH GENE: THIRTY YEARS ON
  posted 3/28 under podcast
  
• mindless.pdf (application/pdf Object)
  posted 1/11 under behavioral.economics, cognitive.science, economics, neuroeconomics, psychology, social.science
  
• A Primer on the Doomsday Argument
  posted 1/9 under doomsday.argument, future, philosophy, statistics
  

Kudos to del.icio.us RSS feeds and Mark Pilgrim's Universal Feed Parser.