- Avoid guessing games: Use past data for context, ritholtz.com
- Physicists can’t agree on what the quantum world looks like, newscientist.com
- NASA approves a mission to look inside a black hole, astronomy.com
- Finding the Actions That Alter Evolution, quantamagazine.org
- ‘Space junk’ is a calamity in the making and a threat to anyone venturing off Earth, aeon.co
- Curtains fall on arts critics at newspapers, cjr.org
Category Archives: reading_list
Reading List (Jan 2, 2017)
- Science News That Stuck With Us in 2016, nytimes.com
- Our 10 favorite science news stories of 2016, sciencemag.org
- The best economics article of 2016, larspsyll.wordpress.com
- Ceres holding onto water and really doesn’t want to let it go, astronomy.com
Reading List (Dec 26, 2016)
- 2017 Top stock picks? Use My Time Machine, ritholtz.com
- Desolated admirers of investment strategists, statisticalideas.blogspot.com
- Econometrics textbooks — vague and confused causal analysis, larspsyll.wordpress.com
- On the Moon’s Far Side, Clues to a Cataclysm?, quantamagazine.org
- Axiomatic Relation between Thermodynamic and Information-Theoretic Entropies, journals.aps.org/prl
Reading List (Dec 18, 2016)
- First test of rival to Einstein’s gravity kills off dark matter, newscientist.com
- Cassini dives through Saturn’s rings, astronomy.com
- What It Takes to Open a Bookstore, nytimes.com
- Oracle Begins Aggressively Pursuing Java Licensing Fees, slashdot.org
- Welcome to Datalore (new python notebook platform), datalore.io
Reading List (Dec 11, 2016)
- No, don’t buy those ‘best stocks to own in 2017’, washingtonpost.com
- David Freedman — uncovering where the statistical skeletons are buried, larspsyll.wordpress.com
- Glitches of the human mind, edge.org
- The minds of other animals, aeon.co
- The Universe is 10 times more vast than we thought, astronomy.com
Reading List (Dec 4, 2016)
- Scientists are close to building a quantum computer that can beat a conventional one, sciencemag.org
- The Year in Planetary Science, scientificamerican.com
- Physics may be a small but crucial fraction of our reality, newscientist.com
- Engines of Evidence, edge.org
- Atom: A hackable text editor, atom.io
- Do You Need a Financial Adviser? A Guide to Help You Decide, ritholtz.com
- Three suggestions to ‘save’ econometrics, larspsyll.wordpress.com
Reading List (Nov 20, 2016)
- Dangers of a Fact-Free America, ritholtz.com
- Apache Arrow, Columnar In-Memory Analytics, apache.org
- Microsoft office add-ins, office.com
- Rosetta’s 12-year mission ends with landing on comet, sciencemag.org
Reading List (Nov 12, 2016)
- Model Thinking-Scott E. Page, youtube.com
- Working towards QASM 2.0, tiny.cc
- Quantum Cryptography Goes a Long Way, aps.org
- Evolvability Tradeoffs in Emergent Digital Replicators, mitpressjournals.org
- How Does Life Come From Randomness?, quantamagazine.org
Reading List (Nov 5, 2016)
- Dask is a flexible parallel computing library for analytic computing, dask.pydata.org
- 7 Steps to Mastering Machine Learning With Python, kdnuggets.com
- The Robo-Advisor Arms Race, ritholtz.com
- Huge lake discovered 15 kilometres under a volcano, newscientist.com
- Subsurface map of moon reveals origin of mysterious impact crater rings, sciencemag.org
Reading List (Oct 28, 2016)
- Statistical significance tests do not validate models, larspsyll.wordpress.com
- Exploring Risk Contagion Using Graph Theory and Markov Chains, mathworks.com
- A Case Study in Investing Objectivity, bloomberg.com
- Developing robust PPNR estimates, mckinsey.com
- Demis Hassabis: Towards General Artificial Intelligence, unam.mx
- Is New York Too Expensive for Restaurateurs? We Do the Math, nytimes.com