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An on-line version of an interesting (if somewhat dated) book. The chapter on information theory is quite nice.
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A helpful article on information entropy, which might be useful in the research Ellery and I are doing. Has anyone done research looking at the entropy in a population over time? It seems they must have, but nothing comes to mind and I’m too busy to go
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The definition of entropy that is apparently used to measure biodiversity. This would seem more closely related to what we want in Evolutionary Computation, but it wasn’t immediately clear to me how the details work out. I found the entry a bit fuzzy, b
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An interesting article on travelling in Alaska in the footsteps of John Muir, who made three trips there in the late 1800’s. Given that we’re going next summer, this looks like cool stuff. And they put in a plug for Dancing Man Ulu knives like the one w
Category: Daily links
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links for 2006-01-09
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The site for the film in progress on copyright and sampling. There’s an excellent 10+ minute preview of the film available now, and I’m really looking forward to the finished piece.
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I’ve never played the game, but the merchandise page is an absolute hoot :). Thanks to Ellery for the tip.
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Ellery’s blog, with lots of nutso stories about his adventures in Japan.
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A great example of our tax dollars at work in a genuinely useful way.
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The National Weather Service forecast for Morris, MN.
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Univ of Colorada at Boulder’s list of PhD alums, which include UMM alum Nathan Ryan.
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A wonderful archive of all the EWD’s, which were essentially Edsger’s personal technical report series or (if he won’t smite me for saying it) his (mostly technical) blog back before blogs existed.
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The “home page” for the GPEM journal. I’m on the editorial board, so I really ought to have a link, eh?
