Articles by XiXiDu

• "Campaigns are built to fool us into thinking that we’re voting for individuals. We learn about the…" http://tumblr.com/xzuh8227t #
• The Objective Study of Subjectivism http://bit.ly/9q9m2R #
• Phoneme Inventory Size and Demography http://bit.ly/an45GV #
• Iranian Jews in America: Torn Between Homelands http://bit.ly/cqdxMy #
• Nic Marks: The Happy Planet Index http://bit.ly/9J0UNE #
• Who Should Exist? http://bit.ly/dzdN0d #
• xkcd: Exoplanets http://bit.ly/9UiY6m #
• 10 Questions for Hugh Pope http://bit.ly/d47SV4 #
• Science with soul sells http://bit.ly/bP3pQF #
• There's a hole in my spacetime! Or a string, or a wall… http://bit.ly/d0BC79 #
• The Idea of the Decade http://bit.ly/aC2cfL #
• Self-Improving Bayesian Sentiment Analysis for Twitter http://bit.ly/dhDYiW #
• The Wildcat2030 Daily is out – read this Twitter newspaper on http://paper.li/Wildcat2030 (332 contributions today) #
• Documentary captures the hard realities behind Chinese economic development. http://bit.ly/a9snfv #
• Older people enjoy reading negative stories about young http://bit.ly/bdb3n2 #
• YouTube – Islamic Humiliation – Sam Harris http://bit.ly/dbnX7E #
• Hell on Earth: The UN Documents Congo's Bloodbath http://bit.ly/bLHgZb #

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• Comanche Outcrop on Mars Indicates Hospitable Past http://bit.ly/acXqXG #
• Nick Bostrom on life on Mars – part 1/2 http://bit.ly/98Nzwq – part 2/2 http://bit.ly/dxVgMA #
• Nick Bostrom on the Fermi Paradox http://bit.ly/aEuPme #
• Why I hope the search for extraterrestrial life finds nothing. [PDF] http://bit.ly/cWqCH1 #
• "Superintelligence does not imply benevolence" — short abstract http://bit.ly/bUviZ2 #
• Transhumanism, the Singularity, and Mass Extinction http://bit.ly/afR9tH #
• Welcome to 1850: The Risk of EMP Attack http://bit.ly/cYLszB #
• Analogies to creating and killing alters http://bit.ly/ddY8XV #
• Research experiment disrupts Internet, for some http://bit.ly/bdvEQV #
• cognitive neuroscience paper title generator http://bit.ly/dgOm1y #
• Babel's Dawn: Cultural Evolution http://bit.ly/bopT96 #
• Metric Spaces http://bit.ly/9wCsUk #
• YouTube – 'Tolerance' and the 'Ground Zero Mosque' http://bit.ly/aUWe3f #
• The Wildcat2030 Daily is out – read this Twitter newspaper on http://paper.li/Wildcat2030 (372 contributions today) #
• Unary primitive recursive functions [PDF] http://bit.ly/cnhjcQ #
• Computability and Recursion [PDF] http://bit.ly/banXje #
• Mathematicians Create Objective Quality of Life Index http://bit.ly/aOPyDb #
• Predicting the Future in 1964 http://bit.ly/b2zhUW #
• Poul Anderson’s Answer to Fermi http://bit.ly/ctKMfJ #
• NASA | New Eye on the Sun Delivers Stunning First Images http://bit.ly/a8B9U5 #
• Survey Says: Genetics Affect Whether We’re Willing To Take Surveys http://bit.ly/aZrwfC #

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• The best introduction to DNA nanotechnology http://bit.ly/bdS04j #
• The Scientific Method http://bit.ly/alJ6T4 #
• The Local Fluff http://bit.ly/cwi1D7 #
• God, I Need a Cup of Placebo Coffee http://bit.ly/amoUQO #
• The mind's eye: How the brain sorts out what you see http://bit.ly/9dgaIr #
• Cold empties Bolivian rivers of fish http://bit.ly/dsPD4K #
• People who hold extreme opinions are more likely to voice them loudly http://bit.ly/aAeO6v #
• The mathematical universe: the map that is the territory http://bit.ly/bMvWMM #
• Mathematics as science http://bit.ly/cYhqvP #
• Beyond the Reach of God http://bit.ly/c7Y6Mh #
• Abstract Stone Duality http://bit.ly/aHN502 #
• Shut up and calculate http://bit.ly/b3NBWd #
• The Wildcat2030 Daily is out – read this Twitter newspaper on http://paper.li/Wildcat2030 (343 contributions today) #
• "Evolution endowed us with intuition only for those aspects of physics that had survival value for our…" http://tumblr.com/xzuh2820i #
• An analogue between principle philosophies of vagueness and principle responses to the skeptical paradox. http://bit.ly/aGjPkH #
• YouTube – The Asteroid that Flattened Mars http://bit.ly/dwH0la #
• The Don't Bother Travel Guide: 101 Places Not To Go http://n.pr/dmAjGs #
• New York City At Night http://bit.ly/cWAuGJ #
• The man who knows what it is like to be a bat http://bit.ly/aW6DFa #
• YouTube – Genesis (take #1 http://bit.ly/dfuAFj #

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• Judge: Man Can’t Sue Over LHC’s Potential “Destruction of the Earth” http://bit.ly/bXpFqI #
• Sentences to ponder http://bit.ly/9Rs7Fr #
• Creative AI vs. Mad Men http://bit.ly/9q0fih #
• Zombies, Human Sonar, and Transhumanism: an Interview with Rutgers Professor Katalin Balog http://bit.ly/bJzJfQ #
• An Introduction to the J Programming Language [PDF] http://bit.ly/8ZG0iA #
• You should follow @kaleidic if you are interested in programming/computational math! #
• The Wildcat2030 Daily is out – read this Twitter newspaper on http://paper.li/Wildcat2030 (368 contributions today) #
• Ask a real musician: 5 classic male metal singers http://bit.ly/aMiJaQ #
• A taste of morality http://bit.ly/b0IEgq #
• AI Go Foom http://bit.ly/939ffp #
• Hitch and Harris on moderate Islam http://bit.ly/9Jxmnn #
• Lower Bounds and Progressive Algorithms http://bit.ly/cVnWT2 #
• PHYS771 Quantum Computing Since Democritus http://bit.ly/ca6R78 #
• Short Story Club: "The Things" by Peter Watts http://bit.ly/9Q0jpP #
• Explanations for everyone. | BetterExplained http://bit.ly/clsLd1 #
• Nigerians agree despite religious differences http://bit.ly/ciAxvq #
• Improve your visual literacy http://bit.ly/czl1Mx #
• Infinity, 5 or 3? http://bit.ly/91lO4V #

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• The Wildcat2030 Daily is out – read this Twitter newspaper on http://paper.li/Wildcat2030 (350 contributions today) #
• Realistic [?] Routes to Substrate Independent Minds http://bit.ly/aH4Kjo #
• Self-fulfilling correlations http://bit.ly/cv8WLJ #
• The problem: a metacognition deficit http://bit.ly/9L952N #
• Death from the Universe http://bit.ly/d7DRHV #
• Google Gives Real-Time Search Its Own Page http://bit.ly/bG9ODO #
• PBS Gives Exposure to Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity, and Bio-ethics http://bit.ly/adSHcj #
• How DARPA Plans to Reinvent U.S. Manufacturing http://bit.ly/aMLCGC #
• Earthrise, Then and Now http://bit.ly/aHuFIj #
• Economic Impact of Mass Digitization: Evidence from the Google Book Search http://bit.ly/bW6zjT #
• Video: Astounding Video Shows 30 Years of Asteroid Discoveries http://tumblr.com/xzugv1j4g #
• Autism Gives Woman An 'Alien View' Of Social Brains http://n.pr/ae5RjN #
• Join the Boob-olution! http://bit.ly/9Kcy04 #
• The New Parochialism http://bit.ly/96VJOX #
• The First Amendment v. the Ten Commandments http://bit.ly/cb9tD5 #
• How Obama's Stimulus Is Changing America http://bit.ly/azpGfz #
• Preschool Level Statistics – Association for Psychological Science http://bit.ly/ao8a0i #
• Find out what’s hot on search with the Google Beat http://bit.ly/blAOdb #
• YouTube – Crucifixion: 21st Century Style. http://bit.ly/d2XSn9 #
• Is an Ant Colony’s Caste System Determined by Epigenetics? http://bit.ly/99P0rG #
• Exploitation and cooperation in ecology, government, business, and AI http://bit.ly/ctwiTd #

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• China’s 10 Day Traffic Jam – Exponential Growth at its Worst http://bit.ly/bkbfk1 #
• Are Muslim immigrants a drag on German prosperity? http://bit.ly/bzbjrs #
• Controversy in Saudi Arabia over Fatwa Permitting Breastfeeding of Adults http://bit.ly/9TfS9b #
• Asteroids Can Create Their Own Mini Planetary Systems http://bit.ly/cIu2Bz #
• The billionaire brothers who are waging a war against Obama. http://bit.ly/arzXhC #
• Video: Time Lapse from Space – Earth http://tumblr.com/xzugrkc4v #
• Mosquitoes: Genetic structure of first animal to show evolutionary response to climate change determined http://bit.ly/bBj3sf #
• “This decision has the potential to do serious damage to one of the most promising areas of biomedical research" http://bit.ly/9zrOPT #
• The Wildcat2030 Daily is out – read this Twitter newspaper on http://paper.li/Wildcat2030 (373 contributions today) #
• The New AI: Turn Robots Into Infant Scientists Magazine http://bit.ly/9ncDQk #
• If anyone is fanatic it's Sarah Palin http://bit.ly/dBZ1QB #
• A Crisp View of Molecules http://bit.ly/buTY0v #
• The most isolated man on the planet. http://bit.ly/9VcY17 #
• FeedWordPress allows you to subscribe to feeds on other blogs to import their posts into your own. http://bit.ly/cYPNeL #
• No Copyright Law: The Real Reason for Germany's Industrial Expansion? http://bit.ly/cQHFn9 #
• An introduction to my gaming life http://bit.ly/cCvcDb #
• Video: The Evolutionary Situation of Cognitive Biases http://bit.ly/czhdVF #
• The Acceleration of Gaming http://bit.ly/9d04K3 #
• The Two-Tier Internet: Fighting for Control of the Web's Future http://bit.ly/9PvaJk #
• World money meltdown can start in surprising places, physicists say http://bit.ly/bzoqcr #
• Fine Structure Constant Varies With Direction in Space, Says New Data http://bit.ly/aCLX7k #
• What is the Speed of Gravity? http://bit.ly/atulw6 #
• The Real Reason Why Software Engineers Need Math http://bit.ly/btN64U #
• Assorted Links http://bit.ly/cTAPEp #
• Oppenheimer, The Bomb, And Freedom http://n.pr/aVCgUm #
• Galen Strawson argues that it makes no difference whether he lives or dies http://bit.ly/d6dQXx #
• Math Wars in California http://bit.ly/adZWhM #
• The prior of a hypothesis does not depend on its complexity http://bit.ly/aQsEXx #
• Behemoth Black Holes Were Born in Violent Galactic Collisions http://bit.ly/aMcBNb #
• Matt Ridley is the Rational Optimist http://bit.ly/a0dx6y #
• Matt Ridley is the Rational Optimist http://bit.ly/b68Q4M #
• Matt Ridley: Criticism http://bit.ly/a6DeZO #

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• How Much Is Left? The Limits of Earth's Resources, Made Interactive http://bit.ly/9fWKcX #
• Do-gooders get voted off island first: People don't really like unselfish colleagues, psychologists find http://bit.ly/awXZoF #
• See Amazing New Sun Images From NJIT's Big Bear Solar Observatory http://bit.ly/9FAoef #
• Building a Game Layer on Top of the World http://bit.ly/aCypub #
• Westerners vs. the World: We are the WEIRD ones http://bit.ly/9WYtxC #
• It's not all about Ray: There's more to Singularity studies than Kurzweil http://bit.ly/decJIQ #
• Quantum Entanglement Can Be A Measure Of Free Will, Say Physicists http://bit.ly/aFJQo3 #
• Marriage – The Match Game http://bit.ly/bmXr54 #
• How much data is enough to ensure that the inferences are right? http://bit.ly/d5ZF4k #
• The 10 Manliest High Tide Sea Shanties http://bit.ly/aROROF #
• Deconstructing Gawande – why narrative and structure are important http://bit.ly/azvhzn #
• HD 10180: Richest Yet Planetary System Discovered http://bit.ly/dnjZM0 #

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• SIAI Newsletter June-July 2010 http://bit.ly/90RHmv #
• What's the level of job satisfaction among legal prostitutes? http://bit.ly/bykfB5 #
• Probability Puzzles by Greg Egan http://bit.ly/bFLkYJ #
• Computer Go http://bit.ly/abxt7Q #
• The Interactive Way To Go http://bit.ly/cNeyaP #
• Computer Go for iPhone/iPad/Windows/Mac http://bit.ly/ciD7Fu #
• Synaptic Behaviour Captured By New Memristor Circuit Design http://bit.ly/aAEtpn #
• The Web Instead of Traditional Peer Review? http://bit.ly/995H8V #
• Galaxy Cluster Abell 1689 Magnifies the Dark Universe http://bit.ly/dtGrID #
• The Wildcat2030 Daily is out – read this Twitter newspaper on http://paper.li/Wildcat2030 (390 contributions today) #
• AITopics / Go http://bit.ly/dDbm5g #
• Replacing a Pile of Textbooks With an iPad http://bit.ly/dqy4sM #
• Frog cells give artificial nose the power of super smell http://bit.ly/9TN52U #
• Guides to HTML5 http://bit.ly/cxlVC2 #
• Mining Mood Swings on the Real-Time Web http://bit.ly/cGirtR #
• Why Nerds Like Games http://bit.ly/df4fTb #
• Twin Suns May Spell Disaster http://bit.ly/95bgOD #
• Einstein, Bohr, And Ultimate Reality http://n.pr/asBa9Q #
• Hoarding Connections: The Boundaries of the Network http://bit.ly/dzaLrv #
• Ovulating Women Sexually Compete http://bit.ly/aVJHek #
• Ayn Rand fan spells out appreciation in world's largest book ad http://bit.ly/azAZgJ #
• The Top 5 Most Ignored Humanitarian Crises http://bit.ly/aOPyJ6 #
• What do you think about human rights (and your rights) online? http://bit.ly/dj4iVQ #
• Seeing Sounds – The vOICe System Rewires the Brain’s Audio into Visual http://bit.ly/9e6wH3 #
• Computers As We Don’t Know Them: self-assembled nano-scale cellular automata and random boolean networks http://bit.ly/913WCZ #
• harsh rejections http://bit.ly/9cJwES #
• Oil-eating bacteria have started to clean the Deepwater Horizon spill http://bit.ly/a6DnPZ #
• Network Neutrality is the wrong fight! http://bit.ly/byxCmv #
• Can We Really Reverse-Engineer the Brain by 2030? http://bit.ly/dxzBLx #

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• Alien hunters 'should look for artificial intelligence' http://bbc.in/9Td9vg #
• Michael Vassar’s Insightful Look at the History of Science (video) http://bit.ly/ajVswr #
• The Third Replicator http://nyti.ms/9ZRCWA #
• Neurosecurity: The mind has no firewall http://bit.ly/cfTfEA #
• The Wildcat2030 Daily is out – read this Twitter newspaper on http://paper.li/Wildcat2030 (348 contributions today) #
• A thousand little adaptive platoons http://bit.ly/cQd8jm #
• Amazing Image: Map of Magnetic Field Lines of the Sun http://bit.ly/aCY2Rs #
• The Last Question – Isaac Asimov http://bit.ly/aylF8G #
• Testing the foundations of quantum mechanics http://bit.ly/9IdWTz #
• Basic Arithmetic, Part III: The Map is Not the Territory http://bit.ly/di9GBx #
• Gödel's completeness theorem http://bit.ly/8YeGju #
• Infinite monkey theorem http://bit.ly/bNsW3v #
• Beyond Bayes: causality vs correlation http://bit.ly/argH8v #

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• Church–Turing–Deutsch principle http://bit.ly/cLEoOQ #
• [Updated] Reverse Engineering the Brain: Astrocytes, Microtubule… http://bit.ly/ckeQo6 #
• David Chalmers: Consciousness is not substrate dependent http://bit.ly/bdB7ul #
• Rationality Lessons in the Game of Go http://bit.ly/dxoJDD #
• Daniel Dennett on domesticating the wild memes of religion http://bit.ly/digRj6 #
• Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age http://bit.ly/cylf02 #
• The Wildcat2030 Daily is out – read this Twitter newspaper on http://paper.li/Wildcat2030 (343 contributions today) #
• Self-organized criticality http://bit.ly/9EsHWk #
• Social currency unlocks value for individuals and organizations http://bit.ly/c7N4Bh #
• More virality bait from the world’s most irritating Augmented Reality drones http://bit.ly/c3VHoW #
• Hoags Object: A Strange Ring Galaxy http://bit.ly/bwXdMu #
• Gender And Porn: Where Men And Women Look First http://bit.ly/ci7bhD #
• AIs, Superflies, and the Path to Immortality http://bit.ly/asPAfw #
• Levels of epistemic accuracy http://bit.ly/aYdbIi #

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