Computers and Internet

Check out this timeline from the Wolfram Data Summit.  Where’s it going?  Stephen Wolfram has some big ideas. Read more

This sounded pretty good until they threw in net neutrality.  Nothing but frustrated little dictator chaps running the EU, I’m afraid.  Bugger off. Read more

THIS is what class looks like among the Geekerati.  A guy builds a graphic outline of the entire R language, and then apologizes because it’s not as comprehensive as he’d like it to be.  RTFM on steroids, I’d say. Tip from R Bloggers. Read more

I thought I was hardcore in shunning Google for their cooperation in Chinese controls on the internet.  Now check out this from Consumer Watchdog. Tip from the BBC, via Drudge. Read more

Compress them with deplump. Tip from Andrew Gelman. Read more

How come nobody told me about smoothscatter( )?  This is neat! Tip from R-Bloggers. Read more

Need to vectorize a function in R?  Learn all the variations of the apply( )  function. Tip from R-Bloggers. Read more

I’ve just finished installing Windows 7 on my home PC and laptop.  Yes, I’m a pokey old dinosaur who believes the rule "Never buy version 1.0 of anything," but I did manage to miss out on the Windows Vista nonsense.  Windows 7 is great!  Lots of nice features–Homegroup lets me share files wirelessly, the slideshow Read more

Jon McCloone has a nifty Mathematica program demonstrating digital steganography over at the Wolfram Blog.  With a subtle nod to the Urban Chicken Movement. Read more

Information visualization using the web’s universally-available language: JavaScript! Tip from Flowing Data. Read more