Weekly Recap: Interesting Articles 7/24-7/31 2016

Went on vacation or fell asleep at the internet wheel this week? Here’s some of the interesting stuff you missed.

Science & Math

Context Specific and Differential Gene Co-expression Networks via Bayesian Biclustering | PLOS Computational Biology

The Competing Incentives of Academic Research in Mathematics

[1607.08473] Quantum circuits and low-degree polynomials over F_2

This Physics Pioneer Walked Away from it All | Nautilus

Monumental proof to torment mathematicians for years to come: Conference on Shinichi Mochizuki’s work inspires cautious optimism. | Nature

Peter Woit on Shinichi Mochizuki conference

What Your Brain Looks Like When It Solves a Math Problem | New York Times

Habits of Highly Mathematical People

Why You Should Care About High-Dimensional Sphere Packing | Roots of Unity

Initial steps toward reproducible research

Bridging the Curation Gap between Research and Libraries – A Case Study

Quantum steampunk: Quantum information applied to thermodynamics

How Vector Space Mathematics Reveals the Hidden Sexism in Language

How Sound Can Make Food Taste Better | Nautilus

Top 10 algorithms of 20th century numerical analysis, from a talk by Alex Townsend

UK vs. US: Who’s got the right way to teach math(s)? | Math with Bad Drawin

Physics & Caffeine: Stop Motion Film Uses a Cup of Coffee to Explain Key Co

The Water Kingdom: A Secret History of China by Philip Ball (review)

The master of them all: Book review for”Leonhard Euler: Mathematical Genius in the Enlightenment” | The Economist

Biologists Search for New Model Organisms: The bulk of biological research is centered on a handful of species. Are we missing a huge chunk of life’s secrets?

One-sentence proof of Fermat’s theorem on sums of two squares | Fermat’s Library

This protein designer aims to revolutionize medicines and materials

Our last common ancestor inhaled hydrogen from underwater volcanoes

Meet Luca, The Ancestor of All Living Things | New York Times

*Disconnected, fragmented, or united? a trans-disciplinary review of network

What’s Behind A Science vs. Philosophy Fight? | Big Think

What is a “Neutral Network” Anyway? An Exploration and Rediscovery of the Aims of Net Neutrality in Theory and Practice

The Brachistochrone Curve: The Problem of Quickest Descent | Fermat’s Library

In what sense is Quantum Mechanics a theory of information? | Quora

Major transitions in information technology | Philosophical Transactions of

Human brain mapped in unprecedented detail: Nearly 100 previously unidentified brain areas revealed by examination of the cerebral cortex. | Nature

Cell biologists should specialize, not hybridize: Dry cell biologists, who bridge computer science and cell biology, should have a pivotal role in driving effective team science, says Assaf Zaritsky | Nature

Internet 3.0: How we take back control from the giants | New Scientist

How a Guy From a Montana Trailer Park Overturned 150 Years of Biology | The Atlantic

People can sense single photons | Nature News & Comment

Defining synergy thermodynamically using quantitative measurements of entropy and free energy

A Prime Case of Chaos | AMS.org

Murray Gell-Mann (video interviews) – YouTube

Mathematics & Chalk: A teary goodbye to Hagomoro | Jeremy Kun

Publishing

Want to Change Academic Publishing? Just Say No | Chronicle

Textbooks Show Aging Signs: Curated Guides Are Next – 10+ Disruptive Factors Transforming the World of Education and Learning — Consequences, Opportunities, Tools

Simon & Schuster, Penguin, Random House Don’t Want to Talk About Their Ebook Sales

Amazon Sales Rank: Taming the Algorithm | Self-Publishing Author Advice

What Authors Should Know About Advance Review Copies

Ingram Launches Ingram Academic Services

How a Publishing House Designs a Book Cover

How Indie Bookstores Help Drive Book Discoverability

How to Grow Your Email List

3 Ways Indie Publishers Sell Books | Digital Book World

10 Self-Publishing Trends to Watch

Ingram Launches Academic Services for University Presses and Academic Publishers

Indigo Goes Where Amazon, B&N, Goodreads, and a Dozen Publishers and Startus Have Dared to Tread

How To Make An Ebook Feel More Like A Real Book

Looking for open digital collections – Wynken de Worde

Indieweb, Internet, Identity, Blogging, Social Media

What is Open Source?

Microformats with Tantek Çelik | tlks.io
My zsh aliases | Devon Zuegel

XOXO Festival

Web Design in 4 minutes

Custom Elements

Design Principles

Infographic: The Optimal Length for Every Social Media Update

Notes For New (and Potential) Twitter Followers | Whatever

How Blogs Work Today – Whatever

My reply to: How Blogs Work Today | Whatever

Unicode Character ‘ZERO WIDTH SPACE’ (U 200B)

A Book Apart, Practical SVG

Gillmor Gang Trumpathon

The best news aggregation service – The Sweet Setup

Social Startup Sprinklr Is Now Valued At $1.8 Billion After $105 Million Raise | Forbes

Epeus’ epigone: Digital publics, Conversations and Twitter

General

The New Meaning of Success

7 Lessons from the Future of Content: Part One — Tools Are Cheap, Time Is Expensive

7 Lessons from the Future of Content: Part Two — Let’s Play Risk

Aron Pilhofer Joining Temple University School of Media and Communication

Secrets and agents: George Akerlof’s 1970 paper, “The Market for Lemons”, is a foundation stone of information economics. The first in our series on seminal economic ideas | The Economist

John Oliver has the takedown of Donald Trump’s Republican convention

Reference: New Interactive Map Of 100,000 Photos and Videos Reveal “Lost London in the Victorian Era”

“better modifiers than “insane(ly)” (Grammar and Usage)

A lesson in the errors of statistical thinking: Nate Silver on Trump

Trump & Putin. Yes, It’s Really a Thing

Charlie Parker Plays with Dizzy Gillespie in Only Footage Capturing the “Bird” in True Live Performance

Let Me Remind You Fuckers Who I Am (Shit HRC Can’t Say/satire)