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Four short links: 15 October 2009

Open Access, Right to Broadband, Machine Learning Textbook, Javascript Performance Art

by Nat Torkington | @gnat | Comments: 2 | 15 October 2009

Open Access Week -- world-wide, dedicated to raising awareness of open access to research. (via Creative Commons Aotearoa).
1Mb Broadband Access Becomes Legal Right -- Starting next July, every person in Finland will have the right to a one-megabit broadband connection.
The Elements of Statistical Learning 2ed -- classic book (I have the 1st edition) that is now available as a free PDF download. (via Hacker News)
vi in Javascript -- yup, someone's written a vi clone in Javascript. (via monkchips on Twitter)

Ken Williams [16 October 2009 09:21 AM]

Nice shoutout about ESL 2ed - I took their short course (http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~hastie/mrc.html) in Philadelphia and I highly recommend it.

They're like the Grateful Dead of statistics: give the tapes away for free, people will pay for the concerts. =)

José Luis Pedraza Muciño [ 3 December 2009 10:21 AM]

Under Open Access philosophy, Redalyc aims to contribute to the editorial scientific activity produced in and about Ibero-America making available for public consultation the contents of 550 scientific journals of different knowledge areas: http://redalyc.uaemex.mx

Four short links: 15 October 2009

Open Access, Right to Broadband, Machine Learning Textbook, Javascript Performance Art

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