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Oct 15
2009

Nat Torkington

Four short links: 15 October 2009

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

by Nat Torkington | @gnat | comments: 1

  1. Open Access Week -- world-wide, dedicated to raising awareness of open access to research. (via Creative Commons Aotearoa).
  2. 1Mb Broadband Access Becomes Legal Right -- Starting next July, every person in Finland will have the right to a one-megabit broadband connection.
  3. 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)
  4. vi in Javascript -- yup, someone's written a vi clone in Javascript. (via monkchips on Twitter)


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Ken Williams [2009-10-16 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. =)

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