{"id":189,"date":"2009-08-06T21:01:59","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T01:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevincreamer.net\/panda\/?p=189"},"modified":"2009-08-06T21:01:59","modified_gmt":"2009-08-07T01:01:59","slug":"what-im-reading-8609","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevincreamer.net\/panda\/2009\/08\/06\/what-im-reading-8609\/","title":{"rendered":"What I&#8217;m Reading &#8211; 8\/6\/09"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>New York Times\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/06\/technology\/06stats.html\" target=\"_blank\">For Today&#8217;s Graduate, Just One Word: Statistics<\/a> &#8211; Graduates with a statistics background are &#8220;finding themselves increasingly in demand &#8211; and even cool.&#8221;  &#8220;&#8216;The key is to let the computers do what they are good at, which is trawling massive data sets for something that is mathematically odd,&#8217; said Daniel Gruhl, an I.B.M. researcher whose recent work includes mining medical data to improve treatment. &#8216;And that makes it easier for humans to do what they are good at &#8212; explain those anomalies.'&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/06\/world\/asia\/06china.html\" target=\"_blank\">China Sees Progress on Climate Accord, but Resists an Emissions Ceiling<\/a> &#8211; China says it will likely sign on to an agreement to reduce greenhouse gasses, but pushes back on capping emission of greenhouse gasses.\u00a0 &#8220;China now emits more carbon dioxide than the United States, although it remains well behind when populations are measured on a per-person basis.&#8221;\u00a0 Bilateral negotiations with the Obama administration are characterized as &#8220;quite fruitful.&#8221;\u00a0 Let&#8217;s hope.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/06\/technology\/personaltech\/06pogue.html\" target=\"_blank\">New Entry in E-Books A Paper Tiger<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Barnes and Noble&#8217;s<\/a> new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/ebooks\/index.asp\" target=\"_blank\">e-book offering<\/a> boasts almost twice as many books as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon<\/a>, and gives you access on your PC or Mac.\u00a0 Their e-book reader won&#8217;t be available until 2010 (coming from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plasticlogic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Paper Logic<\/a>).\u00a0 The catch is that most of the books at B&amp;N are already available through places like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/wiki\/Main_Page\" target=\"_blank\">Project Gutenberg<\/a>.\u00a0 In short, they&#8217;re not the books you&#8217;re looking for.\u00a0 And the functionality of the various applications isn&#8217;t up to the good experience Amazon&#8217;s Kindle offers.\u00a0 Still, I&#8217;ll have to get a couple of books through B&amp;N this weekend to see how it works for myself.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Guyland\n<ul>\n<li>Chapter 4: High School: Boot Camp for Guyland &#8211; High school boys learn to conform or be ostracized.\u00a0 Kimmel suggests a radical change of the culture around high school boys.\u00a0 I am sadly skeptical that so many different types of people need to change what they do: teachers, coaches, parents, peers.\u00a0 Culture rarely changes so drammatically, yet Kimmel makes it clear that broad changes are necessary.<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 5: The Rites of Almost-Men: Binge Drinking, Fraternity Hazing, and the Elephant Walk &#8211; In college, peers initiate peers into manhood, despite their lack of qualifications to do so.\u00a0 The anecdotes are extreme, and I find myself wishing for a more tempered argument in the book.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Times For Today&#8217;s Graduate, Just One Word: Statistics &#8211; Graduates with a statistics background are &#8220;finding themselves increasingly in demand &#8211; and even cool.&#8221; &#8220;&#8216;The key is to let the computers do what they are good at, which &hellip; 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