Netflix Prize for Dummies [A+]
If you’re an A+ dummy (aka almost-not-a-dummy) you can try with this software (Varozhka), created by Eugene Rymski, to play around with the Netflix Prize dataset.
Brilliant!
Adam Smith vs John Nash
Mr Smith, XVIII century’s great grand-father of modern economics, devised the power of the market as the main driver (anyone for the “invisible hand”?). As in “A Beautiful Mind” we can hear: “every man for himself”, because the own interest will tend to get the main group’s interest. Following Mr Nash’s intervention, in fact, prior group negotiation is needed in order to obtain individual interest (this is the basis for collaborative games which it was thought to be the foundations for cutting edge game theory, however, later on, John Nash demonstrated that it really was non-collaborative ones). Let’s watch it:
Research (Management) 2.0, not Research 2.0
For so many months I’ve been thinking and looking for a tool that would let me manage my activity as a researcher; firstly I looked into documental management systems and knowledge management systems, however, I always ended up doing nothing.
This idea was taken to life again during my last conversation with Pau Rausell-Köster, and how universities were starting to apply more advanced systems to the research activity (Research Management).
So, hands on!, a little bit of this plus a sprinkle of that and…, taking a look to the proposal of Julen Iturbe (Consultoría Artesana en la Red - Handcrafted Consulting in the Network), we can adapt a little bit the concept of Consulting 2.0 to obtain Research 2.0 (trendy too much, but mates, I’ve never been from the group that extends the knowledge frontier, but from the one that fills the gap - I’ve taken this idea from a conversation I had years ago with a professor called Jose Ramon Ruiz Tamarit).
So, in the words of Julen, “a project, a wiki”.
