Cartoons of merge sort, etc.

Helpful list of best practices in survey design. "With the rise of Web-based applications, it is both important and feasible for human-computer interaction practitioners to measure a product’s user experience. While quantifying user attitudes at a small scale has been heavily studied, in this industry case study, we detail best Happiness Tracking Surveys (HaTS) for collecting attitudinal data at a large scale directly in the product and over time. This method was developed at Google to track attitudes and open-ended feedback over time, and to characterize products’ user bases. This case study of HaTS goes beyond the design of the questionnaire to also suggest best practices for appropriate sampling, invitation techniques, and its data analysis. HaTS has been deployed successfully across dozens of Google’s products to measure progress towards product goals and to inform product decisions; its sensitivity to product changes has been demonstrated widely. We are confident that teams in other organizations will be able to embrace HaTS as well, and, if necessary, adapt it for their unique needs."

Hosting provider for TEI. "TAPAS is the TEI Archiving, Publishing, and Access Service hosted by Northeastern University Library's Digital Scholarship Group."

"The Guerrilla Translation/Guerrilla Media Collective Wiki is the main knowledge base for the Guerrilla Media Collective and its offshoots (Guerrilla Translation, Guerrilla Graphic Collective, etc)."

"Lo-fi production technologies are stable and free: sometimes free as in beer; sometimes free as in speech; and sometimes, if not chosen only after careful research, free as in puppy. Equally as important, lo-fi technologies are modular and swappable, and can be combined or replaced as needed. They consist of ..."

Literary Texts as Cognitive Assemblages: The Case of Electronic Literature by Katherine Hayles 08-05-2018

Gerhard Lauer defends digital literary studies.

"#BIPOC18 is a collective of scholars of C18 culture committed to centering problems of structural racism and legacies of colonization as they inform both the theory and practice of eighteenth-century studies."

"For some varieties of cassava, complete detoxification is an effortful, complex, unintuitive process. Joe Henrich famously argued that the practice could only spread through blind, conformist imitation. But what if cassava just tastes better that way?"

Mark Liberman on Stanley Fish.

Starts with questions I'm interested in (in the context of the text industry): "Why are some industries dominated worldwide by a handful of firms? Why is the size distribution of firms within most industries highly skewed?"

Gelman on (not) using BIC for estimating number of clusters in a mixture model. "I think BIC is fundamentally different from AIC, WAIC, LOO, etc, in that all those other things are estimates of out-of-sample prediction error, while BIC is some weird thing that under certain ridiculous special cases corresponds to an approximation to the log marginal probability."

"Google Suppresses Memo Revealing Plans to Closely Track Search Users in China The company forced employees to delete the document, which stated that a Chinese partner would have “unilateral access” to user data."

Write for the web without wasting space and time.

Typeface for programming.