Detailed notes on the Google SRE book.

Discussion of research misconduct. My note: Gelman's clearly worried about Gersham's law. If bad research really is outcompeting good research for funding, clearly that's the NSF's or NIH's fault, not (really) the original researcher's. Also, spectacularly bad research almost never gets funded. So there are limits to the harm that "Gersham" does.

"A course on algorithms used in journalism, for beginning Python programmers. Taught at the Lede program, Columbia Journalism School, summer 2018 by Jonathan Stray. Some parts adapted from previous work, as noted."

Textbook/lectures by David Aldous. Looks wonderful.

"This is a chronological list of physical visualizations and related artifacts, maintained by Pierre Dragicevic and Yvonne Jansen. Thanks to our contributors. If you know of another interesting physical visualization, please submit it! This list currently has 361 entries."

BagIt is a set of hierarchical file layout conventions designed to support storage and transfer of arbitrary digital content. A "bag" consists of a directory containing the payload files and other accompanying metadata files known as "tag" files. The "tags" are metadata files intended to facilitate and document the storage and transfer of the bag. Processing a bag does not require any understanding of the payload file contents, and the payload files can be accessed without processing the BagIt metadata.

Ada Palmer profile.

Wikipedia: Project Runeberg (Swedish: Projekt Runeberg) is a digital cultural archive initiative that publishes free electronic versions of books significant to the culture and history of the Nordic countries. Patterned after Project Gutenberg, it was founded by Lars Aronsson and colleagues at Linköping University and began archiving Nordic-language literature in December 1992. As of 2015 it had accomplished digitization to provide graphical facsimiles of old works such as the Nordisk familjebok, and had accomplished, in whole or in part, the text extractions and copyediting of these as well as esteemed Latin works and English translations from Nordic authors, and sheet music and other texts of cultural interest.

"This article investigates cultural forms of class bias in the middle-income U.S. labor market. Results from an audit study of employment discrimination in four U.S. cities reveal that cultural signals of class, when included in résumés, have a systematic effect on the callback rates of women applying to customer-facing jobs. For these women, displays of highbrow taste—the cultural signals of a higher-class background—generate significantly higher rates of employer callback than displays of lowbrow taste—the cultural signals of a lower-class background. Meanwhile, cultural signals of class have no systematic effect on the callback rates of male and/or non–customer-facing job applicants. Results from a survey-experimental study of 1,428 U.S. hiring managers suggest that these differing patterns of employer callback may be explained by the positive effect of higher-class cultural signals on perceptions of polish and competence and their negative effect on perceptions of warmth."

Not a bad list. Does mislead by conflating 4-year European Masters programs with 1-year US American Masters programs. German PhD programs are missing.

Post on the Internet Archive's blog by Jason Scott. Examples of wonderful public domain books and magazines available at IA.

1922 book notable for being a "test vector" for the Internet Archive's book digitization process.

Popular conference planning tool written in Python.

Full-text search for static websites.

ledger is a FOSS tool for accounting

Standard contributor guidelines.

Marketplace for finding a book editor, designer, or marketer. No idea if it is any good. (Book publishers continue to be the middleman here.)