27 Oct 2006

Vox Populi

A paper by Sir Francis Galton first published in the March 7, 1907 issue of the scientific journal, NATURE. The paper provides what appears to be the first solid explanation for why Google’s ranking algorithm, not to mention the form of government we’ve come to know as “democracy”, are so capable.

tomayko.com   09:36

04 Jan 2008

The Federalist Papers

An online edition of the Federalist Papers which is pleasant to look at and provides paragraph-level permalinking. Each paper is marked up in the hAtom microformat with an elastic layout (stays beautiful with bigger/smaller font size).

federali.st   21:02

23 Dec 2006

Condorcet's jury theorem

Interesting corollary to Vox Populi. (Via Aristotle Pegaltzis)

en.wikipedia.org   05:06