Gigerenzer and Brighton (2009) bust the following myth, as presented in The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins, in which we find the following about how a baseball outfielder catches a ball: "[H]e behaves as if he had solved a set of differential equations in predicting the trajectory of the ball. . . . At some subconscious level, something functionally equivalent to the mathematical calculations is going on."
I just created an API for uploading source files into WorkingWiki. I also created an R script that uses it to upload a file into a WorkingWiki project, as a proof of concept, and as a starting point for our users who want to use R to develop code and publish it to the wikis, in the same way that you can develop things and publish them on Rpubs.com.
I didn't mean it as a demo - I did it to get some work done. But now I have a wiki page that demonstrates using Sage to do symbolic mathematics in a WorkingWiki page.
Experimenting with displaying PDFs directly in the wiki page using Mozilla's pdf.js. It looks great to me! If this works well enough, it would make our lives a lot simpler, not having to make a separate HTML version of each paper for display in the wiki page.
The video of the talk I gave August 22 is up on YouTube now, thanks to my host and friend, Mike Morton of the Google Goggles team. Here it is (it's an hour long):
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