Four short links: 15 November 2016
Fraud Busting, Voting Help, Economic Mobility, and Spinal Implant
- statcheck — R package “statcheck”: Extract statistics from articles and recompute p values. Useful for finding p-hacking and a pile of statistical errors in peer-reviewed papers. (via BoingBoing)
- RoboVote — a free service that helps users combine their preferences or opinions into optimal decisions using state-of-the-art voting methods developed in artificial intelligence research.
- Stacked Deck — This paper offers an overview of the interplay between declining upward mobility and growing political inequality, which we show is a self-reinforcing phenomenon. It reports on a growing body of new research on this nexus. Feedback loops are important in society as well as software. (via Hamish MacEwan)
- Brain Implant Allows Paralyzed Monkey to Walk Again — The neuroprosthetic device implanted in the monkey’s brain correctly interprets activity generated by the motor cortex, and relays this information to a system of electrodes placed over the surface of the spinal cord, just below the injury. A burst of just a few volts, delivered at the right location, triggers specific muscles in the legs. Monkeys implanted with the device were able to walk within six days of the spinal cord injury. Paralyzed monkey version of “I Know Kung-Fu!”.
