{"id":5508,"date":"2014-08-02T08:00:20","date_gmt":"2014-08-02T13:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=5508"},"modified":"2014-08-02T08:00:20","modified_gmt":"2014-08-02T13:00:20","slug":"your-happening-world-july-28th-through-august-2nd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2014\/08\/02\/your-happening-world-july-28th-through-august-2nd\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Happening World (July 28th through August 2nd)"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/maryrobinettekowal.com\/journal\/im-spending-today-swapping-dialect-novel\/\">Why I&#8217;m spending today swapping out the dialect in my novel | Mary Robinette Kowal<\/a> &#8211; My project today is replacing all the dialogue spoken by Antiguan characters in Of Noble Family with dialogue rewritten by Antiguan and Barbudan author Joanne Hillhouse. Let me explain why I&rsquo;m doing this.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/groups.google.com\/forum\/#!topic\/soc.history.what-if\/gD83k_Kz5Q4%5B1-25-false%5D\">Google Groups<\/a> &#8211; An code name is quickly picked for the exploration of Earth 1\/4 Billion: Green Door. Like &#039;tanks&#039;, &#039;Manhattan District&#039; or many other project names, it is designed to give away as little as possible about the project. As usual, the Soviet hear about GD in a few weeks.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eponaproject.com\/Epona_Home.html\">EPONA &#8211; Third stone from taranis<\/a> &#8211; Imagine that you have just landed on a planet twenty-one light years from Earth. You are about to enter a lush world where things are more than just a little different! Evolution has taken exotic paths and a whole new kingdom of life reigns over land, sea and air! You are the leader of a first contact mission on the planet named Epona. The mission you have organized has journeyed here in an interstellar craft that orbits Epona. Your hand-picked crew must provide all the information you will need about Epona from the 21st Century technology available to you. Your objective is to unlock the secret of Epona&#039;s remarkable life-forms and discover if there is intelligent life you can communicate with.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/setosa.io\/blog\/2014\/07\/26\/markov-chains\/index.html\">Markov Chains<\/a> &#8211; Markov chains, named after Andrey Markov, are mathematical systems that hop from one &quot;state&quot; (a situation or set of values) to another. For example, if you made a Markov chain model of a baby&#039;s behavior, you might include &quot;playing,&quot; &quot;eating&quot;, &quot;sleeping,&quot; and &quot;crying&quot; as states, which together with other behaviors could form a &#039;state space&#039;: a list of all possible states. In addition, on top of the state space, a Markov chain tells you the probabilitiy of hopping, or &quot;transitioning,&quot; from one state to any other state&#8212;e.g., the chance that a baby currently playing will fall asleep in the next five minutes without crying first.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/grantland.com\/features\/wwe-paul-heyman-promo-star-summerslam-brock-lesnar-john-cena\/\">The Mouth of the WWE &laquo;<\/a> &#8211; In a match between a 15-time World Champion and the most dominating real-life wrestler in the world, Paul Heyman is somehow the best pro wrestler in the story line. So forget Cena and Bryan and Orton and Roman Reigns &mdash; Paul Heyman is the face of the WWE. How in the world did that happen?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why I&#8217;m spending today swapping out the dialect in my novel | Mary Robinette Kowal &#8211; My project today is replacing all the dialogue spoken by Antiguan characters in Of Noble Family with dialogue rewritten by Antiguan and Barbudan author Joanne Hillhouse. Let me explain why I&rsquo;m doing this. Google Groups &#8211; An code name [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[324],"tags":[1975,1971,1974,1970,1870,2441,1973,1972,1968,198,1967],"class_list":["post-5508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linky","tag-dialect","tag-howto","tag-language","tag-markov-chains","tag-math","tag-science-fiction","tag-what-if","tag-world-building","tag-wrestling","tag-writing","tag-wwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5508"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5540,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5508\/revisions\/5540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}