February 2012
4 posts
January 2012
8 posts
Snowy in Seattle
Snowy in Seattle
WatchI’ll be outside. Looking for a tree to chop down.
December 2011
17 posts
“Oh, lovely. Let the unwashed masses in, and it will go to shit.”
– RickRoberts in the comments on Quora Moves Beyond Writing to Curating
Bad advice
Thing 1: You make it look too easy. You've gotta fail once in a while.
Thing 2: Fail? Like intentionally tank?
Thing 1: No, more like you've gotta show them how much you suffer.
Thing 2: Suffer? Will anyone care?
Thing 1: No. Decidedly not. But it'll show them you're human.
Thing 1: It'll also drive them away, so there's that. Have fun!
WatchBubbleator (@bubbleator_app) is huge on #iceCreamSandwich.
“[We had a breakthrough and came up with the] first learning algorithm I’ve seen...”
– Hunch Machine Learning Blog: Hadoop AllReduce and Terascale Learning
“Let’s take back nostalgia. Let’s find the surprising in the mundane....”
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Hobolobo.net is awesome. Here's how it was done.... →
The smartest girls go to @RiceUniversity. (File... →
Good on College Prowler for attracting mad pageviews by pandering to America’s smallest (and most awesome) D1 school, Rice University.
Dolphins language provides proof of universality... →
From the “not-so-fast-there” files:
Dolphins in two separate research centers understood the words, presenting convincing evidence that dolphins employ a universal “sono-pictorial” language of communication.
The team was able to teach the dolphins simple and complex sentences involving nouns and verbs, revealing that dolphins comprehend elements of human language, as well as...
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E-mail response time reveals who your closest... →
It turned out that the fastest responses went to friends and that the slowest responses went to acquaintances, with colleagues somewhere in between. Having established this, the researchers could use the response times to predict who was a friend, colleague, or acquaintance without checking the employee survey at all.
tumblrbot asked: WHERE WOULD YOU MOST LIKE TO VISIT ON YOUR PLANET?
May 2011
3 posts
“Let me have your heart and I will give you love
The denotation of my soul is the...”
– λ♥[love] (Linguistics Love Song) « Sentence first
April 2011
3 posts
Soccer By Ives: Must-See Promo: Rocky Mountain Cup →
EastBayGrease said…
RSL’s new signing, Frodo Biggins, will be presented at the game.
B1879 said in reply to EastBayGrease…
They got Messi? Sweet!
“So Cuomo repeated for Clinton — who, you can only imagine, must have been fairly...”
– Mario Cuomo, Available for Elder Statesman Duty - NYTimes.com
March 2011
9 posts
“Facebook is in talks to hire Robert Gibbs, President Obama’s former White House...”
– Facebook May Hire Robert Gibbs, Former Obama Aide - NYTimes.com
“The Book of Mormon” is utterly fluent in the language of musical entertainment...”
– ‘The Book of Mormon’ at Eugene O’Neill Theater - Review - NYTimes.com
“Most personalized news systems assume that using social graph data will provide...”
– (2) Why Did X Fail?: Why have personalized news startups failed? - Quora
“The Orwellian truth may be that smart phones are making dumb people — or...”
– Enjoy being at sporting events rather than texting at them - Steve Rushin - SI.com
February 2011
5 posts
“Which—aside from being entirely inappropriate, even if Jobs were the picture of...”
– LG Keeps It Classy By Kicking Steve Jobs In the Face
Laurelhurst Market Restaurant and Butcher Shop... →
Saving this for later. Mmm.
“If most of the stars in the habitable zone of the Milky Way are far older than...”
– Aaron Rodgers says his new helmet is safer, so why won’t the Packers reveal what kind it is? - ESPN
January 2011
11 posts
