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?