May 2013
3 posts
“As you can see, I need to floss my teeth in the next 13 hours.”
– Dashboard (Could use help from someone who knows how to use the API) - Google Groups
'The Single Most Valuable Document In The History... →
April 2013
11 posts
“in my frame of reference at the time, the closest I had come to meeting a wizard...”
– Interview with Chris Wiggins: don’t send me another $^%& shortcut alias! | mathbabe
“… this reminds me of the Apple II, which I unboxed with my dad back in...”
– (5) Robert Scoble - Google - My two-week review of Google Glass: it all depends on the…
Watch(via Arthur Benjamin: Teach statistics before calculus! | Video on TED.com)
Copy-Paste from Website to Terminal →
(h/t @dggoldst)
“Behind the complex estimating formula is some very questionable, but...”
– The (ongoing) vitality of mythical numbers. - Slate Magazine
“Is there value in Bitcoin? Let me ask a counter question: Is decentralization...”
– (615/1) Bitcoin: Is the cryptocurrency Bitcoin a good idea? - Quora
“How many times larger is a trillion than a million?”
– The answers were distributed in a manner that is about equal to what you’d expect from random guessing.
Video: Do People Know How Big 1 Trillion Really Is? – Econ4U.org
March 2013
4 posts
“These things only barely exist. They are print on demand designs.”
– Algorithmic Rape Jokes in the Library of Babel | Quiet Babylon
“He still finished in 38 hours 32 minutes, beating the record … by more...”
– Becoming the All-Terrain Human - NYTimes.com
xkcd: Steroids →
“A human is a system for converting dust billions of years ago into dust billions of years from now via a roundabout process which involves checking email a lot.”
February 2013
2 posts
“It may not be as good, but almost good enough is often good enough.”
– Disruption guru Christensen: Why Apple, Tesla, VCs, academia may die - Silicon Valley Business Journal
January 2013
8 posts
“He is in fact one of the world’s premier backward runners, having completed a...”
– Stair Racing, a Sport to Make an Ironman Whimper - NYTimes.com
61 Amazing Kite Aerial Photography Images →
“anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn’t the work he is supposed to...”
– Robert Benchley, via Positive Procrastination, Not an Oxymoron - NYTimes.com
“Graphics and interactives from a year that included an election, the Olympics...”
– 2012: The Year in Graphics - Graphic - NYTimes.com
December 2012
2 posts
Google's Lost Social Network →
November 2012
7 posts
What is the strangest photograph ever taken? -... →
“The hipster is a scholar of social forms, a student of cool. He studies...”
– How to Live Without Irony - NYTimes.com
Paul Rudnick: My Crush on Nate Silver : The New... →
“The secret to this success isn’t, as you might expect, Google’s...”
– How Google Builds Its Maps—and What It Means for the Future of Everything - Technology - The Atlantic
October 2012
4 posts
National Geographic Photo Contest 2012 - The Big... →
natural language processing blog: Sure, you can do... →
“… it’s not their chances of succeeding that matter but their chances...”
– Black Swan Farming
September 2012
1 post
2 tags
tip: rstats
use droplevels to remove unused levels from a factor http://bit.ly/PWH9PI
August 2012
3 posts
2 tags
tip: python
use savefig(…, facecolor=black) to save figures with a black background http://bit.ly/O5GIBW
2 tags
tip: ssh
set ClientAliveInterval 300 in /etc/ssh/sshd_config to avoid timeouts and dropped connections http://bit.ly/NKssyq
2 tags
tip: rstats
use formatters in ggplot2 to modify axis labels, e.g. scale_y_continuous(labels=percent_format()) http://bit.ly/NNMt5f
2 tags
tip: bash
try an until..do loop to automatically restart jobs instead of PID or psgrep (h/t @dggoldst) http://bit.ly/MZISmQ
July 2012
7 posts
“I think statistics is beautiful and useful and the world would be a better place...”
– No, Really, Some of My Best Friends Are Data Scientists
“Trick for productionizing research: read current 3-5 pubs and note the stupid...”
– Twitter / jaykreps: Trick for productionizing …
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