December 2010
19 posts
“We found that people trusted it more if we added a delay loop with a flashing...”
– Eric Horvitz, as quoted in The A.I. Revolution Is On | Magazine
Dec 28th
Dec 27th
Renaissance of the Upper West Side →
From the June 30, 1969 issue of New York Magazine.
Dec 27th
“on its peak day, Nov. 29, customers ordered more than 13.7 million items...”
– Amazon Media Room: News Release
Dec 27th
Dec 24th
“[day of week] = (yearcode + monthcode + day) mod 7”
– How to Become a Human Calendar
Dec 24th
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tip: emacs
use ctrl+l to center screen around a line
Dec 23rd
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tip: shell
set operations in the unix shell, from @pkrumins (h/t @arnabdotorg)
Dec 20th
Set Operations in Unix Shell →
Set Operations in Unix Shell View more documents from Peteris Krumins.
Dec 20th
“The myopic future self that thwarts your intentions is every bit as smart as...”
– How To Do What You Want: Akrasia and Self-Binding | Messy Matters
Dec 20th
New York Times Event Shows the Promise of Big Data →
Dec 15th
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tip: latex
to remove figure numbers, either \usepackage{caption} with \caption*{} or \renewcommand\capstart[1]{} http://tinyurl.com/264vfan
Dec 14th
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tip: shell
use “cat a b b | sort | uniq -u > c” to get the set difference btwn lines of files a and b http://bit.ly/hG4aFy
Dec 9th
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Dec 8th
United States of Autocomplete, the Live Version |... →
Dec 7th
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