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Yudkowsky - Bayes' Theorem →

Nov 27th

Nov 26th

“Some time ago I received a call from a colleague. He was about to give a student...”

– Some questions have many answers

Nov 26th

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Nov 26th

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Nov 26th

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“i have no snark for the kicker.”

– i never capitalize , allow me to explain what it is like to work in a “fabless semiconductor company”; or, why i would go postal and kill everyone

Nov 25th

“But as corporations were taken over by a caste who never made a product or...”

– Contrary Brin: Soros Examines the Causes.

Nov 25th

Nov 24th

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Fifty People, One Question: New York on Vimeo (via Vimeo)

Nov 24th

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Things - Will Schenk Lazzzored a Dodecahedron on Vimeo (via Vimeo)

Nov 24th

“You answered 29 out of 33 correctly — 87.88 % Average score for this...”

– Are you more knowledgeable than the average citizen? The average score for all 2,508 Americans taking the following test was 49%; college educators scored 55%. Can you do better? Questions were drawn from past ISI surveys, as well as other nationally recognized exams. Civic Literacy Report - ...

Nov 24th

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Through the ages a lot of interesting (and some obscure) programming languages have entertained and confused people. At JAOO Aarhus 2008 Guy L. Steele and Richard P. Gabriel gave a presentation about languages and language constructs in a presentation that is a work of art in itself. In the presentation called “50 in 50″ you can see Guy Steele rap about APL and later in the video about spelling...

Nov 23rd

Nov 22nd

“When Sharon first heard the rumor that Frank had left her for a young homosexual...”

– Esquire’s 70 Greatest Sentences - Esquire

Nov 22nd

Nov 19th

Speeding Up Rails Development | Ruby on Rails →

Nov 17th

“Pirates who hijacked a crude oil tanker off the coast of Kenya are approaching a...”

– Pirates take ‘super tanker’ towards Somalia - CNN.com

Nov 17th

Battle of the CSS Frameworks | Capsize Designs →

Nov 17th

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On Growth and Form and Constructal Theory |... →

Nov 14th

Nov 13th

“Even if growth in global demand was at zero for the next 22 years, in order to...”

– Fatih Birol, author of the IEA’s World Energy Outlook which published today. (via dihard)

Nov 12th

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Gnarls Barkley

Nov 12th

The End of Wall Street's Boom →

Nov 12th

play/type blog. Workling 0.4.1 is out, now with... →

Nov 12th

InstallationHowto - tcerl - Google Code -... →

Nov 12th

Setting up Disco — Disco v0.1.2 documentation →

Nov 12th

Nov 11th

“In the coming months, when sunlight disappears entirely in the northern plains,...”

– Mars Lander Succumbs to Winter - NYTimes.com

Nov 11th

“It has this Lazarus mode that will bring it back to life if it dies. That...”

– Interview @MarsPhoenix, or, who writes the twitter posts for the mars rover which first let the world know that there’s water on mars and thus we’ll be able to move there someday and maybe humanity will make it after all.

Nov 11th