Paragon Adrift

Metrics 2.0

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:27:52 -0500

Metrics 2.0:

from Yammer.

drinking games

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:37:42 -0500

drinking games

Why French Parents Are Superior

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:58:04 -0500

Why French Parents Are Superior:

by Pamela Druckerman. Interesting observations.

Buildpacks

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:19:37 -0500

Buildpacks:

Really like how the Heroku platform is designed.

Andrei's Tips on Giving Technical Talks

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 03:53:04 -0500

Andrei's Tips on Giving Technical Talks:

by Andrei Alexandrescu

The Power of Introverts: A Manifesto for Quiet Brilliance

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 03:52:39 -0500

The Power of Introverts: A Manifesto for Quiet Brilliance:

on Scientific American.

Everything You Thought You Knew About Learning Is Wrong

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 03:52:23 -0500

Everything You Thought You Knew About Learning Is Wrong

"If you want to do something big in your life, you must remember that shyness is only the..."

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 03:11:49 -0500

““If you want to do something big in your life, you must remember that shyness is only the mind,” she said. “If you think shy, you act shy. If you think confident you act confident. Therefore never let shyness conquer your mind.””

- Such a shame, I want so many more children like this.

Digital Life - Programming prodigy passes away at 16: Hear her philosophy of life

(via CV Dazzle: Open-Source Camouflage From Computer Vision by...

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 06:17:30 -0500

(via CV Dazzle: Open-Source Camouflage From Computer Vision by Adam Harvey)

What Scientific Concept Would Improve Everybody's Cognitive Toolkit?

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 06:14:36 -0500

What Scientific Concept Would Improve Everybody's Cognitive Toolkit?:

Answers. Lots of them.

Self; The Video

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 01:36:31 -0500

Self; The Video

(via How to nap - Boston.com)

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:51:43 -0500

(via How to nap - Boston.com)

"I suffered through half a semester of differential equations before my pride let me go to R. for..."

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 07:31:50 -0500

“I suffered through half a semester of differential equations before my pride let me go to R. for help. And sure enough, he took my textbook for a night to review the material (he couldn’t remember it all from third grade), and then he walked me through my difficulties and coached me. I ended up pulling a B at the end of a semester and avoiding that train wreck. The thing is, nothing he taught me involved raw brainpower. The more I learned the more I realized that the bulk of his intelligence and his performance just came from study and practice, and that the had amassed a large artillery of intellectual and mathematical tools that he had learned and trained to call upon. He showed me some of those tools, but what I really ended up learning was how to go about finding, building, and refining my own set of cognitive tools. I admired R., and I looked up to him, and while I doubt I will ever compete with his genius, I recognize that it’s because of a relative lack of my conviction and an excess of his, not some accident of genetics.”

- Inri137 comments on I’m not as smart as I thought I was.

Such a great response.

The Stop Online Piracy Debate

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 02:56:31 -0500

The Stop Online Piracy Debate:

on Forum, a KQED production. Both sides represented.

Algorithm Measures Human Pecking Order

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 07:11:54 -0500

Algorithm Measures Human Pecking Order

Physicists Seek To Lose The Lecture As Teaching Tool

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 06:30:50 -0500

Physicists Seek To Lose The Lecture As Teaching Tool:

at NPR.

Why you should use a BSD style license for your Open Source Project

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 05:14:51 -0500

Why you should use a BSD style license for your Open Source Project:

Fuck the GPL.

Practical Garbage Collection, part 1 – Introduction

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 02:13:24 -0500

Practical Garbage Collection, part 1 – Introduction

Time to end the war on drugs

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 19:05:51 -0500

Time to end the war on drugs:

Fuck yeah Richard Branson!

"In the period of shareholder capitalism since 1976, executive compensation has exploded while..."

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 04:44:15 -0500

“In the period of shareholder capitalism since 1976, executive compensation has exploded while corporate performance has declined. “Maximizing shareholder value” turned out to be the disease of which it purported to be the cure.”

- The Dumbest Idea In The World: Maximizing Shareholder Value - Forbes