"McLuhan was wrong. The message is the message. We use different media to deliver it, more or less intact."
Stephen Wolfram, the guy behind Mathematica and A New Kind of Science, is working on a “new paradigm for using computers and the web.†If it’s anything like Mathematica, it could be a Google-killer. If it’s anything like A New Kind of Science, Google (and everyone else) has nothing to fear. We shall see.
"Heard on police scanner at 1:15 p.m. today: a woman allegedly spit on a T bus driver at 271 Windsor St. The driver has requested an ambulance."
This is nuts. The studies these inferences are based on have known errors and statistically insignificant results. See, for example, this: http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/2009/06/of_beauty_sex_a.html How do people keep publishing this crap?
Telesummit goes down on the 15th. Along with everything else, apparently.
My new department is just awesome!
"Our most powerful station, WHRA Angel 5, was added in February of 1998. WHRA has 30 million watts of "Jesus Power"(ERP) for Africa, the Middle East and those living in the 10/40 Window."
Awesome new interface to the MIT library -- but moves power away from MIT which is sketchy.
An ML based system for improving academic writing w/ grammar checking and alternative phrasing suggestions. Available as an Overleaf program.
Nice writeup of Luis van Ahn's newest project based on human translation.
"So, while nobody in their right mind would've paid money for Dr. Sbaitso as an actual video game, I credit it with saving my life."
I basically have a policy of not bookmarking XKCD. This is useful enough, I might.
Amazing looking library for manipulating XML in a UNIX like fashion.
