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April 10 2010
AI4R :: Artificial Intelligence for Ruby
April 09 2010
jashmenn's apriori at master - GitHub
large sets of transactions.
April 08 2010
April 07 2010
The Technium: How to Thrive Among Pirates
The three largest film industries in the world are India, Nigeria and China. Nigeria cranks out some 2,000 films a year (Nollywood), India produces about 1,000 a year (Bollywood) and China less than 500. Together they produce four times as many films per year as Hollywood. Yet each of these countries is a haven, even a synonym, for rampant piracy. How do post-copyright economics work? How do you keep producing more movies than Hollywood with no copyright protection for your efforts?
Five years ago – Linking Paths
Five years ago, we launched Linking Paths. During this time we have evolved, we got married and had children, we had bad times and we laughed, we have confirmed some ideas and left others behind, have met wonderful and hateful people: we have lived.uring this time we have evolved, we got married and had children, we had bad times and we laughed, we have confirmed some ideas and left others behind, have met wonderful and hateful people: we have lived.
Salam ‘alaykum El Cairo
“Salam ‘alaykum” o “La paz sea contigo”, el saludo típico, también es un sentimiento que te embarga al llegar a El Cairo. Su inmensidad, la sensación del pasado en el presente, ejemplificado por la silueta de las tres pirámides que hacen sombra sobre el mar de luz visible al llegar de noche en avión, es sobrecogedor. Una ciudad que nunca duerme, y que te despierta a las 4:30am con la casi musical llamada a la oración, otro ritmo de vida.
Este será mi “hogar” durante un mes, durante el cual impartiré cursos sobre electrónica y arduino para el OpenLab de Medrar, una estupenda oportunidad que me ha sido concedida gracias a la gente de Hangar. Muchas gracias.
Empieza el viaje.
Know When to Stop Designing, Quantitatively « Aza on Design
Efficiency is a tool that should be included in the arsenal of every designer. It is the only tool that gives a quantitative measure that can compare any given interface to the best possible interface. It’s like magic: you can compare any interface to the best possible interface without knowing what that is!
via Know When to Stop Designing, Quantitatively « Aza on Design.
April 06 2010
Warren Ellis: On space travel
People argue that the money could be better spent elsewhere. Honestly, that's an argument that can be applied to pretty much anything. Imagine how many starving people could be fed if, say, a 100 per cent Simon Cowell tax was levied on any instance of Simon Cowell. Imagine if anyone caught spending money on Stephanie Meyer novels could be rendered down into their constituent chemicals and scattered on barren land as organic fertiliser.
April 05 2010
Denial of expertise ¶ Personal Weblog of Joe Clark, Toronto
At a certain point, you have to admit you aren’t good enough to do something better than an expert could do it even if the technical option exists for you to give it a shot anyway.
via Denial of expertise ¶ Personal Weblog of Joe Clark, Toronto.
jfernandezs acts_as_php at master – GitHub
Urban Dictionary is built using Ruby on Rails even though URLs end with php.
April 04 2010
PAX East Panel Video (Rough Cut)
While you’re waiting DVD release, and before I take it and smooth it over with a couple second camera sources I have been given, I wanted to share the PAX East Panel that occurred after the screening. I know a lot of people wanted to see this, and the room got so packed a few people who wanted to see the panel got turned away, so there’s no reason you shouldn’t be able to properly see it. So here’s a “rough cut” of the panel, split into two pieces because of a size limit on Vimeo.
Panelists, left to right: Dave Lebling, Don Woods, Brian Moriarty, Andrew Plotkin, Nick Montfort, Steve Meretzky, Jason Scott. It’s about 1 hour and 8 minutes.
GET LAMP Pax Panel: Part 1 (Rough Cut) from Jason Scott on Vimeo.
and part 2:
GET LAMP Pax Panel: Part 2 (Rough Cut) from Jason Scott on Vimeo.
March 17 2010
March 16 2010
Eddie Izzard – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 2008, in his Stripped tour, Izzard began using Wikipedia itself as part of his stand-up act, reading from a live copy of an article (via an iPhone) and mocking Wikipedia's self-referential editorial style. To date, he has read from a variety of different articles.
Sandbox gaming vs. adventure paths: in defense of highly narrative adventures « The Lost Level
To oversimplify things a bit, D&D draws heavily from at least two very different strands of fantasy literature: the grim and sometimes savage world of “swords and sorcery” (think Conan); and epic, heavily plotted, highly moral high fantasy (think Tolkien). The influence of Conan-esque swords and sorcery can be seen in many core elements of D&D: dungeons to explore; treasure and money as a prime motivation for adventuring; the heavy representation of rogue-ish classes like the Thief, Bard, Assassin, and Illusionist; a very deadly world; and more. The influence of Tolkien-esque fantasy can be seen in many other elements: the character races available for play; lots of strange and interesting magic weapons and items; parties of adventurers who all work together; and countless “classic” monsters.
via Sandbox gaming vs. adventure paths: in defense of highly narrative adventures « The Lost Level.
Norrie May-Welby – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
norrie mAy-welby is the artistic signature of Norrie (born 1961 Paisley), a Scottish-Australian person who became the first person in the world officially declared to be neither a man nor a woman,[1] making Australia the first country in the world to recognise a “non-specified” gender.[2]
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