"Why I'm leaving TechCrunch": "It was no longer enough just to cover other people's stories." (Right smart single quote = char code 8217.) Interrobang (?!) ‽. Pilcrow ¶ (paragraph mark). Asterism ⁂. Write your first MapReduce program in 20 minutes. Quantum computing for the determined. Everyday the questions are: "What have I learned today?" "What ( Read more... )

Solving CAPTCHAs using Probabilistic Programming. (Sounds neat.) Navia Systems: Further reading and Publications. (Look great.)

guider.js from Optimizely: Using the module pattern but using naming convention to keep stuff private? Global state, making it harder to have several instances living together in the same document? (Not sure why you would ( Read more... )

Models of Vocal Fold Oscillation. (I guess someone has taken these models and trained systems to generate audio of speech using them?) Awk One-Liners Explained. Tetris Story (from Benj). Cassandra vs MongoDB vs CouchDB vs Redis vs Riak vs HBase vs Membase vs Neo4j comparison. Gmail Greasemonkey API. (Still working smoothly?) Implementing a Syntax- ( Read more... )

Just opened up my old laptop after several months of letting it sit idle in order to rescue my Skype credit. (Bastards.) I see a battery with an X: "No batteries available". :-(

That BLUP is a Good Thing: The Estimation of Random Effects. This FTP site. CoffeeScript. Estimating Causal Effects from Large Data Sets Using Propensity ScoresWow ( Read more... )

A Whole Bunch of Amazing Stuff Pseudo Elements Can Do. Whiley, a programming language with extended static checking. (Notice they mentioned JML.) Why developers should be force-fed state machines. asciiflow (Have wanted to create something like this for a while. Maybe I still will.) Scala: The Static Language that Feels Dynamic by Bruce Eckel. (Did ( Read more... )

This thread Ten things I didn’t know about MongoDB gives me a less positive impression of MongoDB. Rich Hickey: "I read relentlessly. I don’t do any programming not directed at making the computer do something useful, so I don’t do any exercises. I try to spend more time thinking about the problem than I do typing it in." (No exercises = no toy ( Read more... )

Hm, now that I think about, I often spend several hours a day programming (or debugging, planning, and researching in support of programming). I still want to do much more, but smarter. Creator of Calif.'s colorful "Phonehenge" convicted on 9 counts; jury to keep deliberating. (Whose safety was threatened by it?) Statistical Data Mining Tutorials. ( Read more... )

I get e-mailings from Senator Grassley occasionally. Today I got another. The following sections seemed somewhat at odds.Keeping Integrity in the Farm Program
This week I introduced bipartisan legislation that would put a hard cap and other safeguards on payments farmers can receive from the federal farm program. The goal is to preserve the safety ( Read more... )

Saw two snakes in Tilden Park, one coiled up not moving, the other slithering. Saw five large banana slugs and one small one. Saw two pill bugs locked together. Smelled a candy cap mushroom -- it does smell like maple syrup -- but didn't take any home to eat.

Awk arrays seem similar to JavaScript arrays in a few ways -- common ancestor?

Bayesian ( Read more... )

Exploratory model analysis with R and GGobi [PDF]: "Firstly, the t scores for infant mortality are very similar over all models. This indicates that this variable is largely independent of the other explanatory variables." (What's a real world situation if any where you might expect this to be misleading?) Selecting Amongst Large Classes of Models ( Read more... )