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two things i will continue to like in the near future: xtranormal videos and photos of misspelled tattoos
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Author Archives: kevin
links for 2010-12-16
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wow: The population of the United States eighty years hence will be 160,000,000 and either stationary or declining, and will have a larger percentage of old people than there is today. Technological progress, with its exponential law of increase, holds the key to the future. Labor displacement will proceed even to automatic factories. The magic of remote control will be commonplace. Humanity’s most versatile servant will be the electron tube. Inevitable technological progress and abundant natural resources yield a higher standard of living. Poverty will be eliminated and hunger as a driving force of revolution will not be a danger. Inequality of income and problems of social justice will remain. Crises of life will be met by insurance. The role of government is bound to grow. Technicians and special interest groups will leave only a shell of democracy.
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links for 2010-12-14
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The Hacker's Path
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links for 2010-12-13
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the evidence is mixed
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links for 2010-12-12
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instead of emailing famous people your random questions, show them some proof of concept and what you've tried already, they'll be much more willing to help out
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Classrooms where a majority of students said they agreed with the statement, “Our class stays busy and doesn’t waste time,” tended to be led by teachers with high value-added scores, the report said. The same was true for teachers whose students agreed with the statements, “In this class, we learn to correct our mistakes,” and, “My teacher has several good ways to explain each topic that we cover in this class.”
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links for 2010-12-11
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links for 2010-12-10
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links for 2010-12-09
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load up on credit card miles, take advantage of specific programs
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The problem here is that the core experience architecture of Quora is built around what is known as a stream: a real-time scrolling reverse chronological flow (pioneered in its “live” form by Facebook and Twitter, but dating back to BBSes). Highly personalized and customized no doubt, but still basically a ticker, zoomed in strongly on “now.” This creates a strong bias towards the bulletin-board end of the architecture (by emphasizing “now”). By contrast, wiki models are typically timeless. You get no time cues when you land on a Wikipedia page, usually. My colleagues at PARC have built a tool called WikiDashboard that allows wikis to bolt on a more explicit temporal dimension. Quora needs the reverse technology: something that mutes the excessive temporality (to be precise, excessively real-time temporal structure) and emphasizes longer time scales and timelessness.
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civilian who knows more about terrorist groups than anyone else, has become government expert witness in many terrorist cases
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File this one under "politically incorrect but likely accurate" - women seeking attention, later spurned
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links for 2010-12-08
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"About ten people, called “OPs”, are able to launch an attack. If any OP abuses his power—if he fails to heed what anons call “the hive mind” in IRC conversations— the other OPs can lock him out of the chat. If any anon fails to be inspired by the target, she can remove her own computer from the volunteer botnet, reducing its effect. Anonymous is a 24-hour Athenian democracy, run by a quorum of whoever happens to be awake."
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links for 2010-12-07
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5.7 deaths per 10000 registered. Metafilter says motorcycles are 34 times as dangerous as cars. Largest # of deaths come from too high speed, alcohol
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I wish they'd just offer me $100.
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