December 2011
31 posts
The Dumbest Idea In The World: Maximizing... →
(I always thought the system would work better if we only bought stock that we wanted the dividends from.)
WatchComet Lovejoy above the Andes (by Stéphane Guisard)
“It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via inpraiseofidleness)
Minicraft →
2D Zelda-esque Minecraft.
Order theory for computer scientists →
A pretty concise and understandable (given that you can read symbols) introduction to order theory definitions and concepts.
“New research suggests it may be possible to learn high-performance tasks with...”
– Vision Scientists Demonstrate Innovative Learning Method. In short, they showed subjects an image while in an fMRI to record a pattern. Then, they put the subjects in an fMRI without the image, but gave them an indicator of the similarity between the recorded pattern and their current pattern,...
SOPA: The End of the Internet as We Know it →
In Defense of H&M’s Fembots →
1982 study says technology could transform society... →
Why Hypercard Had to Die →
