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Monthly Archives: October 2013
Letters of Note: Make your soul grow
2013.10.28 – 09:45
Letters of Note: Make your soul grow Advice from Kurt Vonnegut to a high school class
Portrait of an Irrational Mind
2013.10.28 – 09:25
Portrait of an Irrational Mind “We don’t like the truth when it sheds a bad light on a group we affiliate with or the individuals in it. We don’t like the truth when it conflicts with ideas we have invested in emotionally.”
Tweet by BSports
2013.10.27 – 14:02
Stars and stadiums don't bring as many fans as you might think, and neither does market size: http://t.co/hOIbWRZYCA — BSports (@BSports) October 27, 2013 via http://twitter.com/BSports
Tweet by mightyatom
2013.10.27 – 13:08
BUY OUR PRODUCTS HATE OTHER GIRLS YOU ARE IN COMPETITION WITH OTHER GIRLS pic.twitter.com/lT7brMY5y2 — mia schwartz (@mightyatom) October 27, 2013 via http://twitter.com/mightyatom
Tweet by AnswerDave
2013.10.26 – 17:37
Here's my narrative: Carlos Beltran bunting actually costing the Cardinals the game. If they lose 3-2, I'll scream it from the rooftops! — Dave Brown (@AnswerDave) October 27, 2013 via http://twitter.com/AnswerDave
YouTube: Shape oscillation of a levitated drop in an acoustic field
2013.10.26 – 12:49
Shape oscillation of a levitated drop in an acoustic field Francis WorldInsideOut
Shiller, Taleb, and Me | askblog
2013.10.26 – 11:00
Shiller, Taleb, and Me | askblog Interesting comment on regression vs. black swans
CALIFORNIA CITY by Bill Couch
2013.10.26 – 10:43
CALIFORNIA CITY by Bill Couch Nice photo essay of some Mojave Desert towns
Why we fight, and can we stop
2013.10.26 – 09:43
Why we fight, and can we stop Interesting, but I disagree with the conclusions in this article. The key to overcoming human biases is not to teach 7 billion people to become meta-aware. It’s to design a system where those biases are constructive, not destructive forces. Anti-fragility, as Nassim Taleb would say.
Vivaldi Unbound
2013.10.25 – 20:31
Vivaldi Unbound Vivaldi and Kanye West in one article: “This is the difference between works that are kept alive in the fenced-off wildlife preserve of the academy and works that survive on their own, in the jungle of popular consumption.”
Tweet by devinpangaro
2013.10.25 – 13:47
@cuppingmaster Hey girl, are you speaking my language? No? Well let me find Ariel Prieto. — Devin Pangaro (@devinpangaro) October 25, 2013 via http://twitter.com/devinpangaro
The Obamacare Suits/Geeks Divide
2013.10.25 – 00:43
The Obamacare Suits/Geeks Divide “One of the worst things that can happen on a systems project is to find yourself revisiting the business-technical negotiations process after writing a lot of code.”
The Tantalizing Tree Of Knowledge
2013.10.23 – 12:12
The Tantalizing Tree Of Knowledge “Metaphorically, this image teaches us that we must not be greedy for knowledge that is more than we can bear. In time, after we mature and advance in perfection, things will be made known to us that, if we received them now, would ruin us.”
Why People Mistake Good Deals for Rip-Offs
2013.10.22 – 18:25
Why People Mistake Good Deals for Rip-Offs Beer and art share an awkwardly named property: they’re “inherently inevaluable.”
Dishing Out Insulin: How Feel-Good Viral Machines like Upworthy and BuzzFeed Filter Reality
2013.10.22 – 17:32
Dishing Out Insulin: How Feel-Good Viral Machines like Upworthy and BuzzFeed Filter Reality “The web is, in many ways, a manifestation of the human id. It’s gossip and sex and jealousy and the tribal mindset.”
Tweet by DSzymborski
2013.10.21 – 19:43
Antrel Rolle, and the walls fell. Freeman in Minnesota. Rick Spielman, his eyes uncovered! Freeman on the waiver wire. #darmok — Dan Szymborski (@DSzymborski) October 22, 2013 via http://twitter.com/DSzymborski
Tweet by fastballs
2013.10.21 – 15:32
@kenarneson @Kevin_Goldstein The Astros have people better than me at parsing XML. — Mike Fast (@fastballs) October 21, 2013 via http://twitter.com/fastballs