tejucole Here’s a First World problem: the inability to see that others are as fully complex and as keen on technology and pleasure as you are.
Twitter: @tejucole
tejucole People in the richer nations need a more robust sense of the lives being lived in the darker nations.
# 2011.11.19 – 03:10
Blog: Marginal Revolution: *Making it in the Political Blogosphere*
# 2011.11.18 – 23:37
Launching Tech Ventures: The Cognitive Startup
The customer usage data collected through rapid prototyping and iteration is essentially building a limbic system—a gut—that gives feedback on how customers are responding to the product. But a gut is not sufficient.
# 2011.11.18 – 16:49
Blog: Wired Science: How Many Neutrinos Does It Take to Screw Up Einstein?
# 2011.11.18 – 15:52
Jonathan Cohn: Why Don’t We Know Anything About The Quality Of America’s Day Care? | The New Republic
To be sure, measuring the quality of day care is difficult. It’s hard to find good ways to measure quality, let alone collect the information. In that sense, it’s the same problem that plagues efforts to measure quality of elementary and secondary education.
# 2011.11.18 – 15:18
TGS and RATM, Arnold Kling
“My opinion is that the chances are increasing that we will see sudden ‘tipping’ in education away from traditional models. I think that the technology is pretty much here to do better than the old-fashioned classroom. It’s being held back by the incumbents, but they are going to lose, just as the music publishers have been losing and the book publishers have been losing.”
# 2011.11.18 – 11:18
Amazon EC2 Now #42 Supercomputer, IBM BlueGenes in the Dust
Fujitsu’s architecture for “K” is based on a theoretical six-dimensional torus, which reduces the hop count for processes between nodes by half or more, and which enables as many as 12 fault-tolerance failovers per node.
# 2011.11.18 – 11:18
Scott Adams Blog: Questions about my Presidency 11/18/2011
“That was the secret of Jobs’ Rasputin-like charisma: He upgraded the context of every discussion to the bigger picture.”
# 2011.11.18 – 10:48
Blog: Sabermetric Research: A research study is just a peer-reviewed argument
# 2011.11.18 – 09:07
Blog: The Monkey Cage: Underemphasized Points about the Economy and Elections
# 2011.11.18 – 08:37
Tangotiger on knowing when you have added value
“Really, I figured: what is it that I as a single human being know more than the collective wisdom? I had no insight to add, that was really value-added. It’s hard for a person to recognize that he has nothing of value to add, but that’s how you move on in life.”
# 2011.11.17 – 14:21
A Fatal Mix of Intellect and Power
But what if you have an intellectual movement that understands the flaws of intellectualism?
# 2011.11.17 – 12:48
Blog: The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan: Today In Syria
# 2011.11.17 – 12:07
Blog: THE BOOK–Playing The Percentages In Baseball: Is signing a new star player like building a new stadium: you get fans to come for the novelty?
# 2011.11.17 – 12:07
Blog: kottke.org: Free music from Moby
# 2011.11.17 – 12:07
Blog: Wired Science: LHC May Have Found Crack in Modern Physics
# 2011.11.17 – 11:37
Twitter: @BillGates
BillGates All the batteries on Earth store just 10 mins of world electricity needs. This new battery may be key. #RenewableEnergy http://t.co/q8Dqpkmg
# 2011.11.17 – 09:40