February 2010
37 posts
Liberalism, atheism, male sexual exclusivity... →
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“The IQ differences are statistically significant, but experts say the data shouldn’t be used to stereotype or make assumptions.”
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I ended up reading some of the comments on this article, for whatever reason… they were, of course, horrible and inflammatory and everyone beating on each other’s dead horse. But it ended up being somewhat useful because it...
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Happy birthday, Damien.
He would have been 34, I think.
Did you know, dear Damien, that I’ve had your old Manila log sitting as a text file on my laptop’s desktop for … quite some time now? I’m always meaning to make an MT log to which I can import all these to… and then make it your original log’s colors, so we always have a bit of you to look back on, but I can’t quite get...
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WatchAbsolutely incredible and brilliant talk. There is something for everyone in it. Reserve half an hour of your day to watch it… you really will not regret it. Some of my notes and reactions below.
“And then you combine that with the psychological idea that… the rationalizion: anything you spend time on, you start to believe “this must be worthwhile. Why? Because...
Textchurning
Lord, it’s eight pages long already and I still have three to four sections to finish. Granted I did the hard and most verbose ones first, but still…
Whatever. Just a first draft.
::sends it and flops into bed::snoooooooooze::
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o/` How do you knooooooow...
Enchanted music is bad for writing papers.
… ::can’t quite bring herself to skip it, however::hums along::
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WHY 58x38 →
A luxury yacht with an unusual design. I wouldn’t ever want to own one… and I think I would need just a little bit more entertainment value in a vacation (needs more electronics and recreational activities, says there’s a cinema room though!) …
… but it does make a person wish they had more money than they knew what to do with. XP
Plus, it is SUPER green. Tons of...
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Firm uses typing cadence to finger unauthorized... →
So Scout used some Javascript timing features to watch how users type when they enter their login credentials for various services. Shanahan says that his algorithms need a minimum of 5 attempts at entering a phrase of at least 12 characters in order to generate a typing “cadence.” By watching repeated logins, Scout could soon categorize these cadences into a digital pattern, then...
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Math no longer tough for Barbie →
She’s on the other side of 50, and her career has been all over the place. Now after a resume-busting 125 jobs, the world’s favorite blonde has settled into a new position – Barbie is going to become a computer engineer.
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Better than I remember
WOLLINDER (wollinder)
hey guys… I forgot where to find the master plan, can someone help?
APPLESAUCEYUM (applesauceYUM)
stupid NOOB We dont get access to that!
THERESAHOLEINTHESKY (TheresAHoleInTheSky)
Yeah, only the head honcho can access the master plan right now. He’ll tell us novices what to do when the time is right…
OMGIKILLEDKENNY (OMGIKilledKenny)
couldnt we...
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sketch_feb18a →
I maintain that Processing is an amazing environment for teaching learning how to program.
For the class I’m TAing, we had “study hall” today where one of the students actually bothered to come in and told us about this idea he had for a Processing sketch, and I went ahead and tried to build it.
It’s not totally accurate to what he proposed, but the next step from here...
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Goodbye, Google →
This is very old (almost a year), but I only found it recently and it’s newly relevant anyway. I remember being so excited when Douglas Bowman was hired at Google, too.
Ironically enough, in part 2, he reveals that he was offered a job at Twitter.
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Modern monetization
It occurred to me today, while reading this interview with PvP’s Scott Kurtz that all of the micro transaction payment models that are becoming so popular these days are really the same version of how web comic artists are surviving.
That is, they monetize their biggest fans, rather than the content itself. And it really works and it’s not unpalatable at all.
So that makes me...
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::twitch::
There’re like four or five people here cosplaying. In a public space which does not appear to have any sort of anime event going on at all. And they’re just … sitting here, doing things on their laptops, like normal college people.
Only they’re friggin’ dressed up. It’s distracting, to say the least. >_>
… ::evaluates them with a critical eye::...
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Australia's Internet: nonneutral and proud of it →
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Benchmarks
Encounter Results
Adventurers won 1% of the time.
Average battle length was 6.56 rounds.
Adventurers won 0.28% of the time.
Average battle length was 10.8 rounds.
Adventurers won 1% of the time.
Average battle length was 5.32 rounds.
Adventurers won 1% of the time.
Average battle length was 6.88 rounds.
Adventurers won 0.48% of the time.
Average battle length was 12.16 rounds.
Adventurers...
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WatchSportpong. They have reflectors on each of their shoes.
Official Sportpong site, where you can apparently rent the whole setup. ;x
Frick.
Just now, my laptop has started making this strange staticky buzzing noise, coming from the vent, and it’s persisting through a shutdown. I suspect something has come loose near the fan and there appears to be nothing I can do about it.
Arrgggghhhhh, so annoyiinnnnggg. I’m never buying a Dell laptop ever again.
WHY, IPAD, WHY. WHY COULDN’T YOU HAVE BEEN THE PORTABLE COMPUTER...
Silver Linings
Yesterday I was forcefully startled awake due to an enormously loud and resonant crack of thunder. It was really quite frightening. But I forgave the skies as they gave me sheets of raindrops after that to drowse back to sleep to.
Later in the afternoon, the clouds parted enough to let the sun through just as it was starting to set, so we got this intense double rainbow. Too bad I left the...
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Did a soldier waterboard his daughter? An Army... →
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Art History Poster →
I’m not enough of an art history geek to truly appreciate this, but I thought I would link it for those who are. At least I recognize a few of them…
Duchamp owns everything. ::lolol::
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I programmed for like seven hours today and I’m not even sure what I accomplished.
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Evolution of Type Taste →
lewl
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Continuity →
Been a while since I linked a Flash game, eh?
Found this one courtesy of Ars Tech’s article on student-developed games that made the IGF student showcase this year.
It makes a brief mention of Spectre too, which was a former IMD grad’s thesis project (class of ‘09, so last year). Go Jamie. :)
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The official "introduce yourself" thread →
From TIC 2006.
I had business that required me to go back and read this thread; thought I would link it for everyone to indulge in and remember (and possibly be horrified by ;x ).
You guys should all be so very proud of who you were and who you’ve come to be.
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Jacket+Bookmark →
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Alpha 1.0 checklist
Game Logic
Citizen generator
Adventure generator
Encounter generator (… kind of)
Encounter resolution
Encounter log generator
Web Interface
User administration
Create new user
Change password: … made the forms, just have to make it work now. Bleh sha/hash
Game administration
Create new game/realm
Join game
Player actions
Citizen recruitment
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“Google Wave was built to show younger people how older people feel when they try...”
– Chris Shiflett
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Blizzard Takes The World Of Warcraft Auction House... →
Absolutely fascinating development. And terrifying all at the same time. The micro-transactions world scares the crap out of me, srsly.
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... neat.
if ($_POST['task'] == "Add Card") {
require_once("logic/Deck/include_all.php");
$card_class_name = $_POST['class_name'];
$card = new $card_class_name();
$ch->add_card($card);
}
… thaaaat’s kinda cool…
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WatchExcellent commentary about not taking things for granted. Thanks Quad. :)
That’s comedian Louis CK, being interviewed by Conan, of course.
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“Terrible news everyone! We were not prepared in the mountains, so we’ll...”
– Professor Putricide, Illidan Stormrage, Thorim, Mr. Smite, Talon King Ikiss, Kael’thas (of MgT), XT-002 Deconstructor, Millhouse Manastorm