February 2012
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“We believe you should have control when it comes to sharing your personal...”
– Dave Morin: Path: We are sorry.
Well, that’s not a bad response.
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“More monitors cut down on toggling time among windows on a single screen, which...”
– NY Times: In Data Deluge, Multitaskers Go to Multiscreens.
I recently switched from a single 15” 1440×800 MacBook Pro display to three screens: the MBP and two external 1920×1080 monitors (whose diagonal sizes I’m uncertain of, but let’s say 21”). I think it’s helped,...
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Borman: Oh my God! Look at that picture over there! Here's the Earth coming up. Wow, is that pretty.
Anders: Hey, don't take that, it's not scheduled.
Borman: (laughing) You got a color film, Jim?
Anders: Hand me that roll of color quick, will you...
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“I’m quite confident that London is too big and too anarchic to be seriously...”
– Will Self: ‘The Olympics Suck’, an interview at Epigram, Bristol University’s Independent Student Newspaper.
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“Before we get too overwhelmed by the abilities of modern computer vision it’s...”
– AUGRE, commenting on Timo Arnall’s Robot Readable World video.
I did wonder how the video would look if the only things present were the computer’s “markup”: the boxes, arrows, and so on, on a field of white or black (or, possibly, with the backgrounds heavily faded)....
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“These visualizations are really for the human observer of the CV process....”
– Greg Borenstein in a comment on Timo Arnall’s fascinating video compilation, The Robot Readable World.
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“Under the rules in place today, any nerd, any withdrawn, bookish kid, can have...”
– Benjamin Nugent: I Had Asperger Syndrome, Briefly, from the New York Times.
This is one of a series of posts at the NY Times about the new edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the fifth (DSM-5 for short), which narrows the definition of autism (and Asperger...
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January 2012
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In Our Past Light Cone
The singularity has already happened.
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“I’m someone who would rather return to a city that he’s visited many times...”
– William Gibson, interviewed at The Verge.
Whether it’s a sign of that same desire to burrow under the surface of the city, or just because I have a lack of imagination, I’ve found myself visiting the same places repeatedly: New York five times, now (and more to come, I’m sure),...
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“I’m genuinely interested in seeing the human race escape the planet and go...”
– Warren Ellis on Newt Gingrich, Space Realism and Future America at Motherboard.
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“Cars spend just 5 percent of their lives in motion.”
– A diverting statistic from Between the Lines, a feature on parking in that city from Los Angeles magazine.
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“Twitter made an important announcement this week regarding their ability to...”
– Simon Batistoni: What you need to know about Twitter’s new filters.
Well worth a read, because he knows what he’s talking about.
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