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Creating svg graphics for web publishing | (R news & tutorials)(r-bloggers.com)
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InfoQ: NoSQL Netflix(infoq.com)
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Building and filling out templates with Python and Cheetah(ibm.com)
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Higher Order Programming to Mine Knowledge for a Modern Medical Expert System(arxiv.org)
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An Introduction to Common Lisp Macros(apl.jhu.edu)
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MIT OpenCourseWare | 6.901 Inventions and Patents, Fall 2005(ocw.mit.edu)
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How to Prototype Web and Mobile Apps in 30 Minutes Course by Amir Khella(udemy.com)
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Is it time for a more civil discourse?(readwriteweb.com)
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5 Online Tools For Activists, By Activists(mashable.com)
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The 4 Big Problems With Google's Anti-Patent Stance(businessinsider.com)
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Robots: Zoobotics(economist.com)
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Pop App - Carnegie Mellon University(cmu.edu)
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Joichi Ito named director of MIT Media Lab - MIT News Office(web.mit.edu)
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by btcoal 15y ago
Wooah! Citation please??
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by btcoal 15y ago
Yep.
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by btcoal 15y ago
The one exception to this, which may really not even be an exception, is if you are your target customer. If you really need the product you're building that is a good starting point. I think for turning a website/app into a business the mo
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by btcoal 15y ago
Well then you may have done yourself a disservice because: a. the quality of presentation of content is independent of the quality of the information of content; and b. text that is harder to read may be easier to remember: http://www.bbc.
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by btcoal 15y ago
Facebook has improved my life as well. I went to high school in one city, college in one 1,000 miles away. Have since worked in cities all over the world. I don't know how I would manage to keep even a tenuous grasp on all the connections I
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by btcoal 15y ago
As a stats person, I've seen lots of job postings for "data scientists" that are along the lines of "We need someone to turn our massive amount of data into profit!" I hesitate to name names, but if you search for data scientist jobs you wi
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by btcoal 15y ago
We're getting so close to that tricorder I can taste it. Keep it up guys!
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by btcoal 15y ago
Google can do this because they have too much cash on their balance sheet and the market demands a return on that cash. They need novel areas to invest for them to grow. But there is an alternative. I would prefer to see Google return cash
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by btcoal 15y ago
While I too would like to see Mr Bloomberg give some of his (hard-earned) billions away to a good cause, it's too hard to establish a great university over night. He's going the route of inviting top existing research universities to establ
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by btcoal 15y ago
I suspect this is more about the temporary employment boost that having a major university in a city can bring than the long-term employment benefits that an economy based on scientific and technological prowess can bring. This isn't necess
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by btcoal 15y ago
The sub-point he was making that aptitude or talent does not imply creative output. So he gave an example of a group that had extremely high ability in an area but did not produce in that area. With the bigger point being that differences i
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by btcoal 15y ago
That was unfortunate. But another side of the issue in Chicago was that the city blew through the cash in record time. Even if the meters had been sold off at an above market price, the disfunction in the local government would have resulte
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by btcoal 15y ago
"Deep procrastination usually strikes students later in their college career, when the difficulty of their courses ratchets up. At this stage, their work load gets harder and harder, and at some point some powerful part of their brain says
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by btcoal 15y ago
Hmm, well I didn't think this needed clarifying but the internet is notoriously bad at transmitting humor (or maybe I am). But I was being facetious with respect to the examples I gave. By capturing private wealth, what will most likely hap
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by btcoal 15y ago
"God had given him a tail to keep the flies off... he would sooner have had no tail and no flies"
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by btcoal 15y ago
The problem as I see it, and the article briefly hinted at this is illiquidity. Western Europe is extremely rich (in terms of capital stock) but has a relatively low income (in terms of capital flow) and extremely low income growth. Without
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by btcoal 15y ago
I am limiting this prediction to mass-consumed applications of technology. If we extrapolate (obligatory: http://xkcd.com/605/ ) present trends it seems that the platform of the future will be the web. This will require fast internet conne

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