Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

Among the little features I like there's the tag cloud w... tags metadata (each time two tags appear in the same pos... relationship stronger) to highlight other tags while you...

An academic scientist’s professional success depends o... Publishing norms emphasize novel, positive results. As s... incentives encourage design, analysis, and reporting dec... positive results and ignore negative results. Prior repo... these incen

An algorithm apparently generates these light patterns. Be better if an artist had?

An Amazonian tribe has no abstract concept of time, say ...
The Amondawa lacks the linguistic structures that relate ...
The study, in Language and Cognition, shows that while t ...
The idea is a controversial one, and further study will ...

An answer to "What is an UUID?" would be "A GUID" this a... most of us any further though.
UUID stands for Universally Unique IDentifier, GUID for ...

An Anthropologist Explores Video Blogging
Michael L. Wesch, an assistant professor of cultural ant ...
Within just a few weeks, the video had been viewed more ...
This semester Mr. Wesch is leading a class of nine under ...

An artificial intelligence tool that has revolutionised ... computers to interpret everyday language has been shown ... gender and racial biases.
The findings raise the spectre of existing social inequa ...

An attempt to understand the notion better led Robin Gan... student and friend) in 1980 to analyze machine computati... human-computation acted out by a Turing machine). Gandy'... and analysis of, "cellular automata", "Conway's game of ... "parallelis

An example of a Quadratic Equation:
Quadratic Equation
Quadratic equations pop up in many real world situations!

An experimental new game controller adds the sensation o...
Touch interfaces and haptic feedback are already a part ...
Based on the Peltier effect, these solid-state devices a ...
In this configuration, just announced at the 2010 SIGGRA ...
... list t

An HTC phone starts out somewhere between four months an... reaching to the ABS block mockup stage. During this time... out the next best way to put the phone together, as well... best weight and the best components for certain models, ... size of the

An identity built around making things—of being “a m... technology culture. There’s a widespread idea that “... things are simply different [read: better] than those wh...

An individual is the only ethical integration point for ...
Our purpose is to catalyze a Personal Data Ecosystem whe ...
The Startup Circle - for startups committed to putti ...
1 Million People for Personal Data - gathers people ...
Industr

An interesting follow on discussion with Divya Ramachand...
A nice distinction comes from the late Professor Rolf Fa ...
INVENTION: is the creation of new ideas
INNOVATION: is the acceptance of new ideas
... ing in someone's head, or as a pretty

An internationally important collection of shells, including specimens from Captain Cook’s final voyage, has been rediscovered 40 years after it was thought to have been thrown into a skip.
More than 200 shells have been returned to Engli...

Analysts ABI Research expect the wearable computer marke... exponentially, predicting there will be 485 million ship... 2018.
A Microsoft executive said recently he expected we would ...

And oddly, this coincides with reports that an audience ... reacted badly to test footage from Peter Jackson's forth... movie. The Hobbit is shot at 48 frames per second – tw... as standard films. The studio claims this gives it an un... fluidity. T

And that’s OS X, Apple’s minority operating system n... is no file explorer — let alone one with 19 toolbar bu... Because in Apple’s view, the concept of a “file” i... saving of them and the transferring of them is something... should neve

And while 23% of the UK workforce is from a working-class background, working-class people are underrepresented in every area of arts and culture. They make up 8.4% of those working in film, TV, radio and photography, while in museums, arch...

And, in many ways, the search battle is bigger than beat... Microsoft is carving its path in the next generation of ... one in which search becomes a platform, not a feature.

ANN is a library written in C++, which supports data str...
In the nearest neighbor problem a set of data points in ...
Based on our own experience, ANN performs quite efficien ...
The library implements a number of different data struct ...
The library

Annalee Newitz on io9
neuroscience
Monday 4:00pm
... lush of shame, to that warm lower-belly feeling in love.

Annual Review of Sociology
Vol. 26: 463-496 (Volume publication date August 2000)
(doi:10.1146/annurev.soc.26.1.463)
A Space for Place in Sociology
... laces matter for social practices and historical change?

Anonymous Cancels Operation Cartel as Los Zetas Track Ha...
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Members of the hacktivist collective Anonymous who threa ...
... ves would almost certainly be targeted by rival cartels.

Anti-parabola propoganda, plus musing on math class, car... dots, envelopes of lines, even a bit of origami.

Anxious about the widespread consumption and spread of p... news during this year’s election cycle, many progressi... an increased commitment to media literacy programs. Othe... for solutions that focus on expert fact-checking and lab... these appro

Anyone who’s dealt with browsers’ implementations of...
Background for anyone who’s not familiar with it. Ther ...
Now, from JavaScript, let’s look at how to get those t ...
var selection = window.getSelection();
... implementation of selection

Apache Shindig, a word meaning party, was originally sta... 2007 as a reference container for hosting OpenSocial com... any website. Originally a port of Google's iGoogle gadge... Brian McCallister's PHP code, Apache Shindig through off... and showed

API providers can list their JSON APIs, which using Mash... in turn auto-generate five client libraries - PHP, Ruby,... Objective-C, and Java. The new billing tool lets develop... monthly price, API call limits, and the price per additi...
Consumers c

Apple’s File System Events API gives applications the ... changes to paths containing relevant files recursively w... directory tree, both during execution and between launch... System Events API tackles the problem of detecting chang... chunk of th