Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

File types revisited
File typing has been a hot topic in Mac OS X ever since ...
The first problem with file name extensions as a means t ...

G. Polya, How to Solve It
Summary taken from G. Polya, "How to Solve It", 2nd
ed., Princeton University Press, 1957, ISBN 0-69 ...

More than one in five British consumers (22 per cent) ha... software in response to spam email, a study by Forrester... The study - sponsored by the Business Software Alliance ... substantial minority of punters are quite happy to make ... purchases a

JXTA Search is a distributed search system, designed for... networks
and web sites.

How does StumbleUpon figure out what topic a website is ... automatically categorizes pages into over 500 different ... the words present on the pages. This system is approxima... effective, when it is not we rely on stumblers to correc... made by the

Susan Leigh Star and James Griesemer, “Institutional E... ‘Translations,’ and Boundary Objects:Amateurs and Pr... Berkeley’s Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 1907-1939,”... Science, 19: 387-420

Project pepper

Peer-to-Peer Architectures for Federated Search of Complex Digital Libraries

The set of providers of Digital Libraries and services on the Web is growing both in absolute numbers and in terms of diversity. From a user poin...

One Day in History
Make history with us on 17 October by taking part in the ...
'One Day in History' is a one off opportunity for you to ...

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Character Sets
charset=
Some Basic Ones
charset=big5
... Baltic Alphabet (ISO)

Thu 3 May 2007
What can we do with this story?
Posted by Dan under journalism , politics , participator ...
I have been (barely) using this blog to talk about thing ...
This movie shows some footage of the LAPD breaking up wh ...

The Scientific Method
Reading Assignment:
1. Bernard, Chapters 1 & 2.
2. Kuznar, Chapters 1-3.
... --Lawrence Kuznar, Reclaiming a Scientific Anthropology

STRATEGIES FOR WINNING ACCEPTANCE OF SECOND ORDER CYBERN... Umpleby Department of Management Science George Washingt... Washington, DC 20052 USA Guest Scholar, Summer 1991 Inst... Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence University of Vi... A-1010 Vien

In case you missed it, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, a flagship APA journal, published a study by Daryl Bem containing evidence for psi (precognition). I didn't really want to post in too much detail about this study (wh...

This tutorial gives a broad view of modern approaches fo... machine learning and data mining methods on parallel/dis... platforms. Demand for scaling up machine learning is tas... some tasks it is driven by the enormous dataset sizes, f...
The tutoria

MathJax is an open source JavaScript display engine for ...
No more setup for readers. No more browser plugins. No m ...
LaTeX:
Jα(x)=∑m=0∞(−1)mm!Γ(m+α+1)(x2)2m+α
... (Math rendered by MathJax)

I have been collecting some random bits of advice that I...
Lecturing
Blackboard Technique
Publish the same results several times.
... Be prepared for old age.

Tommy Dewar projected film (advert!) onto NY skyscraper in 1898! (seen in Iain Banks, Raw Spirit, p.318)

The OpenURL Framework Standard defines an architecture for creating OpenURL Framework Applications. An OpenURL Framework Application is a networked service environment, in which packages of information are transported over a network. These ...

adding images into QR Codes

mother knows everything

Sense Mother is at the head of a family of small connected sensors that blend into your daily life to make it serene, healthy and pleasurable.

John Elfreth Watkins, Jr What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years The Ladies' Home Journal, 1900 "Anyone unable to walk 10 miles in a stretch will be considered a weakling."

Virtual reality has made exciting progress over the past several years. However, developing for VR still requires expensive, specialized hardware. Thinking about how to make VR accessible to more people, a group of VR enthusiasts at Google ...

Recently, thanks to a Freedom of Information request, Chris Whong received and made public a complete dump of historical trip and fare logs from NYC taxis. It’s pretty incredible: there are over 20GB of uncompressed data comprising more t...

emberlight: turn any light into a smart-light

How a Lone Hacker Shredded the Myth of Crowdsourcing

Death to typewriters

... some of the technical (CSS, JavaScript, Closure) details in Medium’s typography and typesetting. Note: we use LESS, so you will see some light LESS features (mostly variables).

In this essay, I want to offer a competing narrative to the popular but woefully misnamed “sharing economy” (which, of course, isn’t sharing, unless you tell your kids that buying and selling toys from other five year olds is “shari...

* Provides the ability to hook into any jQuery.fn[method]
* with onbeforeMETHOD, onMETHOD, and onafterMETHOD.