Every puppy sold or given away makes it more likely one in a shelter will be put to death.
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Pets in America
Tuesday, November 05, 2013
It came from over here
http://www.refsmmat.com/statistics/data-analysis.html
"mathematics cannot tell you if your hypothesis is true.
mathematics can tell you if your hypothesis is consistent with the data.
if the data is sparse and unclear,
then so is your conclusion."
"mathematics cannot tell you if your hypothesis is true.
mathematics can tell you if your hypothesis is consistent with the data.
if the data is sparse and unclear,
then so is your conclusion."
Saturday, November 02, 2013
Killing Kernels
My computer’s been acting up since I upgraded to OSX 10.9, so I’ve been peeking at the Activity Monitor to see if I can learn why it's crashing.
After checking the Activity Monitor app a few times throughout the day, I started to recognize a pattern. Occasionally, I’d see a new process called
kernel_task sitting up at the top, consuming almost a gig of RAM.
Hmm, I thought, something fishy’s going on here; I’ve never seen this process before… I’m used to Firefox, Chrome, Rubymine, or occasionally Emacs at the top, but
kernel_task? Naturally, I immediately wanted to kill it. This (I decided in the moment) is why my computer’s been crashing. If I just kill kernel_task, I’ll free up memory for the rest of my programs and maybe even stop my computer from crashing.
Before I enthusiastically killed the thing, I thought I might as well google it. I wasn’t worried it was a virus; I was worried it was a weird bug in the new OS or something related to this greedy iPhone or Polaroid bluetooth thing called
distnoted I caught getting away with 3.5 gigs a few weeks ago.
Good thing I landed on this forum post before I killed it. Turns out,
kernel_task is the operating system itself. This is simply an informed guess, but I think OSX 10.9 may have changed the Activity Monitor’s default process view from My Processes to All Processes. I wasn’t used to seeing kernel_task in the list, so when it showed up I figured it didn’t belong. Lesson learned? Well, no, not really.Tuesday, March 05, 2013
Bitcoin Rising
OK, this IS BTC we're talking about, but still, what goes up doesn't necessarily come down.
Wordpress is on board. So is Reddit.
Will BTC be the next Apple?
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
An Atheist's Glimpse of God
An Atheist's Glimpse of God
HACKER NEWS | FEBRUARY 18, 2013
http://pulse.me/s/iDzid
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Monday, February 18, 2013
Pair Ducking
| A few times a month, I'll look up at one of my colleagues and say, "hey, got a sec? I need to talk to the duck," and they know this means I'm going to talk to their head but they can basically keep doing what they're doing and nod occasionally. This serves several purposes: (1) It's less insane-sounding than actually talking to an inanimate object in an open work environment. (2) It actually feels better and forces me to think more clearly when I'm talking to an actual person -- the cognitive focus is higher when the object of conversation can actually, in theory, think and talk back (YMMV). (3) And finally, although it does require some focus on the part of the other coder, it's not nearly as taxing to them as actually helping me solve the problem or pairing up with me. So it's a good compromise somewhere between pair programming and talking to an actual rubber duck. Again, YMMV. Maybe I'll call it "Pair Ducking." |
Saturday, February 16, 2013
Differentiating porn from pandering
In most states, producers of adult entertainment face possible charges of "pandering," or paying persons to perform sexual acts (a charge ordinarily levied against "pimps" and other coordinators of prostitution services). But the California Supreme Court's decision in People v. Freeman (46 Cal. 3d 419 [1988]) held that a person does not commit pandering if the purpose of the payment is the production of a legal entertainment product rather than the sexual gratification of an actor or observer. A New York district court recently reached a similar result (People v. Paulino, 6687/04 [2005]), but the production of adult entertainment in other states continues to present significant legal risk.
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Excel is Everywhere
"I've seen Excel used in amazing ways.
Yes, I've seen it used as a spreadsheet, to crunch numbers. I've also seen people sit down with a calculator and compute cell values themselves, blissfully unaware that the software could do it for them. Excel is a tool for lining up numbers.
We've all seen Excel CSV files used for reporting and data interchange because they're easy for programmers to generate. I've seen an application's configuration managed by tweaking a CSV file in Excel and uploading it to a server. Excel is a tool for separating labels from values.
I've had screenshots pasted into Excel and attached to an email. Excel is an ubiquitous file format.
I've received an entire application wireframed by the accounting department, with each screen drawn with filled-in ASCII-art columns on its own worksheet and every button hyperlinked to a worksheet showing the next application state.
That really threw me off when I saw it. But when I look back, I realize just how clever it was. Front-end developers are always praising grid-based design, aren't they? That's exactly what what Excel was being used for. Excel is the first layout grid many people encounter."
Tesla's robots uncover New York Times Journalist Jon Broder's deceit.
"Cruise control was never set to 54 mph as claimed in the article, nor did he limp along at 45 mph. Broder in fact drove at speeds from 65 mph to 81 mph for a majority of the trip and at an average cabin temperature setting of 72 F."
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Wikipedia: Xenu, the highlights
Within the Church of Scientology, the Xenu story is part of the church's secret "Advanced Technology",[7] considered a sacred and esoteric teaching,[11]and normally only revealed to members who have contributed large amounts of money.[12]
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In 1988, the cost of learning these secrets from the Church of Scientology was £3,830, or US$6,500.[10][32] This is in addition to the cost of the prior courses which are necessary to be eligible for OT III, which is often well over US$100,000 (roughly£60,000).[14] Belief in Xenu and body thetans is a requirement for a Scientologist to progress further along the Bridge to Total Freedom.[33] Those who do not experience the benefits of the OT III course are expected to take it (and pay for it) again.[27]
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The broad outlines of the story—that 75 million years ago a great catastrophe happened in this sector of the galaxy which caused profoundly negative effects for everyone since then—are publicly admitted to lower-level Scientologists. However, the details are kept strictly confidential, at least within Scientology.
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The Church of Scientology forbade individuals from reading the OT III Xenu cosmogony without first having taken prerequisite courses.[35]Scientologists warn that reading the Xenu story without proper authorization could cause pneumonia.[35][36]
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In a letter of the time to his wife Mary Sue,[42]Hubbard said that, in order to assist his research, he was drinking alcohol and taking stimulants and depressants ("I'm drinking lots of rum and popping pinks and greys").
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Writing in the book Scientologypublished by Oxford University Press, contributor Mikael Rothstein observes that, "To my knowledge no real analysis of Scientology's Xenu myth has appeared in scholarly publications. The most sober and enlightening text about the Xenu myth is probably the article on Wikipedia (English version) and, even if brief, Andreas Grünschloss's piece on Scientology in Lewis (2000: 266–268)."[20] Rothstein places the Xenu text by L. Ron Hubbard within the context of a creation myth within the Scientology methodology, and characterizes it as "one of Scientology's more important religious narratives, the text that apparently constitutes the basic (sometimes implicit) mythology of the movement, theXenu myth, which is basically a story of the origin of man on Earth and the human condition."[20]Rothstein describes the phenomenon within a belief system inspired by science fiction, and notes that the "myth about Xenu, ... in the shape of a science fiction-inspired anthropogony,explains the basic Scientological claims about the human condition."[20]
LSD Thumbprint
On a normal large dose of LSD there is the high visual activity, sensory alteration, synesthesia, ego loss, etc, etc. On a thumbprint it feels like you completely short circuit your brain. All cognitive function stops. Like pouring water on a breaker panel it pops, then all connections and activity are fried. The cognitive filter is shut off and eternity is able to creep in. Obviously all brain activity doesn't stop because you keep breathing and your heart keeps pumping. The brain stem, hindbrain, medulla, pons and cerebellum are probably not affected. read on ...
Some Interesting Featured Articles from Wikipedia
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1987 (What the Fuck Is Going on?)
Sunday, February 10, 2013
Saturday, February 09, 2013
Friday, February 08, 2013
what have you achieved today?
jeremy ashkenas created coffeescript, backbone.js, and underscore.js. Currently, he works at the NYT. He is 26 years old.
He designed coffeescript in, oh, about 10 days. It's now the 11th most popular language on github
and backbone? Well, these guys built their sites with backbone:
Airbnb
BitTorrent.com
Diaspora
DocumentCloud
Foursquare
Groupon Now
Hulu
LinkedIn Mobile
NewsBlur [5]
Pandora Radio
Soundcloud
Trello
USA Today.com
WordPress.com
BitTorrent.com
Diaspora
DocumentCloud
Foursquare
Groupon Now
Hulu
LinkedIn Mobile
NewsBlur [5]
Pandora Radio
Soundcloud
Trello
USA Today.com
WordPress.com
I've spent days learning backbone. It's hard. I write coffeescript almost every day. It's awesome.
he also wears fashionable jackets
#envy
Wednesday, February 06, 2013
the caffeine tree
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