October 2011
2 posts
A rendition of “Love Is”, based on a...
Finally, a Snuggie for the Wilderness | Camping |... →
September 2011
7 posts
Guy Photoshops Justin Bieber Face Into Coworkers... →
Haredi, Arab saving lives together →
In Plato’s Phaedrus (dialogue), Socrates uses the maxim ‘know thyself’ as his explanation to Phaedrus for why he has no time for mythology or other far flung topics. Socrates says, “But I have no leisure for them at all; and the reason, my friend, is this: I am not yet able, as the Delphic inscription has it, to know myself; so it seems to me ridiculous, when I do not yet...
Carbonaceous meteorites contain a wide range of... →
“we are not alone.”
Big Problems With Big Iron « Gödel’s Lost Letter... →
algorithms 43, hardware 1.
this year's reading list
Exploratory Data Analysis (9780201076165): John W. Tukey: Books
Theory of Point Estimation (Springer Texts in Statistics) (9780387985022): E.L. Lehmann, George Casella: Books
Testing Statistical Hypotheses (Springer Texts in Statistics) (9781441931788): Erich L. Lehmann, Joseph P. Romano: Books
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (9780961392147): Edward R. Tufte: Books
Statistical...
“statistics is the art of data collection, analysis, and interpretation”
– jovo
August 2011
3 posts
“In England and Wales 390,127 people (almost 0.8%) stated their religion as Jedi...”
– Jedi census phenomenon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Average annual hours actually worked per worker →
wow….korean’s work nearly 9 hrs per day and the dutch merely 2.5, with the rest of the reporting countries in the middle….
July 2011
5 posts
it seems we have much room to grow in US health... →
Austrian Man Wins Right To Wear Pasta Strainer In... →
he was asked to submit to a medical interview to check on his mental fitness
a magazine end-to-end in 48 hrs: Longshot Issue #2... →
"down or just me" quandary →
how do i find out if this website is down, or it is just me?
June 2011
3 posts
re: the congressman...
“Alleged adults using the term “sexting” should really step down from the position of “Grown Up.”
Especially, you, social commentators of our time, please reserve this word for inappropriate experimentation of sexuality via technology, i.e. when children are doing it. It should otherwise be assumed, hoped perhaps, even, that adult messages might include adult...
May 2011
2 posts
April 2011
9 posts
OpenBaltimore / City of Baltimore's Open Data... →
baltimore is OPEN—booyakasha! what you got, other cities?!
Mike Matas: A next-generation digital book | Video... →
An Acoustic Evening with Matisyahu On 06/15/11... →
fundraiser for a new jewish school in brooklyn. 100% goes to the school, and I think it’s a pretty amazing model they are trying to develop in the frum world (i.e. the philosophy is teach everything from a holistic perspective - when you teach science it’s not a secular subject but rather a g-dly subject since science has the ability to investigate and improve the world; therefore it...
What Adopting a White Girl Taught One Black Family... →
50 most translated authors ever →
March 2011
2 posts
Watchthis is awesome. watch on full screen
VCA 2010 RACE RUN (by changoman) via superdave
February 2011
3 posts
Social Psychologists Detect Liberal Bias Within -... →
Question posted on Stack Overflow: using html/css,... →
Happy People Live Longer | Science/AAAS →
inferring causality is a sticky wicket, but evidence suggests…
January 2011
4 posts
The Awesome Foundation – Toronto →
will give away $1000 each month to whoever they think is doing something the most awesome
Tikkun Daily Blog » Where are the Jewish Greens? →
a beautiful article inspiring environmental action in support of the humans that it impacts.
W89380A566E
if you have recently acquired a 13” macbook pro computer with that serial number, please contact me at: needmbp911@gmail.com. HUGE REWARD. no questions asked.
December 2010
9 posts
NYT: Seeking the Connectome →
i collaborate with all these guys
WatchOOPSI: A Family of Optimal OPtical Spike Inference Algorithms for Inferring Neural Connectivity from Population Calcium Imaging (by joshua vogelstein)
my thesis talk, for those who haven’t seen it ;-)
JoVo Home →
updated the website. check it ;)
Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of... →
We constructed a corpus of digitized texts containing about 4% of all books ever printed. Analysis of this corpus enables us to investigate cultural trends quantitatively. We survey the vast terrain of “culturomics”, focusing on linguistic and cultural phenomena that were reflected in the English language between 1800 and 2000. We show how this approach can provide insights about...
nyc for nye?
if anybody looking for a place to stay in nyc between 12/27 and 1/2, a beautiful place is available by donation for that time (and possibly beyond). lemme know….
Google eBookstore →
>3 million books already, and relatively platform independent ;)
it’s snowing in baltimore! first snowfall of the year ;)
10810 error on mac osx
i’ve recently been getting the horrible 10810 error upon trying to launch a new program. a bunch of investigation online resulted in the following information (which i have compiled for my uses, and anybody else that suffers the same problem):
Symptoms: cannot launch new programs.
Problem definition: The following file defines the error -10810:
...
unlocking pdf files
sometimes, pdf files that we download are locked, such that one cannot save, print, edit, etc., without the password. to get around this, upload the file to google docs, and then print it. simple. fast. free. platform independent. effective. love it.
November 2010
8 posts
Track Your Happiness →
this website reminds me to be happy. specifically, it tracks your happiness for you by texting/emailing you randomly throughout the day and asking you questions about how you are feeling. it is a great reminder for me to be in the moment…