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May 26, 2012
courtenaybird:Tech stocks that would have been an awesome investment 10 years ago

courtenaybird:Tech stocks that would have been an awesome investment 10 years ago

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May 1, 2012
“ I made up my mind that I would never try to reform man — that’s much too difficult. What I would do was to try to modify the environment in such a way as to get man moving in preferred directions.
R. Buckminster Fuller •
April 25, 2012
MIT Joins Forces with Khan Academy to Produce Videos for Young Students

infoneer-pulse:

MIT’s seminal OpenCourseWare and MITx have brought free, high-quality educational content to anyone who wants it. Now MIT is turning its attention to younger students with the newly announced MIT+K12, developed with the Khan Academy. With this venture, MIT students will develop videos on science and engineering topics aimed at younger students.

» via MindShift

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50 fantastic tools for responsive web design

uxrave: on .net magazine

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“The next release should only include the features that matter. This is the shift from features to experience. It is usually a competitor that releases this version. They figure out what matters and release a cheaper version with less features but a better experience.”

— LukeW | UX Immersion: Great Time to Be Designer (soxiam)

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April 16, 2012
thenextweb:(via Apple Hides Michelangelo’s Hand of Adam in Patent Filing)

thenextweb:(via Apple Hides Michelangelo’s Hand of Adam in Patent Filing)

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April 14, 2012
“ Intelligence is whatever machines haven’t done yet.
Larry Tesler •
April 6, 2012

Tetris: Bureaucracy in pure form

“Tetris was invented exactly when and where you would expect — in a Soviet computer lab in 1984 — and its game play reflects this origin. The enemy in Tetris is not some identifiable villain (Donkey Kong, Mike Tyson, Carmen Sandiego) but a faceless, ceaseless, reasonless force that threatens constantly to overwhelm you, a churning production of blocks against which your only defense is a repetitive, meaningless sorting. It is bureaucracy in pure form, busywork with no aim or end, impossible to avoid or escape. And the game’s final insult is that it annihilates free will. Despite its obvious futility, somehow we can’t make ourselves stop rotating blocks. Tetris, like all the stupid games it spawned, forces us to choose to punish ourselves.”

— Angry Birds, Farmville and Other Hyperaddictive ‘Stupid Games’ - NYTimes.com (via caterpillarcowboy)

great quote.

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March 28, 2012

un: (via brain-food) Movies as Code

Absolutely brilliant. 

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March 23, 2012
From ACM TechNews: Momentum Builds in Campaign to Honor Alan Turing on 10-Pound NoteMore than 7,000 people have signed an electronic petition to get Alan Turning’s portrait on the back of the United Kingdom’s (U.K.’s) 10-pound notes. Proponents say Turing’s contributions to computer science and the impact they have had on today’s world is worthy of recognition. “The ripple-effect of his theories on modern life continues to grow and may never stop,” says Thomas Thurman, who launched the campaign. The 10-pound note currently features Charles Darwin. However, as the petition states, the Darwin note is part of the E-series design. Other bank notes have already been upgraded to F-series, and the 10-pound note is in line for an overhaul. Turing led British wartime efforts to crack German encryption codes and is often considered the father of computer science. The U.K. government is committed to holding parliamentary debates for any petitions that garner at least 100,000 signatures View Full Article

From ACM TechNews:

Momentum Builds in Campaign to Honor Alan Turing on 10-Pound Note

More than 7,000 people have signed an electronic petition to get Alan Turning’s portrait on the back of the United Kingdom’s (U.K.’s) 10-pound notes. Proponents say Turing’s contributions to computer science and the impact they have had on today’s world is worthy of recognition. “The ripple-effect of his theories on modern life continues to grow and may never stop,” says Thomas Thurman, who launched the campaign.

The 10-pound note currently features Charles Darwin. However, as the petition states, the Darwin note is part of the E-series design. Other bank notes have already been upgraded to F-series, and the 10-pound note is in line for an overhaul. Turing led British wartime efforts to crack German encryption codes and is often considered the father of computer science. The U.K. government is committed to holding parliamentary debates for any petitions that garner at least 100,000 signatures View Full Article

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March 19, 2012
“ We are as much moving into a software age as we moved into an iron age.
Cryptographer Whitfield Diffie at Black Hat Europe [link] •
Image Chris Pietsch for The New York Times In Crosswords, It’s Man Over Machine, for Now From ACM TechNews via NYTimes: “A crossword-solving computer program named Dr. Fill recently competed in the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament against 600 of the U.S.’s best human players. Although the Dr. Fill program finished 141st in the tournament, Matthew Ginsberg, who created the software, was pleased with the result and intends to have Dr. Fill compete again next year. He says the program is literal-minded, and struggles on puzzles with humor or those with unusual themes or letter arrangements. One of the puzzles included several words that had to be spelled backward, and another puzzle had words arrayed diagonally. However, in simulations of 15 past tournaments, Ginsberg says Dr. Fill finished in first place three times.”

Image Chris Pietsch for The New York Times

In Crosswords, It’s Man Over Machine, for Now

From ACM TechNews via NYTimes: “A crossword-solving computer program named Dr. Fill recently competed in the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament against 600 of the U.S.’s best human players. Although the Dr. Fill program finished 141st in the tournament, Matthew Ginsberg, who created the software, was pleased with the result and intends to have Dr. Fill compete again next year.

He says the program is literal-minded, and struggles on puzzles with humor or those with unusual themes or letter arrangements. One of the puzzles included several words that had to be spelled backward, and another puzzle had words arrayed diagonally. However, in simulations of 15 past tournaments, Ginsberg says Dr. Fill finished in first place three times.”

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March 2, 2012
infoneer-pulse: How Do You Cite a Tweet in an Academic Paper? - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic

infoneer-pulse: How Do You Cite a Tweet in an Academic Paper? - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic

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February 27, 2012

greaterthanlapsed: Grace Hopper - Nanoseconds

grace hopper, being amazing.

(Source: youtube.com)

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February 22, 2012
nevver: If PHP were British

nevver: If PHP were British

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