10 month ago
adamrg : Samantha Power on American responses to mass atrocities and genocide - I'd love to get my hands on this TED talk ASAP, as we're going to be talking about genocide in my Current World Problems class in the next few weeks.
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26 month ago
cameron : An empirical examination of Wikipedia's credibility - Empirical study showing that experts rate the credibility of a Wikipedia article higher than non-experts
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28 month ago
cameron : More universities banning Skype - San Jose State recently canned Skype usage for the reason that the EULA is too broad, allowing Skype to claim usage of the network, and that it's too much of a bandwidth hog. I thought it was the other way around?
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42 month ago
cameron : Electron band structure in germanium: my ass - I wish my thesis read like this
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48 month ago
Simon Willison : The Emerging Economics of Open Source Software - The latest essay from Bruce Perens.
kayodeok : The Emerging Economics of Open Source Software - Open Source developers have, perhaps without conscious intent, created a new and surprisingly successful economic paradigm for the production of software. Examining that paradigm can answer a number of important ques
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cameron : Subjective Well-Being - defining happiness in a qualitatively measurable way
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Richard MacManus : The risk of techno-orientalism - Asia is leading the new wireless world, but there are many different Asian cultures.
cobra libre : the risk of techno-orientalism - i like this, though i wish it had been fleshed out
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55 month ago
cobra libre : a straussian memory - straussian esotericism is like gnosticism for philosopher assholes, well, maybe
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56 month ago
Aquarion : The Anatomy of a Search Engine - How Google Thinks
Richard MacManus : Anatomy of Google (circa 1998) - PageRank "corresponds to the principal eigenvector of the normalized link matrix of the web." Now you know.
kayodeok : The Anatomy of a Search Engine - Could this be the first Google paper? "In this paper, we present Google, a prototype of a large-scale search engine which makes heavy use of the structure present in hypertext"
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