December 2011
9 posts
WatchThe coming war on general computation
Eli Bendersky's website » Python threads:... →
yongfook: Design is Horseshit! →
from the article:
Your startup is like Apple when Apple was a startup. When Apple was a startup they sold computers made of wood and nailed together in a garage. Apple wasn’t concerned with design when it was an early stage startup. Goal #1 was figuring out if people even gave a shit about compact personal computers. So in 1976 they built computers, out of a garage, from wood, and sold them to...
Maximal Information-based Nonparametric... →
from the article:
MIC and the other MINE statistics are calculated from a matrix of scores generated from a given set of two-variable data. This matrix, called the characteristic matrix, is created by searching for grids that maximize the penalized mutual information of the distribution induced on each grid’s cells by the data. Different relationship types give rise to characteristic...
A geek with a hat » Why programmers work at night →
new idea: a network attached to your phone’s alarm that resets all the clocks in your life to the timezone you just woke up in. it may be two p.s. here in brooklyn when i role out of bed, but i woke up right on time in auckland, new zealand.
for those who love freelancing from home this would be perfect for figuring out what timezone the companies you work for should be in. conversely, i...
The Day I Saw Van Gogh's Genius in a New Light →
Jeff Erickson's Algorithms Course Materials →
so much more about algorithms than i was even comfortable with.
Instagram Engineering: What Powers Instagram:... →