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 matrices with different properties. For instance, strong relationships yield characteristic matrices with high peaks, monotonic relationships yield symmetric characteristic matrices, and complex relationships yield characteristic matrices whose peaks are far from the origin.

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 can be a sleepy coder hermit in new zealand and work for companies all along the eastern seaboard and not worry about missing a meeting…

so much more about algorithms than i was even comfortable with.

A little eye hack to spot errors in your Javascript faster. If only all bugs were this easy to avoid.

Graph is the way.

from the article:

“The CAP theorem states a database cannot guarantee consistency, availability, and partition-tolerance at the same time. But you can’t sacrifice partition-tolerance (see here and here), so you must make a tradeoff between availability and consistency. Managing this tradeoff is a central focus of the NoSQL movement.”

I didn’t know a lot about Rich Hickey (turns out he made wrote Clojure, durrr). This presentation he gives about the complexity of programming is fantastic. If you code, or build your business around it, you definitely should watch this.