Andrés David Aparicio

I love boxers. Always have. - Mattb4rd

Carmen, thanks for the link. I never knew that room existed. Bruno is a stud, congrats on his 5th Birthday! - Mike Fruchter

Thanks! You (and your cuties) are more than welcome to the room. I just heard about it myself about a week ago. - Carmen

No, not a web framework. There's already more than enough :) And I'm not writing "on a" but "a new" python framework :) - directeur via NoiseRiver

:) Winforms with IronPython (partly) for me till then, eh? :P - Yuvi

heh, sorry, I think so, yes ;-) - directeur via NoiseRiver

Thanks to Ross (my cousin, FriendFeed intern) and Robert Scoble for being the sources for my analysis (little did they know!). My talk focused on the signals we are looking at to create better automatic filtering and ranking interfaces for FriendFeed. (Emily is Ross's sister by the way, if you are wondering why he likes her entries so much.) - Bret Taylor

Imagine a rapidly self-evolving global superintelligence firing on all cylinders, maximizing the productivity and self-actualization of billions of people simultaneously. That is the long term strategic objective of AI-based social network analysis, collaborative filtering, recommender systems, etc. We're barely at step 1. - Sean McBride

I love this path. FF makes me increasingly less likely to use my reader. Yet, I know there are some worthwhile nuggets in there that I am missing. This kind of intelligence improves the chances that I am predictably surfaced everything I would want to be. I love it. - Christopher Sacca

Hahahahah Nice.... - J. Abdul-Qahhar

Good politician, no doubt about it. Given things like Rev. Wright, it's best to preempt them. - Jeremy Thompson

"‘Computer herding’ is the term given to computer driven automated trading systems’ similar self-operation that produces a feedback loop of procedures creating a vicious cycle of share selling. From the late 70’s computational models for financial trading have become more prevalent, much of the problematic dealing that has occurred in the last few days has been done without human intervention. Computer herding is a classic example of self generated behaviour and recursion. The stocks go down, the computers automated response is to sell, thereby reducing values, and subsequently causing closed computational models to sell more shares, which reduces their values even more. Limitations of computer models explain this financial feedback loop in depth." - Jason Wehmhoener

so happily admitting that I am far from a financial markets expert - it would seem that in the kind of environment that exists right now, the prevalence of this kind of automation would give some one the opportunity to make much more accurate predictions in trading behavior than normal and exploit them for a ridiculous amount of money - am I way off base? - Marco (aureliusmaximus)

So it looks like someone managed to apply Fractals and Chaos Theory to Financing. I've been working in my own field of Quantum Medicine and the Theory of Virtual Patients. No joke o_O - CannonGod

U is for Unique smartness, Unbelivable genius things. Uncommon intelligence. No compromise. - directeur via NoiseRiver

I DEFINITELY don't care about the quantity of posts there. I DEFINITELY don't care about the number of "like"s of "comments" there. The only thing that matters is the QUALITY of the submitted content. It MUST be of real genius. Period. - directeur via NoiseRiver

Oh and yes, I'm the autoproclamed BDFL there (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B... ) - directeur via NoiseRiver

EDIT: So far, that's really a nice idea (yes, that's mine) but I'm very pleased with what a very smart guy called "Jason Wehmhoener" is sharing :) - directeur via NoiseRiver

"IS the woman pictured on the right more attractive than the woman on the left? Do her wider-set eyes, the longer distance between her hairline and the bridge of the nose, and the rounder shape of her face make her more beautiful? The photograph on the right was doctored by the “beautification engine” of a new computer program that uses a mathematical formula to alter the original form into a theoretically more attractive version, while maintaining what programmers call an “unmistakable similarity” to the original. The software program, developed by computer scientists in Israel, is based on the responses of 68 men and women, age 25 to 40, from Israel and Germany, who viewed photographs of white male and female faces and picked the most attractive ones." - Cee Bee via Bookmarklet

is the woman on the right a terminator? - Sarah Perez

she's defiinately got a River thing going on *edit* er, Summer thing; I always mistakenly call her by her Firefly character name... heh - Michael W. May via twhirl

Seconded - Aaron Krug

Justin: thanks for the feedback -- we're thinking about it - CBG

It's on the list. I promise :) - Paul Buchheit

FWIW, we have several dedicated boxes with an added bandwidth package from our hosting company that runs us between $4,000-$5,000 a month. We're probably going to drop at least one or two boxes, and possibly move some of our heavy storage requirements to the Amazon cloud to save on bandwidth costs. But I've definitely been tasked to look at all options. - Andrew Leyden

There are team members in our group actively learning the tricks and traps of EC2 with the goal of moving off a hugely expensive dedicated rack of servers. - Capn' "One-Eye" Longman ☠

Care to share some of those tricks and traps? Your team keeping a blog by any chance? I'd love to share in their insights. - Andrew Badera

On my TechNews list, for instance, it shows only people who are on that list and THEIR most favorite items. This is freaking awesome and another HUGE reason to use lists and rooms. - Robert Scoble

I don't see it in rooms either, but it is in lists. - Justin Long

AWESOME news!! Paul is really cool guy! Yes, new about "best of" working on list, but not rooms...thanks! - Susan Beebe

XKCD FTW - You Betcha Glen Campbell

“Whether or not you write well, write bravely” Bill Stout - Mona N. via Bookmarklet

That is an amazing picture. - Timothy Griffin

I'm blown away by it. Incredible photograph! - Kol Tregaskes

Sunspot Iris - Andrés David Aparicio via twhirl

naaah:/ - Patrik Johansson

do you ever post any thing cool any more - Jeremy "Jermbo" Lawson via twhirl

haha, I think I'm that person on the right. :) - imabonehead

If you're using Vista this site is a pretty darn good resource for tips and tricks. This page includes 38 tips for speeding up your system performance. - Stupid Emoo (aka Tina)

Thanks - Roberto Bonini

This will come in handy to tune my wife's laptop. I haven't been able to talk her into migrating to Ubuntu :) - Andrés David Aparicio via twhirl

unbuntu? i prefer raw debian .... apt-get update then ... apt-get install life :) - Mathias Pastwa

Why people keep on saying ajax "effects"? - directeur via NoiseRiver

This is the AJAX I know (second to the AJAX of Greek lore)! - JA Castillo

It originally meant XHR, but it's not uncommon for people to misuse it to mean DHTML. - Jason Wehmhoener

There are several names I scream at my PC... - Mark VandenBerg

Of course yes! Everyone of my computers did. This laptop is named Salmón - Andrés Meza via twhirl

no, but my network devices do. Fry and Leela are the two networked hard drives, and the router/ wifi devices are Zoidberg and Bender - Duncan Riley

Very nice... High 5! - John Worthington

I seriously get freaked out with "let's network" or "remember me" messages. I'm invisible locally to minimise that problem. - Phillip Jeffrey

I don't seem to get bothered. In fact, I forget all about Facebook for days at a time until one of my friends does send me a message. - Ian May

She is so cute (and so plenty of stamina) he, he, he ;) - Andrés Meza

Stamina goes up and down all day. She goes through cycles of short activity bursts followed but longer sleeping periods. The presence of the Sun makes almost no difference; in the night she tries to keep the same rhythm. So sleep goes through the window. Marce and mine's. - Andrés David Aparicio

http://www.socialmedian.com/su... - Susan Beebe

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http://www.socialmedian.com/ma... - Matt Hooper

Max Headroom - Nine (sawsome aus)