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if I ever start to play with R - Jeremy Zawodny

But after seeing the second picture in that post, I will NEVER want to eat horse. - Tudor Bosman

Horse must be good, all those French gourmets can't be wrong - WarLord

"Too much UV penetrating the skin (too pale-skinned under intense sunlight) increases Vitamin D but reduces folate. Lack of folate causes neural tube defects in the fetus, causing such congenital abnormalities as craniorachischisis, anencephalus, and spina bifida, leading to many miscarriages. On the other hand, too little UV penetrating the skin (too dark-skinned under dim sunlight) increases folate but reduces vitamin D. Lack of vitamin D causes skeletal neonatal abnormalities (skull, chest, and leg malformations), rickets being the best known. Again, this causes miscarriages. And so, humans adapt very quickly to solar UV. Prehistoric groups that migrated towards the equator got darker. Prehistoric groups that migrated away from the equator got lighter. But this explanation fails for Europe. Northern Europeans are lighter than everyone to the south (Mediterraneans), to the east (Mongols and east-Asians), to the west (Native Americans across the Atlantic), and to the North (Inuit,... more... - bob from Bookmarklet

I found this article very interesting, and well written to boot. - Will Higgins™

Jeremy, http://www.amazon.com/dp... is the classic in South Indian homes. - Thaths

What do you know? Valleywag got everything wrong. Google is hiring, not laying off. Also, our interview scores actually correlate very well with on-the-job performance. Peter Seibel asked me if there was anything counterintuitive about the process and I said that people who got one low score but were hired anyway did well on-the-job. To me, that means the interview process is doing very well, not that it is broken. It means that we don't let one bad interview blackball a candidate. We'll keep interviewing, keep hiring, and keep analyzing the results to improve the process. And I guess Valleywag will keep doing what they do... - Peter Norvig from Bookmarklet

Yeah! Always go with the _second_ hunch. - Andrew C

"The Tornado Web guys (from what I can tell) handle it differently. They allow MySQL queries to block the entire process. However, they compensate in two ways. They lean heavily on their asynchronous web client wherever possible. They also make use of multiple Python processes. Hence, if you're handling 500 simultaneous request, you might use nginx to split them among 10 different Tornado Web processes. Each process is handling 50 simultaneous requests. If one of those requests needs to make a call to the database, only 50 (instead of 500) requests are blocked." - Gary Burd from Bookmarklet

Requests are not blocked because there's usually one request per server (except for long polling and other special cases). - Gary Burd

Nearly impossible to single one out. - Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)

alaindebotton about the most important problem of the last 10-15 years http://www.ted.com/talks... - Doruk Demirsar

We sent the final pdfs of the new edition of this book off to the publisher. The market reacted by gaining 2% on the day. - Peter Norvig from Bookmarklet

That is a bargain; I end up paying about 25 $/hour in tuition to sit in lectures. Thank you, for writing such wonderful books! - Brandon Smietana

ain't good enough but nice effort - testbeta

Lemme know when you find out. I'm sick to death of how our society prospers assholes. - Spidra Webster

vishy, good dilbert :)) - Bindu Reddy

"There are two goddesses in your heart: the Goddess of Wisdom and the Goddess of Wealth. Everyone thinks that they need to get wealth first, and wisdom will come. So they concern themselves with chasing money. But they have it backwards. You have to give your heart to the Goddess of Wisdom, give her all your love and attention, and the Goddess of Wealth will become jealous, and follow you." - Paul Buchheit from Bookmarklet

<3 - Chris Hofmann

I can spend my life chasing wisdom and never regret a moment, great share. - Mark Essel

I agree with this: "these guys have internalized the APIs and libraries, and in particular the list- and sequence-processing functions, just like a seasoned Perlmonger or Java-head have internalized those languages’ key APIs. And you’re not really a Clojure programmer until you’ve done that." It's not enough to know the language, you need to know the core API. - Gary Burd

@Gary - totally agree. Wish I had a project/time to work on learning idiomatic Clojure myself. I've been dabbling for a few months, and I know my way around the syntax and design now, but still haven't come close to internalizing the language yet. FP really is a (refreshing!) break from the usual, though, even as a dabbler. - DeWitt Clinton

If I were Google I would spend more resources and time on making new original big ideas work. Instead of working on 60 products work on 6 big original ideas. - Bindu Reddy from Bookmarklet

for Clare :). The comments are kind of amusing. - Paul Buchheit from Bookmarklet

There are also arguments that startups are also difficult to do later in life. :-) Not that I agree with either premise. - Piaw Na

Just the other day I was commenting to my coworker how strange it is that people try to design whole massive systems before starting to code. That must be why they are routinely late, canceled, and over-budget. - Gabe

"It was all very humbling. So humbling, that I found it hard to do anything at all. I had designed and announced my new company. I was psyched for it to exist. But when it came down to doing the necessary work, I hesitated and procrastinated. “Who am I to be starting another company? I’m just going to fuck it up like last time.“ After all I’ve learned, I can’t believe anyone actually thinks they’ll succeed in the complex world of business. Don’t they see all the really smart people who have tried and failed? I can’t believe how foolish I was to start my first company. Just me in my bedroom with no experience, making a little website, when I was up against giant IPO-funded competitors. I was an over-confident punk, thinking I had the answer, and everyone else didn’t. But it worked." - Paul Buchheit from Bookmarklet

Wow, that's pretty interesting for a student like me. :) - Angely

Elefant (Efficient Learning, Large-scale Inference, and Optimisation Toolkit) is an open source library for machine learning - joshua schachter

wonder if i can brush up on my linalg - joshua schachter

"This book on body language is excellent: http://www.amazon.com/gp...... I read it cover-to-cover — that's rare. If you're specfically interested in confident body language read these: http://roissy.wordpress.com/2007...... http://roissy.wordpress.com/2008...... http://roissy.wordpress.com/2009...... http://roissy.wordpress.com/2008...... If you're a woman, I'm not sure how you should apply these suggestions, unless you want to act "manly"." - Nivi

good choice - VAL D. Zone

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Also: "At the periphery, people have fewer friends; this makes them lonely, but this also tends to drive them to cut the few ties that they have left. But before they do, they may infect their friends with the same feeling of loneliness, starting the cycle anew. These reinforcing effects mean that our social fabric can fray at the edges, like a strand of yarn that comes loose from the sleeve of a sweater." - Ruchira S. Datta

Hmm, now I'm wondering about the interplay with centrality in the more general observation of loneliness being socially contagious. - Ruchira S. Datta

D. Modha and IBM's Blue Brain project reports progress in scaling up neural models to the size of a cat brain. Some day soon, computers may be able to cough up hair balls and barf on your sofa. - Peter Norvig from Bookmarklet

Oh, and I'll pass on the hair balls and barf. - Laura Norvig

superb! - ashish

That's awesome but completely locked up my iPhone. I should've known better than to try it in a browser without scrollbars... - Tony Ruscoe