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Kids first time riding ny subway. 500 identically dressed chearleaders from macy's parade got on at 42nd. Me:"it's not usually like this"
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Because I am a flawed human being, I am not subscribed to all the cool people on FriendFeed. If I am not following you, and I should be... just like or comment on this post. :)
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You are flawed and human? Both of these things are news to me. ;)
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Alex, I was programmed to mislead.
- Louis Gray
Take me to your misleader!
- Spidra Webster
You're subscribed to me, but I don't know if I'm in your "Cool People" list as I should be.
- Bruce Lewis
I do not think you are subscribed to me, but then again, I do not think I am one of the cool people on FriendFeed either.
- Friar Will (:^)
I'm the only individual in the universe with free will. Everyone else is a robot. I'm still not cool. Robots are cool though.
- John
Flawed, eh? Meh.
- John LeMasney
Barn's burnt down. Now I can see the moon. - Zen Saying. (thx to John L for this one)
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VidCoder Streamlines HandBrake's UI for Easy Ripping and Converting - Ripping - Lifehacker - http://lifehacker.com/5524428...
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VidCoder Streamlines HandBrake's UI for Easy Ripping and Converting
- Angel
Nice share, Angel. Shame it's windows only.
- John LeMasney
morgueFile free photos for creatives by creatives - http://www.morguefile.com/
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morgueFile free photos for creatives by creatives
- Angel
What I absolutely love about MorgueFile is the license to use the work, as long as it is altered, without even attribution. Easily my #1 go to source image site right now.
- John LeMasney
HUMAN MATTERS: It takes commitment to put Mean People in their place - Living - ReviewJournal.com - http://www.lvrj.com/living...
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A profound look at how to refuse the cycle of abuse shut down the mean people in our lives. The damage mean people are capable of can be astounding but realization is the key.
- Christine Cox
Buzz resulted in over 1,600 sharing requests in Google Reader. And there's no "ignore all" button. FML. http://twitpic.com/13wxps
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Somebody is popular. :)
- Louis Gray
Poor thing.
- John LeMasney
What else have they forgotten? Buzz seems a bit too Beta even for Google.
- Jason Remnant
I uploaded a YouTube video -- Superfeedr brings real time feed parsing http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Although I don't see what advantage this has over, say, Google Reader?
- Justin Long
Superfeedr enables companies and services to fully leverage PubSubHubbub, reducing the latency of updates and speeding data flow between networks, Justin. Google Reader, for example, is one service that uses PubSubHubbub to push shared items to downstream networks, while Blogger pushes updates to Reader via PubSubHubbub.
- Louis Gray
They are currently one of the only open PubSubHubs. Without open hubs there's not much chance of this taking off.
- Todd Hoff
Justin, Louis (thx Louis!) is exactly right. Superfeedr aims at being an infrastructure for Google Reader, if you wish.
- Julien
Todd, well, we're doing all we can do actually convince more people to publish via PubSubHubbub. We already host haf a dozen hubs and have much more in the pipe :) We also see more subscribers every day. I eventually believe that we will ended up seeing "vertical" subscribers : like subscribers to classified sites, subscribers to e-commerce sites... etc
- Julien
Thanks Julien, it's a good thing.
- Todd Hoff
Congrats, Julien!
- John LeMasney
Superfeedr brings real time feed parsing - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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How to Gather and Use Twitter Metrics (with pictures) - wikiHow - http://www.wikihow.com/Gather-...
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How to Gather and Use Twitter Metrics
- Angel
Also joining @Twitter: @psoals (via Bebo), @eaceaser (via TiVo), @squarecog (via Cloudera) @nancybroden (via Qik) and @floleibert (via Ning)
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Actually, Flo starts on 1/11. Twitter jumped the gun, at least with her. Maybe more?
- Louis Gray
Ha! Did Twitter post them to their list too early?
- Jesse Stay
They did. I confirmed the hire, and the future start date.
- Louis Gray
I have the National Geographic hard drive talked about on @engadget and it's quite good, but the UI is goofy. http://www.engadget.com/2009...
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If anyone at Google is looking for something to open source, the core machine learning infrastructure (like Seti) would be very good for the world.
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I agree, SETI would be great. But whoa, it would be a huge amount of work to open-source it.
- Daniel Dulitz
Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence?
- Gabe
Har har.... I assume there is ZERO chance of this ever happening.
- Jay
@Jay - I suspect Paul wouldn't ask if he thought there was zero chance. Last time I remember Paul asking for something from Google to be open sourced it was their JS compiler. That took a while, but http://code.google.com/closure...
- Nick Lothian
@Jay: Remember that Paul's referring to (relatively) generic infrastructure here, not search ranking code. But I think Daniel's right that it would be a *lot* of work, since most Google infrastructure is not "productized" and easy to wrap up in a bow for public release. Like any company with a lot of infrastructure, there are a lot of interdependencies that would be difficult to untangle. I think it would probably be better to simply publish papers on how it works, as with GFS, BigTable, etc.
- Joel Webber
Boy, that would be a bold move Paul. Agreed that it would help out many though!
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
How about just dumping the source to the web without all the dependencies, even if it doesn't even compile? If it looks useful enough there's a good chance someone would adopt it.
- Jim Norris
I suspect you're right about that, Jim. But Google would probably catch more crap about a "throwing it over the wall and letting it stagnate" open-sourcing than it's worth. But maybe I'm just down on it because Google catches crap no matter what these days...
- Joel Webber
It's hard to open source distributed algorithms -- there's no obvious public standard to use, and the reasonable choices (TCP sockets? MPI?) are nothing like Google's internal infrastructure. I think a paper would be more useful than source code, the way MapReduce papers lead to Hadoop. Paul, have you looked at Vowpal Wabbit (http://hunch.net/~vw/)? It has experimental support for cluster parallelism, and I hear good things about it.
- ⓞnor
Well, it doesn't have to be an either/or issue.
- Jim Norris
If the code is too hard to separate from the infrastructure, then maybe a compute service like EC2 that provides an application interface specifically for solving problems with SETI could be good for both the world and good for the Google.
- no name
@Bill: Now *that* sounds like a good idea to me, especially if accompanied by a paper describing the algorithms in use.
- Joel Webber
Although technically really interesting and usefully, I do think that Google will not open source or even give inside information about such a key differentiating technology in the hands of their competitors. But I agree that it would be really great for the world.
- Yusuf Arslan
The value of "differentiating technology" is not in novel algorithms, but in the thousands of places where implementations of these algorithms have been fixed and customized and tuned to solve the problem at hand -- which wouldn't have to be described in a whitepaper.
- Tudor Bosman
@Tudor Bosman: I do not agree that the competitive advantage is the knowledge of fine tuning and implementing the algorithms. The concept/design of Google's machine learning infrastructure is very important. Don't get me wrong, I do think that Google SHOULD open source this. But I think they WILL not because of business considerations.
- Yusuf Arslan
btw, ML+AI papers by Google - http://research.google.com/pubs... - http://research.google.com/pubs...
- Amund Tveit
I think even just a paper would be very useful and fruitful.
- Ruchira S. Datta
Ruchira, do you have particular biological datasets in mind? Are they too large even for a single machine version of Vowpal Wabbit to comfortably cope with (say, several tens or hundreds of billions of labeled instances)?
- Simon
Simon, my comment was just general. Now that you mention it, I could use Vowpal Wabbit on some of my projects, which are not anywhere close to that big. Thanks for the tip!
- Ruchira S. Datta
"The need for opensource in machine learning" http://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/papers... (author affiliations of relevance)
- Amund Tveit
Christmas bells those Christmas bells. Ringing through the land. Bringing peace to all the world. And good will to man.
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Google Wave's Massive Potential for Business Users - http://mashable.com/2009...
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Google Wave’s Massive Potential for Business Users
- Angel
Knife Skills: Pumpkin Carving Champion - Geekologie - http://ffffound.com/image...
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hell...
- metaphox
My new career - http://www.web2learning.net/archive...
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When you begin looking for your assistant director, I hope you consider me. ;) Best job title ever, btw.
- John LeMasney
There’s No Task Easier Than No Task - http://zenhabits.net/2009...
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"the best way to get there is to keep things as simple as possible."まあ当たり前と言えば当たり前なのだが。
- Rashita
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Helix Wind launching wind-powered cellphone tower trials in US and Africa [#renewableenergy #windpower] - http://www.engadget.com/2009...
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Cupcake Sliders - http://www.insanewiches.com/...
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Oh yay! Food fad squared!
- SimoneSmith
WTF does patriotism even *mean*? Loyalty to what, exactly? A logo? A vague concept? Unthinking nationalism? Or is it about ideals? Sorry, Virginia, but patriotism ain't blind loyalty and putting a sticker on your car.
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...I can't like or agree with this enough!!!
- JA Castillo
Look at that. Here we are having a complete argument in one thread and then you post something with which I absolutely and completely agree.
- Brad Nickel
I really like this post. Except I think 'Virginia' should read 'America'.
- Aaron Hood
@Aaron - "Virginia" is a metaphor for the average American. Thanks though. There's a good quote from Mark Twain on the subject .. I'll attach when I can find it.
- Anthony Citrano
I really hope the upcoming generation figures out the answer to this question. Really.
- Josh Haley
@Anthony- Understood. @Josh- We're working on it. Or trying to at least.
- Aaron Hood
I think it means putting two american window flags on your car.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
But only after some grave national crisis.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Also requires the use of the magnetic yellow "support the troops" ribbons. I know when I was in Iraq, I only felt better by knowing that so many people supported me by their use of magnetic yellow ribbons.
- Michelle M
Yeah, what's bad is that not one dollar made selling those magnetic things ever made it to the troops, unlike all the Live Strong paraphernalia. Those stickers really annoyed me as a former member of the armed forces. The best way to support the troops would have been to vote for someone that wouldn't have sent our troops overseas to an unnecessary war.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Michelle & Alex- YES! Please stop showing off that you support the troops by having a magnet on your car. Send your money to the USO or to a veteran's fund. We don't need to know that you support the troops.
- Aaron Hood
I remember the sense in the days after 9-11 when it was felt that this event was too horrible, too precious to be commercialized. Everyone was doing everything for free or at cost and if anything so much as *smelled* commercial, people were shamed. It didn't take us too long to get from there to the Franklin Mint late-night TV commercials selling "limited edition" $50 coins with a flag and a little World Trade tower on them that "rose" out of the coin...
- Anthony Citrano
Yep, Abby, and what did that take, a whole month?
- Anthony Citrano
Patriotism is what spiritual link connects you to your country or nation! It's like the kingdom of heaven, it is in your heart!! Those who put stickers on their cars are capable of that much only - appearances. Nationalism, ideals, loyalty are empty but charged words...for those who can do no better.
- Hayk
Sounds like hogwash to me, Hayk. I am asking for a more specific definition of patriotism, specifically what Americans mean when they say it. I disagree that the words are empty - so long as we explain what we mean when we say them - because coming from most people they are simply platitudes.
- Anthony Citrano
Anthony, you are right. I reread and thought of it as much :) But we put meanings into words. As for definitions, here is one, "Patriotism is a feeling of pride and love for one's country." ....... 'Nietzsche wrote that words with a history cannot be defined. Their meanings are in their stories, their biographies. That is surely the case with "patriotism." Patriotism is as patriots have done.' Source: http://bit.ly/3ZW7bp
- Hayk
Dave R using my least favorite say-nothing term “un-American” inspired me to bump this.
- Anthony Citrano
You're welcome!
- Dave Roth
"Patriotism" is to the average citizen what "Electability" is to the average politician. They are both vague and ever-changing consensus of the population (or media, for the cynics out there.)
- Scott Ohlemacher
Things to Run From in the Forest - http://thomashawk.com/2009...
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UC Berkeley, right?
- Brian McNely
I always look forward to your images
- John Ford
what is it??
- Roshan Ramachandran
Looks like something from Transformers :)
- Simon Wicks
This American Life: Season 1 is available on Netflix and has been added to my queue
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Trying to emotionally detach myself from situations beyond my control.
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excellent advise for everybody!
- Susan Beebe
does it feel weird to use twitter in a personal capacity when you have so many followers because of your nerd-celebrity status?
- Mick Crawford
Mick, not really.
- Veronica
No point worrying about things that you can't do anything about - often easier said than done though!
- Amy
It just makes you seem oddly human, which is not a way that I'm used to thinking about "famous" people. I think it's easy to forget that even hosts of internet gadgetry shows still use technology the same way that the rest of us do. If you are looking for a way to emotionally detach yourself, I suggest bacon. There's no problem too large for bacon to solve.
- Mick Crawford
well, i'm definitely "oddly human."
- Veronica
...good luck with that.
- Ⓒⓗⓡⓘⓢ Ⓟⓘⓡⓘⓛⓛⓞ
One word: compartmentalization. Image the situation in a box with many helium balloons attached (a la Up), and imagine it floating away with the 'situation' in side. Imagining this is remarkable helpful. When your mind wanders back to the situation, scold and remind it about the balloon-box. Works well enough for me when I'm in or near a Pit of Despair.
- Jason Miller
When you figure it out let me know how.
- YoYo_P
I used to have problems falling sleep because all these things would pop in my head when im laying in bed that i have no control over and i would worry about them. Finnaly i learn to not worry about them.
- Fee501st
I didn't mean "oddly human" as anything even resembling negative, so I hope that's not how it came across.
- Mick Crawford
What do those with PTSD who struggle with both lack of control and emotional detachment do?
- Robt.D.McKenzie
When I have problems like that sometimes I just read the lyrics to .38 Special's "Hold On Loosely" http://www.youtube.com/watch... and other times I imagine I am the one guy up there with a hat that isn't even turned up in the mixing board... the lesson is that you get to rock out but the final mix isn't something you have absolute control over or how it is to be distributed later.
- Jay Cuthrell
Sounds likea "man" situation....just a guess. heehee!
- Mel Collins
uh, nope.
- Veronica
Spent all day sanding the deck. Color coming out nicely. Fun to work on something with the fam. BEER ME! http://img19.imageshack.us/my...
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@CousinEerie Oberon is an excellent choice. many good things coming out of Bells lately. we will have to review them I think.
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scarbonaro's QuickCapture Video - May 05, 2009, 04:25 PM - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Helicopt-o-bot
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Opps :)
- sunipeyk
Twtrfrnd finds mutual friends on Twitter - http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009...
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Filed under: Productivity, Social Software One way to figure out whether you should follow someone on Twitter is by seeing who your mutual friends. Twtrfrnd makes that very easy: just enter your username and someone else's, and it does the rest. Soon, it will even let you log in to automatically see friends you have in common with people who have recently followed you. Finding common friends is a good way to know whether a specific person might be worth following, but anybody can follow a lot of your friends. It's not the most selective way of doing things. That's why there's also the "indicators" list. It shows you which of your friends are following someone, giving you a more accurate indicator of how interested you might be in that person's updates. Twtrfrnd finds mutual friends on Twitter originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
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