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"Had PowerPoint been around 150 years ago, Thoreau might have warned us to beware not only of enterprises that require new clothes, but also of those that require new paradigms." - maurycy via Bookmarklet

Good math history. - maurycy via Bookmarklet

Very interesting group theory material. - maurycy via Bookmarklet

"Carbon Based" - maurycy via Bookmarklet

"We think our decisions are conscious," said neuroscientist John-Dylan Haynes at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience in Berlin, who is pioneering this research. "But these data show that consciousness is just the tip of the iceberg. This doesn't rule out free will, but it does make it implausible." - maurycy via Bookmarklet

"Stress. The literature on individual psychology, the consensus is that stress has an inverted-U shape relationship with performance—e.g., Jamal (1984). The relationship also slides rightward as individuals adapt to stress. Further, the increase in performance is biased toward quantity and against quality. The results seem to be also supported among groups, see Karau and Kelly (1992). For example, Kruglanski and Webster (1991] report that within a group, deviating opinions are rejected more with time pressure while conforming ones are accepted more. Stress works through several mechanisms in its link to performance:" - maurycy via Bookmarklet

Elektroniczna Karta Klienta - maurycy via Bookmarklet

The Elo rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in two-player games such as chess and Go. - maurycy

"Greg Coffey is the star trader at the GLG hedge fund group. Last week he walked away from $250m in shares to set up his own operation" - maurycy

"In an old joke, two men are running, pursued by a grizzly bear. One turns to the other and says "why are we running -- we can't outrun the bear!". The other replies: "I don't need to outrun the bear, I just need to outrun you!"." - maurycy

COLLEGE PARK, MD—According to a report published Monday in The Journal Of Gender Studies, many American women are bucking centuries of traditional gender roles by placing stunted, emotionally unfulfilling relationships on hold in order to pursue mind-numbing careers devoid of any upward mobility. - maurycy

"Edward Shils (1 July 1911 ~ 23 January 1995) was a Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and in Sociology at the University of Chicago and one of the world's most influential sociologists." - maurycy

"Robert King Merton (July 4, 1910 – February 23, 2003, born Meyer R. Schkolnick to immigrant parents) was a distinguished American sociologist perhaps best known for having coined the phrase "self-fulfilling prophecy." He also coined many other phrases that have gone into everyday use, such as "role model" and "unintended consequences". He spent most of his career teaching at Columbia University, where he attained the rank of University Professor." - maurycy

"Karl Mannheim (Mannheim Károly the original writing of his name March 27, 1893, Budapest – January 9, 1947, London) was a Jewish Hungarian-born sociologist, influential in the first half of the 20th century and one of the founding fathers of classical sociology. Mannheim rates as a founder of the sociology of knowledge." - maurycy

"Charles Wright Mills (August 28, 1916, Waco, Texas – March 20, 1962, West Nyack, New York) was an American sociologist. Mills is best remembered for studying the structure of power in the U.S. in his book The Power Elite. Mills was concerned with the responsibilities of intellectuals in post-World War II society, and advocated relevance and engagement over disinterested academic observation, as a "public intelligence apparatus" in challenging the policies of the institutional elites in the "Three" (the economic, political and military)." - maurycy

Interesting concept, and nice page. :-) - maurycy

"“I think it’s going to be pretty bad,” he confirms. “You have a housing bubble in the UK. Household debts are higher than in the US. The banking and financial industry is much bigger as a proportion of the economy in this country, and that’s been badly affected. Also, taxation of foreigners has come at the wrong time, so there is a small exodus. You face higher prices for food and energy, and the budget allows little room for fiscal growth.”" - maurycy

List of CS books by a CS prof - maurycy

"The Google content network now accepts display ads served from qualified third-party vendors. Third-party ad serving has been a longstanding request from top brand AdWords advertisers who use third parties to create and manage their online campaigns. Initially, we will be only accepting third-party ads in English, but we hope to expand to other languages soon. Making the Google content network more accessible to large brand advertisers also benefits AdSense publishers and end users. Third-party ad serving will introduce a greater variety of advertising into the Google content network, increase the inventory of quality display ads competing to show on AdSense publisher sites, and offer more engaging ads for end users. In the long run, we believe the increased inventory and ad competition will result in increased revenue for many AdSense publishers." - maurycy

"The neat thing about this second clock is that it can override the main clock ... and you should just flip into that new time zone in one day" - maurycy

"When I first met Nicolas Berggruen, I was struck by two things. First, he was a multi-billionaire I’d never heard of — the most interesting kind. Second, he didn’t own a home. “I stay in hotels,” he told me." - maurycy

""Although our nation's upper middle class actually consumes the most beverages, a staggering percentage of these cans wind up in the hands of a very few," said economist Cynthia Pierce, who worked as a consultant on the three-year, $14 million government study. "It's a troubling trend. And as a tiny fraction of the population continues to maintain its stranglehold on redeemable can wealth, it's a trend that shows no sign of slowing."" - maurycy

"It used to be that only environmentalists and paranoids warned about running out of oil. Not anymore. As climate change did over the past few years, peak oil seems poised to become the next big idea commanding the attention of governments, businesses and citizens the world over." - maurycy

"Oil prices leaped above $135 a barrel in overnight trading on Thursday, a new record that underscored the growing pressures that runaway energy prices are placing on some of the biggest names in global industry." - maurycy

"WASHINGTON — Google billionaire co-founder Larry Page criticized a potential Microsoft takeover of Yahoo, saying it would concentrate too much power in the online communications market, stifling innovation and curbing competition." - maurycy

http://math.mit.edu/~pak/cours... - maurycy

"In fact, the dominant females ordinarily eat a little more than the subordinates. The lower status monkeys can get as much food as they want but seem to have less of a desire to eat, perhaps because of the higher level of stress hormones in their brain. The anxiety of constantly toadying to their social superiors seems to curb their appetite, researchers suspect, at least when their regular high-fiber, low-fat chow is on the menu." - maurycy

"W O wierze Slavoj Zizek (ur. 1949), znany w świecie słoweński filozof uprawiający krytykę kultury z pozycji psychoanalitycznych, podejmuje kwestię wiary, głównie chrześcijańskiej, w dzisiejszym świecie." - maurycy

"A cognitive bias is a pattern of deviation in judgement that occurs in particular situations (see also cognitive distortion and the lists of thinking-related topics). Implicit in the concept of a "pattern of deviation" is a standard of comparison; this may be the judgment of people outside those particular situations, or may be a set of independently verifiable facts. The existence of some of these cognitive biases has been verified empirically in the field of psychology, others are widespread beliefs, and may themselves be a consequence of cognitive bias." - maurycy

"But, now it seems Gen X’ers have broken the inter-generational pact. Remember the Gen X’ers; we called them lazy “slackers” as they took bong hits from Coke bottles and listened to Alice in Chains (that’s how they experienced their denial phase). Well, they pulled it together, took showers, shaved their goatees, and got jobs (many of the plucky entrepreneurial types even started tech firms). As Gen X’ers entered the acceptance stage, we stopped paying attention to them and began to deride the millennials for being narcissistic, shallow, and skipping the denial and anger stages." - maurycy