Raymond

Sunday, July 5, 2009 4:00 - 6:00 Kim Nalley - Raymond from Bookmarklet

"Companies are working fast to figure out how to make money from the wealth of data they're beginning to have about our online friendships" - Raymond from Bookmarklet

"The Center for Japanese Studies at the University of California, Berkeley is proud to award internationally acclaimed filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki with the 2009 Berkeley Japan Prize, which honors individuals from all disciplines and professions who have, over a lifetime influenced the world's understanding of Japan. In conjunction with his in-person acceptance of the award, Hayao Miyazaki will be honored with a series of events held on the UC Berkeley campus, celebrating his timeless body of film work. Hayao Miyazaki is the second recipient of the recently inaugurated Berkeley Japan Prize; the 2008 winner was novelist Haruki Murakami." - Raymond from Bookmarklet

"Tipping Point author Malcolm Gladwell gets inside the food industry's pursuit of the perfect spaghetti sauce -- and makes a larger argument about the nature of choice and happiness." - Raymond from Bookmarklet

"Social Psychology: Self and Society" - Raymond from Bookmarklet

"Psychologist Barry Schwartz takes aim at a central tenet of western societies: freedom of choice. In Schwartz's estimation, choice has made us not freer but more paralyzed, not happier but more dissatisfied." - Raymond from Bookmarklet

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"So credit-card firms are changing their business plans. Gone are the days of handing out cards willy-nilly and hoping that the cardholders who dutifully pay up will offset the losses from those who default. Today companies are focusing on those customers most likely to honor their debts. And they are looking for ways to convince existing cardholders that if they only have enough money to pay one bill, it’s wiser to pay off their credit card than, say, the phone." - Raymond from Bookmarklet

"Put another way, credit-card companies are becoming much more interested in understanding their customers’ lives and psyches, because, the theory goes, knowing what makes cardholders tick will help firms determine who is a good bet and who should be shown the door as quickly as possible." - Raymond

"The exploration into cardholders’ minds hit a breakthrough in 2002, when J. P. Martin, a math-loving executive at Canadian Tire, decided to analyze almost every piece of information his company had collected from credit-card transactions the previous year. Canadian Tire’s stores sold electronics, sporting equipment, kitchen supplies and automotive goods and issued a credit card that... more... - Raymond

"In all seriousness, I come here not to dispute the suggestion that I haven't yet achieved enough in my life. I come to embrace it; to heartily concur; to affirm that one's title, even a title like President, says very little about how well one's life has been led - and that no matter how much you've done, or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, more to learn, more to achieve." - Raymond from Bookmarklet

Cake tasting today! - Raymond from Bookmarklet

"To find out, we conducted a survey among APACHE, ECLIPSE, and MOZILLA developers. The analysis of the 156 responses shows that steps to reproduce and stack traces are most sought after, while inaccurate steps to reproduce and incomplete information pose the largest hurdles. This insight is helpful to design new bug tracking tools that guide reporters at providing more helpful information. Our CUEZILLA prototype is a such tool and provides reporters with feedback on the quality of new bug reports and recommends to add missing elements." - Raymond from Bookmarklet

"In this essay I'll try to state clearly what makes a good bug report. Ideally I would like everybody in the world to read this essay before reporting any bugs to anybody. Certainly I would like everybody who reports bugs to me to have read it." - Raymond from Bookmarklet

"In a nutshell, the aim of a bug report is to enable the programmer to see the program failing in front of them. You can either show them in person, or give them careful and detailed instructions on how to make it fail. If they can make it fail, they will try to gather extra information until they know the cause. If they can't make it fail, they will have to ask you to gather that information for them. " - Raymond

"In bug reports, try to make very clear what are actual facts ("I was at the computer and this happened") and what are speculations ("I think the problem might be this"). Leave out speculations if you want to, but don't leave out facts." - Raymond

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Charlie Kaufman - http://davidpoland.typepad.com/dp30... - Raymond

What to watch? - Raymond from Bookmarklet

CLAUSTROPHOBIA - Sun, May 3 / 8:30 - http://fest09.sffs.org/films... - Raymond

"National DNA Day is a unique day when students, teachers and the public can learn more about genetics and genomics! The day commemorates the completion of the Human Genome Project in April 2003, and the discovery of DNA's double helix." - Raymond from Bookmarklet

"BEIJING — Since its first unheralded appearance in January on a Chinese Web page, the grass-mud horse has become nothing less than a phenomenon. ... Not bad for a mythical creature whose name, in Chinese, sounds very much like an especially vile obscenity. Which is precisely the point." - Raymond from Bookmarklet

"In the end, one song says, the horses are victorious: “They defeated the river crabs in order to protect their grassland; river crabs forever disappeared from the Ma Le Ge Bi,” the desert." - Raymond

"Jenny kissed me when we met, Jumping from the chair she sat in; Time, you thief, who love to get Sweets into your list, put that in! Say I'm weary, say I'm sad, Say that health and wealth have missed me, Say I'm growing old, but add, Jenny kissed me." - Raymond from Bookmarklet

"The event, on March 31, was devoted to the Bill of Rights, but Justice Thomas did not embrace the document, and he proposed a couple of alternatives. “Today there is much focus on our rights,” Justice Thomas said. “Indeed, I think there is a proliferation of rights.” “I am often surprised by the virtual nobility that seems to be accorded those with grievances,” he said. “Shouldn’t there at least be equal time for our Bill of Obligations and our Bill of Responsibilities?” He gave examples: “It seems that many have come to think that each of us is owed prosperity and a certain standard of living. They’re owed air-conditioning, cars, telephones, televisions.” Those are luxuries, Justice Thomas said. “I have to admit,” he said, “that I’m one of those people that still thinks the dishwasher is a miracle. What a device! And I have to admit that because I think that way, I like to load it. I like to look in and see how the dishes were magically cleaned.”" - Raymond from Bookmarklet

"The program that questions everything ...except your intelligence." - Raymond from Bookmarklet

"As soon as we can sequence thousands of genomes then we can understand for the first time, the genetic basis of disease that will enable us to develop new diagnostics for the detection of disease and new therapeutics for the treatment of disease." - Raymond from Bookmarklet

"Also it should lead to greater understanding of the balance between genetics and environmental risk - to what extent illness is the result of faulty genes inherited from our parents, or due to our lifestyle." - Raymond

"In the tradition of such films as NEW YORK STORIES, NIGHT ON EARTH, PARIS JE T'AIME and its forthcoming sequel NEW YORK JE T'AIME, TOKYO! addresses the timeless question of whether we shape cities, or if cities shape us - in the process revealing the rich humanity at the heart of modern urban life." - Raymond from Bookmarklet

"Q: What's the difference between affect- and cognition-based trust? A: Trust is a state of mind toward another person that can arise through distinct psychological processes. Cognition-based trust refers to trust "from the head"—it's a judgment based on evidence that you ought to trust this person because he or she is competent and reliable. It is a judgment that one makes from information about the other's behavior in specific situations. In contrast, affect-based trust refers to trust from the heart, a bond that arises from one's own emotions and a sense of the other person's feelings and motives. With affect-based trust, individuals express care for the welfare of their partners and believe in the intrinsic value of such relationships. There is usually genuine emotional investment in relationships based on this type of trust, which is why they are more enduring. " - Raymond

"Q: Why is it useful to distinguish between these two types of trust? A: The distinction between affect- and cognition-based trust is useful because research has found that they can actually lead to different outcomes. For example, in earlier research, I found that higher affect-based trust toward one's team member generally leads to greater contribution to the team. However, when... more... - Raymond

"Q: What are you working on now? A: I am studying the effects of multicultural networks on innovation and creativity. There is emerging research that shows that when people are exposed to cultures other than their own for a substantive period of time, they become more creative. I am interested in learning whether cultural diversity in one's social network also has the same effect and if so, why." - Raymond

"Discover your cognitive profile. Choose from 28 variants of actual cognitive tests. How far can you go?" - Raymond from Bookmarklet