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I am binge-watching Damages like crazy -- Glenn Close is amazing. Breaking Bad-level quality.
Sarah Palin: It Snowed In Alaska In May, So There Is No Global Warming - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013...
"Global warming isn't happening, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) argued over the weekend, pointing to the fact that it was snowing in Alaska in May. "Global warming my gluteus maximus," she wrote in a post on her Facebook page, adding a small dose of politics to a picture of her youngest daughter Piper in the snow after graduation. "This is what 'Grad Blast' means in Alaska! We'll move our graduation b-b-q indoors and watch the mini-blizzard from 'round the fireplace.""
- Sean McBride
from Bookmarklet
"In her Facebook argument, Palin confuses weather with climate, a mistake frequently made by climate change deniers. Palin has made this blunder in the past, suggesting that local atmospheric conditions over short periods of time and small areas have bearing on larger trends averaged over long time periods and greater areas."
- Sean McBride
Incorrigibly stupid -- stupid to the bone.
- Sean McBride
Comment: "Few people know that it's a scientific fact that if it's snowing in Alaska then global warming cannot possibly exist. You know, like if you have water coming out of your faucet then there can't be a drought anywhere in the world. Just common sense.... "
- Sean McBride
Comment: "The sun came up today so there is no night."
- Sean McBride
Trying to remove the stupid stink from the GOP at this point appears to be an impossible task -- they have wallowed in and worshipped at the altar of stupid for much too long. They have anointed themselves in stupid.
- Sean McBride
prefer; Jefferson's Bourbon; Knob Creek {prefer; *preferred-item; *item-preferred-to+} {*format; *data}
Tell me your preferences -- what things you like more than other things -- and I'll know who you are.
- Sean McBride
prefer; Leningrad; St. Petersburg. prefer; Manhattan; the Bronx. prefer; Oslo; Stockholm. prefer; Switzerland; Germany. prefer; Maine; Massachusetts. prefer; summer in Minnesota; winter in Minnesota. prefer; winter in Minnesota; summer in Florida. prefer; smoked salmon; fried catfish. prefer; oceans; lakes. prefer; walking; driving. prefer; flying; walking. prefer; movies; plays. I suppose that is the format you want. Do you only want one preference?
- Todd
Fascinating -- it's clear that dyads and binary contrastives -- preferring one thing over another -- reveal much more about one's mind, personality and tastes than simple likes -- especially with finely tuned discriminations like you made. And you get the format. But it's infinitely extensible: {prefer; A; B; C; D+} says that one prefers A over B, B over C, C over D, etc. -- each pairwise progression through the list is a unique dyad and part of a hierarchical chain.
- Sean McBride
That one comment tells one much more about yourself than all your previous comments combined. (Assuming that it isn't an invented persona. :))
- Sean McBride
Some things that one might prefer over another: 1. academic fields 2. activities 3. actors 4. actresses 5. albums 6. architects 7. athletes 8. authors 9. bands 10. bars 11. beaches 12. billionaires 13. board games 14. book publishers 15. books 16. bookstores 17. brands 18. buildings 19. cafes 20. card games 21. cars 22. cat breeds 23. celebrities 24. centuries 25. charities 26. cities...
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- Sean McBride
The more preferences the better -- the more data to mine.
- Sean McBride
Syntax note: when including multiple notes on a line, enclosing each note in parentheses makes them more readable for human being and less ambiguous for machine parsing -- for instance: (prefer; one; two) (prefer; blue; green) (prefer; five; six) (prefer; tennis; soccer) (prefer; chess; poker) (prefer; swimming; running)
- Sean McBride
Another more compact syntactic style for handling multiple statements under a single format: prefer; (one; two) (blue; green) (five; six) (tennis; soccer) (chess; poker) (swimming; running)
- Sean McBride
"That one comment tells one much more about yourself than all your previous comments combined." That's funny. I listed some of my preferences, but I can't imagine how the list would say more than actual comments. What would you do with such a list?
- Todd
If you look at the world with an eye of a novelist, personality traits, tastes, behavioral patterns, etc. are much more interesting and revealing about a person than political beliefs. And I am especially noticing lately that a "prefer" or "preference" (with two or more contrastive items) is much more powerful and revealing than a "like" for understanding anyone.
- Sean McBride
What can one do with these lists? Anything you can imagine, I guess. Mine them six ways to Sunday.
- Sean McBride
One possibility: sort people worldwide by similarity to *person for preferences.
- Sean McBride
What program would you use for analysis? I know that from my own preferences, the reasons for some are just too personal to reveal anything useful other than the preference, but playing around with the tools could be interesting.
- Todd
Try this: "Wolfram Alpha lets you stalk yourself on Facebook, reminds you how noisy you are" http://www.engadget.com/2012... Most of this software is in-house, proprietary or classified.
- Sean McBride
We all now leave behind mineable data trails of our favorite authors, communications partners, contacts, email partners, expressions, interests, Internet searches, foods, music, places, political issues, products, publications, software, telephone partners, text messaging partners, topics, vendors, websites, words, etc.
- Sean McBride
Alternative notation:
- Sean McBride
prefer; bourbon=Jefferson's Bourbon, Knob Creek
- Sean McBride
prefer; *category=*preferred-item, *item-preferred-to+
- Sean McBride
I don't use Facebook, so I'll have to look for other applications. Preferences alone are very useful for marketing, but I wouldn't want to be judged solely on my preferences. That could become unfair and dangerous quickly if the wrong person(s) were in charge of the information, which is reason enough to learn as much about the technology as possible.
- Todd
Keep this basic principle in mind: the higher the intelligence (the smarter the algorithms), the less data that is required to accurately profile anything.
- Sean McBride
Profiles are only as good as the ontologies which frame and organize them.
- Sean McBride
I may be looking at this the wrong way, but an example of a preference giving no real information, other than the preference itself, is my listed preference of smoked salmon over fried catfish. When cooked right, fried catfish is very good. I prefer smoked salmon because I make a very good smoked salmon myself, the prep time and clean up from smoking a salmon is almost nothing if you...
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- Todd
Preferences and likes become interesting when they are combined with other preferences and likes -- when one can find meaningful patterns in the combinations. And we automatically declare our preferences and likes all the time with Web clickstreams, credit card purchases, email messages, text messages, telephone calls, trips, library loans, supermarket shopping, etc. Preferences and likes in the aggregate are what tell the tale.
- Sean McBride
There are as many categories in the world as there are combinations of categories.
Compound categories: category=category1+category2+category3+
- Sean McBride
quote; Senator Claire McCaskill; We should not only fire the head of the IRS, which has occurred, but we’ve got to go down the line and find every single person who had anything to do with this and make sure that they are removed from the IRS and the word goes out that this is unacceptable.
article; author=Nathaniel Hawthorne; title=Chiefly About War-Matters; publication=Atlantic Monthly; date=July 1862; url=http://www.eldritchpress.org/nh...
Equal signs are easier for human beings to spot and process than colons; uppercase tags are even easier for human beings to spot and process than equal signs. Machines, of course, don't care.
- Sean McBride
article; AUTHOR Nathaniel Hawthorne TITLE Chiefly About War-Matters PUBLICATION Atlantic Monthly DATE July 1862 URL http://www.eldritchpress.org/nh...
- Sean McBride
Hawthorne reveled in being politically incorrect -- a master troller, apparently.
- Sean McBride
Uppercase tags eliminate the need for semicolons for demarcating property/value pairs.
- Sean McBride
Marking up prime numbers
c; 25th prime number; 89 {c; *category; *instance}
- Sean McBride
e; 25th prime number; 89 {e; *expression; *equivalent-expression}
- Sean McBride
f; The 25th prime number is 89. {f; *fact // expressed as a single simple grammatical sentence}
- Sean McBride
m; 89; 25th prime number {m; *expression; *meaning}
- Sean McBride
o; prime numbers; 25th; 89 {o; *object; *property; *value}
- Sean McBride
i; 89; 25th prime number {i; *instance; *category}
- Sean McBride
High Scalability - High Scalability - The Tumblr Architecture Yahoo Bought for a Cool Billion Dollars - http://highscalability.com/blog...
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And highly likable it is.
- Sean McBride
The most annoying website feature: slideshows. In a class with popups and automatic audio or video.
Give me the key data fast and compact on one page. I don't have time to slog through your sludgy slideshow.
- Sean McBride
The most compact way to present a list: in one human- and machine-readable line, with zero cruft.
- Sean McBride
Future search engines will find the subatomic particle in the needle in the haystack -- instantly.
And they will instantly situate that object within its ranked most important frameworks and networks.
- Sean McBride
sort people worldwide by (*, expertise on, funding of, importance for, influence on, interest in, knowledge of, number of mentions of) *
Expanded:
- Sean McBride
sort people worldwide by (*, access to, authority over, control of, expertise on, financial control over, funding of, hidden control over, hostility towards, impact on, importance for, influence on, interest in, knowledge of, number of mentions of, power over, probable impact on, threat to) *
- Sean McBride
Future search engines will fill in these values for everything.
- Sean McBride
# sort people worldwide by access to * 1. *account 2. *address 3. *building 4. *computer 5. *database 6. *device 7. *document 8. *floor 9. *network 10. *object 11. *organization 12. *person 13. *place 14. *project 15. *room 16. *safe 17. *social-network 18. *vehicle
- Sean McBride
The above statement uses nested variables (defined with the asterisk).
- Sean McBride
6 Ways Google Glass Can Supercharge Your Workflow - Terra USA - http://news.terra.com/6-ways-...
Google Translate Is Used by 200 Million People Each Day - http://news.softpedia.com/news...
"Google Translate is one of those things that everyone uses and no one thinks about. And by everyone we mean 200 million people who use Translate, in one form or another, each and every day for one billion translations."
- Sean McBride
from Bookmarklet
Obama DOJ formally accuses journalist in leak case of committing crimes | Glenn Greenwald | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk - http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment...
"Yet another serious escalation of the Obama administration's attacks on press freedoms emerges"
- Sean McBride
from Bookmarklet
"It is now well known that the Obama justice department has prosecuted more government leakers under the 1917 Espionage Act than all prior administrations combined - in fact, double the number of all such prior prosecutions. But as last week's controversy over the DOJ's pursuit of the phone records of AP reporters illustrated, this obsessive fixation in defense of secrecy also targets, and severely damages, journalists specifically and the newsgathering process in general."
- Sean McBride
Is Barack Obama's likable, friendly and moderate persona as misleading and deceptive as that of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev? Have many of us been fooled? Is there a little Idi Amin Dada lurking behind the facade? (No, this isn't a racist reference.)
- Sean McBride
I am betting that driverless cars and smartglasses are going to be huge. Driverless cars will probably be the more revolutionary and impactful technology.
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Those who have been ridiculing smartglasses will probably feel as foolish as those who ridiculed the PC, smartphone and ebook revolutions. Some folks are a bit slow to get what's going on.
- Sean McBride
The implications of driverless cars are many and vast, especially in terms of increasing overall human productivity.
- Sean McBride
I'm also betting that driverless cars and smartglasses will be huge. Not only that, but I'm betting that mankind will travel to other planets and star systems. I'm betting eventually we will transcend material reality as we know it.
- Cristo
Smartglasses: mass acceptance within the next few years. Driverless cars: mass acceptance within the next two decades or so (perhaps sooner). Visiting other planets in our solar system: perhaps Mars in a decade or so. Visiting other star systems: no idea (who knows -- we may discover a shortcut). Transcending material reality as we know it: some mystics have been doing that for millennia.
- Sean McBride
Driverless over the road transport vehicles and taxi's first then personal vehicles ?
- Eric
Probably all at once, if the technology is good to go? Some game-changing benefits: 1. almost no more accidents (people tend to be lousy drivers) 2. enormous energy savings due to increased driving efficiency 3. fewer traffic jams 4. option to work while taking car trips 5. ability to sleep while taking long car trips. Just the tip of the iceberg.
- Sean McBride
Define mass acceptance.
- Cristo
Mass acceptance: the same level of penetration in the general population as laptops and smartphones.
- Sean McBride
Total smartphones shipped worldwide in 2011: 488 million. Total PCs shipped worldwide in 2011: 415 million. How many smartglasses will be shipped worldwide in 2015? We shall see. Will it make the 100 million cut?
- Sean McBride
So by 2018, there will be more than 100 million smartglasses shipped per year?
- Cristo
That's a possibility -- but I am not going to commit to any prediction until I actually mess around with a pair for a few weeks and see what my gut says. I want to make sure that there are no physiological gotchas with the technology (eyestrain, headaches, dissociative fugue states :), whatever).
- Sean McBride
One really neat thing about smartglasses: the ability to read documents (including maps, manuals, clinical data, etc.) with both hands free.
- Sean McBride
I have that ability currently.
- Cristo
Book holders are a bit more bulky and less mobile than glasses -- and the documents they hold don't respond to voice commands.
- Sean McBride
I hate voice commands. Mostly because they don't work, but partially because I don't want to hear you fucking talking to a device. There's enough noise pollution in the world already.
- Cristo
I don't even know what a book holder is.
- Cristo
Mass adoption of driverless cars would have to overcome Americans' innate desire to control a big hunk of metal. Trying to take people's cars away is probably going to be as hard as trying to take people's guns away.
- Tinfoil 2.0
I think you already know my opinion and prediction about smartglasses. They're an abomination that will saturate a niche, but won't become completely mass-market. Fortunately.
- Tinfoil 2.0
I agree that many people are lousy drivers, but what happens when a lousy driver has to take over for a malfunctioning driverless car? I think I also read something recently about a robot surgeon botching a surgery.
- Todd
Google voice commands work perfectly for me with the latest Android -- with astonishing accuracy and speed -- I can talk at normal tempo and volume and almost never have to repeat myself. I use voice commands often, especially in the car or at home -- but never in close public places.
- Sean McBride
Tinfoil -- I'm betting you're missing the boat on smartglasses and driverless cars. But feel free to dig in your heels. :) I've seen this pattern play out many times before.
- Sean McBride
I don't envision people wearing smartglasses all the time -- just when they serve a useful function. One doesn't consult one's smartphone all the time -- just when one needs to.
- Sean McBride
I'll bet that driverless cars will malfunction much less frequently than people. Human drivers malfunction on a regular basis. We're not as smart or attentive as we think we are. We can easily become fatigued or distracted.
- Sean McBride
I had the image of my 90+ grandmother freaking out as her driverless car malfunctioned.
- Todd
How often do human predictors malfunction?
- Cristo
Most of the time for most of them.
- Sean McBride
Sean, your predictions are as much a result of you drinking the Kool-Aid® as mine are of not drinking it. You can claim to be data-driven, but it's just herding cats, entropy wins. We each have our biases, we're probably both wrong, and the future will actually develop in some as-yet unforeseen way. :)
- Tinfoil 2.0
We will be able to reality check our respective smartglasses predictions relatively soon (within a year or two). May the better futurist win. :)
- Sean McBride
Welcome to Google Island, Sean ;) http://www.wired.com/gadgetl...
- Tinfoil 2.0
Umm in the same way IBM smart glasses saturated "mass" marketplace in 2000?!? Those futurists missed it too and as for driverless cars, at staple of Pop Sci magazine since about 1949 along with the flying cars... #waitingformyflyingcar
- WarLord
That Mat Honan article on Wired -- funny -- and raises some serious issues.
- Sean McBride
An important difference between flying cars and driverless cars: driverless cars work -- and they will greatly increase safety, not reduce it.
- Sean McBride
No Sean, there is no difference, every so often we get excited about new tech and seldom the vast population agrees that excitement is justified. Much like a viral video, predicting which of our "exciting new tech" will "go viral" is impossible until well after it has become reality. Frankly Google flirtation with cars give me no confidence of "this time for sure"
- WarLord
Warlord -- what in your mind are the most significant new technologies that have gained mass acceptance over the last four decades?
- Sean McBride
I believe both self-driving, flying, and self-flying cars will occur in the future.
- Cristo
I think so too -- unless we wipe ourselves out first.
- Sean McBride
Also, I believe that saying things will happen in the future is not very valuable.
- Cristo
Well, it's interesting to get various points of view on these kinds of forecasts, and the reasoning behind them.
- Sean McBride
deap - Distributed Evolutionary Algorithms in Python http://prsm.tc/9yGcYD via @prismatic
Big Data Knows What Your Future Holds http://6sen.se/115qgpl
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ABC's Jonathan Karl: Yes, the Story Was False but It "Entirely Stands" http://6sen.se/115pgBG
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Data mining the caloric content of foods
One approach:
- Sean McBride
# sort * by least calories per ounce 1. canned foods 2. canned fruits 3. canned meats 4. canned vegetables 5. condiments 6. deli meats 7. drinks 8. fast foods 9. foods 10. fresh fruits 11. fresh meats 12. fresh vegetables 13. frozen dinners 14. frozen foods 15. frozen fruits 16. frozen meats 17. frozen vegetables 18. fruits 19. meats 20. snacks 21. soups 22. sweet foods 23. vegetables
- Sean McBride
article; author=*; title=*; publication=*; date=*date; body=[*<p>*+]
The one-line approach to formatting/storing articles.
- Sean McBride
Demarcate bodies with square brackets; use basic HTML code within bodies.
- Sean McBride
All the documents in the world can be stored as single lines -- articles, books, dissertations, email messages, essays, patents, plays, poems, screenplays, speeches, etc.
- Sean McBride
Vigorous debates about competing programming languages will help to foster the development of better future programming languages.
The Wearable Technology Market Is About to Explode - Business Insider - http://www.businessinsider.com/wearabl...
"Credit Suisse released a massive report on Friday detailing the outlook of the wearable technology market. The main takeaway: wearable tech is already a $3- to $5 billion market today. In the next two three years, it could skyrocket to $30- to $50 billion. That means more smartwatches, fitness monitors, shoes, and headsets."
- Sean McBride
from Bookmarklet
"Smartphones are one of the key driving forces behind the expected growth in wearable tech, acting as a hub that keeps all of our devices connected. Over time, wireless devices will become even more popular as hardware improves, and sensors and batteries get better."
- Sean McBride
Wearable computing used to be one oddball walking around Central Square, Cambridge -- now here comes the huge global wave.
- Sean McBride
Driverless cars, pilotless planes … will there be jobs left for a human being? | Technology | The Observer - http://www.guardian.co.uk/technol...
"Throughout history, economic upheaval has destroyed whole industries – and created new ones. But now, some fear automation may mean the death of mass employment"
- Sean McBride
from Bookmarklet
Why MIT switched from Scheme to Python | Wisdom and Wonder - http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/link...
The Future Of Mobile-Social Could Spell The End For Social Networks http://prsm.tc/pKGRgh via @prismatic
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Cara: a new way to measure the world http://6sen.se/10d1U1x
# Google search tips: useful opening qualifiers
1. best 2. best deals 3. best selling 4. highest ranked 5. highest rated 6. largest 7. leading 8. least expensive 9. most 10. most expensive 11. most highly ranked 12. most highly rated 13. most popular 14. most recommended 15. top 16. top ranked 17. top rated 18. top selling 19. world's best 20. world's leading 21. world's most 22. world's top
- Sean McBride
Can math models of gaming strategies be used to detect terrorism networks? http://6sen.se/10aJ5IQ
The best programming language is the one that is empowering the most important innovation in the world.
So Python or C, which means C. ;)
- Jimminy IS Everybody
Actually, probably Python at the moment. It's situated at the sweet spot.
- Sean McBride
The JVM should get a mention too.
- Jimminy IS Everybody
More than a mention -- huge.
- Sean McBride
It's just another form of a genetic superiority argument.
- Todd Hoff
Actually, one could use objective and empirical methods to graph how large a role various programming languages are playing in various sectors of the global economy. That would be an interesting Big Data problem to wrestle with.
- Sean McBride
My highly simplified (and simplistic) method for thinking about this: to notice which programming languages are being used to power the new Internet services that I think are the most interesting. Highly subjective, of course. When I think Google, I think Python; Prismatic, Clojure; and so on.
- Sean McBride
Your objective measure would tell you far more about the people and the times they were and the problems they addressed than it would tell you about the programming language. You have hidden variables everywhere yet you are assigning them to one cause. Bad Data.
- Todd Hoff
# sort programming languages by popularity at * in 2013 1. Apple 2. Cambridge (University) 3. DARPA contractors 4. European intelligence agencies 5. Facebook 6. Fortune 500 companies 7. Google 8. Harvard 9. Microsoft 10. MIT 11. Oxford (University) 12. Stanford 13. Twitter 14. US intelligence agencies 15. Yale
- Sean McBride
And: by increase in popularity for the past year, decade.
- Sean McBride
Those lists would be interesting to look at.
- Sean McBride
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