Shannon Jiménez

Coolest table ever. - Shannon Jiménez

"People remember things better, longer, if they are given very challenging tests on the material, tests at which they are bound to fail. In a series of experiments, they showed that if students make an unsuccessful attempt to retrieve information before receiving an answer, they remember the information better than in a control condition in which they simply study the information. Trying and failing to retrieve the answer is actually helpful to learning. It’s an idea that has obvious applications for education, but could be useful for anyone who is trying to learn new material of any kind." - Shannon Jiménez from Bookmarklet

Bret and I at the graveyard. Were we stylish, or what? - Shannon Jiménez

Bump for good times :) - Shannon Jiménez

"In 1988, an associate professor started growing cultures of Escherichia coli. Twenty-one years and 40,000 generations of bacteria later, Richard Lenski, who is now a professor of microbial ecology at Michigan State University, reveals new details about the differences between adaptive and random genetic changes during evolution" - Shannon Jiménez from Bookmarklet

I used this tool: http://douweosinga.com/project.... I need to visit Africa and Asia :) - Shannon Jiménez

Uh, no Thaths, but I haven't been to any countries in those continents. - Shannon Jiménez

"Classical Indian dancing is a tradition that extends back 2,000 years. Unlike much Western dance, it is intended to express specific emotions and tell detailed stories. The Natyasastra, a text from the first or second century A.D., offers instructions for how to depict nine primary emotions, and these rules continue to be followed in Indian Classical dance today.... Can people who've never been exposed to the dances still understand the emotions the dancers intend to express?" - Shannon Jiménez from Bookmarklet

Twitter jumps on the crowdsourcing bandwagon. Idiots. - Shannon Jiménez from Bookmarklet

"How did three Stanford computer science alumni and a friend make a huge mark on the world of social networking? With social networking, of course. The story of the founding of FriendFeed, an influential social information sharing site acquired in August for a rumored $47.5 million by Facebook, is a tale of investing in relationships." - Shannon Jiménez

You mean, people form startups with friends and people they have worked with before? - ⓞnor from Android

Decisions, decisions. Should I get this with the points saved through my 4-can-a-day Diet Coke habit, or save up for something bigger? - Shannon Jiménez from Bookmarklet

I've been accumulating them for awhile as our household consumes Coke products fairly regularly. I need to take a look at the rewards soon. - Anne Bouey

"Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi delivered a rambling address to the United Nations in New York City on Wednesday morning, calling Barack Obama "our son" and railing against the U.N. Security Council. He spoke not in Arabic, Libya's official language, but a local Libyan dialect. Does the United Nations have an interpreter for every dialect in the world? No. Speakers at the United Nations are supposed to deliver their speeches in one of the organization's six official languages: English, French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, and Chinese. U.N. interpreters then translate the lecture into the other five languages. If the speaker doesn't use an official language—either as a political statement or because he doesn't know one—the speaker has to bring along his own interpreter. That interpreter then translates into one of the official languages—usually English or French—and the other interpreters translate from that interpretation." - Shannon Jiménez from Bookmarklet

Google's beta translation toolkit is nicely built (http://translate.google.com/toolkit), but we have concern about TOS: "You may not modify, rent, lease, loan, sell, distribute or create derivative works based on this Content (either in whole or in part) unless you have been specifically told that you may do so by Google or by the owners of that Content, in a separate agreement." and... more... - τorƍue

"This is a poster presented by Bennett and colleagues at this year's Human Brain Mapping conference. It's about fMRI scanning on a dead fish, specifically a salmon. They put the salmon in an MRI scanner and "the salmon was shown a series of photographs depicting human individuals in social situations. The salmon was asked to determine what emotion the individual in the photo must have been experiencing." I'd say that this research was justified on comedic grounds alone, but they were also making an important scientific point. The (fish-)bone of contention here is multiple comparisons correction. The "multiple comparisons problem" is simply the fact that if you do a lot of different statistical tests, some of them will, just by chance, give interesting results.... Luckily, during the 1990s, fMRI pioneers developed techniques for dealing with the problem: multiple comparisons correction. The most popular method uses Gaussian Random Field Theory to calculate the probability of falsely... more... - Shannon Jiménez from Bookmarklet

After 10 minutes on the stupid phone tree it somehow sent me right back to where I started! - Shannon Jiménez

you're welcome - earlyadopter

"The respected international news agency Reuters published a story on Tuesday reporting that the penis of a large giraffe model at Berlin's Legoland Discovery Center had been stolen four times. The 12in appendage, which is made out of around 15,000 bricks, had been repeatedly targeted by souvenir hunters since the statue was installed in 2007, it said. But a few hours later the news wire corrected the story to clarify that the part that had proved so attractive to thieves was actually the giraffe's tail. The Lego giraffe, it turns out, does not have a penis." - Shannon Jiménez from Bookmarklet

1. I have always been a band geek, and was in the Stanford Band (see photo-- I'm the one with the long pigtails) - Shannon Jiménez

I did not know that! - Christopher Harley

Pretty sure this was the day they added the feature allowing you to post directly to FF :) - Shannon Jiménez

Oh is posting to FF feature is created after release of FriendFeed? You're too old at friendfeed. - Ahmet Alp Balkan

It existed before the public launch, but wasn't always available in the private beta. - Shannon Jiménez