Todd Hoff

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"The reason? California's fields are stunningly productive. They yield ten times more strawberries, per acre, than strawberry farms in Michigan; twenty times more than farms in the state of New York. And there's a complex web of reasons why.   It's a miracle of agricultural technology. But that technology is not as universally loved as the fruit." - Todd Hoff from Bookmarklet

"I Saw a Peacock with a Fiery Tail — a die-cut masterpiece two years in the making, based on a 17th-century British “trick” poem and illustrated in the signature Indian folk art style of the Gond tribe by Indian artist Ramsingh Urveti, who brought us the magnificent The Night Life of Trees." - Todd Hoff from Bookmarklet

"I recently installed Mozilla’s Collusion add-on for Firefox. It maps out the set of information-sharing relationships between sites as you visit them and they install various 3rd-party-cookies to track your browsing history. Has a neat interactive network viz as a browser plugin where so you can highlight sites you’ve visit and who they reported to. This image was after a week of low-intensity computer use. Not that surprising to see Google, Facebook and Twitter as very central nodes, tho still impressive to have an image of how many sites report to them. Some sites like quantserve.com I’d at least heard of before, but not some of the other central stats players like 2o7.net or media6degrees.com or imrworldwide.com that appeared lurking in the network." - Todd Hoff from Bookmarklet

Very low cal though :-) - Todd Hoff

"I see essentialism everywhere I look now. It just seems to be pervasive. It's one of these ways of seeing the world. People say, oh, it might just be association, but association strikes me as inadequate as an explanation as to why some things seem to have this property. Of course, Paul Rozin'’s work on moral contamination and contagion, again, I think speaks to this idea there are things which you can contaminate with evil, for example, just by wearing a killer's cardigan, things like that. So as I say, I see it everywhere. I'm hoping to continue that kind of work. So that's an example of a philosophical kind of question, or certainly a philosophical domain that I think does lend itself to the empirical studies and, who knows, that might actually turn out to have some application as far as marketers are concerned." - Todd Hoff from Bookmarklet

How to keep animals away from plants without needing fencing. It's gross though. - Todd Hoff

"Last week, the Kauffman Foundation published a paper, jointly authored by Diane Mulcahy, Bill Weeks and Harold Bradley, titled "We Have Met the Enemy…And He Is Us: Lessons from Twenty Years of the Kauffman Foundation’s Investments in Venture Capital Funds and The Triumph of Hope over Experience." It didn’t mince words. The conclusion was that Kauffman hasn’t just been investing unwisely in VC — it’s been perpetuating a myth that venture capital is a good way for investors to beat the public markets. The foundation knows what it's talking about. "We have structured a compensation system that rewards fundraising," Mulcahy said of dynamic between VCs and funding sources, and of the way VCs are paid. So VCs aren't creating the returns that they're supposed to. And you might see the headlines — “VC Doesn’t Deliver on Its Promises,” “VC Is a Bad Investment” — and conclude that VC has lost its mojo. That VCs, despite their professed expertise, kind of suck at finding the next Facebook." - Todd Hoff from Bookmarklet

"Kauffman didn’t sugarcoat it. "Venture capital has delivered poor returns for more than a decade," the authors wrote. "VC returns haven’t significantly outperformed the public market since the late 1990s, and, since 1997, less cash has been returned to investors than has been invested in VC."" - Todd Hoff

One idea is that groups of molecules can form autocatalytic sets. These are self-sustaining chemical factories, in which the product of one reaction is the feedstock or catalyst for another. The result is a virtuous, self-contained cycle of chemical creation. They go on to show how evolution can work on a single autocatalytic set, producing new subsets within it that are mutually dependent on each other. This process sets up an environment in which newer subsets can evolve. But what makes the approach so powerful is that the mathematics does not depend on the nature of chemistry--it is substrate independent. So the building blocks in an autocatalytic set need not be molecules at all but any units that can manipulate other units in the required way. - Todd Hoff from Bookmarklet

Amazon's search system annoys me, too. - Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)

It's just so hard to find anything good that I haven't already read. It just wants to show the most popular books and it's hard to find anything different. Which wouldn't be so bad if they opened up the system so we could make a better system on top of their APIs, I wouldn't mind selling only through them. Goodreads went away from Amazon because Amazon would only allow buying books through amazon. Goodreads limits access to their API to 2 qps, which won't work. So we are stuck. - Todd Hoff

"Proof-of-principle experiment shows how humanoid robots can co-operate on a large scale by copying the behaviour of social insects and bacterial colonies" - Todd Hoff from Bookmarklet

Excellent! - Todd Hoff

I never thought of the journey of the fellowship being the inverse of that of the ring. - Todd Hoff

Looks like a tough ride. - Rodfather

Interesting http://www.amgentourofcalifornia.com/Route... - Rodfather

The crazy bike riders are riding more than 750 miles total and 117 miles in just 5 hours. It seemed like half the mountain turned out to watch and clap. Everyone seemed to have the same idea, come down and watch. You couldn't actually go anywhere anyway because they close the roads down while the racers are in the area. No biggy really, they gave us a lot of lead time, only they were... more... - Todd Hoff

Looking forward to this movie... - Todd Hoff

"Well, what if you could produce these tools of imagination with the push of a button? And what if you could roll up your sleeves and invent your own characters, furnishings, and buildings — and share them not only with your children, nieces, nephews, neighbors, or friends, but also, and instantly, with the rest of the world?" - Todd Hoff from Bookmarklet

Not sure what I would do with them, but it's a cool idea. - Todd Hoff

I have wanted a maker bit for so long. - Rachel Lea Fox from iPhone

"Yet it is amazing to see, in spite of that, the extraordinary things people are doing. Personally it gives me tremendous hope. I think one of the biggest lessons from looking at what has happened over the past four years in the Transition movement is that ordinary people can do extraordinary things if they are inspired. We don't need to wait for permission." - Todd Hoff from Bookmarklet

Also on TedX - http://www.elizabethturksculptor.com/bio... - Todd Hoff