Data Anxiety: Archive

This is the story of how two Amazon Market Partners’ activities resulted in a book priced at $23,698,655.93. It was a book about flies.

This was the original source article.

Apr 30, 20114 notes

#Amazon #humor #algorithm #markets

Apr 30, 20111 note

#iheart IEEE #energy #probability

Apr 30, 20112 notes

#content #faith #nostalgia

“

Introverts are perfectly comfortable with their own thoughts. They think a lot. They daydream. They like to have problems to work on, puzzles to solve.

But they can get incredibly lonely if they don’t have anyone to share their discoveries with. They crave an authentic and sincere connection with ONE PERSON at a time.

” —Top 10 Myths about Introverts via skeskali2

Apr 30, 201119 notes

#behavior #intensity

“Loki is not your “average” trickster. In many ways, Odin himself is more like the traditional trickster than Loki is. Odin changes shape, deceives, lies, and tricks people… Loki is more the sneaky, clever god of randomness than a true trickster. Odin teaches with lessons and challenges.” —

Hound of Odin via fornsed

Be forewarned though: Loki’s lessons can be dangerous.

Apr 29, 2011166 notes

#symbols #antiquity #belief #behavior

Plaguing both mobile and PC O/S

chaoticplanet:

Five Website Blunders That Need to Die - PCWorld Business Center

So what are they then?

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Sites That Redirect to Country-specific Sites Without Asking

Accessing Via a Phone? Then You’ll Need Our Mobile Site

Apr 28, 20118 notes

#Website Design #maladroit

The Value of Belief in Scientific Research

via johnskylar:

I am a scientist by day. It’s pretty uncommon for a scientist to believe in any sort of deity, and it’s even less common for that belief to be something they broadcast. Belief in a deity is unsupported by data, and that means it’s not something you talk about in scientific discourse.

Lots of scientists don’t believe in any deity, and that’s good for them and consistent with their careers. More power to them. However, there seems to be some degree of perception that

in order to be a self-consistent religious person, you have to reject certain elements of science, or

in order to be a self-consistent scientist, you have to reject religion.

A lot of people these days have a belief in science as some kind of magical religion of supported statements. I have a surprise for you: for a long, long time, the data produced by scientists “supported” all manner of notions that are not true or at least unsupported today. This includes, but is not limited to, the notion of deities… There are many things taken as dogma by today’s society… that will turn out not to be true in coming years. This is a fact of science; the data collected is constantly revised … improved.

Science, dear reader, is not a set of beliefs. It is not a set of facts. These beliefs and facts are produced by a process known as science. You cannot do things in the name of science, because science, simply, is a methodology. It can be used for the formation of ideologies, but it is not itself an ideology.

Science is a tool, and when it produces facts that disagree with you, it is not science that is to blame for that. Read More

Apr 27, 20114 notes

#science #research #philosophy #history of science #belief #faith #facts #data