September 2011
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August 2011
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Fewer women in technology now than in 1991
I was reminded of an article I read a few months ago about the “real reason women quit engineering.” Stemming The Tide: Why Women Leave Engineering summarizes the findings of a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee study of 3,700 women with engineering degrees.
They found that just one in four women who had left the field reported doing so to spend more time with family. And,...
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“Ascending degrees of strangeness…”
– ▓▒░ TORLEY ░▒▓ reveals a portal to the unknown.
Mel’s Hole is a multi-layered mystery that defies explanation.
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Ich bin ein car-burner
via lelapin:
Via News of the World
A strange crime wave that could influence the city’s elections ONCE a burning firelighter is placed against a tyre, it takes a few minutes for a car to ignite, giving the arsonist plenty of time to escape. That is one reason why police are clueless about who is behind a rash of car-burnings that is unsettling Berlin in the run-up to a city election on...
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More fun with 1usa gov data →
adamlaiacano:
I took another look through the 1.usa.gov data, this time to see if there is a difference in the distribution of browsers between the different top-level domains (nasa.gov, fbi.gov, weather.gov, etc.).
First let’s take a look at the overall browser usage for the data that I’ve collected.
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mkempe:
♩ I got those reviewin’ on Quora blues
♪ mmm those endless queues
♫ gotta do it late at night
♬ make the world helpful tonight
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Hazardous Passwords
I subscribe to webcomic xkcd, but somehow miss all the best posts.
I found this on the 404 Tech Support blog. Also posted there was a very readable research study [PDF] about the hazards of selecting passwords that were so lengthy or obscure that they defied the ability of the account owner to recall them.
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“It’s not great that they are tracking out cookies… but is it really that...”
– 99% of UK gov websites are breaking the law
Via Chaotic Planet
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sheeper:
J.S. Bach: French Suite No. 5 in G...
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Federal Reserve Bank assets and composition
Hover your cursor over the chart for unit time details. I have no profound insights to offer. Do have a look at the growth though!
Chart via DataMarket.com, a very user-friendly and useful service.
curebending:
liking someone on the internet is one of the worst things you can do
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ack 1.94 is better than grep →
via tingletech:
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U ack!
ack 1.94 is source code search tool for programmers.
Is it better than Google Code Search? Possibly, if it is for those who live in a non-MS Windows world.
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SSH Can Do That? →
Productivity tips for working with remote servers by Smylers on the perl blog.
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“A new computer model that describes the evolution of the Internet’s...”
– Staying in Shape: How the Internet Architecture Got its Hourglass Shape and What That Means for Future Internet Architectures
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The Risks of Inaccurate Data on IT Applications →
via p2ulroberts:
alfabet recently commissioned a survey with independent research firm Nucleus Research, on data quality amongst enterprise organizations. It was interesting – and somewhat surprising – to see the results that came from it.
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Fun With Very Large Numbers →
pkedrosky:
Reminds me of when I used to sit in engineering class idly finding formulas, like 69! that came as close as possible to exceeding the mantissa limits of my old IT calculator.
Good times.
Try Robert Baillie: Fun with Large Numbers for four research papers on Arvix.
All are written by the same author, with a similar theme e.g. “Fun with Fourier Series” preceded by...
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Standard and Poors Credit Rating for each country
Via chartsbin.com
As viewed 10th August, 2011: http://chartsbin.com/view/1177.
Reproduced under CreativeCommons License 3.0 by-nc-sa
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Do Yourself A Favor →
Voice of reason, calmness, serenity.
Evil Speculator isn’t really THAT evil.
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The sum is greater than the parts
nosql:
Someone Is Monetizing Big Data and It Is Not for Our Benefit
Similarly some of the banks have admitted that they will be mining data related to the transactions we perform to understand our buying behavior. This data can then be sold to retailers or e-marketers to generate specific offers that may suit our lifestyle. It may be creepy to get an e-coupon out of the blue on your birthday...
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Moody's Backs US's AAA Rating, S&P Cuts Fannie,... →
Moody’s has a much stronger public finance department than S&P. They will be more sensitive to the implications of a U.S. sovereign debt downgrade to municipal bonds. That’s merely an observation. It is Moody’s dilemma as to whether it will rate in sync with S&P or not.
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“Are You Reading This? That Is So Cool.
WHAT’S up, Times readers?
Normally...”
– Dude! I Hacked the Op-Ed Page! - NYTimes.com
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Regulation saves lives of merchant seaman since...
The brave story of the Plimsoll line
The water line on a tanker or barge is easy to spot. There is another marking on the outer hull of commercial ships which is probably more important. This marking is a circle bisected by a long horizontal line. It’s the load line; actually, the Plimsoll line.
via 99percentinvisible:
A Cheer for Samuel Plimsoll
This simple graphic design has saved...
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The importance of being discrete: Life always wins →
Imagine an area inhabited by a population of eternal agents A, which are spread out uniformly with average density nA and move around randomly, with diffusion coefficient DA.
Imagine now a race of mortals, B, which also are spread over this area, with initial uniform density nB(0). The agents die at a constant rate, μ, (B→μ) and proliferate (divide) when they meet the “catalyst,” A, with...
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Stochastic Processes and Applied Probability Horn... →
This site is a resource for free online lecture notes and books about:
stochastic processes and applied probability,
stochastic calculus,
measure theory,
probability distributions,
Brownian motion,
financial mathematics,
Markov chain applications,
Monte Carlo simulation,
Martingales
Much more!
All the links are active, they actually work.
I found it thanks to IBM!!! On the...
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The Most Expensive One-byte Mistake →
NUL-terminated text strings.
And eternal backward compatibility with the PDP/11….
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Perspective 09
Via Extraterrestrials On Caffeine:
The more you know…the less you should say.
Discretion is the better part of valor.
Walk softly and carry a big stick….
Silence is golden?
Little pitchers have big ears!
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The race to zero
Dramatic shifts in the structure and speed of trading have increased abnormalities in the pricing of securities. This new topology of trading has increased systemic risk…
— Andrew Haldane Executive Director for Financial Stability, The Bank of England
The excerpt above is from Mr. Haldane’s speech at the International Economic Association Sixteenth World Congress in Beijing,...
