June 2012
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May 2012
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Songwriting is something that happens if you let...
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Bill Murray on inaccessibility and freedom,... →
By: Scott Raab Esquire, Published in the June/July 2012 issue
SCOTT RAAB: Your name came up once in an interview with Robert Downey Jr. and a hush descended upon him.
BILL MURRAY: Well, people get pretty quiet when they hear his name, too.
SR: Downey told me: “We wanted Bill to consider a role in Iron Man, but nobody could find him.” Show people are awestruck by your...
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What is it like to be in an abusive relationship? →
By: Anon on Quora
It is like not being able to breathe. That is my best description of it. Metaphorically, it is suffocating, but even physically, it is literally suffocating. As I am writing this, I am literally feeling my air passage blocking off. I was an in abusive relationship for two years towards the end of high school. I never lived with my abuser or had kids with him or married him....
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Random Forest →
Random forest (or random forests) is an ensemble classifier that consists of many decision trees and outputs the class that is the mode of the classes output by individual trees. The algorithm for inducing a random forest was developed by Leo Breiman and Adele Cutler, and “Random Forests” is their trademark. The term came from random decision forests that was first proposed by Tin Kam...
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Yelp review for The Museum of Jurassic Technology →
“Confusion can be a very creative state of mind,” said David Wilson (museum founder) in an interview with author Lawrence Weschler, originally aired on NPR, October 27, 2001. ************************************************** ***************************** As my husband and I stand just feet from the museum’s entrance, a couple exit the building. The man, looking perplexed, rubs...
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“In media appearances, Kurzweil has stressed the extreme potential dangers of...”
– Ray Kurzweil
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“I think we’re right on the cusp of the next generation. I think all the big...”
– Scott Schuman on the future (via howtotalktogirlsatparties)
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High school football star has rape charge... →
A high school football star who was once one of the most highly sought after athletes in the nation has had a rape charge against him dropped after the woman confessed on Facebook that the rape never happened. Brian Banks, who is now 26-years old, spent six years in prison and broke down crying when the prosecutor moved to have the case dismissed.
“There are no words in any language, no...
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Why I love Raymond Carver →
By: Adam McInturf
To sum up Carver in two words, call him “Hemingway meets.” Not Hemingway meets a social conscience or feminine sensitivity, but just other beings. Carver’s stories still, for the most part, center male protagonists, who remain haunted by unseen scars. But his stories are about what happens when these men collide with other people, with friends, with women, even the occasional...
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Jeffrey Zeldman on his Web Design Manifesto 2012 →
There is less experimentation than there used to be. In part it’s because designers who used to do a lot of experimenting on their personal sites are busier these days – busy with client work, or creating products, or branching into areas such as publishing and conferences. Ten or 15 years ago, maybe you were single, with not much work and no family. You had loads of time to play with the...
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YMFY: Possible Skillshare courses I'll be teaching →
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+ How to disappear for weeks and worry your mother sick + Asian Loneliness + #bloglife + Moving in with your auntie and uncle in Bel Air + Quack Medicine: The Pros and Cons + Easy mnemonics for remembering all the various grudges you hold + How to get priced out of a neighborhood you thought you…
They asked me to teach a Skillshare class. I’m not sure what I’ll be...
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Jamie xx - Essential Mix for BBC Radio 1
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Descriptive Camera, 2012 →
The Descriptive Camera works a lot like a regular camera—point it at subject and press the shutter button to capture the scene. However, instead of producing an image, this prototype outputs a text description of the scene. Modern digital cameras capture gobs of parsable metadata about photos such as the camera’s settings, the location of the photo, the date, and time, but they don’t...
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Ad copy for urns
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+ Let’s face it - you’re too cheap for a coffin. + Death got you down? We think you’ve urned yourself a treat. + Express yourself! Be Crema-tive! + I was saying boooo urns.
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A new model for college media →
The Oregon Daily Emerald’s 92-year streak as a Monday-to-Friday newspaper will end soon. But the Emerald Media Group’s run has just begun. Next fall, we will launch a new Emerald completely rebuilt for the digital age. The gray, daily newspaper will be replaced by a modern college media company. We know what you’re thinking: Another college daily goes down, buckling under the pressure of...
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Paralysis of the Heart →
By MICHELLE FIORDALISO NY Times, Published: May 10, 2012
I WAS driving my 11-year-old son, Joe, to school. It had been one of those mornings. He was singing opera and doing hip-hop moves when I needed him to put on his shoes.
As we pulled up in front of school just in time, I snapped: “I can’t start our day this way. This kind of stress is going to make me sick.”
He burst into tears. “Don’t say...
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Why Everyone Should Learn to Program →
About a year ago I told a friend of mine that I had started to learn the Python programming language. He asked with a raised eyebrow why it was I wanted to do this at age 34.
“Take it from me as someone in the industry,’ he said disparingly. ’We only hire guys who know their stuff. Python is fine, but you’ll need to know C, C++ among other things. A couple of years of work and you’ll still...
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Psychopathy linked to brain abnormalities →
New research provides the strongest evidence to date that psychopathy is linked to specific structural abnormalities in the brain. The study, led by researchers at King’s College London Institute of Psychiatry (IoP) is the first to confirm that psychopathy is a distinct neuro-developmental sub-group of anti-social personality disorder (ASPD).
Most violent crimes are committed by a small group of...
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A Conversation with Designer Siki Im →
By: Marc Bain for Styleforum
When Siki Im moved to New York in 2001, he had no intention of designing clothes. After graduating with honors from England’s Oxford Brookes School of Architecture, Im took a position with a New York architecture firm, but over time realized the job wasn’t satisfying him. Since high school he had liked clothes, admiring iconoclastic labels likeMaison Martin...
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