February 2011
12 posts
List of lists of lists - Wikipedia →
draxiom:
This is exactly what it sounds like, and yes it does actually contain itself.
“Everyone has a right to be proud of where they’re from …. and Angelenos are no...”
– Taken from Hidden LA. (via dwol)
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this is article is very misinformed all up in the... →
so, the opening several grafs on rule-following vs. rule-breaking are a pretty tiresome rhetorical handwave. but what the rhetorical hand ends up settling on a “confused idea”:
(1) humans are able to break rules by analyzing their importance in context! (2) computers are not able to break rules because they are unable to process context the way we are!
THE OBVIOUS CONCLUSION (3)...
confessions of a prep school college counsellor. →
“Part of my problem in getting on board the college frenzy was that I genuinely believed that any one of the colleges on our approved list of a hundred or so was capable of providing students with a good, even a great, education. The funny thing about teenagers is that very often the best of them, the most interesting and curious, are rather lousy high school students. They have other...
“The hope is that, in not too many years, human brains and computing machines...”
– Howard Rheingold, The virtual community: homesteading on the electronic frontier (1993), p. 63.
“I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and...”
– Sinclair Lewis, an American satiric novelist and social critic, became the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (1930), and was born on this date (Feb 7) in 1885. (via canisfamiliaris)
Google, Bing & searching searches. →
The cheating analogy expresses a clear opinion on who’s wrong and who’s right in this mess. It frames Bing as the dumb jock cheating off the smart kid’s test (and anyone who cares about this debate enough to read this far is likely to associate with the smart kid). But it doesn’t capture the full subtlety of what exactly has been going on between Google’s search...
“Ireland’s financial disaster shared some things with Iceland’s. It was created...”
– michael lewis, when Irish eyes are crying.
“Many writers who grew up reading in the 1980s are just now starting to have...”
– lawrence person, notes toward a postcyberpunk manifesto