May 2010
13 posts
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Acapella, with reverb/EQ/mixing. No words this...
“James Clerk Maxwell might be spinning in his grave. But is he rotating around...”
– William Beaty, in a thought-provoking article about magnetic circuits
WatchHyperCard: arguably the greatest piece of software ever produced, for any platform.
“Many people with jobs have a fantasy about all the amazing things they would do...”
– Paul Buchheit (via wizardry)
Benford's Law →
is the observation that most “real-world” data is not uniformly distributed - in fact, the probability that the first digit is a “1” is almost one-third, rather than the expected one-ninth. The reason for this is that the *logarithm* of most real-world data is uniformly distributed. I find this mildly fascinating.
“On the airplane of science, nontrivial explanations are not the beverage cart or...”
– Scott Aaronson
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Jurassic Park →
It’s only a matter of time now.
Summarize Me
I may be designing a separate davidad.net from blog.davidad.net shortly, as a landing page for those who don’t already know me. However, I’m not exactly sure what I’d say. Thus, I turn to you, people who (presumably) are convinced that I’m interesting. How would you describe me to someone who clicked or Googled my name and doesn’t know anything else about me?
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Last night I recorded some unoriginal guitar...
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Today’s attempt at song! I still fail at...
Loop Perforation →
Martin Rinard’s group at MIT has achieved significant peformance gains in a huge variety of applications by a very simple optimization: simply skip every other iteration of certain loops. This is a brilliant idea, but it’s also a symptom of huge problems in computer science. We should always have the option be more flexible about how we process information in artificial systems....
“Says the frequentist, “You’re a Bayesian? I’m going to kick...”
– Dustin Smith
“Lincity can be won in two ways: reaching sustainable development, or evacuating...”
– http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincity (Note to civilization: this is also how you win at the world.)