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Rails 3.1 introduced the asset pipeline, which makes it easy to include versioned external assets as application dependencies.
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A common problem in machine learning is to take some kind of data and break it up into “clumps” that best reflect how the data is structured. A set of points which are all collectively close to each other should be in the same clump. A simple picture will clarify any vagueness in this: cluster-example Here the data consists of points in the plane. There is an obvious clumping of the data into three pieces, and we want a way to automatically..
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A common problem in machine learning is to take some kind of data and break it up into “clumps” that best reflect how the data is structured. A set of points which are all collectively close to each other should be in the same clump. A simple picture will clarify any vagueness in this: cluster-example Here the data consists of points in the plane. There is an obvious clumping of the data into three pieces, and we want a way to automatically..
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A common problem in machine learning is to take some kind of data and break it up into “clumps” that best reflect how the data is structured. A set of points which are all collectively close to each other should be in the same clump. A simple picture will clarify any vagueness in this: cluster-example Here the data consists of points in the plane. There is an obvious clumping of the data into three pieces, and we want a way to automatically..
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I somehow managed to forget to post this article after I wrote it, so here it finally is: A blast from the past in an article written three years ago today, on January 26, 2010, by Josh Bernoff: “We call this new world the Splinternet (with a nod to Doc Searls and Rich Tehrani, who used the term before us with a somewhat different meaning). It will splinter the Web as a unified system. The golden age has lasted 15 years. Like all gol..
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In the wee hours of this morning Andrew Sullivan and his team completed The Dish’s migration from The Daily Beast, transitioning fully to a reader-supported model. In an article posted to The Verge a few hours later titled Andrew Sullivan’s grand experiment in reader-supported online journalism is now live , Jeff Blagdon describes the challenges facing The Dish as one of the first major websites to become reader-supported: “Prominent....
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On Saturday, Jim Dalrymple posted an article to his blog The Loop called “ Scientists create near living crystal ”. When the article scrolled into view, I mused as to why a scientist creating something near a living crystal would be of any interest. After all, creating things is part of the scientist’s job, is it not? Then yesterday afternoon I saw an article titled “ We should only work 25 hours a week, argues professor ” from Science No....
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One of the most refreshing parts of the show is how humbly John approaches his opinions. It isn’t about him getting it correct, it is about arriving at the best result possible through collective effort. Nearly half of the show is John discussing follow-up comments he has received about past topics. Sharing his platform with the opinions and comments of others always felt incredibly intellectually honest.” I finally got around to David Sm..
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Everyone needs to send and receive files sometimes. Traditionally people send files as email attachments. This still works great, and supports encryption, but many mail servers are slow and cap the upper file size limit. ICQ was a great solution back in the 1990’s, but those days are now over. (I still remember my number.) A lot of folks use dropbox, which requires a dropbox account, and for you to trust them with your files.
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Everyone needs to send and receive files sometimes. Traditionally people send files as email attachments. This still works great, and supports encryption, but many mail servers are slow and cap the upper file size limit. ICQ was a great solution back in the 1990’s, but those days are now over. (I still remember my number.) A lot of folks use dropbox, which requires a dropbox account, and for you to trust them with your files.
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What’s maybe most striking about Tweetping is its presentation of data in pulses and punctuations: boomboomboomboom-PAUSE. That’s largely an accident of interface, but it also suggests something profound about Twitter and the social web: This stuff has a beat. It has rhythms and rushes and respites. It’s its own kind of organism, with its own kind of pulses — its own kind of heartbeat.” At first, the Tweetping world map is nearly empt..
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Hello and welcome to a public face for Cerner Engineering, by Cerner Engineering associates, to talk about engineering, technology, and all of the other awesome things we do. Cerner has been recognized as a visionary company, transforming the delivery of healthcare around the world. Improving the health of individuals and the delivery of care is an extremely large, complex, ever-changing problem. Along with the efforts of our strategists an..
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Rohan Anderson of Whole Larder Love , also featured in The Smokehouse , a video I discovered last week chronicling the construction of his personal smokehouse: “Sometimes when the pressure of city living would build to boiling point, I’d pack up my car and head bush. At times there would be a sense of insecurity, even fear, of the bush. Even though I grew up there, I would still be intimated. Why? Because I’d become a synthetic human...
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Following this morning’s announcement that the popular podcast You Look Nice Today would come to a close with one final episode , Rebecca O’Malley tweeted a link to a video from 2009 titled Smart & Funny: I’m sad to see the podcast end; it has been one of my favorites for quite some time now. For those looking to fill the void left after You Look Nice Today airs its final episode, check out one of Merlin Mann’s other podcasts Roderic..
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John Siricusa on Apple’s to-do list for the coming year, posted to his personal blog Hypercritical : “I didn’t just lead Apple to a record quarterly profit of $13.1 billion on sales of $54.5 billion, so I don’t expect to be consulted. But were Tim to ask me, here’s what I would tell him Apple should do in 2013 — in broad strokes, and in no particular order.” John’s third and seventh points, to diversify the iPhone product line and ....
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Most developers know this pattern well: we design a set of schemas to represent our data, and then work with that data via a query language. This works great in most cases, but becomes a challenge as data sets grow to an arbitrary size and complexity. Data sets can become too large to query and update with conventional means. These challenges often arise with Hadoop, simply because Hadoop is a popular tool to tackle such data sets.
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When I sat down to write earlier this evening there were a lot of things on my mind, my mind kept returning to the subject of design, still fresh in my mind after this site’s redesign last weekend. As much as I like the clean and simple layout I have now, it is not very media-friendly. I made this choice early on in the design process partially because I very rarely desire to post any sort of content other than plain text, but also because ..
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Proceedings began with a trip to All About Tea, whereupon we sampled the many delightful smells in search of a new flavour to consume. A packet of Lavender and Camomile Tea was purchased, the ingredients being, well, lavender and camomile. It smelt like “Grandma’s garden”, apparently. I guess that makes sense if your grandma had lavender flowers and whatnot. To replace our supply of Portsmouth Tea, which had run out, some Hampshire Tea was ..
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Proceedings began with a trip to All About Tea, whereupon we sampled the many delightful smells in search of a new flavour to consume. A packet of Lavender and Camomile Tea was purchased, the ingredients being, well, lavender and camomile. It smelt like “Grandma’s garden”, apparently. I guess that makes sense if your grandma had lavender flowers and whatnot. To replace our supply of Portsmouth Tea, which had run out, some Hampshire Tea was ..
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I’ve managed to scrape something together before the January deadline - a tree growing experiment in ImpactJS. You can see the mess of code I have on GitHub (I’m still not sure why my code looks misaligned on GH and not in my editor…) and play the actual game here . I’ve only tested in in Chrome so far and it’s buggy even there.
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You are working on two npm modules that are both actively being developed: my_app: some application, which depends on my_lib my_lib: a shared library There are 2 modes you'll need inside my_app: 1) using a published release of my_lib and 2) using a local development version of my_lib. Using a published release of my_lib is standard faire: list my_lib as a dependency in my_app/package.json 1. dependencies: {"my_lib": "1.2.x"} cd my_a....
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You are working on two npm modules that are both actively being developed: my_app: some application, which depends on my_lib my_lib: a shared library There are 2 modes you'll need inside my_app: 1) using a published release of my_lib and 2) using a local development version of my_lib. Using a published release of my_lib is standard faire: list my_lib as a dependency in my_app/package.json 1. dependencies: {"my_lib": "1.2.x"} cd my_a....
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Should things pan out in Dish’s favor, we could very well see a fifth major carrier here in the US, something that would certainly shake things up in the wireless market. Whether or not Dish is able to accomplish that with Clearwire or by pursuing another deal will have to be seen, but we wouldn’t count the satellite provider out just yet.” In episode sixty-four of The Critical Path , Mano a Mano , Horace Dediu and Benedict Evans discus..
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When you put it all together, the story become clear: an outsider makes one edit to add a chunk of information, then insiders make several edits tweaking and reformatting it. In addition, insiders rack up thousands of edits doing things like changing the name of a category across the entire site — the kind of thing only insiders deeply care about. As a result, insiders account for the vast majority of the edits. But it’s the outsiders who..
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When setting your connection string in a .NET config file you can make use of the attribute by using and passing it the provider name.
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When setting your connection string in a .NET config file you can make use of the attribute by using and passing it the provider name.
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Aaron Swartz made a number of interesting observations and suggestions throughout this piece. Of those, this is my favorite, found near the end of the article: “I first got serious about this when I had to write essays for college. Writing essays isn’t a particularly hard task, but it sure is assigned. Who would voluntarily write a couple pages connecting the observations of two random books? So I started making the essays into my own l..
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The problem is that the topics that are most painful also tend to be the topics that are most important for us: they’re the projects we most want to do, the relationships we care most about, the decisions that have the biggest consequences for our future, the most dangerous risks that we run. We’re scared of them because we know the stakes are so high. But if we never think about them, then we can never do anything about them.” Another in..
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When I learned math in elementary school, I would reach for my calculator. But my father stopped me: “You only get to use the calculator when you can do math without it.” As you can imagine, at the time I though this was unfair and unreasonable, but later I have discovered what advantage it is to understand the basics before you reach for a powerful tool. Many developers are focused on what fancy framework they will learn next.
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Recently the Center for College Affordability released a report titled “Why Are Recent College Graduates Underemployed?”
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We will provide the support necessary for all young Americans to complete college and meet a new goal by 2020, once again, America will have the highest…
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A recent comment I left on Hacker News managed to get quite a lot of up-votes which surprised me since it was effectively just a collection of links about search engines. You can read the full thread at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5129530 Anyway since it did do so well I thought I would flesh it out with some more information. Here are a collection of posts/blogs/discussions which go into the details of how to write a search eng..
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Like Shawn Blanc, I too prefer to share interesting links I come across on my site rather than through Twitter or, dare I even say it, Facebook. “Like Lopp and Bowler, many people are migrating to Twitter as their outlet to share links. And while I think Twitter and App.net are great places for that, I personally like the idea of sharing most of the links I come across via my site.” I choose to link a post based on three criteria: m....
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I came across this site partway through Cabin Porn earlier this week, but haven’t had a chance to take a look at it until now. Everything from cartography to programming to circuitry, to shelter building and winter survival tips is rewarded on DIY, an interesting initiative using badges to reward kids for learning important life skills. Permalink.
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Penny Arcade’s piece Planning for war: how the EVE Online servers deal with a 3,000 person battle climbed to the front page of Hacker News early this afternoon, at which point I came across the article and, curious, opened it. Althoug I spent roughly the next hour reading PC Gamer and The Mittani’s coverage of the incident and watching a number of videos taken during the battle, I still can’t quite wrap my head around a fight cons..
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Having just finished going through every article posted to Cabin Porn over the last four years, I thought it would be appropriate to take a step back, shift gears quickly, and write some observations about a rumor that has quickly gained a lot of traction over the past few hours. I am, of course, referring to the rumor of a 128GB iPad 4. As I thought more and more about it though, as I read 9to5 Mac’s coverage of the rumor , ..
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I accidentally re-discovered this article last night as I was writing This Post is Not About the 128GB iPad 4 , as I was looking for the link to Ben Brooks’s knife reviews . #20 is probably my favorite: “Don’t give a shit about what people think of your honest opinion. If you think Android is better than iOS, Windows better than Mac, and Nikon better than Canon — so be it. You’d be wrong, but at least you’re standing for what you ..
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We’ve been really busy over here at ShangRolla . One of the largest projects that we’ve tackled is a complete redesign of the interface used to set up, measure, and manage your AdRoll campaigns. We’re excited to offer you access, and we hope that you’ll take it for a spin. This version is just the beginning. It’s in beta, so it’s a work in progress, and there could be an occasional bug. But even in its early state, we believe that it ....
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