Archive for November, 2009

URLs

Saturday, November 14th, 2009

http://www.itworld.com/internet/76659/experimenting-mechanical-turk-5-how-tos
Interesting article on Amazon Mechanical Turk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzXDmJ6HA0Y
Matrix Reloaded in 5 sec

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-6dfa2pSJQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymSEibHKOgo
Two other summaries

http://www.today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/crime-alert-a-missing-former-faculty-111857.aspx
Phil Agre is missing

http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6706383.html
Netflix for Libraries?

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/Rankings2009-Top200.html
New university rankings

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1121855.html
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/921525.html
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/922550.html
Israel mulls perks for professors to stymie brain drain

http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/may09/8788
“The Million Dollar Programming Prize”. IEEE Spectrum

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17581-infectious-people-spread-memes-across-the-web.html
‘Infectious’ people spread memes across the web

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/04/books/review/Stossel-t.html
You and Your Friends Friends Friends
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/13/magazine/13contagion-t.html
Are Your Friends Making You Fat?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/12/technology/12data.html?_r=1&ref=global
Training to Climb an Everest of Digital Data

http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2009/9/38904-the-status-of-the-p-versus-np-problem/abstract
The status of the P vs. NP problem

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/10/08/social.networks.connected/index.html
Obesity, politics, STDs flow in social networks

http://www.meta-synthesis.com/webbook/35_pt/pt_database.php?PT_id=167
Database of periodical tables

http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/wayoflife/10/06/mf.nobel.odd.facts/index.html?iref=newssearch
Odd facts about the Nobel Prize

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/10/07/language.facebook.google/index.html
Machine translation successes

http://infoproc.blogspot.com/2009/10/more-brainpower-and-globalization.html
More brainpower and globalization

http://www.nature.com/news/2009/091006/full/news.2009.977.html?s=news_rss
Half of EU research budget should be spent on frontier science, say
science advisers.

http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090930/full/461590a.html?s=news_rss
http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090930/full/461586a.html?s=news_rss
Science in Eastern Europe

http://www.nature.com/news/specials/datasharing/index.html
Data Sharing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MijRS7myeBY
‘What Is That’ By Constantin Pilavios

Embarrassing mistakes in ads

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

1. Ad for Vitamin Water on the side of a truck (seen today).

Paraphrasing the ad:

… soccer (”futbol” for those of you in Mexico, Spain, and Italy)

2. Ad for Iona College on NPR (head about 10 days ago).

Paraphrasing the ad:

… we are proud of our “low faculty to student” ratio