Bruce Schneier talks about how the mechanics of privacy changed since the advent of social media, who holds control and power in the new arena, what are real issues and what are just generational differences in dealing with them. He has a lot of good analogies to make his points. 🙂
Month: January 2013
Authors@Google: Neil deGrasse Tyson
Neil deGrasse Tyson is discussing his book “The Pluto Files” … basically recounting a few thousand years of finding things in the night sky, naming them and building an understanding of what they are … case in point: (now dwarf planet 😉 ) Pluto … including his hypothesis on why Americans in particular get so worked up about Pluto not being a planet any more. 😀
The Y Combinator
I take my head off to Jim, that’s a great way to approach a weird intersection of mathematics and programming. 😉 For those who are curious … he uses a very simple mathematical algorithm to explore how you can express recursions in Lambda calculus and thus “derives” the Y combinator.
Totally useless, but worth every minute. 😉
Wind and Mr. Ug
This is probably one of the more ingenious ways to explain something like a Möbius strip. 😀
Obacht
Fast ausgestorben. 🙁
It’s like The Truman Show, at country scale
It’s like The Truman Show, at country scale.
Sophie Schmidt (daughter of Eric Schmidt) on her trip to North Korea.
Secrets of Search
Douglas Merrill from Google talks about what it takes to build a search engine for the web.
Besides that what strikes me as interesting is their choice of languages “focusing” (he didn’t exactly say that, but it’s what you understand, when he says they won a prize for it) their efforts in machine translation on: Arabic and Chinese … o.O
Discussions for GitLab landed
My patch for revamping the comments and adding proper discussion threads has been accepted and will be in GitLab 4.1 (due next week). 😀
Designing For The Empty States
Craig Dennis has an interesting blog post why and how you should design empty states in your apps.
Orchestrated Text
There is a cool experiment trying to make people understand classical music better. It does so by “narrating” pieces while they are played, hence “Orchestrated Text“.