cloud, n.
mythical place where all the unloved data is brought
Update:
The Oxford English Dictionary has already been notified about this omission. 😉
Tag: Insights
Hatebase
There is a new kid on the block: Hatebase.
It’s for hate speech what Urban Dictionary is for English slang. It’s still very early, but it’s going to be fun browsing through it. 😉
Dante, Islam and the Banking System
Dante, Islam and the banking system … interesting talk …
Vowels
I just learned the difference between [ɯ] and [ɨ]. 😀
Yay for Wikipedia’s vowel chart with audio samples. 😀
Many Tamagotchis Were Harmed in the Making of this Presentation
One of the less serious, but still very interesting (and insightful) talks from 29c3.
Zeit ist das, was man hat, wenn man die Uhren wegschmeißt.
Zeit ist das, was man hat, wenn man die Uhren wegschmeißt.
Interview with Bruce Schneier on Privacy, Security & the Future
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. 🙂
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. 😉
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.