April 2010
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WatchDiego Stocco - Music From A Bonsai on Vimeo
“I always liked bonsai trees, and I was curious to try the approach I used for “Music from a Tree” on a smaller scale, so I bought a bonsai and recorded this little experimental piece. To determine the key I used the lowest note I could play and recorded the rest around it. Besides playing the leaves, I used bows of different sizes, a...
March 2010
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“We need to get better at measuring and promoting the metrics that matter.”
– Are you thinking inside out?
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“Insensitivity makes arrogance ugly; empathy is what makes humility beautiful,”
– Renford Reese
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One Last Homeless Holdout →
“His name is Heavy, and he has lived on the streets of Times Square for decades. Day after day, he has politely declined offers of housing, explaining that he is a protector of the neighborhood and cannot possibly leave, the workers who visit him every day said.”
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/the/path/of/most/resistance →
“Apple is doing something rather daring with their new iPhone OS. They are essentially omitting features that people once took for granted in a typical computer. And one of the biggest things they’ve omitted is the visual file system. Instead, in the iPhone OS, the concept of the file is essentially gone. It’s been replaced by “apps and their stuff.” The end result is that regular folks are...
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Social Media for Law Enforcement →
Think you know who’s behind that “friend” request? Think again. Your new “friend” just might be the FBI.
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Power Tools →
“A mathematician needs functions for the same reason that a builder needs hammers and drills. Tools transform things. So do functions. In fact, mathematicians often refer to them as “transformations” because of this. But instead of wood or steel, functions pound away on numbers and shapes and, sometimes, even on other functions.”
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“What forces Google to have a foreign policy is that what they’re exporting isn’t...”
– Google Searches for a Foreign Policy
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New Golf Measurement for Putters →
“Statistics can just become a big splash of numbers and not mean anything. But this, we think, will mean something,” said Steve Evans, the PGA Tour’s senior vice president for information systems. “It’s complex to calculate, but simple to understand.”
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“Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful.”
– George E. P. Box - Wikiquote
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Debating Polygamy →
“The history of Mormon polygamy shows us that the state and public opinion are very bad judges of what adult men and women may reasonably do. When people are insecure, they cling to the “normal” and vilify those who choose to live differently. Someday down the road, we may recognize that adults are entitled, as John Stuart Mill saw long ago, to conduct such “experiments in...
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“Nobody there looking at the Hope Diamond ever asks, ‘Why did they bother...”
– Mining For The ‘Prime’ Jewels Of Numbers : NPR
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“Royalty bearing free software? Jumbo shrimp.”
– Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal
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Algebra in Wonderland →
In the mid-19th century, mathematics was rapidly blossoming into what it is today: a finely honed language for describing the conceptual relations between things. Dodgson found the radical new math illogical and lacking in intellectual rigor. In “Alice,” he attacked some of the new ideas as nonsense — using a technique familiar from Euclid’s proofs, reductio ad absurdum, where the validity of an...