October 2010
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The Best Things to Buy in October As always, these tips aren’t intended to make you buy, buy, buy. But if you do happen to need something seen here, maybe now’s the time to be looking for deals. On to the savings: All Season Shrubs, bushes, bulbs, etc.: Anything you can buy now and store at a halfway decent temperature until spring, you can likely get at a discount....
Oct 6th
August 2010
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Proofs, Proofs, Who Needs Proofs? « Gödel’s Lost... →
Aug 19th
Ryan Freitas: 35 Lessons in 35 Years →
My father always told me that the day we stop learning is the day we die. I wrote this as a sort of preparation for my 35th birthday last week. Some of these are poignant, others are simply trite; I attribute the latter to my growing sense of sentimentality as I age. That, and I need an editor. …
Aug 19th
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Are you ready for a world without antibiotics? |... →
Aug 12th
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10 Free Web UI Kits and Resources for Designers →
Aug 5th
July 2010
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Hospice medical care for dying patients : The New... →
Jul 26th
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5 Good Habits That Will Make You a Better Coder →
Jul 8th
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Elaine.pdf (application/pdf Object) →
Exploring the sponginess factor in the Seinfeld episode using mathematics
Jul 7th
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A Calculus Analogy: Integrals as Multiplication |... →
Jul 5th
June 2010
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When Intuition And Math Probably Look Wrong -... →
Jun 30th
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50 New Useful CSS Techniques, Tools and Tutorials... →
Jun 11th
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The Marginal Advantage (Sean Plott) - Game Theory... →
Jun 4th
May 2010
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One Sure-Fire Way to Improve Your Coding | Fuel... →
May 28th
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Firefox Extension Development Tutorial :: Overview →
A complete tutorial from no knowledge to developing a Firefox extension
May 26th
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Advice on CSS you'll wish your mother told you →
“There are several vital pieces of advice about laying out CSS pages that I wish I’d been told before I started making a mess of using CSS styles. This isn’t really just a series of tips for beginners to CSS, but a list of those facts that can get missed for ages, but which end up becoming  incredibly useful in day-to-day work with websites. Now I’ve been doing the layout of text...
May 25th
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Principles Of Minimalist Web Design, With Examples... →
May 15th
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If you have to learn just one programming language... →
May 13th
April 2010
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The Lowly Programmer: Introducing: Marriage Sort →
Apr 14th
March 2010
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5 Free Websites Where You Can Really Learn To... →
Mar 30th
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A Man’s Guide to Dining Etiquette and Proper Table... →
Mar 26th
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Mar 25th
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Futurity.org – Baseball’s winning formula...
IOWA STATE (US)—Kerry Whisnant is a St. Louis Cardinals fan. He’s also a physicist who has worked out one of baseball’s mathematical mysteries. According to Whisnant’s calculation, runs alone don’t add up to wins. Whisnant, a professor of physics and astronomy at Iowa State University who scribbles the Cardinals’ roster on a corner of his office chalkboard, is part of baseball’s sabermetrics...
Mar 5th
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Think like a statistician – without the math |...
I call myself a statistician, because, well, I’m a statistics graduate student. However, ask me specific questions about hypothesis tests or required sampling size, and my answer probably won’t be very good. The other day I was trying to think of the last time I did an actual hypothesis test or formal analysis. I couldn’t remember. I actually had to dig up old course...
Mar 4th
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Damn Cool Algorithms, Part 1: BK-Trees - Nick's...
Damn Cool Algorithms, Part 1: BK-Trees - Nick’s Blog This is the first post in (hopefully) a series of posts on Damn Cool Algorithms - essentially, any algorithm I think is really Damn Cool, particularly if it’s simple but non-obvious. BK-Trees, or Burkhard-Keller Trees are a tree-based data structure engineered for quickly finding near-matches to a string, for example, as used...
Mar 3rd
February 2010
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How I Was Able to Ace Exams Without Studying | Zen... →
Feb 23rd
Learn to Ask Better Questions - The Conversation -... →
Feb 22nd
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Newbie Fashion Tips for Grown-Up Men - Stepcase... →
Feb 18th
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From Fish to Infinity - Opinionator Blog -... →
Feb 11th
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Math Puzzle « xkcd →
Feb 10th
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List-O-Matic - Generate CSS-styled navigation... →
Feb 9th
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Reality Breakdown: Raises on Lowered Budgets? |... →
Feb 4th
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11 Outstanding Online Resources for Web Developers →
Feb 3rd
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Does an MBA Make You a Better CEO? - The... →
Feb 2nd
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Rounded CSS Boxes →
Feb 2nd
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Dude, I'm Getting Married >  →
Feb 2nd
January 2010
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Jan 26th
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Get Paid What You're Worth - Wired How-To Wiki →
Jan 26th
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Scott Adams Blog: Bad Interfaces 01/21/2010
The other day I tried to change my address through a company’s web site and it wouldn’t accept my new address because I “already have a phone number.” WTF??? I tried various workarounds including no phone number, and a fake phone number, but it insisted that once you have a phone number, and the system knows it, you can never change your address. So I asked myself, am...
Jan 21st
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How to Write a Page-Turning Novel: Essential... →
Jan 21st
Ten surprises from numerical linear algebra — The... →
Jan 20th
"Memorize Now" Helps You Commit Long Passages to... →
Jan 20th
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Stevey's Blog Rants: Done, and Gets Things Smart →
Jan 20th
Joomla and Drupal - Which One is Right for You?... →
Jan 19th
How good is your chess?:Set I - Chess.com →
Jan 18th
Why nice people will win BIG TIME in the long run?...
Note: Just being nice is not a clever substitute to being truly valuable. You need to be both. So, please don’t take this to an extreme [ Please refer: Just being NICE is not enough] I still remember that conversation with Tim Sanders (who is one of the nicest people I have met anyway) several years ago.  He said, “nice guys finish first.” This was probably in 2003 or 2004. I didn’t get...
Jan 18th
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Maybe You're the Reason Your Job Is Boring - Susan...
If you are finding your job a little boring, you aren’t alone. There are many who feel trapped in their current jobs since the economy has removed a few of the seats in the corporate game of musical chairs. But I challenge you to see that it’s actually you, not the job, that’s boring. First, see if you recognize any of these hard truths: You’re on autopilot. When...
Jan 15th
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Fitness - Fitness Supplements - When the Gym Isn’t... →
Jan 15th
platypope.org / blog / Solving puzzles with... →
Jan 9th
If It’s Raining, You Might Want to Reschedule That...
If It’s Raining, You Might Want to Reschedule That Interview By STEPHEN J. DUBNER It is no secret that weather affects mood, and even behavior. The Bagel Man we wrote about in Freakonomics, who ran an honor-system business, received lower payments during foul weather. Now along come Donald Redelmeier and Simon D. Baxter from the University of Toronto with an interesting question: do applicants...
Jan 8th
What’s Next in Web Design?
I’ve been asked by the Italian magazine L’Espresso to write an article on The Future of Web Design. Here is the English text. Thinking about what’s next online is fun because everything you wish to come true will come true. While commercial products obey to the laws of the market, which in part are influenced by the resources needed to create these products, the web is defined by the user. If the...
Jan 7th