July 2010
68 posts
Jul 29th
“Being a little bit smarter is where revolutions come from. Not time. Not hard...”
– Yudkowsky - Staring into the Singularity 1.2.5
Jul 27th
“A civilization with high technology is unstable; it ends when the species...”
– Yudkowsky - Staring into the Singularity 1.2.5
Jul 27th
“Jawless fishes (e.g., lampreys and hagfish) and jawed vertebrates (pretty much...”
– Biologists find that red-blooded vertebrates evolved twice, independently
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Fred Vaughan: Incompatibilities of theories... →
Jul 25th
“IMAGINE that the United Kingdom was an absolute monarchy known as Windsor...”
– The Saudi succession: When kings and princes grow old | The Economist
Jul 24th
“If there is zero substitutability between q and each of the private-market...”
– W. Michael Hanneman, Willingness to Pay and Willingness to Accept: How Much Can They Differ? American Economic Review, vol. 81 no. 3 (1991) N.B.: This is Hanneman, not Kahneman. This is not a behavioral result; it’s a straight optimizing agent result posed as a theorem with an ensuing proof....
Jul 23rd
I'm a man... I'm ahead.. I'm the first mammal to... →
Consider this: Much of what makes a picture artistic could actually be programmed into a camera. Diagonal compositions, color contrasts, foreground/background? All of these are pretty simple things for a computer to vet. Nadia from Andrew Kupresanin on Vimeo.
Jul 22nd
“In addition to the recycled content from al Qaeda’s core leadership, Inspire...”
– Fanning the Flames of Jihad | STRATFOR
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“I would like to rectify your statement, and declare that this is not madness,...”
– Friends, a dreadful error has occurred. : lounge
Jul 22nd
Breaking the law, breaking the law
bitpunk: você já esteve em SP?
B: já. algumas vezes.
bitpunk: eu estava nesta reunião. dudes marcaram a reunião em um hotel em Alphaville.
bitpunk: Alphaville é tipo depois de Osasco.
B: em alphaville eu nunca estive.
B: mas prepare-se pra distâncias enormes e táxis caros.
bitpunk: looonge. cem reais de táxi. (a fgv reembolsa)
bitpunk: estou falando do passado. digo, de hoje.
bitpunk: a reunião acabou tipo 16:50. O meu vôo era às 19. O que uma pessoa responsável faria nessa situação?
B: táxi pro aeroporto em seguida.
bitpunk: só pra você ter uma noção: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=aeroporto+de+congonhas,+s%C3%A3o+paulo&daddr=Alameda+Cauaxi,+223+-+Alphaville+Industrial,+Barueri+-+SP,+06454-020,+Brasil+(Bourbon+Alphaville+Business+Hotel)&hl=en&geocode=FYF-l_4dexQ4_SllP4pzYVrOlDFze6IYM7Zdmw%3BCVSB8D4GMQ9cFRuDmf4d3CE1_SGx_8pIMDC4YCmfOuT4OwLPlDHFRgUbfqUpNA&mra=pe&mrcr=0&sll=-23.572798,-46.746826&sspn=0.287612,0.617294&ie=UTF8&t=h&z=12
B: nossa.
B: nem táxi salvaria, nessas condições.
bitpunk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UZDJA0BKUI
bitpunk: eu continuo a história quando você clicar nesse link :P
B: hahahahah
B: muito bom
bitpunk: as pessoas responsáveis pegaram um táxi para congonhas.
bitpunk: eu peguei um táxi para a praça da república. galeria do rock.
B: e deu tempo?
bitpunk: deu tempo de subir correndo a escada, ir a uma loja de t-shirts que eu já conhecia, escolher quase aleatoriamente uns bagulhos, e sair de lá às 6:00.
bitpunk: então eu estava em um táxi em SP no horário do rush às 6:04, rumo a congonhas.
B: nossa.
bitpunk: o meu plano era chegar no check-in correndo, frear de repente e deslizar mais um pouco. like dylan in the movies.
bitpunk: os meus sapatos sociais foderam com esse plano, infelizmente. não houve deslizamento.
B: nossa. e você conseguiu.
B: empreitada, viu.
bitpunk: cheguei minutos depois do fim do check-in para o vôo das 7.
bitpunk: mas como muita gente que compra 7:30 por segurança chega cedo e adianta, arrumaram-me não um, não dois, mas três assentos consecutivos no vôo seguinte.
bitpunk: "embarque imediato", disse a moça.
bitpunk: eu fui ao portão indicado com o meu boleto de check-in, e o homem fez um gesto. acho que eu estava com headphones.
bitpunk: como eram 7:00, eu julguei que era "não abriu ainda, sente naquelas cadeiras".
bitpunk: por volta das 7:25, como não acontecia nada, eu comecei a andar preocupado entre o portão 2, constante do meu bilhete, e o 1, adjacente, com filas para outros voos.
bitpunk: às 7:28, eu já estava sem headphones e ouvi a última chamada para Diego Pazo no portão 3.
bitpunk: mais uma vez, não pude fazer a ceninha do escorregamento.
bitpunk: sapatos sociais cramp my style.
B: hahahahahahah
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Seat Savers -- Marginal Revolution →
Jul 19th
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E o hotel também oferece torneiras nas suítes. 
Jul 17th
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Jul 17th
“Pop culture controls you even if you think you’re separate from it. It is...”
– The Last Psychiatrist: Kanye West And The Video Music Awards
Jul 17th
“Usually, they are problems in computer science that don’t feel well...”
– MIT OpenCourseWare, Techniques in Artificial Intelligence 
Jul 16th
“The original aim of this article was to demystify the incompleteness theorem of...”
– F. William Lawvere, Diagonal arguments and cartesian closed categories (2000) (ref. credit: Todd and Vishal’s Blog)
Jul 16th
“Play the game for more than you can afford to lose…only then will you learn the...”
– Winston Churchill (via theimpossiblecool)
Jul 16th
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Neave Television ...telly without context →
Jul 16th
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Jul 16th
“As an aesthetic principle, quirk is an embrace of the odd against the blandly...”
– Quirked Around - Magazine - The Atlantic
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50 My Little Pony Mods for Geeks →
Jul 15th
“Looking forward to the next thirty years, after we have decisively defeated wage...”
– The stickiest price  » interfluidity
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“Like counterfeit currency, there is a vast range of quality when it comes to...”
– The Shifting Landscape of Passport Fraud | STRATFOR
Jul 15th
“A dramatic opportunity to use the Rogerian method in a political crisis arose in...”
– Kaz Dziamka: Whatever Happened to Rogerian Argument?
Jul 15th
The neurobiology of treatment response to... →
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“To engage a geek or a nerd in conversation, be prepared to accept that there is...”
– How to Tell the Difference Between Nerds and Geeks - wikiHow
Jul 14th
How to Tell the Difference Between Nerds and Geeks... →
Jul 14th
“The role of the thinker is not so much to utter truths or establish facts, but...”
– Manuel de Landa, Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy
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Reconstructing the structure of the world-wide... →
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