No this isn’t a list of the top 25 memes of all time. It’s a post inspired by the “Top 25″ memes that have been going around Facebook, MySpace, the intarwebs, etc. These memes are fairly simple, as many are. List your top 25 favorite albums in your collection. List your top 25 books. List [...]
Archive for February, 2009
Top 25 Memes
Posted: 28 February 2009 in UncategorizedTags: algorithms, binary comparisons, memes, ranking algorithms, runtime analysis, simulations, top 25 lists
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Fresh Fruit Fail
Posted: 18 February 2009 in UncategorizedTags: bell peppers, fail, fruit, vegetables
It’s an honest mistake. Not all of it was green.
Language, Commerce and Google Translate
Posted: 10 February 2009 in UncategorizedTags: commerce, creoles, economics, google translate, guest blogging, history, language, language change, linguistic homogenization, linguistics, machine translation, pidgins, trade
I just completed my first guest blogging post over at mind x the + gap where I talked about the mutual history of language and commerce, as well as some thoughts on how that will continue into the future. Since the focus of Mil Joshi‘s blog is more towards psychology and economics, the following is [...]
It is bad journalism when
Posted: 8 February 2009 in UncategorizedTags: bad journalism, blagoblag, energy consumption, google, houston chronicle, journalism
It is bad journalism when an old news story is debunked and continues to be rehashed! How sloppy! Shame on you, Houston Chronicle! Back around 2000, when Palem began thinking about the future of computer chip technology, power consumption wasn’t a big consideration. Only speed mattered. But today, the energy consumed by information technology – [...]
The Stack Overflow of Academia
Posted: 7 February 2009 in UncategorizedTags: academia, academic publishing, computer science, herd review, karma, luis von ahn, peer review, reddit, research, stackoverflow, wiki
Luis von Ahn has an insightful post lamenting the fact that we are holding onto a paper-world philosophy of academic publishing in a digital age. He kicks out the fledgling idea that a “wiki, karma, and a voting method like reddit” hybrid might supplant our current method. I’m always a little confused by the reluctance [...]
