An article on the political battle for the Texas governorship between Gov. Rick Perry and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison.
And that's the real reason why I don't have Facebook...
As anybody who has Netflix or has used Amazon knows, these types of services use complex recommendation algorithms to promote similar content that you might like, whether movies or music or mousetraps. A new paper shows how these recommendation algorithms might be improved, however, by taking a cue from biology and thermodynamics. The results are impressive, improving accuracy both for things you are expected to like but also for novel things other people like you like.
The reason smartphones place so much load on the cellular network is actually because they're smart. Attempting to save battery life causes load on the cell networks.
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That was 20 minutes of my life.
Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.
— "Think Different" ad, Apple Computer, Inc., 1997, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_Different
LaTeX makes it fairly easy to include most common image files. Typically something like
\usepackage{graphicx}is all you need. LaTeX apparently doesn't play nicely with .eps files by default, however, presenting "Unknown graphics extension: .eps". This is unfortunate because .eps files are vector images, meaning they retain their quality when being scaled up. This is helpful because the images Matlab generates, for example, are typically small.
\includegraphics[width=0.75\textwidth]{image.png}
\usepackage{epstopdf}fixes the problem like a charm.
And use a real template. With a color scheme that doesn't make me want to puke. Thank you, Don McMillan.
Quick article quoting some Internet "experts" on their views on the correlation between technology and intelligence.
I agree with one of the commenters: as an engineer, I want to see studies and qualitative results, not just opinions.
[Edit] Bonnie points out that a better question is the difference between logical and emotional thought and technology's impact on those two, as well as abstract reasoning.
[Edit] Apparently the Internet is making us smarter: http://www.dailytech.com/Report+Internet+Use+Makes+You+Smarter/article17749.htm
Photoshop 1.0 on the iPhone
So cool. Totally useless and ridiculous, but it brings me back to the days of Photoshop 7 in my high school's darkroom.