February 2010
2 posts
“Throughout Western history, Gillespie argues, there have been three major...”
– David Brooks
“To bold lowercase Greek or other symbols use the \boldsymbol command; this will...”
– LaTeX/Mathematics
January 2010
7 posts
“Too many wrongly characterize the debate as “security versus...”
– Bruce Schneier
“We’re all supposed to politely respect each other’s cultures. But some cultures...”
– David Brooks
Sam Roweis →
Here are some video lectures.
“How could someone who gave so much of himself be running dangerously low on what...”
– Fernando Pereira on Sam Roweis
“Tel Aviv has become one of the world’s foremost entrepreneurial hot spots....”
– David Brooks
It’s weird how people hurt each other without even knowing it. We open up our hearts to one another. Yet we know too little to be able to properly handle all those feelings. Who’s to blame?
“Many people seem to be in the middle of a religious crisis of faith. All the...”
– David Brooks
December 2009
8 posts
“I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse...”
– Anna Quindlen
“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable,...”
– Agatha Christie
“The problem today is not that we multitask. We’ve always multitasked. The...”
– Nicholas Carr
“Yet what, in our brave new mediated world, is friendship becoming? The Facebook...”
– William Deresiewicz
“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to...”
– Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
“The observation vector serves as the input to a decision rule by which we assign...”
– Keinosuke Fukunaga
“We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be...”
– Tyler Durden, Fight Club (1999)
“In pattern recognition, the classifier should be designed by using samples near...”
– Keinosuke Fukunaga
November 2009
11 posts
“We don’t usually think of this second education. For reasons having to do with...”
– David Brooks
“One of the key tenets of “civil inattention” is the scrupulous...”
– Tom Vanderbilt
“When the Campbell Soup Company wanted to pay tribute to Andy Warhol—the Pop...”
– Eileen Kinsella
Elevator Beat
“He avoids shopworn topics, easy moralization and conventional wisdom,...”
– Steven Pinker
“Otto Katz once said to him, “We all have inferiority complexes of various sizes,...”
– Christopher Hitchens
“This moral materialism fomented a certain sort of manic energy. Americans became...”
– David Brooks
“All procrastinators put off things they have to do. Structured procrastination...”
– John Perry
“One solution to this disagreement (and many others) would have been to multiply...”
– Evgeny Morozov
DARPA Network Challenge →
“a competition that will explore the roles the Internet and social networking play in the timely communication, wide-area team-building, and urgent mobilization required to solve broad-scope, time-critical problems”
“People are thus thrown back on themselves. They are free agents in a competitive...”
– David Brooks
October 2009
14 posts
“The first moon lander in 1969 had a system equivalent to about 10,000 lines of...”
– Ajith Ranabahu
“The psychologists thus tend to gravitate toward a different view of conduct. In...”
– David Brooks
“This whole process: input, processing, comparing output with correct answer, and...”
– http://www.psych.utoronto.ca/users/reingold/courses/ai/nn.html
“Ordinary language — the language of evidence and inference, of instance...”
– Jack Miles
“The transfer function describes how a neuron’s firing rate varies with the...”
– http://www.psych.utoronto.ca/users/reingold/courses/ai/nn.html
Barcode →
“A college education should equip one to entertain three things: a friend, an...”
– Thomas Ehrlich
“The quality of a university is measured more by the kind of student it turns out...”
– Robert J. Kibbee
Types of pasta →
and here
“Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few...”
– Bill Gates
“Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more...”
– Pablo Picasso
“I’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has...”
– Bill Gates
“The adolescent Russell sought refuge in the abstractions of mathematics. His...”
– Jim Holt
“As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower...”
– Bill Gates
September 2009
30 posts
“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.”
– Pablo Picasso
“An empty canvas is a living wonder… far lovelier than certain pictures.”
– Wassily Kandinsky
How I Became a Theorist →
“Remove Ads: $3/mo.”
– Grooveshark
“Heterogeneous transfer learning for structured data is a new area of research,...”
– Transfer Learning for Structured Data (TLSD-09)
Workshop, in conjunction with NIPS 2009
“Adults focus on objects that will be most useful to them. But as the lever study...”
– Alison Gopnik
“Don’t let school get in the way of your education.”
– Mark Twain
Other Companies Should Have To Read This Internal... →