Skywalkers in Korea Cross Han Solo

Four generations compared.

Was the GFC a mathematical error?I thought this was pretty interesting, in particular its discussion to known issues with neoclassical economics(e.g.: the economy is, or will be soon again, in equilibrium, useful to make the math tractable, but not exactly how the world works). Of course, this doesn't explore the fact that some economists could in ( Read more... )

The Neuroscience of Screwing Up is a pretty interesting article. At the end of the day, nothing too foreign: Our brains conspire against us to ignore interesting lessons to learn, and call it failure. Of course, when it comes to science in academia, I realize my perspective is perhaps narrow(although when I discussed this some of the Math faculty ( Read more... )

Saw this on Hacker News - Analysis of the "photoshopping" of a Victoria's Secret picture.

Very interesting, including the list of techniques used to expose the edits.

Remoteness vs. Connectedness World Map.

Its kinda neat. Reminds me of that "distance to McDonalds" map I posted a link to a while back. If I wasn't lazy and procrastinating other things, I would look it up now. I think I'll just use a tag and hope for the best.

Er, never mind, my post about McDonald's distance.

Someone wrote a long love note about the C programming language. Saw it here on Hacker News.

I haven't read it all, but putting it here is a form of bookmarking for me.

Saw this from multiple people on twitter.
Calculus RhapsodyDamn ( Read more... )

Predictions for 2010(this is a tech oriented list... however, just because you know what he is talking about doesn't mean you'll find it funny...)
The TARP bailout is extended to Microsoft after it's discovered that the entire banking industry is held together with Visual Basic 6 and Excel macros. Microsoft uses some of the money to license the ( Read more... )

The decline of the MBA will cut off the supply of bullshit(via Hacker NewsThe problem with that is that MBA's do not have a monopoly on bullshit. And really, the problem is worse: My observation is that there is a bifurcation in people getting an MBA. The people who know its about networking, instead of education, and go to the top tier schools, on ( Read more... )