This is a great read (I’m curious how this jibes with how +Jay Schneider sees the landscape). Originally shared by Greg Linden. Brilliant article on how Facebook games, rather than try to be fun, try to be addictive. They feed on the compulsive until they give up their cash. Amazing statistic in this article, that some people […]
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This is really impressive to watch. More details are at nishimoto et al 2011 | gallantlabucb. Originally shared by Thom Wright. Holy. Shit. I just got chills watching this… Video taken from an fMRI while a patient watches other videos. In a nutshell, a computer crunched some data on an fMRI and apparently produced a movie
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I just re-read the post on “The Anatomy of a Notification” that +Cliff L. Biffle pointed me to a couple months ago, and I’m still struck by how spot-on he is. [Migrated from Google+]
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Originally shared by Casey Coffman If you use Linkedin, you may want to take a look at this and uncheck this option. Unless you like your professional networking sites using your info for advertisement. A box you want to uncheck on LinkedIn [Migrated from Google+]
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The best hot dogs on the planet, IMHO. Puka Dog Hawaiian Style Hot Dogs, 5300 Punahoa Place, Koloa, HI, United States [Migrated from Google+]
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Taken using SynthCam on iPhone. Address: State Highway 560, Kilauea, Hawaii. [Migrated from Google+]
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Wow — over 100,000 people have registered for a free online Intro to AI class to be taught by Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig this Fall. Kudos to Stanford for trying out this experiment in education on a mass scale. They’re also offering introductory classes in Databases in Machine Learning. Introduction to Artificial Intelligence – Fall 2011
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I try to avoid using my Inbox as a to-do list, but this still looks like a handy little script… (Originally shared by Ben Bederson) Scripting Gmail to snooze emails (so they come back later) is cool! (Actually, scripting Gmail is cool).http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/gmail-snooze-with-apps-script.html But I bet Boomerang (http://www.boomeranggmail.com/) doesn’t like it so much. On the other
I never thought I’d say this, but I think I preferred Republicans back when its leadership ran the caucus with an iron fist. [Migrated from Google+]
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My father in law goes to clock shows, and recently gave us this piece. It has a lever on the back that you push to wind the spring, and then the gear turns one complete revolution. It also has what looks like two electrical switches. One is closed when stopped and opens while the gear