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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Hypergeometric Distribution | diestoremoval.com
diestoremoval.com
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11 years ago
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Flappy Bird: What I Did For The Pandora Version - PandoraLive
Since nobody had released a Flappy Bird clone on the repo, I took some time a couple of days ago to look for some of them that may be working without much effort on the Pandora. Since Flappy Bird was a such popular and, honestly, not very hard game to ...
pandoralive.info
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11 years ago
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Three Trends That Will Make A Difference In Mobile Payments | TechCrunch
In the summer of 2008, I was in Paris delivering a mobile payments presentation to the CEO of a French bank. At the end of the meeting, he asked me when we..
techcrunch.com
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11 years ago
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LewisJEllis/awesome-lua
awesome-lua - A curated list of quality Lua packages and resources.
github.com
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11 years ago
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For ‘Big Data’ Scientists, Hurdle to Insights Is ‘Janitor Work’
The analysis of giant data sets promises unique business insights, but much manual effort is still required to prepare the information for parsing.
nytimes.com
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11 years ago
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In Silicon Valley, Mergers Must Meet the Toothbrush Test
Companies like Google, Facebook and Cisco Systems are employing unorthodox criteria — say, whether a product is used daily, like a toothbrush — to size up their deal targets, and they are handling most acquisitions internally instead of relying on Wall...
dealbook.nytimes.com
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11 years ago
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Malware Traffic Could Forewarn of International Conflicts | MIT Technology Review
Government hackers apparently went to work as Israel and Russia ramped up military action this year.
technologyreview.com
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11 years ago
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Scripps Research Institute Chemists Uncover Powerful New Click Chemistry Reactivity
News Release
scripps.edu
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11 years ago
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Mitch Hedberg and GIS | new jersey geographer
njgeo.org
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11 years ago
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What you should know about JavaScript regular expressions • Bjorn Tipling
Regular expressions in JavaScript may not always be intuitive. I aim to provide some clarity by providing examples about things I have found myself getting stuck on. This post covers a few topics including state in regular expressions, regular... | Bjo...
bjorn.tipling.com
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11 years ago
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A Dramatic Upgrade for Interferometry
What can we do to make telescopes better both on Earth and in space? Ashley Baldwin has some thoughts on the matter, with reference to a new paper that explores interferometry and advocates an approach that can drastically improve its […]
centauri-dreams.org
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11 years ago
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Venture Capitalists Get Paid Well to Lose Money
The incentives are all wrong.
blogs.hbr.org
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11 years ago
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A game of chance became anything but
Lottery officials this summer seemed shocked to learn that a handful of high stakes gamblers had taken over one of their $2 games, with just three betting clubs accounting for most of the winning tickets statewide during periods when prizes swell. The ...
boston.com
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11 years ago
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A brief history of USB, what it replaced, and what has failed to replace it
USB isn't perfect, but it replaced lots of ports we'll never have to see again.
arstechnica.com
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11 years ago
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Feds: Red light camera firm paid for Chicago official’s car, condo
Former Redflex CEO, contractor, Chicago transport official indicted for fraud.
arstechnica.com
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11 years ago
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Do Interviewers Sell Themselves Short? The Effects of Selling Orientation on Interviewers' Judgments
amj.aom.org
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11 years ago
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With Subway in the Sky, Valley Meets Plateau
La Paz, the Bolivian capital, has always looked down on El Alto, its upstart younger sibling on a plateau above. But a new mass-transit cable-car system may change that.
nytimes.com
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11 years ago
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Elegant n-gram generation in Python - Locally Optimal
A quick few snippets of code today – solving how to compactly and elegantly generate n-grams from your favorite iterable. For starters, let
locallyoptimal.com
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11 years ago
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Mapping Migration in the United States
An interactive map showing nationwide migration patterns in the United States since 1900.
nytimes.com
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11 years ago
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NSA BIOS Backdoor a.k.a. God Mode Malware Part 1: DEITYBOUNCE - InfoSec Institute
This article is the first part of a series on NSA BIOS backdoor internals. Before we begin, I'd like to point out why these malwares are classified as "god
resources.infosecinstitute.com
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11 years ago
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