Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

Photo
A talk about the history of Vignelil’s subway map, app ...
In a panel led by the MTA’s Director of Marketing & Co ...

Stanford has decided to move away from Java in their int... Surprisingly, they have decided to move to JavaScript. Â... that most top CS departments are moving to Python.  The... article linked below doesn’t address any other languag...
The SIGCSE-

Stanford’s first interdisciplinary computer science an... has left both students and teachers hungry for more.

Calculate the Stardate of the Star Trek Future!

DBLP on the Semantic Web
This is a D2R Server publishing the DBLP Bibliography Da ...
1. your plain old web browser
2. Semantic Web browsers
... server, please contact Chris Bizer and Richard Cyganiak.

Our starter account is the perfect solution for a
small business or one just getting started ...
enough disk space for your files, email su ...
benefits of our high-availability network ...
...

This document provides statistics about the structure an... LOD cloud. It also analyzes the extend to which LOD data... nine best practices that are either recommended W3C or h... the LOD community.

Policy statement aims to halt missteps in the quest for ...

Statistics is the science and practice of developing hum... through the use of empirical data. It is based soundly o... theory which is a branch of applied mathematics. Within ... theory, randomness and uncertainty are modelled by proba... Statistical

Ridding science of shoddy statistics will require scruti... not merely the last one

Futuristic JavaScript dependency loader and builder. Spe... load times. Works with ES6, CommonJS, AMD, CSS, LESS and... modular workflows.

Lifehacker readers already know about EverNote, great no... that now offers a beta that includes a web-based side, t... a cool hack that you can use to get your ideas into Ever... service on your cell phone. What this means is that you ... cell phone

Americans have a really distorted view of how wealth is ...
This chart is from a paper called "Building a Better Ame ...
The top row shows the actual distribution of wealth in A ...
Below that, the "Estimated" rows show how different grou ...
... g of ho

I don’t think my talk was particularly good. But then ... onto the stage, and soon was typing raw Mathematica code... everyone—with me now safely off on the side (where I s... picture):
Christopher Wolfram on stage at Maker Faire

“I need a car to pick me up at my hotel and take me to... as collaborative as “my yard looks like crap and I rea... cheap landscaper.” You’re talking about buying and s...
Let me ask you this: if someone pushed out an escort-boo ...
Context mat

STOPPED CLOCK ILLUSION

We've taken object-based media to the next level by supp... creators with tools and workflows that enable real-world... responsive object-based experiences

Human Computer Interaction (HCI) is the study of how peo... implement, and use interactive computer systems, and how... individuals, organizations, and society. HCI is a resear...
At the same time that a human-centered approach to syste ...
This report

The growth of both the types and the amount of data gene... users, and applications have resulted in a number of rec... innovations: NoSQL, rise of popularity of Hadoop, and do... higher-level map-reduce frameworks. However, the batch-p...
What if we

A prototype bra from Microsoft researchers uses sensors ... wearer's mood with a goal of helping prevent stress-rela...

In universities around the world, semesters end with stu... similar surveys about their experience in the class and ... teacher.
Student ratings are high-stakes. They come up when facul ...
Recently, a number of faculty members have been publishi ...

Wendell’s science fair project consists solely of a tr... display board covered by a white sheet that displays cur... options. Patrons can view the display board for 15 minut... $39.95 one-time fee, or they can purchase a subscription...
Tommy says

Her findings:
Men and women who are solo authors of most of their pape ...
When men co-author papers, each such paper is associated ...

More than half of the findings from 100 different studie... leading, peer-reviewed psychology journals cannot be rep... researchers who followed the same methodological protocol.
A study by more than 270 researchers from around the wor ...

We already know Facebook is harder to resist than cigare... So it's not all that surprising that Facebook is enjoyab... enjoyable! But like an addictive drug, the results sugge... network might have a sinister effect: Facebook makes you...
That's why

Why SubEthaEdit?Looking for a text editor that is design... actually caring about Human Interface Guidelines? A nice... HTML files? Or a way to work together on code, texts or ... check out SubEthaEdit. While originally designed for cod... collaborati

Hand-colored image of Mars from Mariner 4.
Encoding quantitative data with color is (sometimes lite ...