Really enjoyed Jeff Bezos’s commencement speech at Princeton — thought provoking, and not boring, about choices and choosing.
When you are 80 years old, and in a quiet moment of reflection narrating for only yourself the most personal version of your life story, the telling that will be most compact and meaningful will be the [...]
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This morning, I woke up, and for a second I really thought it was Saturday! I thought I’d set my alarm by mistake; I even started to think of what I wanted to do. Soooo disappointed. Hot chocolate for breakfast to make up for it! Actually this is the first time since Trader [...]
Trader Joe’s is Evil. OMG, I don’t know how my sister goes to Trader Joe’s all the time. A new one just opened nearby and we went and you know what we bought? Chocolate covered cherries, chocolate covered blueberries, and chocolate covered espresso beans. And in fact, if memory serves me [...]
Watson, an IBM supercomputer, is supposed to be able to answer natural language questions (or I suppose in this case, provide questions for natural language answers?). First Deep Blue played chess, now Watson’s going to take on Jeopardy. I hope it has a chance to play again Ken Jennings. :)
Many years ago we were trying to decide what to do, and since Jimyo was always looking for people to play Monopoly with him, we agreed to play Monopoly. Hours and hours later, we were still at it, and I had a headache. Compounding this was that we’d all made terrible deals with [...]
Okay, okay, I know, I am really late! And it’s not cos I’m playing Flash games, cos I’m kind of sick of Flash. It’s not like I own lots of Apple junx or anything, but I am so sick of updating Adobe Flashplayer (and Acrobat) and I’m so sick of security warnings about [...]
Sorry for the late post, but we just finished moving, and omg, I realized, moving is hard! Also, there wasn’t any good news. It’s true, SpeK has sewn this up. She’s the 2010 winner! We’ll let it play out to get the final scores, but yeah. So, since you won [...]
I was supposed to post this yesterday, but my computer was down — we were trying to, and failing at, putting a desk together, so there were pieces all over the floor and my computer wasn’t hooked up. No worries, two hours yesterday, and then five more hours today, and now we have desks! [...]
So… Syracuse is out. Kansas State is still in, by the hair of their chinny chin chin — they won in double overtime. No one has all of their Final Four teams still in contention. Some of us (namely YuHK and CT) have only one team left!!! And it’s only the [...]
Maryland lost. Some Michigan State dude chucked in a three-pointer at the last tenths of a second to give Mich. St. a two point victory. It was a little bit of a heartbreak. And then Cal lost to Duke. Well the first lost lots of us points, but the second didn’t [...]
